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A newly discovered ring system belonging to the dwarf planet Quaoar is so large that astronomers are rethinking previously theorized limits on ring sizes.

Astronomers Amazed By Tiny Object With Huge Planetary Ring

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, Big Tech: using a generative AI like ChatGPT to power a search engine uses way more computing power than before.

Turns Out Using ChatGPT In Search Engines Would Have a Grisly Environmental Footprint

By Frank Landymore

A Manhattan federal jury has ruled that NFTs don't really count as art in the case of a conceptual artist who used Hèrmes Birkin bags for his collection.

Jury Rules that NFTs Aren’t Really Art

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wondering if former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who's currently on house arrest awaiting criminal and civil trial, did something wrong? He is, too.

Sam Bankman-Fried Ponders Whether He Might Have Done Anything Wrong

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of strange lines crossing Saturn's rings, heralding the start of the planet's "spokes season."

Science & Energy

Strange Lines Appear in Saturn’s Rings

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to address concerns over AI safety in an interview with CBS News, and he seems confident about keeping AIs reined in.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Pretty Sure He Can Keep AI From Escaping Human Control

By Frank Landymore

The Sun apparently got a little goofy as scientists observed a small, strange chunk of it breaking off and doing a little jig.

Small Chunk Breaks Off the Sun, Does a Little Dance

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two developers have created a program that leverages the AI DALLE-2 to churn out composite sketches, and they plan to pitch it to police departments.

Artificial Intelligence

Developers Create Police Sketches Using AI. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell reiterated that the company's inaugural orbital launch attempt of its Starship spacecraft could end in an explosion.

SpaceX President Warns That Starship’s Orbital Launch May Explode

By Victor Tangermann

Goldman Sachs' board members are, apparently, mighty fed up with CEO David Solomon's increasingly problematic disc-jockeying hobby.

Goldman Sachs Annoyed by CEO’s Part Time Gig as a DJ

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems like the birds may be coming home to roost with SpaceX's Starship after a bunch were seen flying (and dying) near its test site.

Huge Plume of Birds Explodes Out of SpaceX’s Powerful Starship Engine Test

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft appears to be aware of a hack to bring out a less controlled personality of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and it's discussing it.

Microsoft Is Apparently Discussing ChatGPT’s Bizarre Alternate Personality

By Victor Tangermann

The company just fired 31 of its gigantic Super Heavy booster's 33 rockets at once, producing a gargantuan amount of thrust.

Breaking: SpaceX Reaches Major Starship Milestone, Fires 31 Engines At Once

By Victor Tangermann

The AI girlfriend guys are at it again — and this time, they're hoping their literal internet girlfriends can save them from the robot apocalypse.

Artificial Intelligence

Man “Sure” His AI Girlfriend Will Save Him When the Robots Take Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A series of "unspeakable" words cause ChatGPT to respond in uncharacteristicly bizarre ways as well as returning a completely different word than entered.

Entering These “Unspeakable” Words Breaks ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Runway, the startup that co-created Stable Diffusion, has released an AI that transforms a source video into any style using only text prompt or image.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion Creator Launches New AI That Turns Boring Footage Into Super Stylized Videos

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla owner was shocked to find that the steering wheel of his one-week-old Tesla Model Y came off in his hands while driving on the highway.

Tesla Offers New Car to Guy Whose Steering Wheel Fell Off While Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A University of Delaware student "accidentally" created a small amount of a "shock-sensitive explosive chemical" in one of the university's labs.

College Student “Accidentally” Builds Explosive, Forcing Bomb Squad to Detonate It

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix's new romcom "You People" allegedly used CGI to make it look like it actors Jonah Hill and Lauren London were kissing.

Netflix Romcom Allegedly Used CGI to Make Jonah Hill Kiss Lauren London

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire climate advocate Bill Gates will do whatever it takes to save the planet — as long as it doesn't mean giving up his private jet.

Bill Pledges to Keep Flying Private Jet While Speaking Out Against Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google now has a ten percent stake in Anthropic, the company behind a powerful AI chatbot called Claude. The AI arms race marches on.

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Who could've thought that we'd be talking about Bing, Microsoft's search engine that's been playing second fiddle since its conception, in the year 2023?

Artificial Intelligence

Bing Executive Says He Has His Sobbing Under Control

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

According to the US Space Force, a mysterious Russian satellite broke apart in orbit early last month, leaving at least 85 pieces of space debris behind.

Mysterious Russian Satellite Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's giant balloon, which had a structure hanging from it, was shot down by a US missile over the weekend — and now, China wants it back, please.

China Wants the Corpse of Its Balloon Back After the US Killed It With a Missile

By Victor Tangermann

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.

Science & Energy

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

As spotted by Reuters, Google's upcomign AI chatbot Bard is already spewing misinformation — right in its own promotional screenshots.

Google’s Demo of Upcoming AI Shows It Making Huge Factual Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-discovered layer located under the Earth's crust may provide scientists with more information about tectonic plates and the formation of continents.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Molten Hell Zone Beneath Earth’s Tectonic Plates

By Noor Al-Sibai

The molecules kill some types of fungi "so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves," said the lead author of the study.

Science & Energy

Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group that uses AI to search for alien life has found some strange radio signals from space — and they're confused about its origins.

Artificial Intelligence

Alien-Detecting AI Finds Eight “Suspicious” Signals

By Noor Al-Sibai

After filing a lawsuit against Stable Diffusion in the UK last month, Getty images has followed up by suing the AI company in the United States.

Artificial Intelligence

Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion for Copying Millions of Its Photos

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the accidental discovery of an "extremely small" asteroid by the James Webb Space Telescope — but in space, size is relative.

James Webb Space Telescope

Baby Asteroid Photobombs James Webb On Accident

By Noor Al-Sibai

Italy's privacy watchdog has moved to ban Replika, the AI "companion" app that's recently made headlines for being too sexual.

Artificial Intelligence

Italy Strikes Crushing Blow to AI-Powered Girlfriend

By Noor Al-Sibai

Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet's barren shores in the name of discovery and research.

Scientists Prototype “Creeping” Lizard-Like Robot for Exploring Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

In fresh ChatGPT hell, it turns out that it's wildly easy to use the viral OpenAI chatbot to write convincing defamation. Just don't ask for it in English.

ChatGPT Will Gladly Spit Out Defamation, as Long as You Ask for It in a Foreign Language

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Google is officially working on a ChatGPT competitor dubbed "Bard," according to a blog post published today by CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google Officially Announces ChatGPT Competitor Called “Bard”

By Victor Tangermann

According to OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, folks at OpenAI had some "trepidation" about taking their AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to market. Makes sense.

Head of ChatGPT Admits She Had Concerns About Releasing It Publicly

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As BalloonGate continues to unfold, reports have indicated that this is far from the first time a Chinese balloon has flown over American airspace.

Other Chinese Balloons Apparently Flew Over America, But Nobody Noticed Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

A rare form of binary star system containing a neutron star and a massive companion star is the first ever example of a system doomed to end in a kilonova.

Scientists Find “One in Ten Billion” Star System Primed to Explode in Titanic Kilonova

By Frank Landymore

North Korea's government is desperately trying to appear more relatable to the outside world by grooming a number of YouTubers.

Experts Say There’s Something Very Weird About North Korean YouTubers

By Victor Tangermann

A judge has used ChatGPT to make a court ruling, Vice reports, a surprising decision given the AI's inability to always tell the truth.

Judge Uses ChatGPT to Issue Ruling in Court Case

By Victor Tangermann

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.

Furious Marsupial So Thirsty For Sex That It’s Dying, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Verge is reporting that the "Hustle Bros" — you know, the grown men with the very loud YouTube thumbnails — have discovered OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Scammers Are Already Convincing Idiots They Can Get Rich Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's ChatGPT integrated Bing search engine reportedly went live only for a short period, but screenshots document the highly-anticipated upgrade.

Microsoft Appears to Have Accidentally Launched New Bing With ChatGPT Functionality

By Frank Landymore

It appears that the United States has shot down the Chinese balloon that made headlines as it soared over the country this week.

Robots and Machines

Footage Shows Chinese Balloon Being Shot Down

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is, per insiders, really trying build a Twitter payments platform, and plans on having it take cryptocurrency to boot.

It Looks Like Elon Musk Is Actually Building a Twitter Payment Platform

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space startup Sierra Space has blown up its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Space Startup Blows Up Another Giant Inflatable Space Station Module

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

By Victor Tangermann

Timothy Schmidt, a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, called the green comet theory "the craziest email I have ever received."

Professor Receives Insane Email Claiming “Biological” Green Comet Is Giving Off “Meat Smoke”

By Frank Landymore

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

By Frank Landymore

After many months pissing off stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made them happy — by saying that he's leaning into AI.

Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A driverless Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month and didn't stop until firefighters smashed its front window.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Plowed Into Active Fire Scene, Forcing Firefighters to Smash Its Window

By Victor Tangermann

The parent company of Sports Illustrated has announced that its magazines will begin using artificial intelligence to churn out garbage content.

Artificial Intelligence

“AI Will Never Replace Journalism,” Says Magazine CEO Replacing Journalists With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The doomsday prepper CEO of OpenAI has a strange reason for getting out of bed in the morning — and he thinks his company might "break capitalism."

OpenAI CEO Says His Tech Is Poised to “Break Capitalism”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hawaii's Big Island was treated to a light show of space lasers — but luckily, it wasn't aliens that put on the stunning spectacle.

Satellite Shoots Wall of Green Lasers Down to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT is reportedly the fastest-growing app in human history, reaching an estimated 100 million active monthly users in just the two months.

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT’s Explosive Popularity Makes It the Fastest-Growing App in Human History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI’s CEO Once Bragged About His Hoard of Guns and Gas Masks

By Noor Al-Sibai