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There's a new iceberg in town, freshly minted off of Antarctica's 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf. And at 600-square-miles, it's something to behold.

Science & Energy

Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City Breaks Off Antarctica

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After catching snippets of ChatGPT text that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking to the AI.

Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

By Frank Landymore

As the fallout from CNET's scandalous experiment with AI generated articles continues, a big Red Ventures rival has made its stance known.

Artificial Intelligence

Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer.

Scientists Say We’re Closer to Nuclear Armageddon Than Any Other Point in History

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.

Facial recognition

Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the Earth's inner core appears to have stopped spinning, and is changing its direction every 60 to 70 years or so.

Science & Energy

Earth’s Core Appears to Have Stopped Spinning, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT, OpenAI's impressive new text generating algorithm, has more than its share of fans — and apparently, it's got haters in high places, too.

Facebook’s Resident AI Guru Just Brutally Slammed ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gautam Adani, the world's third richest person, says that he's experienced "some addiction" to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. To each their own.

Artificial Intelligence

World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boston Dynamics' Atlas bipedal robot broke a ton of OSHA regulations in the company's latest video featuring a human construction worker.

Boston Dynamics

Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

By Victor Tangermann

According to Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried's excel docs — delivered by way of newsletter — FTX US is solvent. The new FTX CEO says otherwise.

Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have created a a remote-controlled walking robot that runs on mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, an eerie mashup.

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

By Victor Tangermann

A Swiss cybersecurity hacktivist has leaked the TSA's No-Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server.

Advanced Transport

The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

By Victor Tangermann

Hot off the heels of Microsoft's round of mass layoffs, OpenAI has officially confirmed that it's "extending" its partnership with the tech giant.

OpenAI Confirms Huge Partnership With Microsoft, Which Just Laid Off 10,000 People

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam. Queue yet another existential crisis!

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married a woman who works for him at the cool age of 93 in a ceremony that took place on his birthday.

Buzz Aldrin Marries His Employee at the Young Age of 93

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

By Victor Tangermann

The board tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook is suggesting the company take a long, hard look at its infamous "female-presenting nipple" rule.

Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule

By Noor Al-Sibai

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus isn't only suspected to hold a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust — it's also covered in an astonishing amount of snow.

Something Weird Is Happening on Saturn’s Snow-Covered Moon, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

An AI has created stills from a non-existent Alejandro Jodorowsky version of "The Matrix" that "stars" Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus — and it's honestly epic.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreams Up 1980s “Matrix” Starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Murphy, North Carolina, was a once quiet town in the Blue Ridge mountains, until a crypto mine showed up. Locals aren't just mad — they're taking action.

Residents Annoyed by Crypto Mine That Emits Constant, Horrible Noise

By Frank Landymore

If you go outside at night on a clear day, there's a decent chance you'll be able to spot a giant, green comet passing by our planet.

If You Go Outside, You May Be Able to See an Awesome Green Comet

By Victor Tangermann

A cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" has been crowned as the world's largest known toad. But sadly, our hefty heroine's story has already come to an untimely end.

Science & Energy

Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

After speculation from Davos-attendees, the owner of the mysterious Bitcoin-orange Mercedes at the elite Alpine gathering has come forward.

Owner of Infamous Davos Bitcoin Car Gets Sensitive Over Crypto Criticism

By Noor Al-Sibai

Desperate Twitter Auctioning Off Its Used Office Supplies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI chatbot, Historical Figures, simulates conversations with famous leaders. Just one thing: every famous person in history is perfect. Noted.

Artificial Intelligence

AI of Andrew Jackson, Who Literally Owned Slaves, Insists That He Wasn’t Racist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold almost $3.6 billion of his Tesla shares — just before the company revealed disappointing fourth-quarter results to investors.

Elon Musk Ditched Tesla Stock Right Before Bad News Dropped

By Victor Tangermann

"Star Trek" actor George Takei has aimed his sights at co-star William Shatner yet again, saying he did not in fact go into outer space.

George Takei Slams William Shatner, Says He Didn’t Really Go to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Bank of America and the Zelle money exchange app apparently lost a bunch of peoples' funds yesterday in a strange error between the institutions.

Furious Customers Trash Bank of America and Zelle For Somehow Losing Their Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is releasing a mysterious and seriously haunting howl. But there's a simple explanation.

Science & Energy

The Golden Gate Bridge Is Emitting a Horrible Howling Sound

By Victor Tangermann

We regret to inform you that, sadly, AmazonSmile — which allowed Amazon customers to give a portion of purchase proceeds to charity — is coming to an end.

Amazon Kills Off Feature That Let Customers Give Sales Proceeds to Charity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An economist known for his doomsday predictions is going off on cryptocurrency at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Influential Economist Tells Davos Elites That Crypto Is a Complete Scam

By Noor Al-Sibai

NVIDIA has released a beta of a new feature called Eye Contact, software that makes you stare into the camera even if you're looking away.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrifying Algorithm Locks Your Gaze Into Your Webcam

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's CEO is warning that its long-rumored successor, GPT-4, could end up being a huge letdown, given the sheer volume of attention.

OpenAI CEO Says Unfortunately, People Will Be Disappointed With GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Turns out, all you need is a million dollar laser that can shoot high energy pulses at an absurdly fast rate, and you can maybe divert lightning.

Science & Energy

Scientists Test System for Controlling Where Lightning Strikes Hit Using Lasers

By Frank Landymore

Sam Bankman-Fried's friend and colleagues turned on him to save themselves. So, his parents have apparently given him a dog — who doubles as security.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Reportedly Got Him a Dog So He Wouldn’t Be So Lonely

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to the people actually already working — or attempting to work — in the Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse, there are a lot of issues.

People Forced to “Go to Work” in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers have come up with a machine learning-assisted way to detect and estimate the position of people only using WiFi.

Artificial Intelligence

New Tech Can See People Through Walls Using WiFi

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot showed off its problem solving skills in a video titled "Atlas Gets a Grip," released by the robot maker today.

Boston Dynamics

Watch a Boston Dynamics Robot Deftly Toss a Bag of Tools to a Construction Worker

By Victor Tangermann

Amid rumors of a huge OpenAI deal, Microsoft has announced that it's laying off a whopping 10,000 employees as the economy continues its downturn.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Fires 10,000 Employees as It Invests in AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA.

Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's no surviving the fireball of a nuclear bomb, but beyond that, there are certain spots indoors where you can try avoid the destructive shockwave.

Science & Energy

New Study Shows Where You Should Hide to Survive a Nuclear Attack

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have uncovered a macabre potential explanation for why a specific subset of exoplanets haven't been observed yet.

Scientists Offer Ghoulish Theory for Why There Are No Planets of a Certain Size

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dr. David Peterson argues that if we are indeed living in a computer simulation of reality, we can probably hack it — by submitting feature requests.

A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of researchers have captured radio signals originating from atomic hydrogen from an extremely distant galaxy.

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Emanating From Extremely Distant Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

harvard-professor-crypto-magical-thinking-infected-capitalism

Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is “Magical Thinking” That “Infected Capitalism”

By Frank Landymore

Developer Miles Zimmerman shared now-viral images of a demonic house party dreamed up by AI image generator Midjourney on Twitter over the weekend.

Artificial Intelligence

We’re Fascinated by These AI-Generated Party Pics… Especially Their Demonic Mutations

By Victor Tangermann

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the world's most populous country's population declined in 2022, the first time in 60 years.

China’s Population Just Dropped for the First Time in 60 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A fan who used OpenAI's ChatGPT to pen a song mimicking the style of Nick Cave was in for a surprise when the man himself responded in anger.

Artificial Intelligence

Nick Cave Absolutely Furious Over AI That Wrote a Song in His Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.

Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

South Korea's lunar orbiter has taken a fascinating image of the wall and floor of the Shackleton Crater on the shadowy far side of the Moon.

New Orbiter Can See Inside Moon Craters Hidden in Total Darkness

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to get an impending securities fraud trial moved from San Francisco to Texas since most prospective jurors hate his guts.

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Says San Francisco Hates Him Too Much for a Fair Trial

By Victor Tangermann

The Winchcombe meteorite was kept pristine and avoided earthly contamination, making the discovery of amino acids inside all the more compelling.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life in Meteor That Smashed Into Family’s Driveway

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's EVs like the Model Y are not only $13,000 cheaper, but also now qualify for a $7,500 tax credit from the federal government.

Tesla Slashes Car Prices Up to 20 Percent

By Frank Landymore

Keith Schofield shared an extensive series of eyegrabbing images that supposedly evoke the style of David Cronenberg, but fans think otherwise.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used AI to Dream Up a Nonexistent David Cronenberg Movie and the Results Are Nauseating

By Frank Landymore

Without consciousness, AI-powered chatbots are doomed to turn into dangerous sociopaths, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano warns.

Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist Warns That Current Generation AIs Are Sociopaths

By Victor Tangermann

A masked Tesla driver armed with a pipe was caught on video viciously attacking someone else's car on a freeway in Los Angeles.

Pipe-Wielding Tesla Maniac Attacks Fellow Driver in Los Angeles

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.

Artificial Intelligence

Those Horny Chatbots Are Apparently Now Sexually Harassing Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has been accused of intentionally shadowbanning a journalist — just after they reported on a pileup caused by a self-driving Tesla.

Journalist Critical of Elon Musk Allegedly Shadowbanned on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré