More from Frank Landymore (Page 15)

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

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.
OpenAI

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

Whether or not he's actually funny, Elon Musk needs his sense of humor to be validated, Twitter employees quickly had to learn.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Twitter Employees Feel Forced to Laugh at His Appalling “Jokes”

By Frank Landymore

A slew of companies are now offering AI assistants to restaurants that will handle reservations and other inquiries over the phone.
Artificial Intelligence

Restaurants Are Hiring AI to Pick Up the Phone When You Call

By Frank Landymore

A vertical flight test of Chinese startup Deep Blue Aerospace's Nebula-1 rocket ends explosively — all captured spectacularly for the camera.
Advanced Transport

This Might Be the Most Amazing Video of a Rocket Explosion We’ve Ever Seen

By Frank Landymore

The new logo, which is literally just a black circle, was unveiled at a recent company wide meeting, where it was met with distaste.
OpenAI

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Russian warlord who rules the Chechen Republic, claimed that Elon Musk "remotely disabled" his Cybertruck.
Elon Musk

Warlord Straight Out of “Mad Max” Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck

By Frank Landymore

New footage released by the US Coast Guard shows the remains of the OceanGate Titan submersible's pressure hull.
Advanced Transport

New Footage Shows Imploded Crew Compartment of Doomed Titanic Sub

By Frank Landymore

Jay Varma, who led New York's COVID response during the height of the pandemic, bragged about breaking his own rules on video.
Developments

NYC’s Top COVID Official Threw Sex Parties During Height of Pandemic While Telling Everyone Else to Socially Distance

By Frank Landymore

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.
Fossil Fuels

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Despite a significant proportion of cancer cases being attributed to alcohol, most people still don't realize its cancer risks.
Cancer

Experts Warn of Link Between Drinking Alcohol and Getting Cancer

By Frank Landymore

A Starship delivery robot, which are used on campuses across the US, suddenly changed direction and struck a woman crossing the sidewalk.
Robotics

Woman Run Down by Delivery Robot on College Campus

By Frank Landymore

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.
Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Two advanced mannequins flew aboard the Artemis I mission to record data on radiation exposure inside the spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Analyzes Synthetic Human Bodies It Sent on Lunar Journey

By Frank Landymore

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Lionsgate announced a major partnership with Runway, which will develop a custom AI model for the movie studio using its library of movies.
Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s AI Deal Sounds a Lot Like It Wants to Replace the Jobs of Storyboard and VFX Artists

By Frank Landymore

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

By Frank Landymore

California passed new laws that protect actors from being replicated by an AI without their explicit permission.
Artificial Intelligence

It’s Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

By Frank Landymore

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.
OpenAI

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

The NASA Europa Clipper mission to explore one Jupiter's largest moons encountered a catastrophic hurdle at the last minute.
NASA

NASA Scientists “Howl in Terror” as They Discovered Disastrous Flaw in $5 Billion Spacecraft About to Launch

By Frank Landymore

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.
Environment

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

The hidden Mars structures are mysterious because they appear to be significantly denser than their surroundings.
Mars

Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

This bizarre looking, two-door car spotted in L.A. might be a Tesla robotaxi, though there's more than meets the eye.
Tesla

Photo of Strange Yellow Vehicle May Be Tesla’s Secret New Project

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk gave the name he discussed with Grimes to a baby he had with a woman who worked at one of his companies, Neuralink.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Agreed to a Baby Name With Grimes, Then Gave It to Another Baby With Another Woman

By Frank Landymore

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.
Off-World

A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes

By Frank Landymore

There's a chance that the 1,100 foot long asteroid Apophis could hit our planet after all, if it gets nudged by another asteroid.
Off-World

Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They’ll Know for Sure by 2027

By Frank Landymore

Those self-driving, supposedly fully-autonomous robotaxis aren't all what they appear to be. Humans, it turns out, are still in the loop.
Self-Driving Vehicles

“Self-Driving” Cars Have a Dirty Secret

By Frank Landymore

The mega-tsunami created seismic vibrations in the Earth that were felt globally for over a week straight.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Detection of 650-Foot Mega-Tsunami

By Frank Landymore

Biological robots such as xenobots and anthrobots perform new functions that their cells originally never exhibited.
Developments

Organisms Created in Laboratory Are “Third State” Beyond Life and Death, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Tens of thousands of gallons of water were used to put out the Tesla Semi after its battery ignited and caught fire in a crash last month.
Tesla

The Tesla Semi Fire Closed a Freeway for 15 Hours and Took 50,000 Gallons of Water to Put Out

By Frank Landymore

For a few hundred thousand dollars, you can buy the machines you need to start producing lab-grown diamonds.
Future Society

You Can Officially Buy a Diamond-Generating Machine on Alibaba

By Frank Landymore

Captured by the James Webb, the Little Red Dots indicate galaxies we've never seen before, and what's inside them is unclear.
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Puzzled by Hundreds of Little Red Dots in James Webb Images of Distant Universe

By Frank Landymore

Among the recovered 3D-printed gun parts was a Glock switch, a device that converts a handgun into a fully automatic weapon.
Future Society

14-Year-Old Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Sell Guns He 3D Printed

By Frank Landymore

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.
Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Shark Tracker Suddenly Shows Up Inside Larger Creature

By Frank Landymore

With billions of dollars in expenditures, Waymo is still not profitable, despite giving its impressive tally of paid rides per week.
Advanced Transport

Waymo Giving 100,000 Robotaxi Rides Per Week But Not Making Any Money

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.
Off-World

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

The explosions during the second orbital Starship test flight created a hole in the ionosphere, according to new research.
Starship

Scientists Say SpaceX Starship Explosion Tore a Hole in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

The technique involves using a common food dye used in Doritos chips, which can be applied to mice skin to turn it transparent.
Developments

Scientists Use Wild Trick to Create Transparent Mice Where You Can See Their Internal Organs, Like a Clear 90s Nintendo

By Frank Landymore

A record number of advertisers plan to cut their spending on Elon Musk's Twitter next year, according to new research from Kantar.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk in Deep Trouble as Even More Advertisers Are Planning to Leave Twitter’s Toxic Cesspool

By Frank Landymore

The Cybertruck subreddit, a Reddit forum dedicated owners and enthusiasts of the Tesla pick-up, has officially closed its doors too outsiders.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Subreddit Goes Private After Relentless Mockery

By Frank Landymore