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"It's been over 40 years since we've had an undersea habitat built for humans and launched."
Startup Unveils Underwater Living Chamber for Human Dwellers
A privately-backed startup is courting research applications to stay for up to five days in an underwater lair.
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"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030."
Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds
A new study found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is ramping up at a horrifying rate.
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"Make sure that this resistance doesn't become a vote reflected in the vote of the council."
Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing Protestors
A former Flock employee says the company lied about how its cameras would be used and that it tried to undermine protestors.
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"You ask a question, and a person named Tucker reads it, thinks about it, and writes back when awake and motivated."
New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand
ChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries.
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"These Big AI goliaths think they can buy off our government, our elections, our leaders, and our future and nobody will notice."
Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority Disgusted by Trump's Relationship With AI Industry, Saying He's Using the Tech to Tear Down Democracy
Donald Trump's AI regime is hugely unpopular with American voters, as are the Democratic party's efforts to cozy up to the tech industry.
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Its autonomous test fleet in Houston were 24/7 "rolling hazards," he warned.
Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
A former Tesla safety lead says he was fired after warning about the company's dangerous approach to testing its self-driving cars.
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"When those lights go out, man, you know you are in big trouble."
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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"He should never have been charged, let alone convicted."
Cops Mistype Username, Send Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months
An innocent Canadian was wrongfully convicted of being a child sex offender after cops misspelled the username of a suspect.
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"The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety."
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.
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"These two tools automatically tracked and disclosed certain [actions] to Meta."
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
Meta is one of the companies alleged to have received ultra-private health data on users of the popular apps Hims and Hers.
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"To have a trillionaire in our midst ruptures the social bargain in such a dramatic way."
Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren't Rising Up Against Elon Musk
Preeminent economic historian Adam Tooze is shocked that there isn't more of a backlash against the world's first trillionaire.
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