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A stunning mixup at a Canadian hospital led a family to mourn their son's untimely death — until he texted his mother. As the CBC reports, Heather Insley had already decided to donate the organs of her son, Sean Cox, when she received a mysterious text message from a number she didn't know claiming to be […]

Shoot For The...Something When being interviewed amid his National Football League scouting, a Texas athlete admitted to believing some incredible conspiracy theories. "I don’t believe in space," Tyler Owens, a Texas Tech University defensive back, said per Bleacher Report's Brent Sobleski. "I don’t think there’s other planets and stuff like that." When asked how he'd […]

Probe-Worthy OpenAI and its embattled CEO, Sam Altman, are apparently being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about statements made to the company's investors. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the SEC is looking at emails, including those sent by and to Altman, as its investigators figure out whether the company's investors were misled […]

Screen Reed-er Since before ChatGPT was even a thing, Laurie Anderson, the widow and longtime collaborator of the late, great Lou Reed, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner — and now, she's hooked. In an interview with The Guardian, the 76-year-old experimental artist who just won a "Lifetime Achievement" award […]

Oprah Winfrey is leaving Weight Watchers after nearly a decade — and after admitting in recent months that she'd used weight loss medications. As the company announced in a press release, Winfrey will not be seeking re-election on the Weight Watchers' board of directors, which she joined in 2015, and will be donating her stake […]

Wet Ass Stratosphere A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet — while admitting that it will only do so much. In a press release, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explained that the strategy, if built out, would work to a degree because […]

After Microsoft's Copilot AI was caught going absolutely off the rails and claiming to be a godlike artificial general intelligence (AGI), a spokesperson for the company responded — and admitted that the chatbot had, in fact, been caught spitting game. Earlier this week, Futurism reported that social media users had had some majorly bizarre interactions with […]

Perfect Harmony Last year, scientists discovered a mathematically perfect star system — and now, they're looking into whether it might contain traces of alien life. Dubbed HD 110067, the star system located just 100 lite-years from Earth has six exoplanets that are each perfectly spaced apart in the sort of mathematical harmony rarely seen in our […]

South Korean scientists have created a bizarre meat-rice hybrid — and Arnold Schwarzenegger, of all people, is calling bull. With beef protein hacked to grown inside grains of rice, the mad scientists behind the purportedly "nutty"-tasting meat-rice told Nature that it could be a means of making the food staple pack a greater nutritional punch […]

Surge Baby Surge Wendy's is planning to implement a surge pricing model where its mid-tier fast food wares cost more during times of high traffic and demand. As Gizmodo reported, the plan, which appears to be modeled after the notorious versions at Uber and Lyft, was announced during the fast food giant's quarterly earnings call earlier […]