August 31, 2026 12:05 AM
August 31, 2026
We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound
In February 2024, scientific journal Frontiers was forced to retract a paper by a team of Chinese and…
Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
The law’s gaze has grown harder to escape, as surveillance drones and AI-integrated cameras now track movement across…
There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims
Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve…
Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland
Human activity-driven climate change has exacerbated droughts, making them more frequent, last longer, and more severe. This summer…
Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle
We love apes. We love that they’re uncanny but pure reflections of our human quirks and foibles, at…
Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable
Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a…
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…
Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps
Tinder is partnering with Sam Altman’s World project to let its users prove they’re real humans, in just…
Two Delivery Bots Blunder Into the Middle of a Police Incident, Have Awkward Standoff
Delivery robots continue to be a nuisance wherever they roam. As a gaggle of around a half dozen…
Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI
A recent survey found that millions of Americans are asking AI chatbots for medical advice, often instead of…
Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Deploying Ransomware Himself
When a person or company is hit with a ransomware attack, it’s common to hire a third-party negotiator…
Mowing Down Simulated Elephants Could Help Self-Driving Cars Prepare For the Chaos of Real Life Streets
Even the best self-driving cars keep getting confused and crashing into stuff, sometimes with fatal results. Here’s a…
America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools
As if air travel in the United States wasn’t cursed enough, the Trump Administration wants to ease the…
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real
The advent of large language model-based writing tools have given lazy or unconfident writers incredible new shortcuts that…
Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
AI isn’t all chatbots and meme generators. According to a new study published in the journal Science, it…
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…