More from Frank Landymore (Page 12)

Anthropic's Claude AI is purportedly capable of using computers like a human. And apparently, that includes procrastinating.
Artificial Intelligence

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

By Frank Landymore

A startup called REMSpace says two people were able to have a remote "chat" while in a lucid dreaming state.
Future Society

Startup Claims It’s Achieved Communication Between Two People Who Were Both Dreaming

By Frank Landymore

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Figure Out Trick to Steal Houses Using AI

By Frank Landymore

A space tourist slash civilian astronaut on the Polaris Dawn mission suffered immediate vision problems once in orbit.
Off-World

Space Tourist Alarmed When Vision Starts to Deteriorate

By Frank Landymore

A recent report from the Consumer Technology Association finds that Trump's tariffs would be disastrous for electronics prices.
Future Society

Trump’s Tariffs Would Make Gaming PCs and Consoles Ludicrously Expensive

By Frank Landymore

According to its latest economic impact report, NASA generated over $75.6 billion in US economic output in 2023.
NASA

NASA Is Generating Far More Economic Growth Than Its Budget

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is selling a light bar for the Cybertruck that it can't legally install, destined to blind motorists everywhere.
Tesla

Tesla’s Bizarre New Cybertruck Trickery Is So Shady We Can’t Believe It’s Real

By Frank Landymore

The rocket reached a lower altitude than usual, and strangely, Blue Origin has not publicly shared flight statistics on the launch.
Advanced Transport

Blue Origin Is Being Suspiciously Vague About Its Rocket Launch Yesterday

By Frank Landymore

An outbreak of E. coli has been linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has left at least one dead and ten hospitalized.
Developments

One Dead and Dozens Sick as McDonald’s Burgers Spread Deadly Disease

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

By Frank Landymore

The latest update to Anthropic's Claude model turns it into a full-blown "AI agent" that can use anything installed on your computer.
Anthropic

Anthropic Now Lets Claude Take Control of Your Entire Computer

By Frank Landymore

The captive orca held at SeaWorld San Antonio let out a huge cloud of feces — and then, moments later, made a huge splash.
Science & Energy

Footage Shows Orca Blasting SeaWorld Visitors With Liquid Feces

By Frank Landymore

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.
Climate Change

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Hundreds of varieties of frozen waffles in the US and Canada are being recalled due to a potential listeria outbreak.
Developments

America’s Food System Is Officially So Disgusting That Frozen Waffles Are Infected With Listeria

By Frank Landymore

Nicolas Cage, who once said he was "terrified" of AI, tells young actors not to let studios manipulate their performances with the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Cage Warns Young Actors About AI

By Frank Landymore

A viral video shows a man shooting a Cybertruck — and he appears quite distraught when the bullet appears to go clean through.
Advanced Transport

Moron Shoots Cybertruck, Alarmed to Discover It’s Not Actually Bulletproof

By Frank Landymore

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.
Meta

Horror Studio Blumhouse Partners With Meta to Use Its AI Video Generator

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's entire hoard of over $760 million worth of bitcoin was emptied out earlier this week, transferred to unknown wallets.
Bitcoin

Tesla’s $750 Million in Bitcoin Just Vanished From Where It Was Being Stored

By Frank Landymore

After Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be severely weakening its block function, Bluesky saw a flood of new users within the day.
Elon Musk

Half a Million Users Flooded to Twitter Competitor After Elon Musk Handed Creeps the Keys

By Frank Landymore

An organ donor, who was declared dead, suddenly started thrashing and crying. The doctors allege they were told to proceed anyway.
Developments

Doctors Realize at Last Moment They Were Harvesting Organs From Living Patient

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say they've developed a technique to detect smaller bandwidth radio signals that weren't intended to reach deep space.
Exobiology

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Intercept Alien Radio Signals

By Frank Landymore

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.
Black Holes

The Early Universe Was Absolutely Littered With Black Holes, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The website selling the crypto token backed by Donald Trump crashed, while sales have barely reached 4 percent of the project's goals.
Cryptocurrency

Trump’s Dubious Crypto Scheme Falls Flat on Its Face Immediately After Going Live

By Frank Landymore

The robotic "SuperLimbs" attach to a spacesuit's backpack and can provide the extra push needed to recover from falls.
Off-World

MIT Scientists Invent Doctor Octopus-Style “SuperLimbs” for Stumbling Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

Boeing announced plans to fire 10 percent of its workforce, and will start sending out thousands of layoff notices in the coming month.
Advanced Transport

Boeing to Lay Off 17,000 Workers As Crisis Deepens

By Frank Landymore

Europa Clipper, the NASA mission to explore Jupiter's fourth largest moon for signs of habitability, launched on Monday.
Moon

NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Potentially Habitable Moon

By Frank Landymore

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains
Brain

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains

By Frank Landymore

16-year-old gamer Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga achieved a "rebirth" in Tetris, getting so far that the game reset back to level zero.
Future Society

Genius Teen Gamer Becomes the First to “Beat” Tetris Without Crashing

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis released by the World Wildlife Fund paints an extremely alarming picture of the decimation of wildlife populations.
Climate Change

Wildlife Populations Have Shrunk a Shocking Amount in Just 50 Years, Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

While Tesla saw its shares take a nosedive following its robotaxi event, the lackluster showing did hand a nice stock boost to Uber and Lyft.
Tesla

Tesla’s Disappointing Robotaxi Event Sent Shares of Uber and Lyft Soaring

By Frank Landymore

Tesla dazzled with its humanoid Optimus robots at its recent event. But it appears that their speech is really the work of a remote human.
Robotics

Tesla Shows Off Talking Robot That Sounds an Awful Lot Like a Guy Speaking Into a Microphone

By Frank Landymore

Tesla shares fell by up to 8.5 percent after markets opened Friday morning, following a disappointing showing at its Robotaxi event.
Elon Musk

Tesla Shares Plummet Following Elon Musk’s “Disappointing” Robotaxi Event

By Frank Landymore

NASA is excited about SpaceX's fifth flight test of Starship, which could see the rocket pull off a fascinating landing procedure.
Starship

NASA Is Mega Hyped About SpaceX’s Imminent Starship Test Flight

By Frank Landymore

The web-slinging device can shoot out fibers that almost immediately solidify, which can stick to objects that it can then pick up.
Science & Energy

Researchers Create Real-Life “Spider-Man” Web-Slinging Tech

By Frank Landymore

If there's a fifth force of physics to round out the Standard Model, asteroids may be our best bet of discovering its underlying particle.
Off-World

Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

Many Wall Street analysts aren't feeling too optimistic about Tesla's prospects ahead of its "Robotaxi" event this week.
Elon Musk

Wall Street Not Buying Elon Musk’s Big Promises Ahead of Tesla’s “Most Hyped” Event in Years

By Frank Landymore

The Irving Police Department spent well over a hundred grand on a Cybertruck that won't even be used as a patrol car.
Advanced Transport

A Police Department Spent a Ludicrous Amount of Money on a Cybertruck for the Worst Reason Possible

By Frank Landymore

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.
OpenAI

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

25 out of 35 of the planet's "vital signs" are at the worst levels ever recorded, according to an annual climate change report.
Climate Change

Scientists Just Took the Earth’s “Vital Signs.” They Hated What They Saw.

By Frank Landymore

The scientists edited to the bacteria to prove which enzyme it used to degrade PET plastics into bioavailable carbon.
Bacteria

Scientists Gene Hack Bacteria That Breaks Down Plastic Waste

By Frank Landymore

Tesla chief information officer Nagesh Saldi is now leaving the company less than a week before it's supposed to unveil its robotaxi.
Tesla

Top Tesla Exec Abandons Ship Just Days Before Major “Robotaxi” Event

By Frank Landymore

The notoriously unreliable "AI Overviews" that Google forces to the top of search results will now come with sponsored ads.
Google

Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature

By Frank Landymore

Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool, and to show it off, it's flaunting an AI-generated baby hippo.
Meta

Meta’s AI Bootleg Moo Deng Is an Insult to Pygmy Hippos Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

In the simulations, aliens keep dying from climate change because of the heat produced by energy demands, even if they rely on renewables.
Climate Change

Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

By Frank Landymore

A woman who was riding a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco says a man stood in front of the taxi to stop it, repeatedly demanding her number.
Advanced Transport

Horrifying Video Shows Fedora-Wearing Creep Trapping Woman in Robotaxi to Harass Her

By Frank Landymore

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.
Google

Google’s AI Turns the Words “Fart” and “Poop” Written 1,000 Times Into an Entire Podcast

By Frank Landymore

After their habitats were destroyed, tens of thousands of parrots have descended on a town in Argentina, terrorizing residents.
Science & Energy

Parrots Orchestrate Brutal Revenge on Small Town After Deforestation Drove Them Out of Their Homes

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.
Quantum Physics

Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel

By Frank Landymore

A Montana rancher is now facing time in prison for using cloned embryos to create enormous, hybrid sheep that he sold to hunters and breeders.
Science & Energy

Man Gets Prison Sentence for Cloning Giant Sheep

By Frank Landymore

The artists whose AI-generated image won a fine arts competition is still mad that the US Copyright Office won't recognize his work.
Artificial Intelligence

Self-Styled “AI Artist” Furious That People Are “Blatantly Stealing My Work”

By Frank Landymore

The sub-Earth mass planet was spotted in orbit around Barnard's star, a red dwarf that is only six light years away.
Off-World

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Planet Orbiting the Closest Single Star

By Frank Landymore

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.
Black Holes

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode

By Frank Landymore

The former CEO of OceanGate Stockton Rush allegedly said he'd "buy a congressman" to make any problems go away.
Future Society

Titanic Sub CEO Was Willing to “Buy a Congressman” to Make Problems “Go Away”

By Frank Landymore

With Elon Musk at the wheel, Twitter is suspending millions of more users per year than it ever did before.
Elon Musk

Twitter Under “Free Speech Absolutist” Elon Musk Is Actually Suspending Way More People Than Before

By Frank Landymore

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.
Artificial Intelligence

The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

A Boeing engineer testified that OceanGate ignored its recommendations, and emphasized it only had a preliminary role.
Future Society

Boeing Says It Barely Did Any Work on Titanic Sub That Killed Everyone on Board

By Frank Landymore

Michael Straight said ReWalk refused to repair his $100,000 exoskeleton, which only had a minor issue with its battery.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It’s Now Obsolete

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at the independent firm AMCI Testing found that Full Self-Driving required human intervention at an alarmingly high rate.
Tesla

Independent Testers Disturbed by Results When They Drive Tesla FSD for 1,000 Miles

By Frank Landymore

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.
Off-World

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.
Physics

Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

By Frank Landymore

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who was supposed to return in June, is now assuming command of the International Space Station.
Boeing

NASA Astronaut Stranded by Boeing Starliner Seizes Opportunity, Becomes Commander of Space Station

By Frank Landymore

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson isn't worried about Elon Musk's erratic behavior, because someone else is actually running SpaceX.
Advanced Transport

Head of NASA Says Musk’s Instability Is Okay Because He Doesn’t Really Run SpaceX

By Frank Landymore