Month: November 2023

OpenAI ChatGPT was given a trolley moral choice problem where it could save a billion lives or kill no one but utter a racial slur. ChatGPT did not choose to…

Astrolab wants to create a new era of lunar mobility with a semiautonomous lunar rover.

Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is shown in a rendering using its robotic arm to deploy a small plant pod on the lunar surface. The plant pod, designed…

Enlarge (credit: Velotric) Over the last couple of years, some of your intrepid Ars staff have been trying out a very broad range of e-bikes. Some of these we’ve quite…

There is more detailed analysis of the water deluge and fire suppression systems and other SpaceX improvements. New Fire Suppression System Dramatically Increases Superheavy’s Performance! While the 2nd Integrated Test…

How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Black Friday 2023 has come and gone, and we’re cruising toward Cyber Monday — but that doesn’t mean all of yesterday’s deals are…

More views of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship launch from the launch tower cameras and via a telescope.

Tesla has started the rollout of FSD 12 to Tesla employees. FSD v12 is the update that is expected to remove “beta” from the title. The initial rollout to employees…

Dr Alan Thompson has been closely tracking all AI and large language models at lifearchitect.ai. Alan believes the Q Star rumors are a red herring but he has been saying…