Mulling Martians SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's plans to turn humanity into a "multiplanetary" species grow more ambitious every year — but it's unclear whether he'll live long enough to actually…
Throwing Fits Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a newfound sense of, er, style — and his fellow tech leaders are very into it. As the Washington Post reports, the…
Combo Meal Meta-formerly-Facebook announced a new suite of AI-powered video-creating and editing tools today, collectively called "Meta Movie Gen." Longtime CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the new AI offering in…
Boo Deng Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool for creating realistic-looking footage — and one-upping OpenAI's Sora, it can automatically add matching audio to…
Get Your Waders An image depicting former president Donald Trump wading through floodwaters alongside a fellow disaster responder went viral on social media this week. But there's one tiny problem:…
No Diggity After digging up a weird rug buried in her backyard, an Ohio woman began experiencing some unexplained goings-on — and eventually decided to bring in the cavalry. As People…
Donation Station Though he's been very active in support of former president Donald Trump during this election cycle, it appears that multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has been donating heavily to…
This one's nasty — in one of the more high-profile, macabre incidents involving AI-generated content in recent memory, Character.AI, the chatbot startup founded by ex-Google staffers, was pushed to delete…
Hide and Seek Veterinary researchers have devised an ingenious solution to head off feline resistance to brain scans: hiding the electrodes underneath custom-fit crocheted caps. In a press release about…
Heat Check Where are all the aliens? They may be too busy dying from the same global crisis that we're dealing with — that is, climate change. In a new,…
Billionaire Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, thinks that chess is dumb. Why? Because of space lasers, apparently. In an X-formerly-Twitter post yesterday, the SpaceX CEO railed against the…
AI Crocodile Tears Multiple pro-Trump influencers, including the self-described "investigative journalist" Laura Loomer, were fooled by an AI-generated image designed to depict post-Hurricane Helene aftermath. The image in question features…
Short on Details We're one week away from Tesla's long-awaited "robotaxi" event — and investors are already attempting to manage expectations. Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised to unveil an autonomous…
Eating Rocks Keeping ourselves fed during a long journey through deep space will likely prove difficult. Growing food can pose its own challenges and require a substantial amount of resources.…
Scamming the Scammers Multiple sites masquerading as "nudify" services, which use AI to deepfake clothed photographs into often nonconsensual nudes, have been linked to a notorious Russian hacker collective that was…
Flatulent Farer NASA scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a strange, distant object in our solar system that's repeatedly shooting out jets of gas. Caught between the…
Death Dive A skydiving center in San Joaquin County, California, has seen a shocking 28 deaths since opening its doors in 1985. And now, as SFGate reports, an instructor at…
Cab Creeps A San Francisco woman who was riding in a Waymo robotaxi was harassed by two men who stood in front of the cab to trap her at the…
Starscream Dramatic video footage shows the moment when a Russian fighter jet screams by an American F-16 in the skies above Alaska last month, attracting stern condemnation from US officials.…
Going Exclusive OpenAI announced yesterday that it had officially raised $6.6 billion in its latest investment round, an eyewatering figure that hoists the still-private AI company's valuation to an equally…