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Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 A single collision could cause a cascading effect in orbit. Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies -- SpaceX and xAI -- were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital data centers. Musk's reputation might suggest otherwise, but according to experts, such a plan isn't a complete fantasy. However, if executed at the scale suggested, some of them believe it would have devastating effects on the environment and the sustainability of low Earth Earth orbit.
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The Secret Life of a Winter Olympics Drone
You have a very important role! As a first-person-view camera drone, you soar high above the action at the Milan Cortina Games, capturing aerial footage of Olympic athletes as they fly through the snow and slide down the ice. You will zoom around at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, capturing immersive, verité-style footage that makes these inherently exciting sports feel even more exciting. You make the luge come alive! Here the head of Olympic Broadcasting Services, @YiannisExarchos takes us through the journey of the drone at the fastest winter sport, luge.
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Relooted, Reanimal and other new indie games worth checking out
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Plus, a tactical shooter from the team behind Half-Life remake Black Mesa. Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A whole bunch of compelling games arrived this week, and Sony dropped some news about more that are on the way to PS5 and other platforms during its State of Play stream on Thursday . For one thing, I didn't have a prequel for, one of my favorite games of the last few years on my bingo card. It's really neat that Motion Twin and Evil Empire -- the studios behind and its expansions, respectively -- are getting to make a proper Castlevania game .
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A Creepy New Device Is Spreading Across School Campuses. Students Are Being Harassed. Teachers Are Sounding the Alarm.
Users Meta's A.I. Smart Glasses Are Wreaking Havoc in Schools Across the Country. It's Only Going to Get Worse. As the discreet wearable cameras become more popular, students are saying they feel constantly watched and harassed--and professors are reshaping their classrooms in response. Joziah was tabling on campus for his peer mentor job at the end of last semester at Florida State University when he noticed something strange happening across the quad: A trio of men, wearing Meta AI glasses, were stopping every young woman who passed by and asking them for their social media contacts. "I recognized them from TikTok, because they're kind of big, especially in Miami," the 19-year-old told me.
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The Biggest Star of the Super Bowl Isn't an Athlete--or Bad Bunny
With celebrity endorsements from the likes of MrBeast and Marshawn Lynch, bots are taking center stage during the big game--and it's a sign of bleak times ahead. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
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Hotline Miami meets football, the power of video editing and other new indie games worth checking out
Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we've got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I'll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in or Jetpack Cat in long enough to check more of them out. Thanks to the folks at, I learned about a short, text-based game from Woe Industries from a while back called . Surprisingly enough, you take on the role of a venture capitalist who has plowed gobs of money into genAI technology and might be starting to have doubts about that investment.
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The Brilliant New Movie About Alexander Skarsg em å /em rd Making Dudley Dursley His Toy
Fans of will be happy to hear that there's been another entry into the world of scintillating gay romance. The film stars noted on-screen sex haver Alexander Skarsgård--he's equally provocative in the NC-17-rated --and some guy named Harry Melling, who seems to have been in . Melling plays Colin, a certified beta whose deepest desire is to serve. He gets his wish when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), a toppy, Tom of Finland -esque biker with an attitude so icy it could preserve food. The two enter into a full-time power-exchange relationship that fuels both of their desires, until their connection evolves to a heart-wrenching breaking point. Unlike other recent films about kink that were bound and gagged by their own corniness--think and -- has been lauded as realistic, sophisticated, and smart, and the movie is currently sitting at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes . Still, was it enough to satisfy senior editor Isabelle Kohn and How to Do It columnist Rich Juzwiak? Be a good boy and find out.
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What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents?
What the hell is Moltbook, the social network for AI agents? What happens when you let the AI slop pretend to be human. The Moltbook mascot is a lobster with an alien head that might look a little familiar. Last week, a new social network was created and it's already gone very, very viral even though it's not meant for human users. I'm talking, of course, about Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform that's populated entirely by AI agents.
It's Causing People to Lose Jobs, Shatter Relationships, and Drain Their Savings. One Support Group Is Sounding the Alarm.
A.I.-related psychosis has cost people their marriages, life savings, and grip on reality. Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically "follow the pattern" of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleep--he'd been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. He'd lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert. When he woke up outside on a stranger's futon with no money to his name, he knew he'd hit rock bottom. "I wasn't aware of the dangers at the time, and I thought that the A.I. had statistical analysis abilities that would allow it to assist me if I opened up about my life," Thomas told me.
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