An AI startup called Artisan has managed to irritate virtually everybody with a controversial ad campaign in San Francisco, which has littered the city with billboards reading "Stop Hiring Humans." As you may have guessed, Artisan peddles automation — specifically, in the form of an AI ...

"Usually it's got a sheen." Taper Expectations Most of us are probably guilty of having unrealistic expectations for how our haircuts should look. Showing your barber a photo of David Beckham, sadly, does not mean you will strut out the shop looking like the iconic soccer champion. That ...

NASA is undergoing another round of layoffs. And once again, it's the space agency's famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California that's taking the hit. On Tuesday, JPL announced that it will be saying goodbye to 325 employees, or about five percent of its workforce, marking the second ...

An outbreak of deadly E. coli linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has led to at least one death and ten hospitalizations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday, with dozens more thought to be sick. While the health agency has released a food safety alert and ...

Amid widespread environmental destruction and the pressures brought by climate change, the average size of wildlife populations across the Earth has plummeted by 73 percent in just fifty years, according to a new analysis released by the World Wildlife Fund. This astonishing figure comes ...

Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of years. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers propose that the ring may have formed after a large asteroid came ...

If NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission launches next month, it will be embarking on a historic scientific objective. The enormous space probe, with solar arrays over one hundred feet long, is designed to travel all the way to Jupiter, where it will examine one of the gas giant's largest ...

Is this the long-awaited robotaxi? Taxi Praxis Let down by Elon Musk canning Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi reveal? Well, good news: we may have just gotten an early look at one of these things in action. Try not to be disappointed, though, because even if this is a photo of a real ...

What are they? Earlier this year, astronomers revealed one of the James Webb Space Telescope's most spectacular and intriguing discoveries yet — and that's saying something. Lying in one of the most ancient regions of the observable universe, they found, were hundreds of galaxies that ...

Polaris Dawn, a SpaceX led mission set to be a landmark in civilian spaceflight, could be staring down the barrel of additional delays. That's because on Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, which the Polaris mission is supposed to launch on, crashed while landing, tipping over ...

Five people have been charged in the death of Matthew Perry, the beloved star of the TV comedy "Friends," for allegedly conspiring to distribute ketamine to the actor, The New York Times reports. The accused include two doctors, Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, and Perry's personal ...

We regret to inform you that there's another semi-ironic and potentially harmful TikTok trend that's taking the internet by storm: "raw-dogging" a flight. It's the ultimate act of ponderous, self-flagellating stoicism: instead of doing the normal things people do to kill time on a ...