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LinkedIn's new AI will help you automate the already robotic process of posting on the networking website.

Artificial Intelligence

Rejoice! LinkedIn’s New AI Will Write Hustle Bro Posts For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk grappled with a podcaster on a mat, stoking the hype for a possible caged fight brawl with fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk Brawls With Podcaster to Prepare for Zuckerberg Fight

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has crushed its previous record for turning the planet's thin atmosphere into a source of oxygen.

NASA Gets Amazing New Results Generating Oxygen on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just locked four non-astronaut volunteers in a simulated Mars habitat, marking the beginning of the much-anticipated CHAPEA missions.

NASA Locks Test Subjects Inside Simulated Mars Base

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientist Says Universe Expansion May Be an Illusion

Scientist Says Universe Expansion May Be an Illusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's forthcoming new AI combines LLM technology with the strengths of the groundbreaking AlphaGo, says Google DeepMind CEO.

Google AI Boss Says New System Will Be More Powerful Than OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers have observed a whole new mechanism by which stars can die — by smashing into each other in the most explosive fashion.

Scientists Astounded When Two Stars Collide in Brain Melting Explosion

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new NASA animation visualizes the ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. It's not pretty.

Horrifying NASA Video Shows What It Would Look Like if Carbon Emissions Were Visible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A space tug that launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission on June 12 started spinning uncontrollably after being deployed.

Private Spacecraft Lost in Accident After SpaceX Launch

By Victor Tangermann

A senior invested his entire life savings into crypto — only to discover that the site he used was completely fake.

Man Alarmed to Discover Entire Crypto Site Was Fake, Stealing His Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced that astronauts on board the ISS are drinking water that is a whopping 98 percent recovered urine and sweat.

NASA Thrilled That Astronauts Drink 98 Percent of Recycled Bodily Fluids

By Victor Tangermann

MrBeast claims that a friend invited him to join the doomed trip down to tour the Titanic wreckage, but the way he explained it is confusing.

Advanced Transport

Mr. Beast Claims He Almost Went on the Doomed Sub

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an apparent attempt to turn off a beeping noise, a janitor turned off the breaker to a freezer that contained extremely valuable research.

Janitor Attempts to Turn Off Beeping Noise, Destroys Decades of Scientific Research

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's mommy Maye Musk has chimed in and isn't happy about her precious son getting bruised at the hands of Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk’s Mommy Says He’s Not Allowed to Cage Fight Mark Zuckerberg

By Victor Tangermann

The Recording Academy's CEO says that songs featuring AI contributions can be submitted for a Grammy, but only human creators can win.

Artificial Intelligence

Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations while arguing a federal court case has been punished by the court.

Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The BepiColombo mission, led by the ESA and JAXA, recently completed an ultra-close flyby of Mercury's surface.

Space Probe Takes Stunning Close Up Images of Mercury

By Frank Landymore

As much as 80 percent of the Himalayas' glaciers could vanish by the year 2100 if global temperatures rise by four degrees Celsius.

Climate Change Could Cause Himalayan Glaciers to Shrink By a Shocking Amount

By Sharon Adarlo

For what's believed to be the first time, a pizza was delivered by jetpack. The delivery was made by Domino's at the Glastonbury festival.

Robots and Machines

Domino’s Used a Jetpack to Deliver a Pizza at a Music Festival

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

By Sharon Adarlo

The Hunga volcano's eruption blasted through seawater, creating the perfect conditions for the most intense lightning storm ever observed.

Science & Energy

Violent Volcano Eruption Triggers an Ungodly Number of Lightning Flashes

By Frank Landymore

Experts warned that AI's autonomy is just a "veneer," and that it surveils you through the scraped data it needs to train on.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Isn’t Magic, It’s Being Used to Spy on You, Experts Warn

By Frank Landymore

The costs associated with NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission keep growing and growing by the billions, alarming officials.

Uh Oh, the Cost of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission Is Spiralling Out of Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to comments from UFC president Dana White, it looks like an Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg cage fight might actually be happening.

Elon and Zuck “Absolutely Dead Serious” About Cage Fighting, UFC Boss Confirms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over less than 20 years, humans extracted so much groundwater that it changed the tilt of the entire planet.

Science & Energy

We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

An expert says that OceanGate's Titan submersible lacked basic location technology that would have made recovering it "routine."

Imploded Submersible Apparently Lacked Extremely Basic Location Tech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts chucked an entire experiment into the abyss while cleaning the outside of the ISS.

Cosmonauts Litter Orbit With Entire Science Experiment During Spacewalk

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope just got a close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 lightyears away.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Space Telescope Just Zoomed in Super Close on an Alien Planet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An unexpected herd of 40 goats wandered through a Texas development, munching on lawns and landscaping as they went.

Science & Energy

Watch 40 Ravenous Goats Terrorize an Unsuspecting Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Visibly Upset James Cameron Compares Submarine Implosion to Sinking of the Titanic

A Visibly Upset James Cameron Compares Submarine Implosion to Sinking of the Titanic

By Frank Landymore

An orca repeatedly slammed into a yacht sailing in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland earlier this week.

Science & Energy

Relentless Orca Repeatedly Rams Yacht

By Frank Landymore

OceanGate, the company behind the submarine that went missing, has officially announced that the crew of five "have sadly been lost."

OceanGate Says Missing Submarine Passengers “Have Sadly Been Lost”

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Throwflame is selling a robot dog that has a flamethrower strapped to its back that can shoot 30-foot streams of fire.

Great, They’re Putting Flamethrowers on Robot Dogs Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The secret mode, which the hacker nicknamed "Elon Mode," allows for completely hands-free driving during Full Self-Driving mode.

Hacker Discovers Hidden “Elon Mode” That Makes Teslas Way More Dangerous

By Frank Landymore

An underwater vessel has located a "debris field" within the search area during its hunt for the OceanGate submarine that went missing.

Rescue Vessel Spots “Debris Field” During Search for Missing Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

Marvel Used AI to Generate the Intro Sequence to Its New Show, Angering Fans

Artificial Intelligence

Marvel Used AI to Generate the Intro Sequence to Its New Show, Angering Fans

By Frank Landymore

Upside Foods and Good Meats received a grant of inspection from the USDA, allowing their lab grown meat products to be sold to consumers.

Science & Energy

First Lab Grown Meat Products Approved for Sale in US

By Frank Landymore

AI image generators are being used to create and share at-scale child sexual abuse material, ultimately making the issue harder to counter.

Artificial Intelligence

Predators Are AI-Generating “Really Evil” Child Sex Abuse Images, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In his latest bigoted tirade, Elon Musk insists that the term "cisgender" will now be considered a "slur" on Twitter.

Elon Musk Goes on Transphobic Rant, Says “Cisgender” Now a “Slur” on Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook's says its new text-to-speech AI can edit existing audio, speak in six languages, and replicate loved ones' voices.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Creepy New AI Can Replicate Your Friends’ Voices

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of German scientists has discovered a parasitic tapeworm that can allow a certain species of ants to live way longer when infected.

Terrifying Parasite Can Actually Triple an Ant’s Lifespan

By Sharon Adarlo

The Axel Springer-owned German tabloid Bild is to replace over a hundred editorial roles with AI, according to a leaked email.

Artificial Intelligence

Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While looking for the lost Titanic wreckage submersible, a Canadian aircraft detected a mysterious "banging" sound from the area.

Robots and Machines

Rescue Team Looking for Lost Submarine Detects Mysterious “Banging” Sounds

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok has become a major hub for conspiracy theorists who claim that the Titanic never sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Conspiracy Lunatics Think the Titanic Never Actually Sank

By Sharon Adarlo

A radio station decided to clone one of its DJs' voices using AI, deploy it like the real thing, and make the human DJ advertise it, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Radio DJ “Celebrates” Her New AI Clone Replacement

By Noor Al-Sibai

CEO Who Said Safety Is a “Waste” on Board Lost Submarine

CEO Who Said Safety Is a “Waste” on Board Lost Submarine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has found a way to be involved in the missing submarine debacle. The company behind the mission is using SpaceX Starlink.

The Lost Submarine’s Comms Are Reportedly Run by SpaceX

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

Science & Energy

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

By Sharon Adarlo

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To combat the worst effects of climate change, we need all hands on deck — and robotic ones definitely do apply.

A Robot Is Helping Reforest The Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

GitHub found that 92 percent of the 500 US-based developers they surveyed said that they integrate AI tools into their workflow.

Artificial Intelligence

GitHub Says 92 Percent of Programmers Are Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have spotted the fastest runaway star to have ever escaped the Milky Way as a result of a massive thermonuclear explosion.

Scientists Spot Star Fleeing Our Galaxy at Incredible Speed

By Victor Tangermann

Droves of Amazon's human "Mechanical Turk" workers are using AI systems to automate the training of AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After unceremoniously blowing up during its first test, Starship's next launch could be this summer, if SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is to believed.

Elon Musk Preparing to Launch His Explodey Starship Rocket Once Again

By Frank Landymore

CEOs from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe AI might destroy humanity — and they think it could happen soon.

Artificial Intelligence

42 Percent of CEOs Think AI May Destroy Humanity This Decade

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's parent company Alphabet is warning employees about how they use AI chatbots — including its own tool called Bard, Reuters reports.

Google Warns Employees About Using AI, While Promoting Its Own AI

By Victor Tangermann

The robot arms featured in Beyoncé Knowles' Renaissance World Tour are impressive. But they might be more dangerous than they look.

Expert Issues Warning About Beyoncé’s Fearsome Robot Arms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.

Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CEO of Reddit is big mad that his moderators are protesting him, and he might just do something about it.

Reddit CEO Flies Into a Rage, Threatens Protesting Moderators

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 21-year-old man called Max Park has just broken the world record for the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube.

Man Solves Rubik’s Cube in Three Seconds

By Noor Al-Sibai

14-Year-Old SpaceX Employee Furious When LinkedIn Restricts His Account for Being Too Young

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is required to pay out $23 million to users as part of a class action lawsuit settlement. You have until July 31 to make a claim.

If You Googled Anything During the Years “30 Rock” Was on TV, You Can Get Free Money Right Now

By Victor Tangermann