July 17, 2026 3:12 PM
July 17, 2026
Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses
College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots. Starship Technologies, a leading…
Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust
After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers…
Trending Surgical Procedure That Changes the Color of Your Eyes Alarms Scientists
A French ophthalmologist is performing surgery that can permanently change the color of your pupils. But not everybody…
Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies
It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5”…
Event About How to Adapt to Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Brutal Heatwave
Europe is in the grips of a devastating and deadly heatwave, shattering temperature records for the month of…
Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them
Sensing where the winds are blowing, Hyundai factory workers in South Korea have voted to go on strike…
Waymo Caught Driving Straight Into Oncoming Traffic
The hits keep coming for Waymo, whose self-driving taxi cabs are behaving like European tourists who haven’t quite…
Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words
Boeing’s Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX’s workhorse Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short…
Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research Suggests
Who needs palm readings? New research suggests that scanning a preterm baby’s eyeballs can predict how its brain…
Light Pollution is Causing Fish to Live Miserable, Bitter Lives, Researchers Find
Nobody likes a night interrupted by blinding artificial light, least of all the fish who make their home…
AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of…
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses —…
The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is slated to go public this week at a market cap of $1.75 trillion, which…
Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica
Researchers have uncovered the existence of a monumental geological structure buried two miles beneath the frigid ice of…
US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars
The United States Soccer Federation is hoping to recruit players from across the world by using AI to…
New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else
It may sound like yet another rollout of a dystopian surveillance state network of facial recognition cameras —…
New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water
There’s something monstrous lurking in the waterways of California, and it isn’t the Sacramento Mothman. According to a…
Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night
Residents of the mid-sized burb of Norwich, Connecticut are disturbed at what they’ve described as massive drones descending…
Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams
There’s nothing inherently wrong with daydreaming. Letting your thoughts wander through imaginary worlds can provide a much-needed distraction…
Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence
When a star explodes, it typically leaves behind some sort of remnant: an exposed, ultra-dense core, for example,…
Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry
The coal industry has been in decline for decades. But tell that to president Trump, who’s firmly convinced…
Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons
A Catholic priest just fumbled the job of a lifetime. On Wednesday, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti was stripped of…
Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April,…