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The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

$By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.$

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.

Science & Energy

Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

By Frank Landymore

Former Dreamworks and Walt Disney Studios executive Jeffrey Katzenberg believes AI will make animation far cheaper to produce.

Artificial Intelligence

The Guy Behind “Shrek” Says AI Is Going to Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation

By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Darren Aronofsky is slated to direct the movie, which will be based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk.

A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky

By Frank Landymore

A tool bag was lost during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, and it should be orbiting low enough to see it with binoculars.

NASA Astronauts Let a Tool Bag Drift Away and You Can Now Spot It With Binoculars

By Frank Landymore

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

By Frank Landymore

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

By Frank Landymore

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal how Cruise failed to meet its own safety standards for driving around kids.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway

By Frank Landymore

An easy to use handheld device called the Flipper Zero can potentially wreak havoc on anything using wireless communications like Bluetooth.

Devious Device Can Crash People’s iPhones Just by Being Near Them

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.

Humans Are Spiking the Level of Poisonous Mercury in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Controversial new research led by renowned climate scientist James Hansen found that global warming is accelerating.

Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

NASA Says It’s Spotted Organic Compounds on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Frank Landymore

Interbreeding with the Denisovans left us with a gene that helped us with the climate, but left us vulnerable to mental disorders.

Scientists Say We Bred With an Extinct Human Species and It Left a Grim Change in Our Brains

By Frank Landymore

German camera maker Leica has just unveiled its latest M11-P camera that comes equipped with tech to prove it wasn't AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

This Anti-AI Camera Fights Deepfakes by Certifying Each Picture It Takes

By Frank Landymore

Car Companies Are Suddenly Super Worried About the Future of EVs

Advanced Transport

Car Companies Are Suddenly Super Worried About the Future of EVs

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station's retirement date is looming, and NASA warns that there could be "catastrophe" if it's not safely taken down.

NASA Terrified of Space Station Careening Out of Control and Crashing Into People

By Frank Landymore

Cruise made the decision following a federal investigation into the company and the loss of its permit to operate its service in California.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations, Saying It’s Taking a “Hard Look Inwards”

By Frank Landymore

A gamma ray burst triggered by colliding neutron stars, one of the brightest explosions ever, created tellurium and other heavy elements.

Neutron Star Collision Unleashes Explosion One Million Times Brighter Than Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

The cosmonauts were investigating the cause of a leak of ammonia coolant from the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk

By Frank Landymore

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the GM division for reports of its robotaxis hitting pedestrians.

Advanced Transport

Cruise Robotaxis Under Federal Investigation for Endangering Pedestrians

By Frank Landymore

The signal is know as a fast radio burst (FRB), and it is the oldest and most powerful of its kind ever detected.

Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth

By Frank Landymore

Apple executives gave John Stewart an ultimatum: cede creative control, give up those issues, or "The Problem" gets cancelled.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Reportedly Ditched Jon Stewart Because They Didn’t Like His Thoughts About AI

By Frank Landymore

Don't get too used to having a robot colleague at work. You might start screwing up without even realizing it.

Scientists Find That Human Workers Get Lazier When Their Teammate Is a Robot

By Frank Landymore

Metals from spacecraft that are supposed to safely burn up in the atmosphere are staying there and potentially affecting the ozone.

Satellites and Spacecraft Are Polluting the Atmosphere, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The Cybertruck apparently held up admirably after being riddled with dozens of bullets, according to Musk.

Elon Musks Says He Unloaded a Tommy Gun Into a Cybertruck “Al Capone Style”

By Frank Landymore

Universal Music Group and several other record labels have accused Anthropic of stealing their lyrics to train its chatbot Claude 2.

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for Alleged Theft of Lyrics

By Frank Landymore

Federal regulators grounded Starship after its failed orbital flight test. SpaceX is annoyed it still hasn't gotten permission to fly again.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Says Feds Are Being Unfair About Its Rocket That Exploded

By Frank Landymore

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its “Existential Risk” To Humanity

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Gonna Destroy a Lot of People’s Jobs

By Frank Landymore

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist, thinks "free will" is really just the culmination of biology, upbringing, and circumstance.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We Don’t Have Free Will After All

By Frank Landymore

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

By Frank Landymore

A record shattering tremor on Mars still has scientists uncertain on its origin, after new research ruled out a meteoroid impact.

Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside Mars

By Frank Landymore

Military bases across the US could be polluting nearby water supplies with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the DoD says.

US Military Bases Appear to Be Polluting Drinking Water, Pentagon Admits

By Frank Landymore

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.

Science & Energy

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

By Frank Landymore

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

By Frank Landymore

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

By Frank Landymore

A livid SpaceX has responded to the Federal Aviation Administration warnings, denouncing its analysis as "deeply flawed."

FAA Warns That Falling Satellites Are Going to Start Killing People

By Frank Landymore

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

New evidence shows that a set of ancient footprints in New Mexico pre-date when scientists believed humans populated the Americas.

Scientists Surprised by Footprints From Before Humans Were Supposed to Be in America

By Frank Landymore

Neuralink scientists kept the monkey alive even thought it was clear that it was already terminal from its severe brain swelling.

Neuroscience and Brain

Autopsy Found That Neuralink Implant “Ruptured” Monkey’s Brain

By Frank Landymore

X owner Elon Musk is confused about why users aren't enthusiastic about not being able to see headlines anymore.

Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article

By Frank Landymore

The first generation "Editions" line of Apple Watches which came encrusted in 18 karat gold are being left out to dry.

Apple Says Its $17k Gold-Plated Watch Is Obsolete

By Frank Landymore

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

Writers who are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on their work without permission aren't having any of the AI startup's nonsense.

Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI’s Excuses in Court

By Frank Landymore

With its ability to spit out entire papers in seconds, ChatGPT might seem like a massive problem to the contract cheating industry.

ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business

By Frank Landymore

The supermassive black hole that made headlines for being the first one to be imaged now became the first observed to be spinning.

Remember That Black Hole They Took a Picture of? It’s Spinning

By Frank Landymore

The French Competition Authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week as part of a probe in its alleged anti-competitive practices.

Artificial Intelligence

France Just Raided the Offices of Nvidia

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk wanted to livestream his visit to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, but his broadcast crashed just minutes in.

Elon Sends Pleading Email to All of Twitter Staff After Live Stream Flub

By Frank Landymore

The new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses look like regular shades, but can record and livestream video with little warning to those around it.

Facebook Proud of New Glasses That Let You Record People Without Them Knowing

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Wildly Improved Metaverse With Lifelike Avatars

By Frank Landymore

A speaker comprising tiny robots can deploy multiple microphones to create speech zones that allow it to separate and mute conversations.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Speaker That “Mutes” Annoying People

By Frank Landymore

A growing body of research shows that poor dental health is linked with cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

Research Suggests That Bad Dental Health May Increase Risk of Dementia

By Frank Landymore

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

Prosthetics and Devices

Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records

By Frank Landymore

A study of gamers in Portugal reveals that most get physical activity, have healthy diets, and play for reasonable amounts of time.

Shocking Research Discovers That Gamers Are Overall Pretty Healthy

By Frank Landymore

Senators gathered the nation's tech industry titans to hear out on what the government should do about AI — silently, it turns out.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Bros Lectured Congress About AI “Like Schoolchildren” Who Weren’t Allowed to Raise Hands

By Frank Landymore

Unity is retroactively implementing changes to its payment plans that would charge a fee for every installation of a game using the engine.

Game Developers Outraged After Unity Engine Slaps Ludicrous Fee on Every Game Install

By Frank Landymore

Walter Isaacson's new biography on Elon Musk also reveals that the CEO left his engineers who wanted to use LiDAR exasperated.

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him

By Frank Landymore

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