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Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around "intimate" videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports.

Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT has falsely accused at least one person of sexual assault and made up fake news articles to back it up — and yes, we're very afraid.

ChatGPT Falsely Accuses Law Professor of Sexual Assault

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.

NASA Ran Into Trouble Telling Astronauts They Were Going to the Moon

By Frank Landymore

IT company Arthur Grand Technologies is feeling the heat for a racist job listing that it's blaming on a rogue employee. Many don't buy its explanation.

Tech Company Accidentally Posts Racist “White-Only” Job Listing, Shrinks Into a Corncob

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is, as we all recently learned, hardwired into Twitter's source code — but according to him, this is the first he's hearing of it.

Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source

By Noor Al-Sibai

Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview, Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter admitted that concerns about artificial intelligence led to the timing of the band's breakup.

Artificial Intelligence

Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After Italy banned OpenAI's ChatGPT, a surprising detractor came out of the woodwork — the country's own deputy prime minister.

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Furious His Regulators Banned ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Not only does generative AI threaten originality in art, as some argue, it undeniably makes who gets the credit for intellectual property a lot murkier.

Artificial Intelligence

Hollywood Panicking Over the Rise of Generative AI

By Frank Landymore

Marketing professor Matthew Prince challenged his 80 students to create a viral TikTok video that receives at least one million views before he can.

Professor Says He’ll Cancel Final If a Student Makes a Viral Video

By Victor Tangermann

The startup Venus Aerospace wants to make use of experimental rotating detonation rocket engines to make the fastest passenger aircraft ever.

Advanced Transport

Company Working on Rocket-Powered Passenger Plane That Goes Mach 9

By Frank Landymore

Bob Lee, a co-founder of Cash App and the current CPO of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has died after being stabbed to death Tuesday night.

The Cofounder of Cash App Just Got Murdered

By Victor Tangermann

According to an FAA notice, SpaceX could kick off the first orbital test launch of its gigantic Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster next week.

Get Ready to Soil Your Pantaloons! SpaceX About to Test the Mighty Starship

By Victor Tangermann

New level of parasocial relationships just dropped: Swifties are using AI voice-generation tech as a way to bring Taylor Swift's voice to fake quotes.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Are Using AI to Make Taylor Swift Say Nice Things to Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is hoping to deploy deepfakes in disinformation campaigns as part of its psy-op efforts.

US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have detected radio signals from a rocky planet revolving around its star, making it a strong candidate for an exoplanet with an atmosphere.

Scientists Intrigued by Repeating Signal From Earth-Sized Exoplanet

By Frank Landymore

President Joe Biden is to meet with the scientific advisors today to discuss the "risks and opportunities" of artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence

President Biden Meeting With Advisers to Discuss Explosion in AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gabe Ginsberg via Getty / Futurism

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Rocket Company Files for Bankruptcy

By Noor Al-Sibai

When Stanford researchers compared ChatGPT's medical advice on real scenarios compared to what medical experts said, they discovered a notable discrepancy.

ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI teamed up with Khan Academy creator Salman Khan to create an AI-powered chatbot tutor for Khan's schools, debuting it last week.

Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.

NASA Announces the Astronauts Who Are Returning to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.

Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.

Science & Energy

Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.

Space Startup to Send a Rover to the Moon on Board a SpaceX Starship

By Victor Tangermann

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.

Science & Energy

Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

By Frank Landymore

A Space Force official has some bold military advice for the Pentagon: make crypto, not war. Could this idea really work?

Space Force Major Says Countries Should Have Crypto-Mining Contests Instead of Going to War

By Noor Al-Sibai

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.

Gamma Ray Burst Was So Bright It Blinded Almost All Equipment to Detect It

By Frank Landymore

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

By Frank Landymore

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.

Science & Energy

Plants Cry. Here’s What They Sound Like.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

By Frank Landymore

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.

SpaceX Flying Bitcoin Bounty to Moon, Where Anyone Can Grab It If They Can Get There

By Frank Landymore

A Shanghai-based startup called Hypershell has cmoe up with an AI-powered exoskeleton that promises to take a big load off the next time you're on a hike.

Robots and Machines

Kickstarter Exoskeleton Claims It Gives Wearer Superhuman Abilities

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has some seriously mixed feelings about AI being used to write entries for the encyclopedia.

Artificial Intelligence

Founder of Wikipedia Says Maybe It Should Be Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrific AI-Generated Video Shows Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

By Victor Tangermann

The rumor mill has churned out a pretty huge claim against Google's new Bard AI chatbot — but the tech giant is denying, denying, denying.

Google Denies Claim That Bard Was Trained by Stealing ChatGPT Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

Midjourney is now discontinuing its free trial offers. But its CEO says the move is unrelated to the viral convincing fakes of celebrities the AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Nixes Free Generations After AI Pope Images Go Viral

By Frank Landymore

Former NASA astronaut and current podcaster Clayton Anderson has been caught liking a spate of transphobic tweets.

Former NASA Astronaut Caught Faving Transphobic Tweets

By Noor Al-Sibai

The anti-artificial intelligence push continues apace in Italy, which just moved to temporarily ban OpenAI's ChatGPT pending a data privacy investigation.

Mama Mia! Italy Has Banned ChatGPT!

By Noor Al-Sibai

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

A new report re-evaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found that the number of people on Earth isn't going to explode, but rather decrease.

There Will Be Fewer People Alive in 2100 Than Now, Experts Predict

By Noor Al-Sibai

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has announced that it will cut a total of 675 jobs, roughly 85 percent of its workforce, in a SEC filing today.

Richard Branson Sacks 85% of Virgin Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

While Twitter waits for owner Elon Musk's next decree, the geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary account have provided some comedic relief.

Elon Musk Brutally Owned by Merriam-Webster Dictionary

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, a feature it only introduced last month.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

By Victor Tangermann

Listen up: the only reason Matt Damon even did those Crypto.com ads for the 2022 Super Bowl was to raise money for his charity, ok?

Matt Damon Says He Only Did That Crypto Super Bowl Ad Because He’s Brave and Selfless

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dimorphos' much larger companion asteroid Didymos is spinning so fast that it's capable of ejecting pieces of rubble into deep space.

NASA Intrigued by Asteroid That Seems to Be Shooting Rocks Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.

Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals

By Victor Tangermann

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.

Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The ever-nostalgic Gen Z is resurrecting a bygone ghost of technology's past: flip phones. Or "dumb phones," as they're often called.

Gen Z Is Embracing a Hot New Technology: Flip Phones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's space program is finalizinga recovery system that will allow discarded rocket boosters to gently and accurately descend to earth via parachutes.

China Plans to Make Its Space Debris Hit the Ground a Little Slower

By Frank Landymore

While the rest of the world is concerned about ChatGPT coming to take their jobs, some companies are paying six figures to people who are really good at it.

Companies Are Paying Bonkers Salaries for People Good at ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO of OpenAI has admitted that he's afraid of the artificial intelligence his company is ushering in — but he doesn't think you should laugh about it.

OpenAI CEO: It’s Not Funny That I’m Afraid of the AI We’re Creating

By Noor Al-Sibai

As a result of newly-tightened bail restrictions, Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is no longer allowed to play his favorite videogame. Brutal.

FTX Founder Suffers Personal Nightmare as Courts Cut Him Off From League of Legends

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An amazing video recorded by Thoams Farley shows a couple of skiers watching as a giant avalanche thunders through a snowy mountain valley.

Science & Energy

Amazing Video Shows Avalanche Coming Straight Toward Cameraperson

By Victor Tangermann

Look West to the horizon around sunset, and you should be able to witness five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars — lined up near the Moon.

Five Planets Are Aligning in the Sky Right Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Whitehat hackers chained together several vulnerabilities to prove they could remotely take over a host of a Tesla's systems.

Hackers Say They Can Access Teslas and Make Them Honk Wildly

By Frank Landymore

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, wants you to know that it's made a meatball out of mammoth meat which may or may not be tasty.

Gene Hackers Create Meatball From Resurrected Mammoth Meat

By Frank Landymore

The AI death march is apparently on its way to claiming another victim now that Levi's is, apparently, going to start outsourcing its model diversity to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Levi’s Mocked for Using AI to Generate “Diverse” Denim Models

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards from a building to catch another lightning bolt mid-air? Well, if you haven't, you're in luck.

Science & Energy

Video Captures Lightning Shooting Up From Buildings Into Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.

Artificial Intelligence

Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

By Victor Tangermann