More from Dan Robitzski (Page 36)

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO who's accumulated a nice $69.8 billion, suggests that maybe no one needs a billion dollars after all.

Mark Zuckerberg, a Billionaire, Says Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

A visit to the seafloor at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed a nightmarish landscape populated by gruesome, tumor-filled sea life.

The Deepwater Horizon Spill Created Horrific Mutant Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government has a startling level of control over TikTok, according to leaked documents that reveal how the government censors political posts.

TikTok Mods Censor App for China, Scrubbing Tiananmen Square

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.

Science & Energy

TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.

A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally managed to directly observe the cosmic web, a vast network of hydrogen gas that connects and feeds galaxies.

Science & Energy

Here’s the First-Ever Pic Of “Cosmic Web” Connecting All Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope are upping the ante: they just announced plans to capture real-time video of our galaxy's central black hole.

Science & Energy

Scientists Plan to Capture a Feasting Black Hole on Video

By Dan Robitzski

Internet experts are tracking the bizarrely-coordinated #WeVapeWeVote campaign on Twitter that's trying to convince politicians to abandon the vape ban.

Robots and Machines

Hardcore Vapers Are Trying to Lobby US Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

A new video uses deepfake tech to turn recorded footage of New York City into a bizarre, stylistic Picasso-like landscape.

Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Deepfake Turn Footage of New York Into a Cubist Painting

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Newly-shared pictures of the cotton plant China briefly grew on the Moon shows that it fared a little bit better than previously thought before freezing.

Science & Energy

China Shares Photos of Its Doomed Moon Plant

By Dan Robitzski

A nuclear engineer in Russia was just fined $7,000 for using his top-secret lab's supercomputer to illegally mine Bitcoin at work.

Science & Energy

Russia Punishes Guy Who Mined Bitcoin at Top-Secret Nuclear Lab

By Dan Robitzski

Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees that Elizabeth Warren and her plan to break up tech corporations is an exisential threat.

Leaked Audio: Mark Zuckerberg Is Terrified of Elizabeth Warren

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian military is poised to begin testing Belgorod, a submarine that can launch six thermonuclear warhead-carrying deep sea drones.

New Russian Submarine Can Launch Nuke-Carrying Drones

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Tesla and Elon Musk violated labor laws in their efforts to discourage employees from forming a union.

Judge Forces Elon Musk to Hire Back Fired Tesla Union Organizer

By Dan Robitzski

Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can read through news stories and generate comments that resemble those written by actual human readers.

Artificial Intelligence

Evil Research Generates Fake Comments on News Stories

By Dan Robitzski

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.

Science & Energy

SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of astronomers spotted what's believed to be the oldest collection of galaxies in the known universe.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found the Oldest Galaxies in the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

A new website called M-Journal will turn Wikipedia articles into fake academic articles so that students can cite it in their homework.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Turns Wikipedia Pages Into Fake Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.

Facial recognition

Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Ben Margolis founded the Autopsy Center of Chicago, where provides the option to have the procedure recorded for educational videos or streamed online.

Meet the Doctor Who’s Livestreaming Human Autopsies

By Dan Robitzski

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

$Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.$

Science & Energy

Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.

Artificial Intelligence

Yes, There’s a “Pee Tape” — and It’s Unclear If It’s a Deepfake

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford researchers found that at least 70 countries have sponsored campaigns that spread favorable propaganda across the internet.

Dozens of Countries Are Deploying Propaganda on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Wally Conron, the first person to breed a labradoodle, regrets his experiment and says he opened Pandora's box by creating the crossbreed dog.

Labradoodle Creator Says Dog Breed Is Insane, Diseased

By Dan Robitzski

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.

Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Malakkar Vohryzek is trying to find scientists willing to use CRISPR to gene-hack away his extreme sensitivity to sunlight in hopes of avoiding skin cancer.

Sick Man Begs Doctors: Please CRISPR Me

By Dan Robitzski

After complaints of a car show that blocked an entire town's Tesla Superchargers made their way across the web, its organizers say they'll do better.

Car Show Organizer Begged Gas Guzzlers Not to ICE Tesla Chargers

By Dan Robitzski

Tinder is about to launch a weekly apocalypse-themed event called Swipe Night that matches people based on how they play a choose-your-own-adventure game.

Tinder Wants to Pair People Based on Their Apocalypse Strategy

By Dan Robitzski

After promising results in animal studies, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania are about to test an experimental herpes vaccine on humans.

Scientists Are Testing a Herpes Vaccine on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

On Sunday, every Tesla Supercharger within 15 miles of Yorktown Heights, NY got ICEd, leaving Tesla drivers unable to charge up.

Gasoline Fiends Blocked Every Single Tesla Charger in This Town

By Dan Robitzski

Those mysterious "sonic attacks" that gave diplomats visiting Cuba in 2016 concussion-like symptoms may have actually been caused by pesticide fumes.

Cuban “Sonic Attacks” May Have Been Caused by Neurotoxins

By Dan Robitzski

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.

Australia Is Running out of Drinking Water

By Dan Robitzski

Medical experiments conducted on astronauts in orbit could have far-reaching implications for medicine back home on Earth.

Medical Experiments in Space Could Fight Aging on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Distant galaxies are being killed off and rendered unable to form new stars. Now, astrophysicists are trying to figure out why.

Science & Energy

Astrophysicists Warn That Entire Galaxies “Are Being Killed”

By Dan Robitzski

A new flexible patch could reverse baldness by shocking people's scalps with electricity. On bald mice, it works better than Rogaine.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say This High Tech Baseball Cap Can Reverse Baldness

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI arrested a man who used his drone to drop a homemade bomb on his ex's home, potentially heralding a terrifying era of futuristic, violent crimes.

FBI Arrests Man For Bombing Ex’s House With a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.

Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new U.N. report based on global censuses, the number of international migrants is increasing faster than the world's population.

The Number of Migrants Is Growing Faster Than the World Population

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

The editor of Chinese state-backed newspaper, the Global Times, protested government censorhip in a Weibo post that was soon deleted.

Editor of Chinese Paper Complains About Censorship, Gets Censored

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government has suggested it may dump contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, but experts say it's too dangerous.

Experts: Fukushima Water Is Too Dangerous to Dump Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built rudimentary soft robots that are controlled and steered by living neurons and muscles, just like a living organism.

Scientists Built Tiny Robots Powered by Muscles and Nerves

By Dan Robitzski

There's a small chance that a defunct space habitat collides with a retired Russian satellite on Wednesday, illustrating the threat of space debris.

Science & Energy

A Derelict Space Habitat May Crash Into an Old Russian Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

New apps use AI to scrutinize your texts and determine whether someone is really into you or if you might not be the best match.

Artificial Intelligence

Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone’s Flirting?

By Dan Robitzski

On Jupiter's moon Io, the strongest volcano in the solar system is likely about to erupt within the next couple of days, according to new calculations.

Science & Energy

A Giant Volcano on One of Jupiter’s Moons Is About to Erupt

By Dan Robitzski

After hackers revealed flaws in the F-15's cybersecurity, the Air Force plans to invite white hat hackers to probe an active satellite for vulnerabilities.

The Air Force Is Inviting Hackers to Breach a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

Richard Stallman, who only recently reversed his position that kids and adults should have sex, resigned from MIT after backlash for comments on Epstein.

MIT Researcher Who Defended Sex With Children Resigns

By Dan Robitzski

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Trusii told customers it would pay them monthly if they took out a loan to participate in a study testing its hydrogen water machine.

Biohackers Got Scammed by a Company Selling “Hydrogen Water”

By Dan Robitzski

An AP investigation shows that a troubling number of CBD products are spiked with synthetic marijuana, which can cause comas, psychotic behavior, and death.

Some CBD Tainted With Substance That Causes Death, Comas, Insanity

By Dan Robitzski

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.

Science & Energy

Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularly

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientist Richard Stallman backpedaled his statements on the Jeffrey Epstein debacle, clarifying that adults shouldn't have sex with kids.

MIT Scientist Says He Doesn’t Think Pedophilia Is Okay Any More

By Dan Robitzski

After photographing dead bodies for 17 months, scientists at a body farm made a greusome discovery: decomposing corpses wriggle around as they dry up.

Horrifying Study: Corpses Thrash Around For a Year After Death

By Dan Robitzski

France's Minister of the Economy and Finance said that Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency will be barred from the country if it's released as planned.

French Gov Official Warns Facebook: Libra Is Not Welcome Here

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps

By Dan Robitzski

Over the course of nine years, Harvard University accepted about $9 million in donations from child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Unlike MIT, Harvard Cut Off Epstein Donations After Conviction

By Dan Robitzski

After a horrifying case where an unauthorized Uber driver raped his passenger, the company says its inroducing human oversight to its driver-verifying tech.

A Driver Tricked Uber’s Algorithm, Sexually Assaulted a Passenger

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

Science & Energy

A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

People from the Russian town Kiselyovsk want to gain entry to Canada as environmental refugees. Coal mining operations in their town have made it unlivable.

Residents Are Trying to Flee Russian Town Where Snow Turned Black

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI has reportedly begun investigating Mithril Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel.

FBI Investigation Targets Trump Booster Peter Thiel’s VC Firm

By Dan Robitzski

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