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Saturday, Apr 27

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To Experience Pure Anxiety, Watch This Video of a Self-Driving Car Navigating India's Chaotic Traffic

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Vishnu Take the Wheel We're willing to bet that you've never seen anything quite as anxiety-inducing as a recent video shared by Indian startup Swaayatt Robots, showing an extremely adventurous self-driving SUV navigating the hectic…

Organ Transplants Can Change Personality and Even Sexual Orientation, Scientists Find

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Scientists have found that organ transplants can have unexpected consequences, including profound changes to one's personality, such as sexual adaptability and enhanced cognitive capabilities. In a study involving 47 participants, a…

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Celebrities Quietly Paying Huge Amounts for Anti-Aging Stem Cell Therapy That May Cause Gruesome Side Effects

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Age is just a number. Or, in the era of immortality obsessed elites, it's just the number of bizarre, supposedly youth-preserving stem cell treatments you can afford. One celebrity to recently come clean about their dependence on these…

SpaceX Employees Getting Wounded at Incredible Rates

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Not-So-Average Working in a factory always comes with occupational hazards, but according to a new review, those who work at SpaceX's facilities experience injuries at rates far higher than industry averages. Per a Reuters analysis, SpaceX…

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Women Diagnosed With HIV After “Vampire Facial” Procedures Popularized by Kim Kardashian

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At least three women were diagnosed with HIV after receiving a bloody "vampire facial" at a New Mexico wellness spa, an alarming Center for Disease Control (CDC) report reveals. According to the report, the case represents the first…

China Shows Off Monkey With Brain Chip Allowing It to Control Robotic Arm

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A Chinese company has announced that they have successfully developed a brain chip and implanted it into a monkey who can now remotely control a robot arm with the device, state-run news media outfit Xinhua reports, putting Elon Musk’s…

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Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket

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Spaced Out A Japanese spacecraft claims it has recently rendezvoused with a three-ton piece of rocket debris in a high-stakes flight, the BBC reports, in an effort to see if it's possible to remove the increasing amounts of space junk…

NASA Releases New Render of SpaceX's Starship Landed on the Moon's Surface

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Lunar Delivery NASA is still hoping to carefully lower astronauts to the lunar surface from a SpaceX Starship, humanity's triumphant return after over half a century. At least, that's according to the plan as it currently stands. As part…

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Archeologists Say They've Found Ancient Underground "Pathways for the Dead"

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Ancient Ruins The verdant rolling hills of Ireland are filled with historically significant structures, like cathedrals and castles, and yet some older ruins that date to prehistoric times remain undiscovered because they are under layers…

Scientist Slams Politicians For Banning Geoengineering Experiments

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A climate scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to quell weather-changing technology, which seeks to cool the planet through various means as climate change keeps heating it up. In an editorial for the MIT Tech Review, Cornell's…

Friday, Apr 26

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Venture Capital Firms Are Actually Considering Giving Elon Musk $6 Billion For xAI

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Check, Please At least one big Silicon Valley venture capital firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk's xAI startup and its chatbot, Grok. As people close to the fundraising told The Information, Musk is closing in on…

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Drake Pulls Down AI-Generated Diss Track After Lawsuit Threat From Tupac’s Estate

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After being sent a very guilt-inducing cease-and-desist, Drake has taken down his AI-generated diss track that deepfaked the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. As The Verge reports, the Canadian-born rapper, née Aubrey Graham, has taken the…

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Tesla's Autopilot and FSD Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, Many Fatal

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Federal regulators released a report this week, finding that Tesla's controversial driver assistance software was linked to hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that especially…

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Gym Teacher Arrested for Using AI to Make Principal Say Racist Things

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AI Schematics A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school's principal into spewing bigotry for blackmail. As the Baltimore Banner and other news outlets report, now-former athletic director…

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A Tesla Vice President Just Quit and Sold $181 Million of Its Stock

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Tesla is going through a crisis. The company, which posted disastrous first-quarter results earlier this month, isn't just losing the over ten percent of its global workforce due to layoffs, a number of high-profile insiders are also…

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Cybertruck Driver Goes Berserk With Road Rage After Mild Teasing

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Cyber Road Rage A particularly thin-skinned Cybertruck driver has had enough of being mocked for his questionable life choices. A video that's making its rounds on social media shows the owner cussing out a group of cyclists, who…

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Self-Driving Waymo Spotted Plowing Down Wrong Side of Street

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A video making its rounds on social media shows a self-driving Waymo car bombing down the wrong side of the road in downtown San Francisco — yet another glaring incident involving the company's vehicles acting unexpectedly. The footage…

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Facebook Cofounder Says Tesla Has Committed "Consumer Fraud on a Massive Scale," Will End in Jail

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Amidst a chaotic month for Tesla — even by its continuously plunging standards — Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has made some pretty dire predictions for the automaker, accusing it of commiting "consumer fraud on a massive scale." …

Sam Altman Is Running Out of Orbs

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Orb Ouchies Eyeball-scanning orbs are, apparently, not a dime a dozen — and now, a Sam Altman-backed crypto startup is running out of them. As Semafor reports, the Altman-backed Worldcoin crypto startup, which uses bespoke metallic orbs to…

Thursday, Apr 25

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A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

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Never Forget Where were you when NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust? For nearly 70 years, NASA — often with help from international friends — has been charting important human history. Landing men on the Moon! Sending the Juno…

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Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice

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The Worst After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to the late, great Tupac. As Billboard reports, an attorney for Tupac Shakur's estate sent a cease and…

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SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

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Webby Awards One of the world's foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering life outside our planet than ever…

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CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences

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Mind Blown Surprise! Sometimes workers do, in fact, work. In December, music streaming giant Spotify fired 1,500 workers, a cohort amounting to a staggering 17 percent of its total workforce at the time. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek chalked the…

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The "Auditor" of "Truth Social" Misspelled His Own Name 14 Different Ways in Filings

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Speling Is Hard The head of the accounting firm in charge of keeping track of the former president's Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is astonishingly bad at typing out his own name. As the Financial Times reports, Ben F Borgers,…

China Repairs Space Station Damaged by Debris Strike

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Last month, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station conducted a lengthy spacewalk to repair a solar array damaged by debris. Now, state media outlet Xinhua reports that those repairs were successful, as China undertakes crucial…

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Former Tesla Engineer Alarmed as Large Piece Falls Off Cybertruck

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Disastertruck Tesla's Cybertruck is really struggling to keep it together. The brutalist pickup, once CEO Elon Musk's much-beloved pet project, has been mired in problems since going on sale late last year, from a major recall caused by a…

Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

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Catholic Answers, a non-clergy group of Catholics, released an AI priest called "Father Justin" earlier this week — and appears to have defrocked it after the chatbot itself began suggesting it was real. Earlier in the week, Futurism…

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Orbiter Spots "Spiders" on Surface of Mars

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Martian Creepy Crawlers The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region. But they're not the arachnids we've come to fear back on Earth — they're the result…

Sun Blasts Comet, Breaking Off Its Tail

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Streaming Stars Recent footage from NASA shows an eruption from our Sun breaking off the tail of a comet whizzing by, IFLScience reports, making for a dramatic display of the Sun's power. The space agency's STEREO A spacecraft captured the…

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Scientists Find There's an Easy Way to Experience Time in Slow Motion

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Have you ever caught your mind wandering during a particularly boring session at the gym that seems to drag on forever? As it turns out, there might be a measurable reason for that. Scientists have found that our perception of time slows…