August 30, 2026 10:53 PM
August 30, 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…
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…
Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants
While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s…
Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis
The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been…
Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction…
Norway Approves Autonomous Buses for Public Roads
After a ten-year period of trial and error, officials approved fully autonomous buses for operation in Norway, where…