More from Frank Landymore (Page 19)

A new bidet seat from Kohler can be used totally hands free, if you're willing to connect it to Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
Future Society

Rejoice! Device That Sprays Your Butthole Now Connects to Alexa for Voice Control

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.
Moon

NASA Spacecraft Zooms Close to Jupiter’s Brutal Moon, Snaps Amazing Photos

By Frank Landymore

The investigation comes after the FDA received reports linking these side effects to semaglutide drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic.
Developments

FDA Investigating Link Between Semaglutide and Hair Loss, Suicidal Thoughts

By Frank Landymore

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.
Energy

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited Energy

By Frank Landymore

A Consumer Reports investigation has found a plastic ingredient known as phthalate at worrying high levels in supermarket and fast food items.
Food

Scientists Found Hazardous Phthalates in Almost Every Food They Tested

By Frank Landymore

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.
Mars

NASA Releases Image of Epic Lines Carved Into Mars’ Surface

By Frank Landymore

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.
Future Society

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

By Frank Landymore

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.
Hacking

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is yet again hyping up the Cybertruck's potential as a boat. But as always, there's reason to doubt that these claims hold water.
Elon Musk

While Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Can Float, Tesla Told a Guy His Model 3 Broke Because He Washed It

By Frank Landymore

No one was hurt in the fire. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined, but the local fire chief has blamed a familiar culprit.
Advanced Transport

Fire Breaks Out at General Motors’ Electric Car Factory

By Frank Landymore

The Chevy of Watsonville car dealership probably didn't expect its AI chatbot to start pawning off its brand new SUVs for a song.
Artificial Intelligence

Car Dealership Disturbed When Its AI Is Caught Offering Chevys for $1 Each

By Frank Landymore

A volcanic eruption resulted in a miles long fissure that spewed towering fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air.
NASA

NASA Images Show Huge Fissure Opening Up in Iceland

By Frank Landymore

Exceljet has found itself the victim of an "SEO heist," losing web traffic to a shameless imitator that used AI to hijack its articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Horrified When Someone Uses AI to Reword and Republish All His Content, Complete With New Errors

By Frank Landymore

A tool made by grad students is the ultimate "geoguesser," using its knowledge of Google Street View to track down any photo's location.
Artificial Intelligence

Scary AI Can Look at Photos and Figure Out Exactly Where They Were Taken

By Frank Landymore

Mercedes-Benz just received approval for first-of-its-kind turquoise car lights that indicate a vehicle in self-driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes-Benz Installing New Tail Lights to Show When Car Is Self-Driving

By Frank Landymore

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.
Climate Change

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC, fears that the reliance on a small number of AI models could lead to the entire finance sector to it doom.
Artificial Intelligence

SEC Chair Warns AI “Herding” Could Drive Markets “Off an Inadvertent Cliff”

By Frank Landymore

The bizarre shape, materials, and seeming rigidness of the Tesla Cybertruck could make it a menace to occupants, pedestrians, and other cars.
Advanced Transport

Experts Deeply Concerned About Cybertruck Safety

By Frank Landymore

A cancer-combating pill called divarasib could be a breakthrough in treating a specific form of bowel cancer.
Cancer

Anti-Cancer Pill Shows Promising Results in Human Experiment

By Frank Landymore

P(doom) has become the go-to shorthand among AI researchers and tech CEOs for describing the likelihood of AI destroying humanity.
Artificial Intelligence

Silicon Valley Guys Casually Calculating Probability Their AI Will Destroy Humankind

By Frank Landymore

The AI, which takes orders from drive-thru customers at Checkers and Carl's Jr, relies on humans for most of its customer interactions.
Artificial Intelligence

Busted! Drive-Thru Run by “AI” Actually Operated by Humans in the Philippines

By Frank Landymore

The pound-for-pound greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is getting stronger as more of it is released into the atmosphere, a new study found.
Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Two young orcas tried to save an approximately 35-year-old orca nicknamed Hunchy, who struggled to stay afloat.
Science & Energy

Tragic Footage Shows Orcas Trying to Save Their Dying Companion

By Frank Landymore

The six exoplanets in this star system revolve in perfect mathematical ratios relative to each other, in what's known as oribital resonance.
Off-World

Scientists Discover Star System So Perfect It Seems Like Art

By Frank Landymore

Tech startup Prophetic says its device can help you induce lucid dreams that you can use to be productive while you sleep.
Future Society

Neuralink-Linked Startup Working on Tech So You Can Keep Working While You Dream

By Frank Landymore

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons
Biology

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

In a rare acquisition by the launch provider, SpaceX saved a venerable parachute vendor that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Buying a Company That Makes Parachutes for Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.
Science & Energy

The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The hack is "silly," but it gets ChatGPT to regurgitate incredible amounts of its training data, some of it potentially sensitive.
OpenAI

Hack Tricks ChatGPT Into Spitting Out Private Email Addresses, Phone Numbers

By Frank Landymore

General Motors has lost billions of dollars on Cruise, which has received intense scrutiny from state and federal regulators this year.
Advanced Transport

General Motors to Slash Spending on Robotaxis After Disastrous Year

By Frank Landymore

Plex, which earned its rep as a way to stream your own media, added a new feature that shares what users watch, often without them knowing.
Future Society

Users Horrified as Streaming Service Tells Friends and Family What They’re Watching

By Frank Landymore

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.
Geothermal

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

By Frank Landymore

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

By Frank Landymore

The yet unnamed disease has infected hundreds of dogs in at least five states and does not respond to antibiotics so far.
Developments

Mysterious Disease Spreading Among Dogs

By Frank Landymore

Though we banned ozone depleting chemicals four decades ago, new research finds that the hole long thought to be healing may be anything but.
Science & Energy

The Hole in the Ozone Layer Is Getting Bigger Again, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Congress members have urged the SEC to investigate Elon Musk for lying about how monkeys were treated at Neuralink.
Neuroscience and Brain

Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Carnage at Neuralink

By Frank Landymore

UnitedHealthcare uses its AI to systematically cut the time severely ill patients can spend in extended care, according to the lawsuit.
Developments

America’s Largest Health Insurer Denying Care With AI That’s Wrong 90 Percent of the Time, Lawsuit Alleges

By Frank Landymore

Despite appearances, the amount of recent eruptions we're seeing from volcanoes is not unusual. We're just finally paying attention.
Science & Energy

Wave of Volcanoes Erupting Around the World is Totally Normal, Experts Assure

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers can confirm that there's a rocky exoplanet just a couple dozen light years away.
Off-World

Hubble Discovers Closest Earth-Sized World to Our Star System

By Frank Landymore

Nine musicians, including Demi Lovato, John Legend, and Troye Sivan, have lent their voices and styles to YouTube's new AI tool.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Launching AI Tool That Clones Singers’ Voices

By Frank Landymore

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.
Pollution

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Tattoos of Spotify codes don't always hold up after a few years of natural wear and tear, as many music fans are beginning to discover.
Future Society

Music Fans Horrified When Their Spotify Tattoos Stop Scanning

By Frank Landymore

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

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.
Off-World

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.
Off-World

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.
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

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.
Solar Power

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.
Future Society

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.
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