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Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer's May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (324+ words) Published Jul 9, 2026 1: 45 PM EDT If you drive, your car's tires are shredding more than just tread: they may be mincing up our grey matter too. New research by a team in China discovered an alarming link between a chemical commonly…...
Scientists Test New Spacecraft Thruster That Uses No Fuel, Just Earth's Magnetic Field, in Orbit
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (488+ words) Published Jul 9, 2026 12: 48 PM EDT To stop their orbit from decaying too much, satellites use small in-space thrusters, which broadly speaking, fall into two categories: chemical or electric. The former uses a combustible fuel source that gets accelerated through a nozzle,…...
American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (303+ words) Published Jul 9, 2026 9: 50 AM EDT The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it's causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector. Over a…...
If You Thought Space X Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It's Really Tanking
22+ hour, 49+ min ago (333+ words) Published Jul 8, 2026 4: 09 PM EDT Shares of Elon Musk's Space X took a beating on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the company made its debut in the Nasdaq-100, a key stock market index made up of 100 of the exchange's largest non-financial…...
Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (384+ words) Published Jul 8, 2026 9: 57 AM EDT By now, it's clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7. The KPMG report, initially flagged…...
Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known Chat GPT User
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (400+ words) Published Jul 8, 2026 8: 45 AM EDT AI's promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your "second brain," to invent "new physics," or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being. Or you can drop these…...
Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (291+ words) Published Jul 7, 2026 4: 42 PM EDT Anthropic, the self-avowed moral center of the AI industry, has been caught spying on its users. As Ars Technica reports, a security researcher last week uncovered spyware-like code in the company's Claude Code AI model designed…...
There's an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (354+ words) Published Jul 6, 2026 7: 45 PM EDT For over a year now, sober-minded observers have warned that the AI bubble can't last for much longer. Unfortunately for everybody, it's managed to outperform even the most cynical doomsday forecasts, to the degree that the…...
Microsoft's $7. 3 Billion AI Data Center Just Caught a Nasty Lawsuit From Furious Neighbors
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (441+ words) Published Jul 6, 2026 5: 11 PM EDT Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proudly touted his company's $7. 3 billion Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, as the "world's most powerful AI data center," connecting "hundreds of thousands" of power-hungry chips "into a…...
Rich People Can Afford Good Education for Their Kids. They're Raising Them on AI Slop Anyways.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (473+ words) Published Jul 6, 2026 4: 41 PM EDT Despite having all the resources in the world to offer their offspring a high-quality education, a cohort of wealthy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are choosing to educate them using AI instead. As the Wall Street Journal…...