Tesla is still struggling to get production going. Pull Over Now A Tesla Cybertruck prototype decided to stop and smell the roses during a test journey. The oddly shaped vehicle was spotted by eagle-eyed onlookers outside Corpus Christi, Texas, earlier this week, Electrek reports, near where the company celebrated the opening of its new lithium… Continue reading Cybertruck Prototype Gets Stuck in Field
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FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages
Image by WSU The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) just gave the OK for genetically-modified pig sausages to enter the food supply. Gene-hacked hot dogs for all! The pork sausage in question was created out of meat from two-year-old pigs that were genetically modified at Washington State University (WSU). The team behind the project was led… Continue reading FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Sausages
Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes
Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawyers argued that 2016 recordings of him making big promises about the car’s Autopilot software could have been deepfaked. While the judge didn’t buy the lawyers’ arguments and ordered Musk to testify under oath, the stunt illustrates a broader trend. As generative AI-powered tools make it easier than ever… Continue reading Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes
Elon Musk Confused Why You’d Think Someone Was a Nazi Simply Because of Their Swastika Tattoo
Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s flirtation with the alt-right might have just leveled up into full-on conspiracy-mongering. On Saturday, a shooter — since identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia — opened fire at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas. Eight mall-goers were killed, while another seven were wounded; the youngest slain victims of the… Continue reading Elon Musk Confused Why You’d Think Someone Was a Nazi Simply Because of Their Swastika Tattoo
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Purge the Accounts of Dead People
If you’ve lost a loved one, but still take a comforting scroll through their old tweets from time to time — well, we might have some bad news. Twitter CEO Elon Musk took to the social media platform yesterday to declare that Twitter was preparing to mass-eradicate inactive accounts from the platform, warning users beforehand… Continue reading Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Purge the Accounts of Dead People
Strangely-Dressed Expert Warns That AI Could Replace 80% of Jobs Soon
“You could probably obsolete maybe 80 percent of jobs that people do, without having an AGI.” Big Shoes The guy responsible both for Sophia the Robot and for popularizing the term “artificial general intelligence” — as in the much-discussed concept of AGI — has a prediction that’s as bold as some of his fashion choices. In… Continue reading Strangely-Dressed Expert Warns That AI Could Replace 80% of Jobs Soon
Cosmonauts Caught Littering Directly Into Space During Spacewalk
Hey! Pick that up! Take Out the Trash After completing a seven-hour spacewalk to move an airlock from one part of the International Space Station to another, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin intentionally yeeted a sizeable bundle of discarded hardware drift away into space. “Bye bye,” said one of the cosmonauts after letting… Continue reading Cosmonauts Caught Littering Directly Into Space During Spacewalk
Self-Checkout Machines Ridiculed for Asking for Tips
“Just the prompt in general is a bit of emotional blackmail.” TipBot Tipping workers is undeniably good, but we may officially be through the looking glass now that self-checkout machines — which replace human cashiers — prompting customers for tips at the end of transactions. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, confused consumers admitted to being… Continue reading Self-Checkout Machines Ridiculed for Asking for Tips
Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful
Concerned about the United States’ brimming culture war? According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, you can go ahead and ignore it, actually — and instead focus on building artificial general intelligence (AGI), which would be AI that exceeds human capabilities, perhaps by a very wide margin. “Here is an alternative path for society: ignore the… Continue reading Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful
Joe Biden Can’t Get a Bluesky Invite
He’ll have to wait just like everybody else. Heads of Late While many users are still clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter clone Bluesky, there are some VIPs that are being refused outright at the door. The emerging Twitter competitor has announced that it will not allow “heads of… Continue reading Joe Biden Can’t Get a Bluesky Invite