More from Frank Landymore (Page 24)

A smartwatch powered by slime mold is already pretty weird, but how about the truly unique dynamic that creates between a user and the watch?
Future Society

Bizarre Smartwatch Contains Living Organism

By Frank Landymore

Billions of male chicks are culled each year, so scientists have approached this grisly reality by limiting the amount of males born via gene-editing.
Gene Editing

Scientists Gene Edit Hens To Lay Eggs That Can Stop Developing Into Male Embryos

By Frank Landymore

Bad news for astronauts looking to go home: their ride back, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, suddenly started leaking uncontrollably.
International Space Station

Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS Sprays Fluid Into Space, Seemingly Struck by Micrometeorite

By Frank Landymore

ElonJet, a Twitter account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet using public data, has now been suspended just a month after Musk said he wouldn't ban it.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Bans College Kid Who Annoyed Him

By Frank Landymore

After its splashdown in the Pacific, NASA's Orion spacecraft, back from beyond the Moon, is now on solid ground, and it's looking pretty burned.
Advanced Transport

Close Up Shows Charred NASA Capsule After Returning From the Moon

By Frank Landymore

With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.
Mars

Scientists Release Audio of NASA Rover Getting Swallowed by a 387 Foot Dust Devil On Mars

By Frank Landymore

A lawsuit filed against Tesla alleges it misled consumers by claiming its cars are self-driving, to which Tesla's lawyers retort: well, it's not fraud.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Lawyers Say Failure to Deliver Self-Driving Isn’t Technically Fraud

By Frank Landymore

The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him

By Frank Landymore

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Captures Its First Look At Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon

By Frank Landymore

AI generated images only grow in ubiquity, and the latest service that artists are decrying is Lensa, an app that generated stylized portraits.
Artificial Intelligence

Artists Furious About AI That Draws Stylized Portraits of People

By Frank Landymore

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.
Off-World

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Tom Exton, a YouTuber and car collector, says he was driving his Tesla Model Y only for fifteen minutes before it powered down.
Tesla

Man Says His Brand New Tesla Trapped Him Inside and Its Emergency Latch Broke the Window

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to one prudent local in Wyoming, we now to get to behold a rare and extremely picturesque Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud.
Science & Energy

Please Take a Moment and Enjoy This Beautifully Peaceful Cloud Formation

By Frank Landymore

A scientific voyage aboard a CSIRO research vessel has yielded an untold treasure trove of shark teeth, and a species of living shark yet to be named.
Science & Energy

Scientists Stumble Upon Huge Graveyard of Sharks, Deep Under Ocean

By Frank Landymore

2022 has not been the greatest year for Tesla. It might be one of its worse. But has been an amazing one for those shorting it stock.
Tesla

Tesla Short Sellers Are Suddenly Making Money

By Frank Landymore

After canning its autonomous vehicle division in 2020, Uber is back with a robotaxi service open to customers for free — but who needs 'em?
Advanced Transport

Can We Please Stop With These Offensively Stupid “Robotaxis”?

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is offering customers $2 a month to customers willing to install an app that will track all the traffic on their phones. Not worth.
Future Society

Amazon Says It’ll Pay You $2 Per Month to Spy on Your Phone’s Internet Traffic

By Frank Landymore

MSN peddled a story about Grimes and Elon Musk based on a fake tweet. Now it's boosting another article that claims a "dark beast" was spotted on Mars.
Future Society

MSN Fired Its Human Journalists and Replaced Them With AI That Publishes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot

By Frank Landymore

It's not exactly a greenhouse, but astronauts aboard the ISS have been carefully tending to their garden for years. Time for fruits to join the mix.
Off-World

Astronauts Prepare to Grow Juicy Dwarf Tomatoes in Space

By Frank Landymore

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.
Health & Medicine

18-Year-Old Patient Says $3.5 Million Hemophilia Drug He Needs Seems a “Little Steep”

By Frank Landymore

No stranger to de-aging actors in its movies, Disney has announced a brand new "re-aging" AI tool that it claims is already "production ready."
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Creates AI System to Automatically Change Age of Actors

By Frank Landymore

Why get pee all over your pants when you can use the ultimate, splashback free urinal designed by scientists at the University of Waterloo?
Future Society

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out the Ideal Urinal for Not Splashing Back

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers, expecting a gamma ray burst, instead discovered an extremely distant black hole that is regularly destroy stars.
Black Holes

Black Hole In “Hyper-Feeding Frenzy” Chews Through Stars and Shoots Its Leftovers Towards Earth

By Frank Landymore

LED streetlights that replaced their sodium-vapor predecessors are turning blue and purple. And the problem may all stem from one company.
Science & Energy

Defective LED Streetlights Are Turning the Night Purple

By Frank Landymore

The official ball of the World Cup makes use of internal sensors that track its movements, but it needs to be charged like any old phone.
Future Society

The World Cup Is So High Tech That They Have to Charge the Balls

By Frank Landymore

The Orion spacecraft in its journey past the Moon has captured a stunning, perspective-inducing photo that shows both the Earth and Moon in view.
Moon

Amazing Artemis Photo Shows Every Human, Alive or Dead, Plus the Moon

By Frank Landymore

A Ford F-150 Lightning owner has been left stranded after his EV truck made a loud noise and suddenly died while charging at an Electrify America station.
Advanced Transport

Driver Says His Ford F-150 Lightning Made a “Loud Boom” and Died When He Plugged It In

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk, who is definitely not deeply hurt by his celebrity heroes ragging on him, as called Trent Reznor a "crybaby" for retiring his Twitter account.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Crying About Trent Reznor Shows That He Is a Big, Big Baby

By Frank Landymore

Domino's, the largest pizza chain in the world, is buying a fleet of 800 EV Chevrolet Bolts in the hopes of bringing in more delivery drivers.
Advanced Transport

Domino’s Buying Hundreds and Hundreds of Electric Delivery Vehicles

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's expensive Twitter takeover has had the CEO cutting jobs and costs left and right, and now he's reportedly refusing to pay the company's bills.
Elon Musk

Cheapskate Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Bills at Twitter

By Frank Landymore

Brain-controlled wheelchairs using a noninvasive a non-invasive interface allowed several paralyzed patients to control wheelchairs with up to 98% accuracy.
Neuroscience and Brain

Paralyzed People Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Electric Wheelchairs

By Frank Landymore

While shooting his new TV show, Chris Hemsworth underwent genetic testing that revealed he was carrying two copies of a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's.
Neuroscience and Brain

Chris Hemsworth Reveals Grim Genetic Test Results, Will Take Break From Acting

By Frank Landymore

Testing captured on video reveal multiple instances of a Tesla using full self-driving failing to stop for school buses and ignored school speed limits.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Full Self-Driving Caught Ignoring Stop Signs on School Buses

By Frank Landymore

Researchers discovered that a meteorite contained water just like Earth's, bolstering the theory that our planet got water from other meteorites like it.
Science & Energy

Evidence Grows That Soggy Meteorites Gave Earth Its Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have made one of the most comprehensive maps of the Universe yet, using data previously unreleased to the public.
Off-World

Amazing Map Lets You Scroll Through the Entire Known Universe

By Frank Landymore

The notorious ticket selling service Ticketmaster botched the pre-sale of tickets for Taylor Swift's upcoming tour. Now, everyone's calling for its head.
Future Society

Ticketmaster May Have Finally Met Its Match: Furious Swifties

By Frank Landymore

The FDA has approved a lab grown meat product from Upside Foods for human consumption, which now only needs USDA approval before being sold to customers.
Future Society

FDA Gives First Go Ahead for Lab Grown Meat Product

By Frank Landymore

Italian startup Energy Dome has designed an ingenious battery that uses CO2 to store energy, and it only needs non-exotic materials like steel and water.
Energy

Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States

By Frank Landymore

British astronomer Thomas Marsh went missing while visiting La Silla Observatory in Chile. 55 days later, his body has finally been found.
Off-World

Missing Astronomer Found Dead Near Space Telescope in Chile

By Frank Landymore

Metaverse world Decentraland hosted its version of the real life Ozzfest metal festival, and it was about as terrible as you'd expect to be.
Metaverse

Ozzy Osbourne “Performed” in the Metaverse and It Was Comically Horrible

By Frank Landymore

Jay Weinberg, the drummer of Slipknot, one of the biggest metal bands in the world, cautions his fans to wear earplugs to shows to protecting their hearing.
Developments

Slipknot Drummer Warns of Hearing Damage From Loud Music

By Frank Landymore

As the holiday season approaches, Jeff Bezos warns of a recession and cautioned consumers and business owners to slow down on making any big purches.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Warns People Not to Buy Expensive Things Ahead of Black Friday

By Frank Landymore

Sam Bankman-Fried bankrolled a lot of politicians before his crypto exhange FTX went belly up. But are those politicians going to return the money? Well...
Cryptocurrency

Politicians Refuse to Say Whether They’ll Give Back Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried

By Frank Landymore

A giant snake quickly darting across the Sun's surface was spotted by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, and it might have been a precursor to an even bigger event.
Off-World

Amazing Video Shows Huge “Snake” Slithering Across the Sun’s Surface

By Frank Landymore

researchers claim in a study published last month in Cells Report Physical Sciences that they've developed a way to charge the implants solely through breathing movements — potentially making them completely self-sufficient.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Build Brain Implant Powered Completely by User’s Breathing

By Frank Landymore

Unidentified hackers have stolen the health records of millions of customers of Australian health insurer Medibank, releasing them on the dark web.
Future Society

Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Ransom, So Hackers Start Releasing Health Records of Up To 10 Million People

By Frank Landymore

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor the World Wide Web. He wants a decentralized internet, but thinks Web3 is one proposal we should ignore altogether.
Blockchain

The Guy Who Invented the World Wide Web Thinks We Should “Ignore” Web3

By Frank Landymore

Bug hunter David Schütz discovered that he could unlock any Google Pixel phone without a passcode — but Google were slow to respond.
Coding

Guy Discovers a Way to Unlock Any Pixel Phone Without the Passcode

By Frank Landymore

Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines
Advanced Transport

Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines

By Frank Landymore

NeuroRestore scientists say they've identified the crucial neurons that are essential in helping a patient with paralysis recover their ability to walk.
Developments

Implant Lets Nine People With Spinal Paralysis Walk Again, and Scientists Think They Know Why

By Frank Landymore

According to reporting by Elektrek, Tesla's solar division is pulling out its solar roof program across the country, with solar employees getting laid off.
Tesla

Tesla Reportedly Canceling Solar Roof Installations Across the Country

By Frank Landymore

Surgery had to quickly be performed to remove an unexploded shell lodged in a Russian soldier's chest with no guarantee it wouldn't detonate at any moment.
Developments

Unexploded Shell Removed From Soldier’s Chest by Surgeons Wearing Body Armor

By Frank Landymore

Tesla has recalled more than 40,000 of its vehicles due to an issue that could cause a loss of power steering in its 2017-2021 Model S and Model X cars
Tesla

Tesla Issues Software Patch So That Its Cars Don’t Lose Power Steering on Potholes

By Frank Landymore

The Hubble Space Telescope captured three magnificent stages of a star right as it exploded — but it's gone unnoticed until now.
NASA

NASA Releases Hubble Images of Star Right as It Explodes

By Frank Landymore

A blockchain businessman claims he's burned a priceless Frida Kahlo drawing in service of minting 10,000 NFTs of it. Many aren't sure if it's the real deal.
NFTs

Blockchain Guy Sets Priceless Drawing on Fire to Mint 10,000 NFTs, Only Sells Four

By Frank Landymore

The NG-18 Cygnus cargo spacecraft has failed to deploy one of its solar arrays during its journey to ressuply the International Space Station.
Advanced Transport

Cargo Spacecraft Breaks Down En Route to Space Station

By Frank Landymore

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.
Off-World

Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

By Frank Landymore

The California DMV wanted a demo of Tesla's Full Self-Driving, but the automaker resisted letting some of the DMV's advisers attend.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Didn’t Want to Give Full Self-Driving Demo to DMV Authorities

By Frank Landymore

Chinese EV automaker and Tesla rival Xpeng decided that, if it's going to make an actual car fly, why not just strap it to a giant drone?
Drones

Company Builds Electric Flying Car Powered By Giant Drone Propellers

By Frank Landymore

A Model 3 was found this week stranded in the water off the coast of Carpinteria, California, but its owner is fortunately unharmed.
Tesla

Tesla Spotted Blubbering in the Ocean After Owner Drove It Onto the Beach For Some Reason

By Frank Landymore

Incorporating ads into Windows may become the norm as Microsoft considers implementing them to offset the cost of providing low-cost PCs.
Future Society

Microsoft Considering Cheap Computers Monetized With Relentless Ads

By Frank Landymore

According to documents obtained by the New York Times, getting verified on Twitter won't even require users to authenticate their identity.
Elon Musk

Twitter Leak: Elon Musk Planning to Charge for Blue Checkmarks But Not Actually Verify Identify

By Frank Landymore

An ominous and relatively uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" has been hiding a cluster of galaxies, according to astronomers.
Off-World

Astronomers Spot “Extragalactic Structure” Lurking In Obscured Zone of the Universe

By Frank Landymore

ALMA is one of the largest and most advanced radio telescopes in the world. And for reasons still unknown to the public, hackers decided to take it down.
Future Society

Hackers Just Took Down One of the World’s Most Advanced Telescopes

By Frank Landymore