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Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.
Electric Vehicles

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.
Metaverse

A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.
Neuroscience and Brain

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.
Science & Energy

A new study links private equity ownership to horrifying outcomes in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs compared to public facilities.
Medical

Roger McNamee has an ominous warning for the huge tech companies shredding billions in the AI race: it's winner take all.
Artificial Intelligence

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.
Art

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.
Future Society

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

A Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that Larry Ellison is a "shadow president of the United States."
Future Society

In October, a newly discovered comet will come so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks unaided.
Future Society

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
Future Society

Tesla's plans for its robotaxi service are so convoluted that it's not clear the company understands them itself.
Future Society

It turns out that it doesn't take a lot to fool the lidar sensors used on robotaxis, if you go out of your way to do it.
Future Society

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
Ethics

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

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