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Synthetic soul: Music’s AI deception
Hot new band Velvet Sundown gains 1 million Spotify listeners before admitting they're entirely AI, sparking fierce debate about authenticity in music.

Adam Spencer
Aug 13


The biggest explosion ever seen!
If like me you've been really busy lately, you might just have missed a seriously big bang - Gaia18cdj - with energy and light almost beyond belief!

Adam Spencer
Aug 6


Is AI making us dumb?
The hidden cost of outsourcing our thinking, with experts worrying that the stampede toward Large Language Models could be dulling and dumbing us down.

Adam Spencer
Jul 29


The GENIUS Act: Trump bets on a stablecoin future
Born from a single text message to my radio show in 2008, Dry July stands on the brink of raising $100 million! This is how it happened.

Adam Spencer
Jul 9


How I accidentally made $100 million… for charity!
Born from a single text message to my radio show in 2008, Dry July stands on the brink of raising $100 million! This is how it happened.

Adam Spencer
Jul 3


The Zuck bets billions on AI superintelligence
Meta is offering ubergeeks eight-figure salaries to build ‘superintelligent AI’. Should we be excited, terrified - or a bit of both?

Adam Spencer
Jun 25


The moral mozzie minefield
A powerful new genetic technique funded by the Gates Foundation could exterminate all mozzies. But as much as they peeve off, can we play Aero-God ... get it 😂?

Adam Spencer
Jun 18


Are you thinking... about thinking?
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about a deep brain structure called the thalamus, giving us rare insight into consciousness itself.

Adam Spencer
Jun 11


Mum, I’m marrying my AI!
80% of Gen Z would be open to marrying an AI, according to a recent article in Forbes magazine. Is this the gateway to deeper questions about machine intelligence, or merely marketing hype?

Adam Spencer
Jun 4


Trump’s NASA budget cuts end search for alien life
Brutal cuts to NASA’s funding – including 47% slashed from its science budget and the abrupt end of a vital alliance to find life on Mars – point to a betrayal of science and global cooperation.

Adam Spencer
May 14


Meet the dice that will break your brain
Monopoly, Yahtzee, Backgammon? When I say ‘dice’ you think of little cubes numbered 1-6. But if you expand your mind and let the dice get a bit crazy, the fun really starts. Let's change the way you see dice forever!

Adam Spencer
May 7


Game of Clones: When is a wolf not a wolf?
Global headlines have been made by the birth of three pups—Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi—genetically engineered to exhibit traits of the extinct dire wolf, which vanished over 10,000 years ago. But are these pups truly members of a resurrected species, or just current day wolves with a (ethical) twist?

Adam Spencer
Apr 26


Cracking the perfect boiled egg - a tasty piece of science
Fed up with rubber-tough white and chalky yolk, or a weepy undercooked mess? A team of Italian materials scientists has finally cracked the problem but their solution, published in the prestigious journal Communications Engineering, might raise a few eyebrows.

Adam Spencer
Apr 21


Quantum: The 'spooky' world of the incredibly small
This World Quantum Day, welcome to the realm of the phenomenally small where our every intuition is shattered at the tiniest level.

Adam Spencer
Apr 8


Piracy vs Progress: AI’s great copyright heist
From LibGen to Llama: How tech giants download pirated books to build AI models while creators go unpaid and ethical questions mount.

Adam Spencer
Apr 2


Super particle reveals secrets of the universe
An incredibly lucky find of an incredibly rarely seen particle sheds light on deep cosmological questions.

Adam Spencer
Mar 23


Has a new AI cracked creative writing?
As always, people are divided. Some laud its metafictional genius. Others call it pastiche garbage. Nerd News invites you to be the judge.

Adam Spencer
Mar 18


An Einstein π mash-up!
14 March is both Albert Einstein’s birthday and a day for maths nerds to celebrate the glory of π. Let’s get our geek on double time!

Adam Spencer
Mar 12


Is this the smartest AI ever?
Open AI’s Deep Research is like a specialised assistant who can analyse texts, write reports and identify knowledge gaps in c. 30 minutes.

Adam Spencer
Mar 5


A staggeringly large crypto theft!
North Korean badasses have stolen USD $2.5 billion in the largest crypto theft ever. Who is ByBit? And how good are the hackers?

Adam Spencer
Feb 25
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