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Picture courtesy of the Department of Energy Conspiracy Theorists Are Losing Their Minds About CERN’s Big Shut Down
VICE asked CERN’s scientists how likely their work is to open up a portal to hell, time-traveling aliens, or alternative dimensions.
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Welcome to Sloptopia: The Future of the Internet
Following the endpoint of the human internet, the bots have overridden their original programming and developed a new language using glyphs.
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Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images AI-Powered Teddy Bears for Kids Are Here, and Experts Say They Could Do More Harm Than Good
Ethicists warn that always-on, sycophantic AI companions could quietly replace real-world social learning with engineered attention loops.
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Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right
After years of being told the future belongs to AI and automation, students seem less than thrilled to hear it at commencement.
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The AI Boom Is Taking Over the U.S. Power Grid, and This Map Shows Where It’s Happening
A new map shows how thousands of data centers are spreading across the country and putting more pressure on the grid.
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This Guy Built a Personal Mosquito Defense System That Shoots Bugs With Real Lasers
The device uses the same broad idea as LiDAR systems in self-driving cars, only for backyard bloodsuckers.
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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself
Halupedia turns AI hallucinations into fake encyclopedia entries, which is funny until you remember the real internet is also doing this.
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Plume Creative/Getty Images Your Peace Sign Selfie Might Be Giving Scammers Your Fingerprints
Experts say high-res cameras and AI tools can help reconstruct fingerprint data from clear photos of your fingers.
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Sonmez Karakurt/Getty Images Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists
Go ahead and delete that AI app off your phone.
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Sean Gallup/Staff/Getty Images Some Kid Watched 13,000 Hours of YouTube in Class. Can We Admit Tech in Schools Was a Huge Mistake Now?
After years of treating screens like learning tools, schools are now confronting how easily they have become portals for distraction.
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NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty Images ChatGPT Just Got a Weird New List of Forbidden Topics (Including Gremlins)
The company reportedly had to tell ChatGPT to quit bringing up goblins, gremlins, and trolls unless absolutely necessary.
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Gremlin/Getty Images Why Researchers Are Making Self-Driving Cars Run Over Elephants
It turns out self-driving cars look better in predictable evaluations than they do when faced with the strange chaos of real roads.
