Tech Takedown Generative AI's potential to allow bad actors to effortlessly impersonate you is the stuff of nightmares. To combat this, YouTube, the world's largest video platform, is now giving people the ability to request the removal of…
Brand Recognition Elon Musk is a man with many brands — and for electric vehicle shoppers, at least, his personal brand has become increasingly toxic. In a survey of more than 7,500 of its readers, The New York Times found that a "vast…
Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his dad joke-spewing AI chatbot, is going to drop next month — but as with all of the multi-hyphenate's big promises, we'll believe it when we see it. This admission came with little…
Disease Control AI models may be trained on the entire corpus of humanity's writing, but their vocabulary, it turns out, can be rather limited. A new pre-print study, spotted by Ars Technica, adds to the understanding that large language…
Researchers say they have used cutting-edge gravitational wave research to shed new light on a nearly 2,000-year-old mystery. In 1901, researchers discovered the Antikythera mechanism in a sunken shipwreck, an ancient artifact that dates…
Earlier this year, passengers on board an Alaska Airlines flight from Oregon to California had the fright of their lives after a "door plug" was ripped out of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, forcing pilots to return to the airport. As a…
A South Korean administrative robot took a serious tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country. As Agence France-Presse reports, the robot was built by California-based startup Bear…
X Marks the Spot NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface. The ionosphere stretches from 50 to 400 miles above the surface and marks the boundary between our planet…
Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, a notable achievement that could greatly enhance the experience of walking with a bionic limb for amputees. As detailed in a new paper…
"Thicker and Stickier" After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of lunar samples — the first ever collected in human history from that mysterious region. The state-run China Daily…
In a controversial new study, scientists are claiming that trees in Los Angeles are contributing to the city's air pollution, challenging conventional notions about the positive role they play in their ecosystems. As New Scientist explains…
Master Key AI companies have struggled to keep users from finding new "jailbreaks" to circumvent the guardrails they've implemented that stop their chatbots from informing them how to make cook meth or make napalm in their backyard.…
Neuralink has canceled its second human implantation surgery after discovering additional medical issues in the person who was going to get the brain chip. As Bloomberg reports, the unnamed candidate in question suffers from the…
A team of Chinese researchers has stuck a tiny organoid made from human stem cells onto the body of a tiny robot, creating a Frankensteinian creation that can learn how to complete certain tasks. As the South China Morning Post reports,…
Mars Moss Scientists in China claim to have discovered a kind of desert moss that thrives in a variety of conditions, from Antarctica to the Mojave desert — that could survive on the surface of Mars without being sheltered inside a…
Not So Static During what was supposed to be a static test launch, a private Chinese aerospace company accidentally launched one of its rockets, which crashed spectacularly into a nearby mountain. As The Guardian reports, the Beijing…
The latest iteration of OpenAI's famed chatbot, ChatGPT-4o, is designed to allow users to browse the web. Word to the wise, though: be careful what you click.0 The era of AI search is here — or, at least, AI companies are making a big bet…
Spacesuit Setback Earlier this week, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson discovered to her horror that water was squirting from her spacesuit 31 minutes into her and fellow astronaut Mike Barratt's spacewalk outside of the International Space…
Are you ready for an AI-automated future? Because, if not: your landlords are. It hasn't quite taken the real estate world by storm yet, but, as The New York Times reports, some property managers are using AI chatbots to handle the…
HOLE FOBE All hail the HOLE FOBE. From Shrimp Jesus to 18-wheelers overflowing with babies, Facebook continues to fill to the absolute brim with bizarre, algorithm-hungry AI-generated images. These strange images are published en masse by…
Religion and medical science collide in a new study that shows more babies are dying in Texas after the state passed a draconian abortion law that basically bans the procedure except in a few cases. More on abortion: Google Says It Will…
The remarkable James Webb Space Telescope has been used to image the furthest reaches of the cosmos. But now, astronomers have leveraged its immense powers on a target far closer to home, Jupiter — and in so doing, they've found mysterious…
Dark Knight Rises An almost perfectly round, 100-foot sinkhole opened up in an Illinois park this week, a terrifying incident that was caught on camera. Footage shows a massive light pole between two football fields being fully consumed by…
Hidden Figures In a sneaky but clever experiment, researchers at a United Kingdom university turned in AI-generated answers to real tests at their own institution, hoodwinking fellow professors and earning better grades compared to actual…
Earlier this week, China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe landed in Inner Mongolia, delivering the first samples collected from the far side of the Moon. The mission has the international scientific community excited — the far side of the Moon,…
Breaking Bad Elon Musk's Tesla has been struck with a plague of bad news lately, from the company laying off scores of workers to even a federal investigation on wire fraud. Now add another headache: a new J.D. Power report says Tesla cars…
The owner of a brand new Cybertruck says he crashed the vehicle into his neighbor's yard after the vehicle's brakes suddenly stopped working. As Business Insider reports, Bruce Freshwater recalled that nothing happened when he tried to…
Idol Worship Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted unnamed AI rivals for "creating God" in a surprising new interview, where he also gave props to open source AI. "I find it a pretty big turnoff when people in the tech industry… talk about…