Never KYS In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's shocking death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered — but there's a lot more to this…
Fire Starter Last night in a bizarre press-conference-for-one, a member of the LA County Fire Command Team schooled Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the basic physics of water pressure —…
In his quest to cheat death, 47-year-old tech founder Bryan Johnson says he's become ravenous for something besides everlasting life. Johnson admitted during the course of filming "Don't Die: The…
The city of Los Angeles is still battling three fierce wildfires. As of Monday morning, at least 24 people have lost their lives and more than 120,000 structures have been…
Clouded Thoughts In 1831, a volcanic eruption flooded the skies with so much sulfur gas that it cooled the planet by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit, causing all manner of famine,…
Wave Function Collapse For years, Google's Waymo driverless taxis have been wreaking havoc on San Francisco streets — and an increasing number of other cities as the service expands — triggering traffic…
The makers of America's nonstick cookware are none too pleased about a new law that will bar them from using carcinogenic "forever chemicals." As Minnesota Public Radio reports, the Cookware…
What happens inside our digestive systems when we feeble humans consume digestion-resistant corn? You wouldn't know from the not-so-helpful graphics holding rank as Google's top image results for the query,…
A body of the world's leading public health researchers says that the number of children dying from noncommunicable diseases over the past 50 years has gone up dramatically, largely because…
It's no secret that large language models (LLMs) like the ones that power popular chatbots like ChatGPT are surprisingly fallible. Even the most advanced ones still have a nagging tendency…
Natty Ice An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that's estimated to be at least 1.2 million…
Under-Reacting As his national funeral unfolds, you've probably heard tales of the good deeds of former president Jimmy Carter. One story that's gotten surprisingly little attention, though: nearly three-quarters of…
Party On, Chicken Chick-fil-A has built an armada of robots to squeeze citrus for its delectable lemonade, turning the God-fearing fast food chain's lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party.…
Are baby elephants, which weigh hundreds of pounds at birth, tiny enough to fit squarely within the bounds of a human palm? Common sense would say no — but Google's…
Fossil Out Boy Two "Punk" and "Emo" fossils — and we don't mean elder members of the music circles that once enjoyed greater cultural cachet — are challenging scientists' understanding…
While we're not quite living in "The Matrix" — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film's legendary slowed-down "bullet time" sequence can, under the right circumstances,…
Not a Sexbot Robotics company Realbotix has shown off what CEO Andrew Kiguel claims to be a "social" robot designed to "tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic," as Forbes reports. But…
A team of geophysicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a baffling discovery while analyzing earthquake waves to investigate the internal structures of the Earth. Specifically, they found areas…
There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI. We're told by tech companies and…
A dad just can't seem to figure out why his six-year-old daughter wasn't impressed by the AI toy he gave her for Christmas. Alex Volkov, a self-styled "AI evangelist" and…