More from Frank Landymore (Page 15)

"Raw-dogging" a flight means no food, no entertainment, and no moving from your seat. You sit there, and tough it out — like a total chump.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Suggest ‘Raw-Dogging’ Your Flight Is Bad For Your Health

By Frank Landymore

A record 15 national heat records have been shattered since January, as this year looks on track to surpass the last as the hottest ever.
Climate Change

The Earth Just Can’t Stop Setting Heat Records

By Frank Landymore

Chinese electronics company Realme recently demonstrated a 320 watt charger that fully charged a smartphone in four and a half minutes.
Robots and Machines

Company Claims It Can Charge a Smartphone In Less Than 5 Minutes

By Frank Landymore

Because time moves ever so slightly on the surface of the Moon, researchers have created a way to keep lunar clocks in sync with Earth ones.
Moon

Scientists Say They’ve Come up With a “Time Zone” For the Moon

By Frank Landymore

As Twitter bleeds users and revenue, Tesla investors fear that Elon Musk will sell his shares in the automaker to salvage the website.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk May Have to Sell Tesla Stock to Prop Up Dying Twitter

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.
Solar Power

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

By Frank Landymore

Footage shows a gaggle of Waymo robotaxis honking incessantly while trying to park in a tight parking lot in San Francisco.
Advanced Transport

Confused Robotaxis Gather in Droves to Honk at Each Other All Night

By Frank Landymore

A new version of Elon Musk's AI, Grok, comes with image generation capabilities with seemingly few guardrails.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s New AI Already Being Used to Generate Images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Doing 9/11

By Frank Landymore

Using seismic data, scientists say they've made the first ever detection of liquid water on Mars, trapped miles beneath the planet's surface.
Mars

Scientists Discover Massive Reservoir of Water Hiding on Mars

By Frank Landymore

ProRata claims its algorithm will accurately attribute the works used in AI outputs, and aims to license the tech to companies like OpenAI.
Artificial Intelligence

New Startup Analyzing AI Outputs to Find Out Where They’re Stolen From

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have recovered the largest ever sample of the Earth's mantle, which may contain secrets about the processes that led to life.
Science & Energy

Scientists Drill Super Deep Into Weird Underwater Structures

By Frank Landymore

Copilot can be tricked into coughing up an organization's sensitive data, and can also be weaponized to quickly carry out huge phishing scams.
Artificial Intelligence

The Copilot AI Microsoft Built Into Windows Makes It Incredibly Hackable, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

A controversial new study suggests that ancient builders used a hydraulic lift to build Egypt's oldest pyramid.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of Advanced Technology Used to Build Egyptian Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

Joe Rogan had supportive words for RFK Jr in his podcast, but clarified he isn't out-and-out endorsing the presidential candidate — yet.
Future Society

Joe Rogan Supports Candidate Who Bragged About Brain Worm, Dumping Dead Bear in Central Park

By Frank Landymore

Users are creating tons of AI girlfriends and boyfriends using Instagram's new AI studio, and they're about as embarrassing as you'd expect.
Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Already Loaded With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Frank Landymore

A new study found that we could use metals found on Mars to create particles that would trap heat once released into the planet's atmosphere.
Mars

Scientists Propose Low Cost Plan for Terraforming Mars

By Frank Landymore

Rossmann, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, explicitly blamed Elon Musk, calling out his endorsement of Donald Trump.
Elon Musk

Large Company Says It Won’t Purchase Any More Teslas Due to Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior

By Frank Landymore

Robert Zubrin, president and founder of Mars Society, thinks NASA should skip its Moon missions and use Starship to go to Mars — now.
Starship

Mars Society President Calls for Starship Mission to Red Planet

By Frank Landymore

Andrew Odlyzko, an expert in financial bubbles, compares the AI industry's downturn to the telegraph and electricity booms of the past.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert on Financial Bubbles Weighs in on AI Industry

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson is once more pushing back against her father's claims.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Trans Daughter Just Cooked Him Again

By Frank Landymore

The safety of the Seine River continues to be called into question after a practice session for marathon swimmers on Tuesday was canceled.
Developments

Olympics Cancels Practice Session in River Seine After Swimmers Fall Ill

By Frank Landymore

The Food and Drug and Administration warned about the dangers of self-administering injections using compounded forms of Ozempic.
Developments

FDA Says People Are Taking 20 Times the Proper Dose of Ozempic and Overdosing

By Frank Landymore

This ocean dead zone is larger than average this year, NOAA said, leaving thousands of square miles of water depleted of oxygen.
Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed by Enormous Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico

By Frank Landymore

The signal could help explain why an explosion called a gamma ray burst appeared to be the most powerful ever detected.
Off-World

Scientists Find Hidden Signal in Epic Cosmic Explosion

By Frank Landymore

The rider was killed in 2022 after a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode rear ended the motorcycle, according to the lawsuit.
Tesla

Tesla Sued by Family of Motorcyclist Mowed Down by Car on Autopilot

By Frank Landymore

In light of Elon Musk saying he'd fight Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, here's all the other fights Musk bouts that never happened.
Elon Musk

A Brief List of People Elon Musk Has Challenged to Combat and Then Chickened Out of Actually Fighting

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have analyzed sound recordings of apes appearing to say the word "mama," and believe they've found evidence of human-like speech.
Evolution

Videos Reignite Scientific Debate Over Whether Apes Can Speak

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk thinks robotaxis are the future of Tesla, but the tech is likely many years away from being perfected, let alone being profitable.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Obsession With Robotaxis Could Doom Tesla

By Frank Landymore

Michael Orlitzky found a clever hack that tricks the coin drop in washing machines into thinking a quarter was inserted.
Hacking

Genius Hacker Shows How to Use Laundry Machines for Free

By Frank Landymore

The two capesized carriers, the YM Serenity and HL Eco, collided after the HL Eco lost power while trying to anchor at port.
Future Society

This Video of Two Huge Ships Colliding Is Actually Terrifying

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's X temporarily suspended the account of a political group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Keeps Using X to Suppress Views He Doesn’t Agree With

By Frank Landymore

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.
Dark Matter

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

The automotive testing company Edmunds attempted to take a Cybertruck for a spin — only to instantly be met with a "critical steering issue."
Advanced Transport

Automotive Tester Says Its Cybertruck Instantly Ran Into Critical Issue, Leaving It Stranded in Parking Lot

By Frank Landymore

A South Carolina man accused of using his father's name to pose as a real lawyer allegedly used AI to write legal documents.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Accused of Pretending to Be Lawyer Using AI, Representing Real Clients

By Frank Landymore

Even though it's already built, NASA is not sending its VIPER rover to the Moon. Instead, it will be replaced by a "mass simulator."
Moon

NASA Scrapping Finished $450 Million Moon Rover, Will Send Dead Weight “Simulator” to Moon in Its Place

By Frank Landymore

NASA's cancellation of the VIPER Moon rover mission has spurred scientists to demand Congress to reverse the agency's decision.
Moon

Scientists Outraged at Canceled NASA Moon Mission Plead Congress to Reconsider

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk denied he was donating $45 million a month to Donald Trump, but he did gloat about his Super PAC to support the former President.
Elon Musk

As Tesla Sales Tank, Elon Musk Issues Unconvincing Denial That He’s Giving Donald Trump $45 Million Per Month

By Frank Landymore

After a blast at Yellowstone, don't worry: officials say this isn't a sign of an impending eruption of the area's supervolcano.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Huge Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone Not Sign of Impending Supervolcano Eruption

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is reportedly considering buying a five percent stake in EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Bans and supreme.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Seeks to Become Part Owner of Supreme

By Frank Landymore

Waymo is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from two people that it claims deliberately trashed it driverless taxis.
Advanced Transport

Waymo Suing People Who Allegedly Trashed Its Robotaxis

By Frank Landymore

Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Chatbots like ChatGPT were either confused by questions about political events in the past week, or outright refused to answer them.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

By Frank Landymore

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating."
Mars

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

By Frank Landymore

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.
Off-World

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.
Off-World

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

By Frank Landymore

The scientists pulled this karaoke stunt to embarrass their participants, and ultimately, to understand why we blush.
Neuroscience and Brain

Devious Scientists Scan People’s Brains While They Watch Video of Themselves Singing Karaoke

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will no longer go to the Moon, and will most likely be scrapped for parts.
Moon

NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It

By Frank Landymore

His findings showed that psilocybin "desynchronized" the brain, but also produced subtle, lasting effects in boosting plasticity.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientist Takes High Dose of Psilocybin, Clambers Into MRI Machine to Scan His Own Brain

By Frank Landymore

Sales in California, one of Tesla's key markets, have dropped for the third quarter in a row, according to a new analysis.
Elon Musk

Data Suggests Elon Musk Has Deeply Alienated Tesla’s Core Market

By Frank Landymore

The Sarco suicide pod induces a supposedly peaceful death by hypoxia, and its first test is expected to take place "soon" in Switzerland.
Future Society

Doctors Prepare to Test “Suicide Pod”

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.
OpenAI

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

After claiming to be the Bitcoin creator for over a decade, a UK High Court firmly ruled that Craig Wright is not, in fact, Satoshi Nakomoto.
Bitcoin

That Guy Who Kept Insisting He Was Satoshi Nakamoto Just Admitted He Was Lying

By Frank Landymore

After an inquiry from the FTC, HeHealth has shut down its Calmara app that supposedly could detect STDs from dick pics using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

AI App That Claimed to Detect STDs From Dick Pics Shuts Down After It Turns Out It Doesn’t Work at All

By Frank Landymore

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.
Climate Change

Trump’s Allies Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Weather Reports

By Frank Landymore

A window on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Boston suddenly shattered due to the heat as temperatures soared to 95 degrees.
Science & Energy

Skyscraper Window Shatters From Heat, Rains Shards Onto Sidewalk

By Frank Landymore

The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.
Science & Energy

Museum Stunned When Someone Anonymously Mails in Two Ancient Artifacts

By Frank Landymore

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.
Climate Change

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."
Biology

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

By Frank Landymore

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.
Environment

AI’s Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think

By Frank Landymore

At least 28 people died from the heat wave based on reports from west coast states, with the actual figure expected to be higher.
Climate Change

Dozens of Americans Die in Brutal Heat Wave

By Frank Landymore

A new survey shows that over half of customers would consider switching to a competitor if they found out a company was using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Ordinary People Are Absolutely Repulsed by AI-Powered Customer Service

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI spent only a single week safety testing its new model GPT-4o, according to insiders at the company.
OpenAI

Whistleblowers Say OpenAI Broke Promise to Rigorously Test AI for Danger Before Releasing

By Frank Landymore

An analysis of over 100,000 medical records found that Ozempic users had a far lower dementia risk than those that took other diabetes drugs.
Neuroscience and Brain

Ozempic Linked to Significantly Reduced Dementia Risk

By Frank Landymore