More from Frank Landymore (Page 19)

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

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

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.
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.
Gene Editing

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

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.
Off-World

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.
Off-World

Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk

By Frank Landymore

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
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.
Off-World

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.
Robotics

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.
Off-World

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 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.
Anthropic

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.
OpenAI

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.
Mars

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.
Military

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.
Climate Change

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

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 Change

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.
Developments

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.
Off-World

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."
Off-World

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.
Climate Change

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.
Off-World

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.
Evolution

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

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.
Future Society

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.
Pollution

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.
OpenAI

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.
OpenAI

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.
Black Holes

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.
Future Society

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.
Future Society

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

By Frank Landymore

The Meta CEO demonstrated impressively true-to-life avatars in an interview conducted over the Metaverse using VR headsets.
Metaverse

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.
Studies

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.
Future Society

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

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

By Frank Landymore

Starlink is over $10 billion short of the revenue it projected to have back in 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Future Society

Starlink Is Falling Way Short of Projections on Revenue and Users

By Frank Landymore

This was yet another notable outage that ChatGPT has suffered in the past several weeks as user traffic falls.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Goes Down Right as Sam Altman Defends It in Washington

By Frank Landymore

An area known as Thacker Pass on the Nevada-Oregon border is home to clay that contain tens of millions of tons of lithium.
Science & Energy

Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest

By Frank Landymore

New research that studied thousands of twins who suffered a concussion early in life has grim implications on cognitive decline.
Neuroscience and Brain

If You Had a Concussion When You Were Younger, Scientists Have Bad News

By Frank Landymore

A PR firm called Bunker 15 reportedly lobbied small review publications to ensure its movies were rated as "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.
Future Society

Film Studios Are Using Dirty Tricks to Manipulate Rotten Tomatoes Scores

By Frank Landymore

Computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac spotted a telltale ChatGPT phrase in the paper, and is on a mission to uncover other frauds.
OpenAI

Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It

By Frank Landymore

Rescuers are working to extract Mark Dickey, a 40 year-old American and experienced caver, who fell ill with gastrointestinal bleeding.
Future Society

Man Stranded In Cave 3,000 Feet Underground After Falling Sick

By Frank Landymore

The European Space Agency carefully de-orbited its Aeolus satellite in July. Newly released images reveal its fiery, headlong descent.
Off-World

Amazing Images Show Final Moments of Satellite Before It Burns Up Completely

By Frank Landymore

Genomic research suggests that less than 1,300 human ancestors survived this unknown catastrophe for some 117,000 years.
Evolution

Something Almost Entirely Killed Our Ancient Ancestors, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Fred Lambert, editor in chief of a Tesla and EV enthusiast blog, says that Full Self-Driving tried to veer him off the road at highway speed.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Perturbed When Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Kill Him on the Highway

By Frank Landymore

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.
Nuclear Fusion

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

By Frank Landymore