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A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

By Frank Landymore

While it surely won't be fun for any of Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) friends to take the stand against him, for Nashad Singh, it might just sting the worst.

FTX Cofounder Who Was Allegedly in Groupchat Called “Wirefraud” Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

By Frank Landymore

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.

Artificial Intelligence

Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

By Frank Landymore

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria.

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

Science & Energy

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

By Victor Tangermann

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Toilet Paper Contains Toxic “Forever” Chemicals

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots.

Artificial Intelligence

Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

By Noor Al-Sibai

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Satellites Are Messing Up the Hubble Space Telescope

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.

Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?

Artificial Intelligence

CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.

Science & Energy

MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.

NASA Facility Replicating Conditions to Form Life

By Victor Tangermann

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Romantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man in Peru was caught lugging around the mummified remains of a woman, who likely died well over 600 years ago, tucked inside a food delivery cooler bad.

Man Busted With 600 Year Old Mummified “Girlfriend”

By Victor Tangermann

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.

Artificial Intelligence

America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Salesforce, the firm co-helmed by the definitely not Hawaiian Marc Benioff, is the latest in a slew of tech giants to lay off thousands of employees.

Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All is not well in the county that's home to some of Jack Daniel's barrel houses amid a fungus infestation caused by the whiskey itself.

Science & Energy

Residents Blame Horrid Black Fungus on Whiskey Facility

By Noor Al-Sibai

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

By Frank Landymore

ford-patent-cars-repossess-themselves

Ford Files Deranged Patent For Self-Driving Cars that Repossess Themselves

By Frank Landymore

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

By Frank Landymore

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada took an "absolutely unreal" photo of the northern lights from on board the International Space Station.

Astronaut Snaps Mind-Melting Photo of Northern Lights Way Down Below

By Victor Tangermann

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.

Mark Zuckerberg Bows to Peer Pressure, Announces Pivot to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sorry, Pixel phone users, but if you wanted to watch this "Alien" clip in 4K HDR, you're outta luck until Google comes up with some answers.

Watching This “Alien” Video Is Crashing Pixel Phones

By Frank Landymore

Volkswagen's Car-Net service demanded someone fork over $150 before it was willing to track down the owner's stolen car with her two year old inside.

Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription

By Frank Landymore

In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.

Artificial Intelligence

Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for.

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is pausing installations of its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software after federal regulators called it a "crash risk."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast.

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

By Frank Landymore

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

By Victor Tangermann

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.

Science & Energy

Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A VR startup wants to allow users to record and then "replay" their memories back in the locations where they happened — but some folks aren't with it.

Virtual Reality

VR Startup Working on Tech to “Replay” Memories

By Noor Al-Sibai

The key to making both lab grown meat and plant based meats work may lie in combining them to more practically make a convincing and delicious alternative.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

By Frank Landymore

Meet "2dumb2destroy," a chatbot that is, refreshingly, too stupid to do humanity any harm beyond telling a bad joke or two.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible

By Frank Landymore

The U.S. bank is playing it safe in the name of "compliance concerns" to ensure that ChatGPT doesn't inadvertently meddle with its sensitive work.

Giant Bank JP Morgan Bans ChatGPT Use Among Employees

By Frank Landymore

The F-150 Lightning is Ford's EV pickup, but has had a rocky start to the year in the wake of two separate battery issues halting production.

Advanced Transport

Ford Has Paused Electric Pickup for Several Weeks After One Caught Fire

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet's inner core, a 400-mile solid metallic ball that acts in a strange way.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's analysis of Ryugu asteroid samples revealed chemical compounds that support the theory that space dust contains the building blocks for life.

NASA First Look at Japanese Asteroid Samples Reveal the Building Blocks for Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

She thinks the app Gas, which just launched a paid tier, is "intrinsically problematic," preying on teenage insecurity as a means of generating profit.

Expert Warns That App Where You Can Only Say Nice Things Could Have Dark Consequences

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In spite of government reassurances, things are starting to look scary in East Palestine, Ohio, where a new tally puts the fish death toll at over 43,000.

Science & Energy

Tens of Thousands of Animals Died for Miles Around Toxic Spill, Officials Admit

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has gotten a close-up look at a mysteriously-shaped asteroid, which was once believed to be in danger of colliding with the Earth, as it whizzed by.

Strangely Shaped Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An unusually dry winter is causing Venice's world-famous canals to dry up, as seen in alarming new images — a growing climate crisis rearing its head.

Science & Energy

Venice Looks Pretty Alarming With Its Canals Drained

By Victor Tangermann

As the company's AI war woes (spoiler: it's losing) build, CNBC reports that Google has officially commanded its employees to start sharing desks.

Google Instructs Workers to Share Desks to Cut Costs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual "forbidden" gas giant exoplanet, which is so big, it defies our current models.

Scientists Find Gigantic Planet a Quarter the Size of Its Star

By Victor Tangermann

Joseph Cox at Vice fed his voice into an Eleven Labs AI voice cloning tool, which he used to successfully bypass voice biometrics over the phone.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Clones His Voice and Uses It to Break Into His Own Bank Account

By Frank Landymore

YouTuber and Weta Workshop graphics engineer James Brown has turned a tiny Lego brick into a device that can play the 1993 hit video game "Doom."

Robots and Machines

Rejoice! You Can Finally Play Doom on a Lego Brick

By Victor Tangermann

The government is now admitting that it spend millions of taxpayer dollars getting three "UFOs" out of the sky that were almost definitely just balloons.

The Military Spent $1.5 Million Shooting Down Those Three Unidentified Objects

By Noor Al-Sibai

EPA chief Michael Regan was supposed to assure residents that the tap water was safe by drinking it, but the gesture has only incurred further scrutiny.

Wait, Did Officials Just Pretend to Drink the Tap Water in East Palestine?

By Frank Landymore

In a new video, Tesla just showed off early sketches of a number of electric car designs that may hint at the design of its upcoming budget hatchback.

Did Tesla Just Accidentally Leak What Its $25,000 Car Will Look Like?

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has confirmed that it tested its bizarre Bing AI chatbot for way longer than we realized — and somehow, it still managed to be totally unhinged.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Admits to Testing Deranged Bing AI Long Before Officially Launching It

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Coca-Cola Company is getting deeper into the artificial intelligence game thanks to a newly-inked deal that will see it partnering with OpenAI.

Coca-Cola Signs Deal With OpenAI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former high school employee in Massachusetts has been accused of running a secret cryptocurrency mining operation in the school's crawlspace.

Man Accused of Running Secret Crypto Mining Operation in High School Crawlspace

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.

Scientists Detect “Heartbeat-Like” Signal From the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's Bing AI used to go on extended diatribes and even profess its love for you. But now, it won't even entertain questions on its feelings.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Now Shuts Down When You Ask About Its Feelings

By Frank Landymore