Friday, August 14, 2026

Odd Science & Technology News

Robot Breaks Half Marathon Record, Human Runners’ Hearts

AI isn’t just coming for your job, now it’s coming for your personal best.

Bram Teitelman

Ukraine to Field 25,000 Military Ground Robots in 2026 

Russia counters with new coal-powered reconnaissance horse.

Drew Curtis

Robot Can’t See Glass. Company Valued at $625 Million

Both the autonomous and human-piloted models crashed into bus shelters the same week, proving that the problem was glass all along. Or that everyone at that company, robot or human, sucks at their job.

Drew Curtis

Study: Everything in the Universe Will Evaporate, Including You, Sooner Than Expected

Physicist who photographed the first black hole would like you to know the darkness is coming for everything else, too.

Drew Curtis

Meta Digitally Clones Zuckerberg, Meta Employees Next

Then, presumably, the rest of humanity. Using data you posted on Meta platforms. For Meta to sell to advertisers. Anyone can see where this is heading. 

Richard Cole

Hungarian Ministry of Defence Information-Security Officer Used the Password “FrankLampard”

A colonel in charge of protecting classified military data chose the name of an English football manager. 

Drew Curtis

Google AI Overviews Only Lie About a Million Times an Hour

Google AI hits 91 percent factuality. Now you know. And knowing is half the hallucination.

Drew Curtis

JWST Confirms Existence of “Forbidden” Planet, Which Is Mostly Farts

Proof that even the universe occasionally lets one rip and pretends nothing happened.

Drew Curtis

Artemis II Crew Reports Burning Smell From $23M Toilet, NASA Continues To Insist the Alternative Is Worse

Shitter's full.

Drew Curtis

Russia Claims The Moon as Sovereign Territory

Russia says it will carve out sovereign lunar territory by 2036, violating a treaty it signed in 1967, which still puts it ahead of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum speedrun by a comfortable margin.

Drew Curtis

Tesla Files Patent To Solve Cybertruck Battery Range Problems: A Trailer Towing an Extra Battery

The truck of the future, powered by a slightly smaller truck following it.

Drew Curtis

Bull Sharks Have Friends, and That’s a Wonderful Thing

A heartwarming finding about cold-blooded creatures of the deep.

Gabe Herman

Dumb Waiter Robot Won’t Stop Dancing

The future is here, and boy does it enjoy cutting a rug.

Bram Teitelman

Scientists Put Condoms on Cicada Towers To See What Happens When You Cut off Airflow 

We've all been there.

Drew Curtis

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