Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and longtime CEO of Meta-formerly-Facebook, is wearing chains. He's growing his hair out. He's wearing oversized t-shirts emblazoned with his favorite classical expressions — the latest…
In the wake of Iran's alleged hack of Donald Trump's campaign servers, many media outlets vowed not to publish any of the information in the interest of combatting foreign electoral…
Tall Boy A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously — even though it's "potentially hazardous." As seen in a…
Sub Drop Amid ongoing competition with the United States, China experienced a major setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched. As the Wall Street…
Coasting on Fumes A group of Silicon Valley guys are releasing potentially planet-cooling chemicals into the atmosphere — and are doing so from a nondescript Winnebago touring around Central California's…
Fuel for Thought Prevailing theories suggest that Mars was once covered in a major liquid water system of oceans, rivers, and lakes, which presupposes a thick atmosphere that could maintain…
Ice Breaker It's an open secret that students are increasingly turning to ChatGPT to generate essays and answers to their homework. Teachers are even starting turning to the tool themselves, using…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business and wrestle control away from its non-profit board. The restructuring…
How Deflating Amidst cries of terror and surprise, a white blimp crash-landed into a residential neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, recalling previous airship accidents around the world. Dramatic…
Let Them Eat Tacos The person running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI. In fact, CEO and founder Luis von…
DisCERNing the Trurth Scientists at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, have just observed an astoundingly rare phenomenon at the subatomic level that could lead to a new…
AI'll Be Back Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, the man behind the iconic film "The Terminator" — in which a rogue AI destroys most of humankind — is jumping on the AI bandwagon.…
PAC Man Using AI-generated visuals and IRL quotes, a parody political action committee (PAC) is taking on North Carolina's embattled lieutenant governor and GOP candidate Mark Robinson — and AI…
Waymo Trouble A viral video shows several people menacingly cornering a stopped Waymo robotaxi on the street and tagging it with graffiti, while a front seat passenger clutches a small…
Wheel Life NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars — enough time, by Sam Altman's reckoning, for the emergence of superintelligent AI.…
Chaos Is a Ladder After her ride back home left her stranded in orbit, NASA astronaut Suni Williams has now taken control of the International Space Station. On Monday, Williams…
Far from the bright lights of the football field, former NFL players are asking themselves a chilling question: are they suffering from CTE? About a third of surveyed former NFL…
Paid to Power A man in the Netherlands has discovered an unusual strategy to get paid for using electricity from the local grid. As the Wall Street Journal reports, soaring…
As part of its Commercial Crew program, NASA picked two private companies in 2014 to develop spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station: SpaceX and Boeing. While…
Company Figurehead SpaceX is one of NASA's key commercial partners. But this relationship has come under scrutiny in recent years as the aerospace company's owner, Elon Musk, has turned into…