Artifact, the self-described “personalized news feed powered by artificial intelligence,” is now live and ready for use by the public. The app was previously introduced last month and seeks to aggregate news stories from top outlets using artificial intelligence.

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What You Need to Know About NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission to the ISS
A new astronaut crew is getting ready to cohabitate in low Earth orbit while conducting dozens of science experiments and research during a six-month period on board the International Space Station.
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Shazam: Fury of the Gods Merch Parades the Shazamily With New DC Studios Gear
The newest gear for DC Studios’ upcoming release Shazam: Fury of the Godsis beginning to hit stores—including the exclusive DC Shop online as well as Hot Topic and other retailers—with fandom fashion, Funko figures, and more!
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54,000-Year-Old Stone Points Are Oldest Signs of Bow and Arrow Use in Europe
Hundreds of stone artifacts and 54,000-year-old human teeth have been found in a rock shelter in the south of France, pushing back evidence for Homo sapiens wielding the bow and arrow in Europe by 10,000 years.
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Donald Trump Is Using Facebook’s Geo-Targeting to Trick Nikki Haley Voters
An organization supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign used location data to send misleading ads to people who attended campaign events for Nikki Haley’s nascent presidential run.
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Your Lego Minifigures Can Play Doom by Moving This Motion-Sensing Lego Computer Brick Around
The ever-growing list of random electronic devices that can play Doom—which already includes pregnancy tests, Christmas tree ornaments, and even farming equipment—grows slightly longer with James Brown’s functional Lego computers now being able to actually play the classic first-person shooter using motion controls…
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The Timely Way Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Ties Into Loki Season 2
The era of Kang is upon us, just as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors as Kang) promised at the end of Lokiseason one if Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) didn’t agree to keep his sacred timeline intact.

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Bin Laden, Burglars, and Banks: The Supreme Court Considers Twitter's Role in Terrorism
Supreme Court justices whipped out their dictionaries and a deep bucket of metaphors Wednesday in a cumbersome attempt to understand whether or not social media companies can be held legally liable for promoting ISIS videos under anti-terrorism laws. Stolen jewelry, banks, imaginary burglars, and a young Osama bin…
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Samsung’s Bixby Will Clone Your Voice to Answer Calls for You
Bixby Text Call is one of the more exciting parts of the Galaxy S23 series, allowing users to type messages that are converted to speech for phone calls. Unfortunately, it wasn’t live when I reviewed the Galaxy S23 Ultra. But Samsung now says a Bixby update will be available for Samsung Galaxy users this month, and …
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Metal Sphere Found on Japanese Beach Prompts UFO and Dragon Ball Z Theories
A metal sphere, which many are calling Godzilla’s egg, washed up on the shore of Enshu beach in Hamamatsu, Japan. Authorities responded to the scene where a woman reported that she had stumbled upon the sphere while out for her morning walk.
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The Pope's Exorcist Doesn't Look Like Your Typical Exorcism Movie
In life, we can count on a few things. Death. Taxes. And Hollywood making innumerable, nearly indistinguishable exorcism movies. Every year it seems we get two or three of them and even when they’re good it’s hard to get excited because they always look the same. So it would make sense to see a title like “The Pope’s…
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Los Angeles Under Ultra-Rare Blizzard Warning as Freak Weather Swarms the U.S.
It’s a weird weather week nationwide. Amid widespread, below-average cold temperatures across the western and northern U.S., parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are under a blizzard warning from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon—and it may be their first such warning in history. Southern California’s…
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Activision Got Hacked but Didn't Tell Its Employees: Report
This week, gaming giant Activision revealed that a cybercriminal had managed to get inside of its network late last year. How did the hacker do that, exactly? Better take a guess. Is the answer...
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The Canadian Super Pigs Are Here
Incredibly intelligent. Jaw-droppingly massive. Able to elude predators by burrowing for hours under the snow in freezing temperatures.
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Ingenious Technique Could Make Moon Farming Possible
Lunar astronauts might have to get their overalls ready, because the Moon could be the next great frontier for agriculture. The European Space Agency and Norwegian lunar agriculture company Solsys Mining have teamed up on a project to study how lunar soil could be used to produce fertilizer.
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‘Boba Fett Is Always Gone’
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AI-Generated Simpsons Episode Plays Out Skinner's Steamed Hams Saga Infinitely
Ever wonder how else the forever-scheming Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons could have played out the famed “steamed hams” situation? Well, AI may have the answer, at least in the form of an incredibly awkward Twitch stream that plays out the main beats of the much-memed episode, but replaces everything else with the…
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Diarrhea-Causing Outbreak Sickens Hundreds of Island Tourists Staying at 5-Star Hotels
A trip to the scenic island country of Cape Verde off the coast of Africa has turned into a queasy nightmare for hundreds of tourists returning home. A multi-country outbreak of Shigella bacteria, a common but sometimes serious stomach bug, has been traced back to travel from the island since last fall. Over 200 cases…
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Webb Telescope Spots Mature Galaxies Strangely Early in the Universe
The Webb Space Telescope has spotted six pinpricks of reddish-orange light that scientists say are actually galaxies as mature as the Milky Way—despite being billions of years younger.
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You Can Buy Everything Everywhere's Real Raccacoonie and More
Everything Everywhere All at Oncemay or may not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but it remains one of 2022's greatest movies. So chances are you wouldn’t mind owning one—or more!—of the movie’s most iconic props, especially if the money you spent on it was going to a great cause. Or, even more especially, if…
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Amazon Employees Ask Their Boss Not to Make Them Come Back to the Office 3 Days a Week
Amazon employees are petitioning CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his return-to-office mandate and calling out his about-face on remote work. In a petition to Jassy sent late Tuesday, Amazon workers decried that their trust in the company’s leaders had been “shattered.”
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Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next
On October 26, 1984, Orion Pictures released The Terminator, a movie about genocidal AI-powered robots unleashed by a tech company. Unfortunately, the executives at Microsoft must have been doing something else that day. As part of an ongoing partnership with OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, Microsoft’s next plan is…
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