Irreconcilable Differences The current generation of AI tech may still make elementary factual flubs, but experts say it's inevitable that many will start to believe AI has become conscious. Soon,…
VIPresident Elon Musk will have a powerful plus-one in attendance for a SpaceX launch on Tuesday. As The New York Times and other publications report, president-elect Donald Trump is expected…
Starship Go Boom Scientists have found that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is so loud that its sonic boom could cause property damage back on the ground. Measurements taken during the…
Absolute Power During the discovery process in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman, email exchanges from early in the group's history show that even early on, tensions flared over who…
Velvet Voice After discovering that his voice has been cloned by artificial intelligence, veteran documentarian David Attenborough has been moved to genteel fury. In a new BBC segment, two near-identical clips —…
Prophecy Foretold Twitter alternative Bluesky has skyrocketed in popularity ever since Donald Trump was reelected as US president earlier this month. Over the last week alone, its user base doubled…
Into the SETIverse Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe. As detailed in a new paper…
Blow-Up Dolls It's only been a few weeks since Elon Musk's money helped bring Donald Trump back to the White House — and already, the billionaire seems to be causing…
Green Light President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars — news that has sent Tesla's stock soaring by almost more than…
Say Cheese Donald Trump's Health Department pick, a political scion and alleged fast food hater, has been photographed with fare from McDonald's, an exemplar of overprocessed restaurant fare in America.…
Pet Sounds The US Secret Service has deployed a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog to patrol president-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. While the quadruped isn't armed,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had a very simple question for xAI CEO Elon Musk's foul-mouthed Grok chatbot: who would make for a "better overall president for the United States?" The…
Dead Poets Scientists have found that readers have a lot of trouble telling apart AI-generated and human-written poetry — even works by the likes of William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.…
Taper Expectations Most of us are probably guilty of having unrealistic expectations for how our haircuts should look. Showing your barber a photo of David Beckham, sadly, does not mean…
Upon learning she had a breast cancer tumor, a Croatian virologist decided to grow her own viruses to fight the disease — a radical departure from medical norms that appears…
In the year since its devastating hack, 23andMe has lost virtually all its stock value and most of its governing board — and somehow, things just keep getting worse for…
Gun Bots US Defense Department contractor Allen Control Systems (ACS) has developed an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous robotic gun system called the "Bullfrog," which can target small drones using proprietary computer…
Vroom Vroom The scientists who taught rats to drive itty bitty cars are back at it again — and this time, they have even more insights about how much these…
Car-Plane-Go China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station. As Space.com reports, the project — dubbed…
Hand Me Downs NASA's spacesuits, which its astronauts use to venture outside the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age. In June, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was…