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Greg Fish has a test for separating what AI is actually good at from what it's being sold as, and it comes down to one sharp question he keeps asking companies that make the biggest claims: if it can ...

Tech influencers keep rediscovering decades old research in their quest to reinvent the world with only the power of hubris and a few lines of code.

A novel proposal says that we should look for alien megastructures. But can we really expect an alien civilization to build them?

Our tech oligarchs are on a quest to discover how to make humans immortal. What happens if against all odds, they succeed?

Knives are out for Meta in court, with politicians and lawyers eager to send a message. But how likely is it to work? And is it even a good idea?

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Tech critics have a lot to say about how the generative bubble will burst. They're far more mum on what to do while we wait to see if it does.

What happens when a generation grows up being served exclusively by recommendation algorithms by Big Tech.

We're worried about a post-literacy world because we're living in a post-boredom one.

CEOs and space faring powers are treating low Earth orbit as their personal playgrounds, much to the horror of space agencies.

Not only is the C-suite not immune to AI psychosis, they seem to be primed to suffer the worst of it as their employees duck and cover.

AI adoption is at an all time high, but opinion of AI keeps on tumbling with every poll and study on the subject.

But they can and do detect and complain about unfair treatment when asked, according to an experiment by Stanford researchers.

Right wing content has a major advantage on social media. But we can do something about that with a very simple change in our habits.

Popular science outlets continue to do a terrible job of explaining studies on primeval evolution and pretending we have answers we don't.

It used to be crunchy vegan moms who disdained modern medical science. Now, it's MAGA diehards who are at war with their doctors to their own detriment.

Social media's AI zealots are cheering an exercise in complexity and reinventing the wheel for the sake of complexity and reinventing the wheel.

Jokes about closets and the male gaze aside, who really thrives in this noxious ecosystem and why?

Plastics are an environmental disaster, but we still need them. Now, there's a much better solution to our plastics problem.

When children and future generations are critical to the future, but not as critical as quarterly returns.

Once the reigning champion of skepticism and rationality, Dawkins has become what he once ridiculed.

There may finally be a vaccine and a treatment for one of the most successful and annoying viruses.

Ever walk into an old house or a dark, gloomy place and felt like something is just... off? Now we know why.

In their commitment to rejecting science, creationists refuse to even update their arguments over the last two decades.

What would really happen to Earth if we put the universe's most massive black hole on our stellar doorstep as a viral graphic imagines?

People want to save the planet, but only if they feel like they can.

From the "what in the cyberpunk dystopia am I reading files" comes a new Silicon Valley stroke of lunacy...

Across media, both social and legacy, commentators bemoan nihilism as the force that got us into today's mess. It's not.

The same terrible people who made COVID worse for all of us are already railing against a hantavirus pandemic that isn’t happening.

More and more people are asking AI about candidates in upcoming elections and trusting whatever the chatbot says.

"What's the worst that can happen?" is a common refrain in the West. It's also based on unjustified optimism.

The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.

Some people are volunteering to hand over all their thinking to AI with serious implications for society.

The dirty open secret behind why so many companies are trusting so much of their code to chatbots.

While medical AI is flourishing in labs, chatbots being used for medical help and advice are stumbling, and badly.

We played a very stupid game. Now it's time to collect the very stupid prizes.

Magic internet money is quietly racing an existential threat from quantum computing, as is all encryption used today.

MAGA rage farmers are trying to make a new hit game with many classic sci-fi beats a culture war meme.

Bots have either just overtaken humans as the majority users of the web, or are just about to. And it's only going to get worse.

Hail Mary was a badly mismanaged, rushed death trap driven by groupthink and politics, and Ryland Grace was right to balk at the idea.

In ads, chatbots are omniscient arbiters and truth brokers. In practice, they're sycophantic enablers according to the latest research.

Yes, being a professional asshole is now a viable career option. Which is awful news for online discourse.

Yes, sadly, some of the worst stereotypes about corporate culture really are true.