/ Food $200. Data $150. Rent $800. Drill books $3,600. Someone who is good at the economy, please help me budget this. I wonder how many hours of entertainment I’ve gotten from Content forged on this Throne. Image: dril Dril, the account behind a frankly unbelievable number of viral tweets, is packaging his magnificent archive… Continue reading Dril is selling the archives of his legendary tweets
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OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition
Turns out there’s one thing AI can’t do well… yet. Robo-Puns OpenAI’s text-generating ChatGPT may be really good at coming up with believable undergraduate-level essays, terrible fan fiction, and eyebrow-raising visions of a dystopian future. One area where ChatGPT is clearly coming up short, though? The dad joke department. It turns out that the algorithm is… Continue reading OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition
Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough
Researchers at the government-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California claim to have made a massive breakthrough in the long-delayed pursuit of practical fusion energy. People involved in the research told The Financial Times that the team was able to get more energy out of a fusion reaction that they had to put in —… Continue reading Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough
Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More
Sorry, iOS users. Genius Time Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, doesn’t know how stores work. Or, rather, he only just learned. The evidence: his recent “battle” with Apple, which Musk launched in part over his shock and dismay regarding Apple’s “secret” 30 percent cut at its App Store. (The… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More
Elon Musk Booed Off Stage in Incredibly Awkward Video
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk got booed by thousands of people at a Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco on Sunday night — which isn’t exactly surprising, considering that he’s been relentlessly courting controversy like it was going out of style. A Twitter account that shared the clip was mysteriously deleted, but a clip later… Continue reading Elon Musk Booed Off Stage in Incredibly Awkward Video
NASA’s Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
After circling the moon for the past three weeks, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down under parachute yesterday morning off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California near Guadalupe Island, marking an end to the Artemis program’s first major lunar mission. Orion was then scooped up by a recovery crew and sent to port in San Diego,… Continue reading NASA’s Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
The Transparency Theater of the Twitter Files
In short, no one’s tweets were unfindable to the public without the poster knowing about it: If they were suspended or banned, naturally they’d be aware. De-amplification—affecting a person’s ranking in search results and the like—is rather different. Some might call it “freedom of speech but not freedom of reach.” The people playing semantic games are Musk… Continue reading The Transparency Theater of the Twitter Files
Cliffset’s Portable Silverware Set Has a Built-In Dishwasher
There’s a dilemma every city dweller faces eventually: Where’s the fork? Let’s say that after a meeting, you finally manage to find the one falafel stand that’s an oasis in the food desert of the financial district. The gods smile, and you score an $8 falafel platter. This is why you live in a city,… Continue reading Cliffset’s Portable Silverware Set Has a Built-In Dishwasher
Lyft drivers who use EVs will get a $150 bonus if they complete 50 trips a week
/ The company is offering cash incentives to get more drivers to switch to EVs so it can achieve its goal of “100 percent” electric-only trips by 2030. Lyft drivers can get cash for driving an EV. Lyft, which has said it wants “100 percent” of the vehicles operating on its platform to be electric… Continue reading Lyft drivers who use EVs will get a $150 bonus if they complete 50 trips a week
GoPro’s new Hero 11 Black Mini is 42 percent off right now
All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing. As the name suggests, the Hero 11 Black… Continue reading GoPro’s new Hero 11 Black Mini is 42 percent off right now