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People are panic buying Plan B after Trump’s win—and Amazon sellers are raising the pills’ price

In the hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, a number of people took to social media to hammer home a simple directive: Buy Plan B now, before it’s too late.

People are concerned that the new administration will

For truly intelligent AI, we need to mimic the brain’s sensorimotor principles

In a recent essay by Sam Altman, titled “The Intelligence Age,” he paints a picture for the future of AI. He states that with AI, “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics—will eventually become commonplace.” On an individual level, he states (italics added), “We can each have a personal AI team, full of virtual experts in different areas, working together to create almost anything we can imagine.&#8

Matt Gaetz, Trump’s attorney general pick,  and the FTC’s Lina Khan share some surprising views on Big Tech

President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he is selecting Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general sent shock waves through Washington, D.C.—and certain other parts of the country. The selection has drawn criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, who openly wondered whether Gaetz could be confirmed, even in a Republican-controlled Senate.

The former Florida R

Blue Origin and SERA are creating ‘a space agency for everyone’ with a reality-style competition and TV series

When the fledgling Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) sent Victor Correa Hespanha into suborbital space with Blue Origin’s NS-21 mission two years ago, it hoped to spark more interest in STEM education in a country not known for its space industry. What no one expected was the level of excitement it generated. The 28-year-old civil engineer sp

What Gen Zers on TikTok mean when they say they’re ‘crashing out’ over Trump’s election

Another word has entered the internet lexicon, and it couldn’t be more timely. 

If you keep seeing people”crashing out” online, you are not alone. The term has been in the Gen Alpha and Gen Z vernacular for a while, but over the past week it’s been given a new lease of life to describe how many feel about the outcome of the presidential election.

In one

China hacked U.S. telecommunications networks, FBI and CISA say

A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics, the FBI said Wednesday.

Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications compan

What Is ‘MATGA?’ All about the latest anti-Trump trend sweeping TikTok

Trump supporters are demanding an FBI investigation into the latest TikTok trend, where women are reviving the spirit of Renaissance murderer Giulia Tofana in response to Donald Trump’s reelection. 

Tofana, who devised a tasteless and odorloss poison made from arsenic, belladonna, and lead, is alleged to have killed up to 600 men with her concoction in the 17th century. According to

Bluesky goes down as users continue to flee Elon Musk’s X for the Twitter-like alternative

Bluesky, the popular X alternative, appeared to be down or lagging for thousands of users on Thursday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

More than 2,000 users reported issues with the site just before 9 a.m. PST. Bluesky developer Samuel Newman shared on the platform that the “site is in read-only mode for a sec because something fell over, hold tight!”

The startup has

A funny thing happened on the way to AGI: Model ‘supersizing’ has hit a wall

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Model ‘supersizing’ may have hit a wall

The impressive intelligence gains of large models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude came about af

Dropping X for Bluesky? These tips will make the migration easier

“Bluesky has the juice.”

This phrase seems to be coming up a lot as people flock to the decentralized X alternative, with Elon Musk’s role in boosting Donald Trump back into the White House as a tipping point. Bluesky says one million accounts have joi


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