Ripped Off The production company behind the sci-fi blockbuster "Blade Runner 2049" is suing Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit, the company asserts that…
Case Closed The body of a missing SpaceX employee has been found near a beach close to the company's testing facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. According to the US Coast…
Fintech Karen Intuit, the financial tech giant behind TurboTax and Quickbooks, inexplicably demanded that The Verge completely delete a portion of editor-in-chief Nilay Patel's interview with its CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, because…
Shiny Solution There are ways of cooling the planet, and then there are cool ways of cooling the planet. Spending decades grinding up something approaching a quadrillion dollars worth of diamonds into…
In post-Roe America, more babies are dying in their first year of life. New research published this week in the JAMA Pediatrics found that in the first 18 months since…
Is nothing sacred? We must ask ourselves this after hundreds of varieties of frozen waffles are now being recalled in the US and Canada by their manufacturer, CBS News reports—…
Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been campaigning in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is now handing out millions of dollars to…
Cage Match Nicolas Cage has some practical advice to young actors about artificial intelligence. Speaking at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday, the "Longlegs" star warned up-and-comers not…
Pentagon Pals Pentagon-operated AI personas might be coming to an internet forum near you. As The Intercept reports, a wishlist put forward by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) — a furtive counterterrorism…
Vouch For You In techno-dystopia news, using a meal voucher for non-food items can get you fired — that is if that voucher comes from Meta. As the Financial Times reports,…
Bad news for standing desk zealots: you may not be as superior to your seated counterparts as you think you are. Researchers at the University of Sydney have found that…
A user took to the billion-dollar AI companion platform Character.AI to make a chatbot version of a murdered teen nearly two decades after her tragic death, AdWeek first reported earlier…
Fun Control What's more alpha male than driving around in a big, red-blooded Cybertruck? Shooting one, of course. In a video that's gone viral on social media, some dude in…
A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for their IQs, according to startling new reporting from The Guardian.…
Speak No Evil A major horror movie studio seems to be turning into a bit of an industry horror show. As Variety reports, Blumhouse Productions, best known for franchises like…
Bad Surprises Synthesia, a text-to-video AI company with a valuation of over one billion dollars, claims that its tech allows users to "create studio-quality videos with AI avatars" as easily…
A controversial AI-powered local news site really stepped in it this week — by accidentally accusing a regional district attorney of murder. As Techdirt first reported, an article appeared on Hoodline San Jose —…
Disappearing Act In case you've forgotten, Elon Musk's Tesla is among the largest bitcoin whales in the world. So when all of a sudden its over $760 million worth of…
Ice Ice Baby Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are positing that Mars' ultra-thick water ice deposits, which hold dark dust and snow drifts from past ice ages, could be…
Watch what you post online, kids. As Wired reports, Aaron Kofsky, a top financial policy advisor to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, used to post online about his love…