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Netflix Japan's official Twitter shared a promo for its anime short "Dog & The Boy," announcing that it used AI in response to a "labor shortage."

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Brags That It Used AI to Replace Human Animators In New Anime

By Frank Landymore

The global warming threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius may be a foregone conclusion, according to a new study that trained an AI on climate models.

Global Warming Is Worse Than We Thought, AI Tells Scientists

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers has discovered a total of 25 different fast radio bursts, extremely powerful pulses of radio waves, that repeat in complex patterns.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Intrigued by 25 Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's Reality Labs metaverse division lost almost $14 billion dollars last year — so why has the stock price increased?

Facebook’s Metaverse Division Lost Nearly $14 Billion Dollars Last Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX "may or may not" use "expendable" upper stages to carry even more cargo into Earth's orbit.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX May Build Starship That Dies on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

AI image generators like Midjourney aren't 100 percent perfect, particularly when it comes to rendering images of human hands.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Why AI Is so Awful at Generating Pictures of Humans Hands

By Victor Tangermann

The Canadian province of Quebec's own spring-predicting groundhog lovingly nicknamed "Fred la marmotte" (groundhog in French) unexpectedly passed away.

Science & Energy

Instead of Predicting Length of Winter, Groundhog Simply Dies

By Victor Tangermann

The FCC has cleared space combat startup True Anomaly for a test launch of two "hunter" satellites, built specifically for space warfare.

SpaceX to Launch “Hunter” Satellites for Targeting Rival Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to one Harvard researcher, if we don't put a lid on the US-China AI arms race soon, civilization as we know it could end up paying a hefty price.

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Researcher Warns AI Arms Race Could Destroy Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The International Space Station is, without a doubt, really awesome — but even NASA has to admit when the ISS has reached its limits.

NASA Official Admits There’s a Bit of an Issue on the Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of NYC bird advocates are denouncing whoever bought and dyed pink a domesticated pigeon for a gender reveal before releasing it into the wild.

Science & Energy

Bird Advocates Horrified by Pigeon Dyed Pink For Gender Reveal Party

By Noor Al-Sibai

We have a humble suggestion: NASA should make interplanetary history once more by having its Ingenuity Mars helicopter do some sick tricks.

Suggestion: NASA Should Make Its Mars Helicopter Do Some Gnarly Tricks From “Tony Hawk”

By Victor Tangermann

After five years allegedly on the lam, Dr. Ruja Ignatova — the infamous crypto ponzi scheme scam artist accused of stealing billions — might be back.

“Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing Billions Suddenly Surfaces

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's powerful, controversial ChatGPT is, it seems, creepily good at writing misinformation when prompted to do so by a human.

ChatGPT Is Freakishly Good at Spitting Out Misinformation on Purpose

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dutch data journalist Wouter van Dijke took it upon himself to ask the ultimate question: "what if ChatGPT were a cat?"

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New CatGPT AI Answers as If It Were a Kitty Cat

By Victor Tangermann

It's only been a few days since gaming streamer Atrioc admitted to buying deepfake porn of his colleagues, but in the interim, all hell has broken loose.

Artificial Intelligence

The Deepfake Porn Scandal Is Tearing the Streaming Community Apart

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.

Elon Musk Apparently Thinks Twitter Is a “Flaming Dumpster Rolling Down the Street”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Partiful event invite startup has admitted that it won't be turning a profit with investor money — but will be partying on regardless.

Party Startup Says It Has Zero Plans to Make Any Money With Investors’ Funds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.

Science & Energy

Startup Backed By “Jurassic World” Producer Says It Will Revive Extinct Dodo Using Complete Genome

By Frank Landymore

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.

Science & Energy

Influencer Fined for Eating Endangered Great White Shark

By Noor Al-Sibai

Strange things were certainly afoot this weekend, with zookeepers in Dallas and Louisiana announcing separate incidents of monkey theft.

It Was a Very Bad Weekend for Monkeys Being Stolen From Zoos, Apparently

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.

Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star

By Victor Tangermann

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.

Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

People have suspected for years that Facebook Messenger was draining their batteries — and a new lawsuit just might prove it.

Whistleblower Claims Facebook Can Secretly Drain Your Phone’s Battery on Purpose

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

By Victor Tangermann

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Silicon Valley darling and ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly hired roughly 1,000 contractors with the goal of improving its text-to-code AI, Codex.

OpenAI Reportingly Hiring “Army” of Devs to Train AI to Replace Entry-Level Coders

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Real estate agents are, it seems, already using OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT artificial intelligence software to pump out property listings.

Shameless Realtors Are Already Grinding Out Property Listings With ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mining giant Rio Tinto misplaced a "highly radioactive" object along a Western Australian highway, several outlets report. If it helps, they're "sorry."

Science & Energy

Miners Say “Sorry” for Losing Highly Radioactive Object Along Highway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It took firefighters 6,000 gallons of water to eventually extinguish the Tesla's battery which was determined to be the cause of the fire.

Tesla “Spontaneously” Bursts Into Flames While Driving Down Freeway

By Frank Landymore

As the Artemis mission's 2024 launch date steadily approaches, NASA is undertaking its secretive selection process to decide who will be sent to the Moon.

NASA Finalizing Secretive Decision on First Astronauts for the Artemis Moon Mission

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of making use of "rubber" inflatable tanks near the country's embattled Zaporizhzhia region, which have since deflated.

Robots and Machines

Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using Inflatable “Dummy Tanks,” Which Deflated

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb was able to spot the coldest ice on record that may hold clues to the formation of organic molecules across the universe.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Discovers Coldest Ice in Known Universe, Harboring Molecules Essential For Life

By Frank Landymore

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has announced that it's setting up a facility specifically to deposit Mars rock samples, which may contain traces of ancient life on the Red Planet.

NASA Setting Up Facility For Mars Rock Samples That Might Contain Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency has shown off a concept for a giant eight-feet-long robotic arm that is designed to pick up samples of Martian soil.

European Space Agency Shows Off Concept for Martian Sample Picker-Upper

By Victor Tangermann

A mother whose teen son struggles with a learning disability urged him to turn in an essay written by ChatGPT — and was pretty pleased with the results.

Mom Encourages Teen to Turn in Essay Generated With ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Atlas, Boston Dynamics' bipedal, humanoid robot, is not above falling flat on its face, or on its ass, or just freezing up like an idiot.

Boston Dynamics

Hilarious Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Failing Horribly

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have successfully turned an abandoned oil and gas well into a geothermal energy storage system, "a win-win situation."

Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well Into Giant Geothermal Battery

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos' Amazon is reportedly planning to launch a web3 initiative this spring, where customers can play "crypto games" to win NFTs.

Business Geniuses at Amazon Hard at Work on Hot New Idea: NFTs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

First spotted in 2013, astronomers have come back for another, extremely rarely look at the centaur called Chariklo that they now think harbors ice water.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Asteroid With Its Own Saturn-Like Rings

By Frank Landymore

New amphibian fossils just dropped, and this one, the "funky worm," is named for a really strange 1970s funk song beloved by its discoverers.

Scientists Name “Funky Worm” Amphibian After a Weird 70s Funk Song

By Noor Al-Sibai

The city of Amsterdam just unveiled an underwater bike parking garage for the city's cyclers. It's beautiful, efficient, and further disincentives cars.

Advanced Transport

We’re in Awe of Amsterdam’s Huge Underwater Bike Parking Garage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the most famous BuzzFeed columnists has some harsh words for CEO Jonah Peretti over his decision to include AI in the site's content operations.

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Columnist Tells CEO to “Get F*cked” for Move to AI Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers from Oxford told UK lawmakers that "superhuman AI" could end up being at least as dangerous as nuclear bombs and should be regulated like them.

Artificial Intelligence

Oxford Scientists Warn AI Could Be More Deadly Than Nuclear Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

John Wenz ate chicken meat grown in a lab, courageously admitting that it gave him gas. But it does taste like chicken, at least.

Journalist Eats Lab-Grown Chicken, Gets “Weirdly Gassy”

By Frank Landymore

Yuga Labs, the firm behind the infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, apparently never actually copyrighted their computer-generated apes.

Yuga Labs Says Its Bored Apes Are Absolutely Copyrighted, Thank You Very Much

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.

Internet Erupts as NASA Spots Cartoon Bear on Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.

Artificial Intelligence

89 Percent of College Students Admit to Using ChatGPT for Homework, Study Claims

By Victor Tangermann

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

Super-rare green comet C/2022 E3 — or ZTF for short — is making its closest approach to both the Earth and the Sun, dazzling hobby astrophotographers.

Behold! Dazzling Green Comet Approaches

By Victor Tangermann

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

By Frank Landymore

The rest of dinosaur's body was intact, too, including the armor, spikes, limbs, and its stomach contents. Looking it in the eye might unnerve you.

Science & Energy

Scientists Found a Dinosaur’s Face, Complete With Its Skin

By Frank Landymore

Like death and taxes, the slippage of an Elon Musk timeline is an inevitability, and it has happened again with Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck.

Of Course Elon Musk Is Pushing The Cybertruck Back Again, What Did You Expect?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot is made of a new material called "magnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional matter," and is capable of liquefying and remolding itself again.

Scientists Create Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Melt Through Prison Bars

By Frank Landymore

Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using AI to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by OpenAI.

BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter has already had to re-suspend at least two reprehensible right-wingers whose accounts were reinstated by Elon Musk.

Twitter Is Quietly Re-Suspending the Lunatics Elon Musk Let Back On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have built a real-life tractor beam that can pull actual objects using nothing but light.But it has one big drawback: it's absolutely tiny.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Working Tractor Beam, Although It’s Comically Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the space relationship between the ESA and China may be disintegrating before even being officially launched.

European Space Agency Halts Plans to Send Astronauts to Chinese Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Car designer and manufacturer Rezvani has come up with a truly apocalyptic military-grade SUV that can pepper spray, electrify, and blind passersby.

Advanced Transport

New SUV Features Electrified Door Handles and Pepper Spray Guns

By Victor Tangermann

An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space later this year, Bloomberg reports.

Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission

By Victor Tangermann

DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder has announced that his robot lawyer's first live case has been postponed, alleging that prosecutors have threatened to jail him.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup’s Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré