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AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea

10+ hour, 44+ min ago  (281+ words) Published Jul 18, 2026 8:30 AM EDT Look, dating in the 2020s sucks. The apps are bad, people are rude, and the etiquette of it all seems to be evolving at the speed of sound. Yet for all the downsides, there’s nothing that can’t…...

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Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (150+ words) Published Jul 16, 2026 10:53 AM EDT The United States is having something of a national referendum on mass surveillance as of late. Embodied most infamously by video surveillance company Flock Safety, Americans from all walks of life are waging war against the…...

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The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (495+ words) Published Jul 13, 2026 2:49 PM EDT Whenever big data center developers roll into town, their pitch ends up sounding something like this: hand over your land and your resources, throw in a decade of government subsidies, and we’ll give your ailing little…...

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In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (463+ words) Published Aug 10, 2025 8:15 AM EDT There’s no denying that modern, app-filtered dating can be a nightmare. But is the solution to this very real and nefarious paradigm summoning the ill-defined powers of an AI™ model? Too late. Someone’s already answered that…...

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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by "High Demand"

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (699+ words) Published Jul 5, 2026 1:01 PM EDT SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr. Under Carr’s leadership, Musk’s rocket company has effectively been given carte blanche in its efforts to roll out its orbital…...

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Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man's House

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (520+ words) Published Jul 5, 2026 7:01 AM EDT Set foot in Dowagiac, a sleepy town in Southwest Michigan, and you’ll immediately notice two things that stand out in the otherwise rustic surroundings: a massive 30 megawatt data center — and the constant ear piercing noise it…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > data-center-steal-millions-cargo

It Kinda Seems Like You Can Waltz Into a Data Center and Steal Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (434+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 10:57 AM EDT An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities are filled to the brim with extremely sought-after gear, from hard-to-get-by AI chips to cooling equipment. And for…...

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TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (417+ words) Published Jun 20, 2026 9:00 AM EDT AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms. Even the vertical video darling TikTok has fallen victim. According to a new report…...

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Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing Secret

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (313+ words) Published Jun 11, 2026 3:28 PM EDT Ever since it was announced, tech journalists wondered whether president Donald Trump’s “Trump Mobile” smartphone would ever see the light of day. The gaudy-looking golden smartphone, dubbed Trump Mobile T1, finally landed in the hands of a…...

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Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (504+ words) Published Jun 4, 2026 4:56 PM EDT A silent war is playing out across rural America. Residents are packing themselves into local county meetings in incredible numbers and calling on their representatives to oppose gargantuan data center projects, developments that could cause electricity…...