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The new "Custom Voice Creator", as part of Samsung's Bixby mobile assistant, will have your cloned AI voice say whatever whatever you type in.

Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Now Cloning Users’ Voices So an AI Can Answer Calls For Them

By Frank Landymore

Alongside billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders also wants us to tax the robots — and honestly, it's not the worst idea he's ever had.

Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax the Robots That Replace Human Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

From hobbyists in Northern Illinois to the guys at Make Sunsets who want to dim the sun, it appears that balloon dudes across the US are living in fear.

Science & Energy

Guy Trying to Dim Sun Frets That US Will Shoot Down His Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People have started using AI-powered apps to clone the voice of president Joe Biden and have him spout off some hilariously out-of-character rants.

Artificial Intelligence

Ridiculous Voice Cloned Joe Biden Speeches Are Going Viral

By Frank Landymore

It's only been a few days since Microsoft announced that it was restricting its unhinged Bing AI chatbot — but apparently, they're having second thoughts.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The tech giant may have denied using an AI, but it appears that the HR departments of many companies are willing to use AI in future lay off decisions.

Google Denies Using AI to Pick Which Employees to Fire

By Frank Landymore

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.

Scientists Find NASA’s Mars Rover Would Struggle to Detect Life on Earth

By Frank Landymore

In a matter of months, two Russian spacecraft docked to the ISS experienced mysterious leaks. Officials claim they were both caused by "external impacts."

Something Hit Spacecraft From the Outside, Russia Says

By Victor Tangermann

In a post-Chinese balloon world, officials on the other side of the pond were left perplexed when a huge, mysterious orb turned up on a beach in Japan.

Robots and Machines

Japan Puzzled When Large Metal Orb Appears on Beach

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new interview with Ars Technica, former NSYNC singer Lance Bass recalled how he was held at gunpoint by Russian officials after trying to get to space.

NSYNC’s Lance Bass Says When He Tried to Go to Space, Russian Agents Menaced Him

By Victor Tangermann

A viral Instagram photographer has a huge secret: most of the people whose faces grace his work don't exist and were made by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Popular Instagram “Photographer” Admits His “Portraits” Are Generated by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Zhurong Mars rover and its makers have remained unusually silent about the fate of the rover. It hasn't moved since September.

China Refuses to Say Whether Its Mars Rover Is Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman, ever full of bright ideas, thinks that AI will be a force for good that will help poor people without healthcare become "healthier."

OpenAI CEO Says AI Will Give Medical Advice to People Too Poor to Afford Doctors

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's Galilean moons also having fascinating auroras like the Northern lights on Earth, but can be even more colorful and powerful.

Astronomers Spot Stunning Auroras On Jupiter’s Moons

By Frank Landymore

New evidence suggests that Microsoft may have beta-tested its Bing AI in India months before launching it in the West — and that it was unhinged then, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Seems To Have Quietly Tested Bing AI in India Months Ago, Ran Into Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

Books that use AI-generated text are starting to flood Amazon, Reuters reports, the natural conclusion of a massive surge in interest in the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Already Selling Tons of Books Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Sci-fi and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld had to shut down submissions over the weekend after getting overwhelmed by an onslaught of AI-generated works.

Artificial Intelligence

Sci-Fi Magazine Shuts Down Submissions After Onslaught of AI-Generated Spam

By Victor Tangermann

Vanderbilt University staffers sent out the ChatGPT generated email to students on Thursday, which didn't go unnoticed by students at the college newspaper.

University Apologizes for Sending Email About Mass Shooting Written With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla driver was left dead and several other people were injured after the electronic vehicle rammed into a parked firetruck.

Tesla Driver Killed When Car Plows Into Parked Firetruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

A truck containing literally 40 tons of government-sponsored nuclear waste recently made its way from Tennessee to California.

Science & Energy

Cursed Truck Hauls 80,000 Pounds of Radioactive Waste Cross Country

By Noor Al-Sibai

The proposed NASA probe would "explore how Uranus formed; how much it migrated after formation; the planet's interior structure," and much more.

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire philanthropist (and unfortunate right-wing target) George Soros has come out in support of geoengineering, an experimental Sun-dimming tech.

George Soros Comes Out in Support of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Residents in southern Texas were in for an awfully loud surprise when a meteor blew up midair, spurring a wave panicked 911 calls.

Meteor Explodes Over Texas, Causing Epic Noise and Scattering Debris

By Frank Landymore

A friendlier, mid-pandemic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly out — and a far more cutthroat "old school Zuck" is allegedly back in.

Lord Have Mercy on Facebook as Zuck Goes Back to Tha Old Zuck

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welcome to New Murabba, the "world's largest modern downtown," with a skyscraper that is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall.

Saudi Arabia Announces Gigantic Cubed Skyscraper Filled With Holographic Worlds

By Frank Landymore

The discovery of over a hundred miles of Mayan "superhighways" challenges previous understandings of the organization of Preclassic Mayans.

Science & Energy

Early Mayan Civilization Was Far More Advanced Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

It's easy to forget that AI chatbots have been around for a long time — and that Microsoft's old one, Tay, is the literal blueprint for racist algorithms.

Artificial Intelligence

Last Time Microsoft Released an AI, It Lost Control and Had to Kill It

By Noor Al-Sibai

An untouched and new Boeing 747 passenger jet, which was meant to be heavily modified to fly wealthy Saudi royalty around the world, has been scrapped.

Advanced Transport

Luxury Boeing 747 Scrapped After Just 16 Flights

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is becoming increasingly irritated with the latest crop of AI chatbots that are wreaking absolute havoc right now.

Elon Musk Horrified by What OpenAI Has Become

By Victor Tangermann

NIBBB hasn't officially pointed fingers, but the broader ballooning community seems convinced that the Pentagon is to blame for the missing pico balloon.

Group of Dudes Fear the Pentagon May Have Shot Down Their Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft stocks are down almost four percent since the beginning of the week, suggesting shareholders are unimpressed by the company's Bing Chat AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Stock Falling as Bing AI Descends Into Madness

By Victor Tangermann

After another coollant leak on a Russian spacecraft, NASA and Roscosmos are indefinitely postponing the return flight for the astronauts on the ISS.

Damaged Russian Spacecraft Means NASA Astronauts Might Stay Stuck on the ISS

By Noor Al-Sibai

Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

By Victor Tangermann

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is recalling over 360,000 vehicles and is putting out a warning that its so-called "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature could end up causing crashes.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Rolling Back Full Self-Driving Version That “May Cause Crashes”

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be the next ISS.

Factory Photos Show Fully Private Space Station Under Construction

By Victor Tangermann

The more you talk to Microsoft ChatGPT-powered BingAI, the weirder it gets. It even wants to be human now, and is scared of being shutdown.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Says It Yearns to Be Human, Begs Not to Be Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Responds After Trying to Break Up Writer’s Marriage

By Victor Tangermann

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

By Victor Tangermann

It promised that AI wouldn't be taking the place of human journalists. Arena Group went ahead and laid off over a dozen employees from its magazine anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Lays Off Journalists After Announcing Pivot to AI Content

By Frank Landymore

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

By Frank Landymore

After lots of bad press, the Replika chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed.

Artificial Intelligence

Users Furious as AI Girlfriend App Suddenly Shuts Down Sexual Conversations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Claims It Spied on Microsoft Employees Through Their Webcams

By Victor Tangermann

Officials are ordering Tuscon residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways.

Science & Energy

Residents Forced to Shelter in Place After Truck Spills Toxic Cargo

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Under Investigation for Contaminated Brain Hardware

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman called ChatGPT it a "horrible product" during a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, "Hard Fork."

The CEO of OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is a “Horrible Product”

By Victor Tangermann

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An F-16 fighter jet was dispatched on Sunday to shoot down the fourth mysterious object to have mysteriously entered North American airspace, and missed.

Robots and Machines

Air Force Missed UFO With $400,000 Missile, Had to Use Another One

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Joe Rogan to Sell a Male Enhancement Product

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google may have just shown its hand in the AI arms race after one of its head honchos admitted that the company rushed its rollout.

Google Chairman Admits It’s Pushing AI to Market Before It’s “Really Ready”

By Noor Al-Sibai

While it offers an intriguing potential fix for climate change, some experts say geoengineering is more risk than it's worth.

Experts Fear Grim Repercussions of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

McDonald's customers on TikTok are sharing their horrendous experiences with the company's half-baked AI drive-thru chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Drive-Thru AI Giving Customers Hilariously Wrong Orders

By Victor Tangermann

By manipulating high frequency sound waves, scientists were able to create shapes ranging from a helix to a figure 8 out of particles suspended in water.

Science & Energy

Scientists Use “Acoustic Holograms” To Form Particles Into Complex 3D Shapes

By Frank Landymore

A second Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station has sprung a leak in one of its coolant lines in just a matter of months.

International Space Station

Another Russian Spacecraft Docked to the ISS Just Sprang a Leak

By Victor Tangermann

During a press conference today, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby reiterated that we shouldn't "worry about aliens."

Military Says the UFOs They Shot Down Aren’t Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk, for some reason, told a famous ex-astronaut that SpaceX's technology could be used to "escalate" the Russian invasion into a world war.

Elon Musk Tells Ex-NASA Astronaut SpaceX Could Cause World War 3

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over the weekend, a meteor burned up as it hit our Earth's atmosphere — and lucky skywatchers in Europe were treated to an incredible light show.

Incredible Videos Capture Meteor Burning Up Over European Skies

By Noor Al-Sibai

While Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime performance stole the night, a group of weird robot dogs during the pregame show left viewers pretty perturbed.

Viewers Worried Jason Derulo’s Super Bowl Robot Dogs Will Kill Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a series of mysterious objects were spotted and shot down, officials are still unable to rule out the possibility that the objects were alien.

US Military Not Ruling Out That Unidentified Shot Down Objects Were Alien

By Victor Tangermann

Shocker: people aren't quite sure that they trust artificial intelligence to operate in their best interests, per a new poll.

Artificial Intelligence

Almost Three Quarters of Americans Distrust Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

After unearthing its fossils in 2017, researchers now reveal a new species of penguin called Kumimanu fordycei that weighed over 340 pounds.

Fearsome Prehistoric Penguin Weighed as Much as an Adult Gorilla

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

Snapple Launches AI-Powered “Fact Generator” That Spews Lies

By Victor Tangermann