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A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

“Late for tee time?”

By Victor Tangermann

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A newly released document links Elon Musk to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious island in the Caribbean.
Elon Musk

New Evidence Links Elon Musk to Epstein’s Island

“Epstein is obviously a creep.”

By Sharon Adarlo

A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

He’s suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.
Starship

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

Is SpaceX squandering America’s lead in space?

By Victor Tangermann

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The Feed

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
OpenAI

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

By Victor Tangermann

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.
Artificial Intelligence

SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI

By Frank Landymore

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.
Future Society

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

By Joe Wilkins

Space Force top boss Chance Saltzman says we need to accept that things aren't always going to be perfect, weapons of war included.
Space

Space Force Says It’ll Prioritize Buying Lots of Weapons Over Ones That Work Properly

By Joe Wilkins

Detail of a Steam Deck handheld gaming console, taken on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Dabe Alan/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Future Society

4Chan-Obsessed ICE Shooter Was Gaming on Steam Right Up Until the End

By Sharon Adarlo

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.
Devices

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

By Joe Wilkins

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.
Future Society

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.
Drones

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

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Hacking

Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

By Joe Wilkins

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.
Mental Health

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

By Victor Tangermann

The movie studio partnered with the firm Runway to make a movie generating AI trained on its catalog — and it's currently foundering.
Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s Attempt to Create Movies Using AI Has Crumbled Into Disaster

By Frank Landymore

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?
Developments

Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

By Frank Landymore

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

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

By Victor Tangermann

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

Zuckerberg’s AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

By Victor Tangermann

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

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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