More from Frank Landymore (Page 26)

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

Runway, the startup that co-created Stable Diffusion, has released an AI that transforms a source video into any style using only text prompt or image.
Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion Creator Launches New AI That Turns Boring Footage Into Super Stylized Videos

By Frank Landymore

Using stem cells to grow minitiarized intestinal tissue called organoids, the researchers recreated a human immune response inside mice.
Developments

Scientists Grew Tiny, Partially Functional Human Intestines Inside Mice

By Frank Landymore

Netflix's new romcom "You People" allegedly used CGI to make it look like it actors Jonah Hill and Lauren London were kissing.
Future Society

Netflix Romcom Allegedly Used CGI to Make Jonah Hill Kiss Lauren London

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now pinpointed the location of an "engine" overpowering a galactic merger with infrared light.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Reveals Mysteriously Powerful “Engine” of Two Merging Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

After filing a lawsuit against Stable Diffusion in the UK last month, Getty images has followed up by suing the AI company in the United States.
Artificial Intelligence

Getty Images Sues AI Art Generator Stable Diffusion for Copying Millions of Its Photos

By Frank Landymore

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.
Pollution

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

By Frank Landymore

A rare form of binary star system containing a neutron star and a massive companion star is the first ever example of a system doomed to end in a kilonova.
Off-World

Scientists Find “One in Ten Billion” Star System Primed to Explode in Titanic Kilonova

By Frank Landymore

Many advances in robotic prosthetics focus on rehabilitation. But what about controlling a supplementary limb? Enter the world of movement augmentation.
Brain

Scientists Working on Third Arm You Control Using Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.
Fungi

Global Warming Is Priming Deadly Fungi to Invade Our Warm Bodies

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's ChatGPT integrated Bing search engine reportedly went live only for a short period, but screenshots document the highly-anticipated upgrade.
OpenAI

Microsoft Appears to Have Accidentally Launched New Bing With ChatGPT Functionality

By Frank Landymore

Timothy Schmidt, a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, called the green comet theory "the craziest email I have ever received."
Off-World

Professor Receives Insane Email Claiming “Biological” Green Comet Is Giving Off “Meat Smoke”

By Frank Landymore

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

By Frank Landymore

Nita A. Farahany, a "legal ethicist" on futuristic tech, says that tech is already here, and that we need to make the choice of "using it well."
Brain

Duke Professor Welcomes the “Promising” Future of Employers Reading Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Netflix Japan's official Twitter shared a promo for its anime short "Dog & The Boy," announcing that it used AI in response to a "labor shortage."
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Brags That It Used AI to Replace Human Animators In New Anime

By Frank Landymore

The global warming threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius may be a foregone conclusion, according to a new study that trained an AI on climate models.
Global Warming

Global Warming Is Worse Than We Thought, AI Tells Scientists

By Frank Landymore

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.
Science & Energy

Startup Backed By “Jurassic World” Producer Says It Will Revive Extinct Dodo Using Complete Genome

By Frank Landymore

As if being verified couldn't be more worthless or AIs more dubious, beware verified Twitter accounts with AI-generated faces pretending to be real people.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Is “Verifying” Accounts With AI-Generated Faces

By Frank Landymore

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.
Neuroscience and Brain

US Surgeon General Warns Against 13-Year-Old Using Social Media

By Frank Landymore

It took firefighters 6,000 gallons of water to eventually extinguish the Tesla's battery which was determined to be the cause of the fire.
Tesla

Tesla “Spontaneously” Bursts Into Flames While Driving Down Freeway

By Frank Landymore

Normally limited to use in Earth orbiting satellites, Hall thrusters may be able to punch above their weight even more than expected.
Off-World

Test Suggests Ion Thrusters Could Power Crewed Interplanetary Missions

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb was able to spot the coldest ice on record that may hold clues to the formation of organic molecules across the universe.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Discovers Coldest Ice in Known Universe, Harboring Molecules Essential For Life

By Frank Landymore

Atlas, Boston Dynamics' bipedal, humanoid robot, is not above falling flat on its face, or on its ass, or just freezing up like an idiot.
Boston Dynamics

Hilarious Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Failing Horribly

By Frank Landymore

First spotted in 2013, astronomers have come back for another, extremely rarely look at the centaur called Chariklo that they now think harbors ice water.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Asteroid With Its Own Saturn-Like Rings

By Frank Landymore

John Wenz ate chicken meat grown in a lab, courageously admitting that it gave him gas. But it does taste like chicken, at least.
Future Society

Journalist Eats Lab-Grown Chicken, Gets “Weirdly Gassy”

By Frank Landymore

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.
Pollution

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

By Frank Landymore

The rest of dinosaur's body was intact, too, including the armor, spikes, limbs, and its stomach contents. Looking it in the eye might unnerve you.
Science & Energy

Scientists Found a Dinosaur’s Face, Complete With Its Skin

By Frank Landymore

The robot is made of a new material called "magnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional matter," and is capable of liquefying and remolding itself again.
Robotics

Scientists Create Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Melt Through Prison Bars

By Frank Landymore

The self-balancing exoskeleton, known as Atalante, will help in gait training in clinical environments and is impressively able to be used hands free.
Health & Medicine

FDA Gives Go-Ahead for Robotic Exoskeleton For Stroke Survivors

By Frank Landymore

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.
NASA

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

By Frank Landymore

Murphy, North Carolina, was a once quiet town in the Blue Ridge mountains, until a crypto mine showed up. Locals aren't just mad — they're taking action.
Cryptocurrency

Residents Annoyed by Crypto Mine That Emits Constant, Horrible Noise

By Frank Landymore

Dubious online marketers at the notorious SEO forum BlackHatWorld see CNET's use of AI as a sign of Google opening the floodgates to AI written content.
Google

SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.
Pollution

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

Make Sunsets had barely got two of its sulfur dioxide releasing balloons in the air before the Mexican government banned the experiments outright.
Solar Power

Mexico Bans Startup From Future Solar Geoengineering Experiments

By Frank Landymore

Turns out, all you need is a million dollar laser that can shoot high energy pulses at an absurdly fast rate, and you can maybe divert lightning.
Science & Energy

Scientists Test System for Controlling Where Lightning Strikes Hit Using Lasers

By Frank Landymore

There's no surviving the fireball of a nuclear bomb, but beyond that, there are certain spots indoors where you can try avoid the destructive shockwave.
Science & Energy

New Study Shows Where You Should Hide to Survive a Nuclear Attack

By Frank Landymore

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Cryptocurrency

Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is “Magical Thinking” That “Infected Capitalism”

By Frank Landymore

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

By Frank Landymore

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.
Artificial Intelligence

Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

By Frank Landymore

The Winchcombe meteorite was kept pristine and avoided earthly contamination, making the discovery of amino acids inside all the more compelling.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life in Meteor That Smashed Into Family’s Driveway

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's EVs like the Model Y are not only $13,000 cheaper, but also now qualify for a $7,500 tax credit from the federal government.
Tesla

Tesla Slashes Car Prices Up to 20 Percent

By Frank Landymore

Keith Schofield shared an extensive series of eyegrabbing images that supposedly evoke the style of David Cronenberg, but fans think otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used AI to Dream Up a Nonexistent David Cronenberg Movie and the Results Are Nauseating

By Frank Landymore

After its crucial NOTAM system stopped processing new notices, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stopped all domestic flights from departing.
Future Society

Computer Glitch Forced FAA to Ground All Flights Across the US

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk can now be proud of the fact that he's officially the record holder for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Sets Guinness World Record for Losing the Most Money

By Frank Landymore

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has its eyes set on banning new gas stove products in the wake a of new study that links it to childhood asthma.
Science & Energy

The US Government Is Considering a Ban on Gas Stoves

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that the T-Rex didn't just have loads of teeth, but plenty of neurons — enough to make them the "primates of their time."
Brain

In Terrifying News, Big Brained T-Rex May Have Been as Smart as Primates

By Frank Landymore

The New York City Department of Education doesn't want its kids using the AI chatbot that's capable of writing essays on its own.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Officially Banned from NYC Schools. Related: Good Luck With That

By Frank Landymore

Digital artist Ben Moran only wanted to share their latest art work on r/Art, Reddit's largest subreddit, but moderators quickly shut them down.
Artificial Intelligence

Artist Says They Were Banned Because Their Art Looked Like AI, Even Though They’re Human

By Frank Landymore

Pepsi acquired its batch of all-electric Tesla Semi semi-trucks last month, and it didn't take long for one to be spotted being carried by a flatbed.
Tesla

Tesla Semi That Pepsi Just Bought Already Needs to Be Towed

By Frank Landymore

Famed budget TV maker TCL has unveiled its latest TCL's X2 AR glasses capable of translating conversations in real time, but they're a little... big.
Virtual Reality

New AR Glasses Translate Conversations in Real Time

By Frank Landymore

Patients had their holiday spirits quashed and were unfairly distressed by the accidental mass text sent just two days before Christmas.
Future Society

Doctor Accidentally Messages Patients to Say They Have Aggressive Cancer

By Frank Landymore

An Elon superfan was moved by Musk's claims that the Cybertruck could be a boat, so he decided to file a trademark for boats and planes on Tesla's behalf.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fan Files Trademark for Tesla Boats and Planes Without Telling Tesla

By Frank Landymore

Paper and wood product manufacturer Stora Enso has commissioend engineers to build anodes for batteries using lignin from wood pulp.
Science & Energy

Engineers Experimenting With Batteries Made Using Wood Waste

By Frank Landymore