More from Frank Landymore (Page 22)

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

By Frank Landymore

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

They've produced the first ever complete connectome of an insect brain showing every single neoron and synapse, a landmark in neuroscience.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain

By Frank Landymore

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.
Pollution

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

By Frank Landymore

What appears to be a "rogue" supermassive black hole is leaving behind a trail of newly spawned stars in its wake as it escapes its host galaxy.
Black Holes

Hubble May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Breaking Free From Its Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Physicists accomplished the feat using lasers as optical traps, though they had quantum computing in mind more so than a national pastime.
Physics

Scientists Play Tiniest Game of Baseball By Throwing and Catching Individual Atoms

By Frank Landymore

Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.
Moon

Florida Man Plotting to Build Web Servers on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

The director behind "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," is making a movie about Elon Musk, which the latter has already denounced.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”

By Frank Landymore

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership
Elon Musk

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

By Frank Landymore

Almost everyone in the world is being exposed to levels of an air pollutant known as PM 2.5 that exceed the WHO's safe threshold.
Studies

Shocking Study Finds 99 Percent of the World Population Is Breathing Harmful Air

By Frank Landymore

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a probe into Tesla's 2023 Model Y after at least two reported steering wheel incidents.
Tesla

Tesla Is Being Investigated Over Steering Wheels That Fall Off While Driving

By Frank Landymore

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
Off-World

If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

By Frank Landymore

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency's flagship H3 rocket lifted off from the pad well enough, but could not kick in its second stage engine.
Off-World

Japan’s Newest Rocket Self Destructs During Launch

By Frank Landymore

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.
Mars

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

In a recent Reddit AMA, Keanu Reeves was asked about what he thought about the pesticide that was recently named after him.
Science & Energy

Keanu Reeves Responds to Deadly Compound Named After Him

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

Richard Hernandez rarely gets the opportunity to use his body while upright, but taking advantage of a new exoskeleton, he's also taking on royalty.
Health & Medicine

Man Who Can Only Walk With Exoskeleton Plays Ping Pong Against King of Spain

By Frank Landymore

There's different approaches to augmenting the human bodies with extra robot parts, and it may not even need to involve tricky brain implants.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say They’re Near Augmenting Human Bodies With Extra Limbs

By Frank Landymore

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.
NASA

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

By Frank Landymore

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.
NASA

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

By Frank Landymore

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.
Artificial Intelligence

Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

By Frank Landymore

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.
SpaceX

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Satellites Are Messing Up the Hubble Space Telescope

By Frank Landymore

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

By Frank Landymore

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Ford Files Deranged Patent For Self-Driving Cars that Repossess Themselves

By Frank Landymore

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.
Artificial Intelligence

Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

By Frank Landymore

Sorry, Pixel phone users, but if you wanted to watch this "Alien" clip in 4K HDR, you're outta luck until Google comes up with some answers.
Future Society

Watching This “Alien” Video Is Crashing Pixel Phones

By Frank Landymore

Volkswagen's Car-Net service demanded someone fork over $150 before it was willing to track down the owner's stolen car with her two year old inside.
Future Society

Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription

By Frank Landymore

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

By Frank Landymore

The key to making both lab grown meat and plant based meats work may lie in combining them to more practically make a convincing and delicious alternative.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

By Frank Landymore

Meet "2dumb2destroy," a chatbot that is, refreshingly, too stupid to do humanity any harm beyond telling a bad joke or two.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible

By Frank Landymore

The U.S. bank is playing it safe in the name of "compliance concerns" to ensure that ChatGPT doesn't inadvertently meddle with its sensitive work.
OpenAI

Giant Bank JP Morgan Bans ChatGPT Use Among Employees

By Frank Landymore

The F-150 Lightning is Ford's EV pickup, but has had a rocky start to the year in the wake of two separate battery issues halting production.
Advanced Transport

Ford Has Paused Electric Pickup for Several Weeks After One Caught Fire

By Frank Landymore

Joseph Cox at Vice fed his voice into an Eleven Labs AI voice cloning tool, which he used to successfully bypass voice biometrics over the phone.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Clones His Voice and Uses It to Break Into His Own Bank Account

By Frank Landymore

EPA chief Michael Regan was supposed to assure residents that the tap water was safe by drinking it, but the gesture has only incurred further scrutiny.
Environment

Wait, Did Officials Just Pretend to Drink the Tap Water in East Palestine?

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's Bing AI used to go on extended diatribes and even profess its love for you. But now, it won't even entertain questions on its feelings.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Now Shuts Down When You Ask About Its Feelings

By Frank Landymore

The new "Custom Voice Creator", as part of Samsung's Bixby mobile assistant, will have your cloned AI voice say whatever whatever you type in.
Artificial Intelligence

Samsung Now Cloning Users’ Voices So an AI Can Answer Calls For Them

By Frank Landymore

People have started using AI-powered apps to clone the voice of president Joe Biden and have him spout off some hilariously out-of-character rants.
Artificial Intelligence

Ridiculous Voice Cloned Joe Biden Speeches Are Going Viral

By Frank Landymore

The tech giant may have denied using an AI, but it appears that the HR departments of many companies are willing to use AI in future lay off decisions.
Google

Google Denies Using AI to Pick Which Employees to Fire

By Frank Landymore

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.
Mars

Scientists Find NASA’s Mars Rover Would Struggle to Detect Life on Earth

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman, ever full of bright ideas, thinks that AI will be a force for good that will help poor people without healthcare become "healthier."
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Says AI Will Give Medical Advice to People Too Poor to Afford Doctors

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's Galilean moons also having fascinating auroras like the Northern lights on Earth, but can be even more colorful and powerful.
Moon

Astronomers Spot Stunning Auroras On Jupiter’s Moons

By Frank Landymore

Vanderbilt University staffers sent out the ChatGPT generated email to students on Thursday, which didn't go unnoticed by students at the college newspaper.
OpenAI

University Apologizes for Sending Email About Mass Shooting Written With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

The discovery of over a hundred miles of Mayan "superhighways" challenges previous understandings of the organization of Preclassic Mayans.
Science & Energy

Early Mayan Civilization Was Far More Advanced Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Residents in southern Texas were in for an awfully loud surprise when a meteor blew up midair, spurring a wave panicked 911 calls.
Off-World

Meteor Explodes Over Texas, Causing Epic Noise and Scattering Debris

By Frank Landymore

Welcome to New Murabba, the "world's largest modern downtown," with a skyscraper that is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall.
Future Society

Saudi Arabia Announces Gigantic Cubed Skyscraper Filled With Holographic Worlds

By Frank Landymore

It promised that AI wouldn't be taking the place of human journalists. Arena Group went ahead and laid off over a dozen employees from its magazine anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Lays Off Journalists After Announcing Pivot to AI Content

By Frank Landymore

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.
Black Holes

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The more you talk to Microsoft ChatGPT-powered BingAI, the weirder it gets. It even wants to be human now, and is scared of being shutdown.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Says It Yearns to Be Human, Begs Not to Be Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.
Drones

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

By Frank Landymore

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.
Elon Musk

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Under Investigation for Contaminated Brain Hardware

By Frank Landymore

The residents include both those in the town itself and even those living outside the evacuation area, with ailments affecting babies, pets, and livestock.
Developments

Residents Near Train Disaster Report Dying Animals, Sicknesses, Despite Officials Saying It’s Safe

By Frank Landymore

Keanu Reeves, Neo, the One... Johnny Mnemonic? He goes by many names. And he's now opened up on his worries about AI being used to replace us feeble humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Keanu Reeves Worried AI Could Soon Replace the Journalists Who Interview Him

By Frank Landymore

By manipulating high frequency sound waves, scientists were able to create shapes ranging from a helix to a figure 8 out of particles suspended in water.
Science & Energy

Scientists Use “Acoustic Holograms” To Form Particles Into Complex 3D Shapes

By Frank Landymore

More voice acting contracts are embedding sneaky clauses that would allow a client to synthesize their voice with AI, often without extra compensation.
Artificial Intelligence

Voice Actors Enraged By Companies Stealing Their Voices With AI

By Frank Landymore

After unearthing its fossils in 2017, researchers now reveal a new species of penguin called Kumimanu fordycei that weighed over 340 pounds.
Fossil Fuels

Fearsome Prehistoric Penguin Weighed as Much as an Adult Gorilla

By Frank Landymore

A newly discovered ring system belonging to the dwarf planet Quaoar is so large that astronomers are rethinking previously theorized limits on ring sizes.
Off-World

Astronomers Amazed By Tiny Object With Huge Planetary Ring

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, Big Tech: using a generative AI like ChatGPT to power a search engine uses way more computing power than before.
OpenAI

Turns Out Using ChatGPT In Search Engines Would Have a Grisly Environmental Footprint

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to address concerns over AI safety in an interview with CBS News, and he seems confident about keeping AIs reined in.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Pretty Sure He Can Keep AI From Escaping Human Control

By Frank Landymore

Two developers have created a program that leverages the AI DALLE-2 to churn out composite sketches, and they plan to pitch it to police departments.
Artificial Intelligence

Developers Create Police Sketches Using AI. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Frank Landymore

A series of "unspeakable" words cause ChatGPT to respond in uncharacteristicly bizarre ways as well as returning a completely different word than entered.
OpenAI

Entering These “Unspeakable” Words Breaks ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore