Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running its latest operating system Windows 11 — and users, strikingly, are rejoicing the temporary respite from the despised…
A year or two ago, OpenAI was on top of the world. Now... well, it's still probably still the world's buzziest AI startup, but its new models aren't making the…
In collaboration with a number of government ministries, the Chinese internet watchdog Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be…
Things seem to be going nightmarishly bad at an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, where a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues. As England's The Times…
Ashly Burch, the voice actor behind Aloy from the acclaimed PlayStation titles Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Hidden West, has responded to the leaked tech demo showing off a clumsy…
People are already dying due to cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the New York Times reports, care workers in African nations — which, lest we forget,…
Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an…
In a damning new video, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has perfectly demonstrated why Tesla relying entirely on visual data from a suite of cameras isn't such a…
Earlier this month, we blogged that participants at a New York University (NYU) event called the "Stupid Hackathon" had created something remarkable: a vape-embedded Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that dies if…
When most smokers light up a joint, it's unlikely that "enhanced cognitive ability" is front-of-mind. Not shockingly, the long-held assumption from most tends to be that weed makes you dumb, and probably…
In a review as humorous as it was dystopian, The Verge's Victoria Song described what it was like to wear Bee, an inexpensive new AI wearable pin, for a month —…
Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming more or less simultaneously — and scientists still don't know…
Tesla's highly divisive Cybertruck has long garnered a reputation for falling apart, getting stuck, and generally struggling to keep up with its truckly competition. Aside from all that — nevermind becoming…
OpenAI says the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials — and its favorite bogeyman, China, will take the crown instead. As Ars Technica reports, the…
It's been a rough start to the year for Tesla. The EV giant kicked off 2025 with the announcement of its first recorded annual sales decline, a staggering 71 percent…
No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble…
As anti-Elon Musk sentiment continues to flare up, vandals are targeting his EV maker Tesla's Supercharger network. As the Associated Press reports, a man burned down three chargers in a…
You may be pretty happy with the Instagram feed you've curated for yourself. But a recent episode on the app has served as a rude reminder to users that they…
With the help of mRNA technology proven effective during the COVID pandemic, researchers are now closer than ever to creating viable cancer vaccines. In an interview with Wired, Lennard Lee, an…
This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published by the Columbia…