January 31, 2026 3:57 AM
January 31, 2026
China Builds Wild Gravity Machine
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than…
Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech
From the Alien and Sedition Acts to various Red Scares, American history is littered with panicked attempts to…
Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why
For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The staggering number of overdose…
Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
A stack of major AI ethics lawsuits against Google have finally come to an end. According to the…
Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey
Thinking about dropping those flavorful white sachets of nicotine this resolution season? You might want to reconsider how…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
AI chatbots may be explosively popular, but they’re known to dispense some seriously wacky— and potentially dangerous —…
New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Watch out, bartenders: your jobs might be next on the AI chopping block — at least if tech…
NASA Announces Emergency Evacuation From Space Station
For the first time ever, NASA has been forced to cut a mission to the International Space Station…
NASA’s Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning
By March of this year, the Trump administration is hoping to shutter over a dozen buildings and more…
Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck
Amid a riotous AI hype cycle, companies are promising that their agentic AIs will —eventually, at least —…
Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway
After a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode suddenly swerved off of a busy highway and almost straight into…
Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production
Back in April, we came across a flashy and almost entirely CGI video of a bizarre concept for…
Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth
Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual…
Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth
For months now, astronomers have been closely watching the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it rips through the…
Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk
Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is going through a lot of firsts these days. Earlier this week, a pregnant…
Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone
We’ve written previously about Juliana Peralta, who was only 13 years old when her parents say an AI…
Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with…
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all…
Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded…
Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft
Last month, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station discovered cracks in the window of their…
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through…
You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Getting tired of dusting off Grandpa’s stuffy old urn? One startup has the solution for you. It’s called…
Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars
Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river…
Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats
OpenAI has long made it its number one goal to realize artificial general intelligence, which it described in…