July 16, 2026 7:54 PM
July 16, 2026
New AI-Powered Robot Can Destroy Human Champions at Ping Pong
First, they learned how to play tennis on two feet. Then, they came for our half-marathon world record.…
Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water
A massive drought coupled with political mismanagement might fully deplete water in a major city: neither in West…
Unions Attack AI for Menacing Human Jobs
Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their…
NASA Planning to Set First-Ever Fire on the Surface of the Moon
NASA scientists have long been fascinated by how fire behaves in the microgravity of space. They’ve even lit…
Waymo Baffles Police When it Plows Through Taped Off Crime Scene
Londoners are learning the hard way that self-driving cars still have plenty of kinks to iron out. The…
Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI
There’s a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make…
Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity
Amid Tesla’s disappointing first quarter earnings report, a one-sentence disclosure tucked into the financial statement is raising more…
The Number of Drones Being Deployed to Surveil Anti-Trump Protestors Is Staggering
Police drones are fast becoming a fact of life across the United States, where they’re showing up in…
The US Military Just Arrested One of Its Soldiers for Making Ghoulish Polymarket Bets, and It Shows How Deep the Moral Rot of Prediction Markets Really Goes
Amid the carnage as the United States invaded Venezuela earlier this year, millions of dollars furiously changed hands…
Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years
Hollywood has been “cooked” for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and…
Just 11 AI Data Centers Could Belch More Fumes Than Entire Countries
Just eleven gas-powered data centers in the US could belch more greenhouse emissions than countries with populations of…
Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop
It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese…
Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail
Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market. On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by…
Crypto Bros in Meltdown as Bitcoin Crashes
The crypto market has not had a cozy winter. After Bitcoin suffered some epic tumbles in November, the…
Sam Altman Says AI Will Cause Massive Deflation, Making Money Worth Vastly More
OpenAI is betting in the biggest way possible on a future ruled by AI. It’s committing to spending…
NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Plagued With Issues
NASA is gearing up for the first crewed journey to the Moon in over half a century, a…
Russian Soldiers Seen Surrendering to Gun-Wielding Robot
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth year, remotely-operated ground robots have become a startlingly common sight…
Elon to Merge SpaceX and xAI
Earlier this week, news emerged that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was considering taking his private space company public…
Elon Musk Shutting Down Tesla Car Factory to Manufacture Robots Instead
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made good on his threats to steer his EV maker away from his…
Top Anthropic Researcher No Longer Sure Whether AI Is Conscious
Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have…
Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In
It appears that Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have once again duped his fans and investors — which,…
The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta’s Video Recording Glasses
There’s something about smart glasses that bring out the worst in people. It’s really no mystery, though: they’re…
Court Filing Reveals Something Very Nasty About Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of doing many seedy things on behalf of Meta’s bottom line, but the…
Delivery Robot Gets Stuck on Train Tracks, Gets Obliterated by Locomotive
An autonomous delivery robot got completely atomized by a locomotive after it decided to take a breather on…