Michael Calore: Right. She's been in the news lately for a lot of reasons, and we'll get into those later, as you mentioned. One of the most obvious is that she is Elon Musk's mother and Elon Musk has ...

On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into the many DOGE staffers keeping two jobs at once, plus what happened when US federal workers received an email from Elon Musk over the weekend.

For those that are unaware, Androids are often judged by where they fall on the uncanny valley curve, a graph that maps human revulsion to robots that closely resemble humans but are just a bit ...