More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 19)

DreamFusion, Google's new text-to-3D-image generator, is here — and we have to admit, it's impressive. Big fans of the ghost eating the hamburger prompt.

Google Creates AI That Turns Text Into 3D Objects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite previous warnings to please stop trash talking Russia, NASA veteran Scott Kelly is once again firing verbal shots at the international foe.

NASA Astronaut Is Beefing With Russia Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Let's examine the strange, swirling, and unfortunately compelling rumors that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg... is fighting at a UFC show on Saturday?

Rumors Swirl That Mark Zuckerberg Is Fighting at a UFC Show

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has, for the first time in the company's nearly 20-year history, reportedly announced a sweeping restructuring of his organization.

Layoffs Hitting Facebook as Zuckerberg’s Vision Stumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NFT trading volumes are down a catastrophic 97 percent from the record highs seen back in January — forget crypto winter, is this a full-blown web3 ice age?

It’s Official: Pretty Much Nobody Is Buying NFTs Anymore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jacob Isaacman and officials from NASA and SpaceX announced plans to launch a private mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Tourist Says He’s Thinking About Flying SpaceX Craft Up to Fix Hubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hurricane Ian destroyed the causeways that connect Sanibel Island, along with several other barrier islands off the Florida Coast, to the mainland.

Science & Energy

Entire Islands Severed From Florida by Hurricane Ian

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you didn't know that Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is extremely into fencing, he is. Casd in point: the latest Quest Pro promo.

Extremely Sweaty Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Mixed Reality Swordfighting Game

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nanoengineers at the UC Davis have officially developed microbots that can swim around a mouse's lungs and deliver pneumonia-clearing medicine.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Use Microbots to Clear Pneumonia From Lungs of Sick Mice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharmaceutical developers Biogen and Eisai want to fast-track a new Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, for FDA approval — but it's been met with mixed opinions.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Alzheimer’s Drug Appears to Actually Work, to Some Degree

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There is truly nothing that feels more 2022 than purchasing a $75 NFT and receiving 3.5 ounces of weed dubbed "Space Rocks" in return.

Geniuses Selling NFTs That Just Happen to Come With Free Weed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just months after filing for bankruptcy, Alex Mashinsky, the CEO of embattled cryptocurrency "bank" Celsius, has resigned from his position.

Disgraced Crypto CEO Resigns Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you've been waiting for someone to take over the archival storage market, a startup called Folio Photonics is here to upgrade optical storage.

Startup Says It Can Store 100TB in Nintendo-Like Cartridges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two years after publishing, the journal Nature has retracted what was believed to be a major superconductivity breakthrough.

Science & Energy

Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You can't see or feel it, but our Milky Way galaxy is actually... rippling, like a galactic pond that's been hit by a cosmic stone. Here's why.

Our Entire Galaxy Is Rippling and the Reason Why Is Wild

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, the state of the field of particle physics is misguided and wasteful.

Former Particle Physicist Absolutely Annihilates the Field of Particle Physics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Getting Starlink up and running in Iran isn't as simple as switching on some orbital satellites, and it very well looks like Musk's promise might fall flat.

There’s a Huge Problem With Elon Musk’s Promise to Bring Starlink to Iran

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The hacking collective Anonymous is targeting the Iranian government amid widespread citizen protests sparked by the alleged murder of Mahsa Amini.

Anonymous Hacks Iran After Woman Allegedly Killed by “Morality Police”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This isn't the first time that the Pacific Ocean has birthed a new island — and according to the experts, they tend to be a bit of a flight risk.

Science & Energy

Experts Have Bad News for That Tiny Island That Appeared the Other Day

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

STI rates in the US are alarming high, and top public health experts are sounding the alarms — but what, exactly, is the answer here?

The CDC Is Begging Americans to Protect Themselves From STIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Per a new study, administering the drug rapamycin to mice everyday for the first 45 days of their lives % extends life expectancy by an average 10 percent.

Science & Energy

Giving Baby Mice This Drug Makes Them Live 10 Percent Longer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's crackdown continues, and according to internal audio obtained by CNBC, the tension between Googlers and their CEO, Sundar Pichai, is growing.

Google CEO Incredulous at Employees Mad About Loss of Perks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA revealed that Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope will observe the agency's DART test, the first asteroid redirection attempt in history.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Aiming James Webb at Asteroid as DART Prepares to Smash It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the devastating crypto bear market is ultimately good — "healthy," even — for the market.

Binance Guy Says the Crypto Crash is Good, Actually

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic just inked multi-year contracts with a sustainable startup called Air Company, which turns recaptured CO2 into usable jet fuel.

Advanced Transport

JetBlue, Virgin Strike Deal to Buy Jet Fuel Made From Recaptured CO2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Saudi Arabia inked a deal with private spaceflight company Axiom earlier this year to fly two of the country astronauts to the ISS.

International Space Station

Saudi Arabia Just Bought Two SpaceX Tickets to the International Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just captured Neptunes's rings in all of their splendor, and they're absolutely beautiful.

James Webb Space Telescope

Usually You Can’t See Rings on Neptune. With the James Webb, Though… Wow

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Space Force's "official" theme song, "Semper Supra," is newly unveiled for all to enjoy. Is it a banger, you ask? Sadly, the answer is no.

The Space Force Just Unveiled Its “Official Song” and Our Skin Is Crawling With Secondhand Embarrassment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Multiple new studies appear to confirm that steroids — bodybuilding 'roids and the prescription drugs — are absolutely terrible for brain health.

Neuroscience and Brain

Steroid Use Linked to a Bunch of Very Bad Brain Problems

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We caught up with astronomer Garth Illingworth to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope, distant galaxies, and the ever-evolving scientific process.

The JWST’s Data Is So Incredible That Even Those Who Built It Are Questioning Previous Science

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Do Kwon, creator of the infamous, crypto-crashing Terra-Luna "stablecoins," is still missing. Well, not missing — according to him, that is.

Guy Blamed for Crypto Crash Says He Isn’t Fleeing Arrest Warrant, But Isn’t Turning Himself In to Cops Either

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pentagon is reportedly to conduct an audit of the US military's social media PSYOP practices, following the removal of several fake bot accounts.

US Military Annoyed When Facebook and Twitter Removed Its PSYOP Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts are warning that if climate change continues to go unchecked, most of Florida's southern coast will be underwater, Miami included, by 2060.

Scientists Have Grim News for Southern Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For President Biden to so carelessly contradict his own administration's messaging is as confusing to the American people as it is dangerous.

Biden Really Screwed Up When He Said the “Pandemic Is Over”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google accidentally handed a self-described hacker and BAYC-creating Yuga Labs security engineer nearly $250,000. Lucky for them, he wasnts to give it back.

Google Accidentally Sends Bored Ape Engineer $250,000

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report from Europol, we have all the reason in the world to be extra vigilant about what we consume online.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure.

Science & Energy

Scientists Absolutely Thrilled to Find 150 Million Year Old Vomit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The popular parent-teacher app Seesaw was hacked, and bad actors sent a horribly explicit, NSFW meme to unassuming users.

Parent-Teacher Messaging App Hacked to Send Mom and Dad Horrifying Images

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This isn't a sympathy case for Harvey Weinstein. Bad guy. But his dental ordeal and the pleas he's made for proper care are emblematic of a bigger issue.

Harvey Weinstein’s Rotting Teeth Reveal a Lot About Prison Healthcare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is frustrated with the state of the world. But most of all, he's frustrated with the role that distraction plays in our failure to meet goals.

Bill Gates Sounds Moderately Horrified by How Civilization Is Going

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a joking tweet, Elon Musk accused Hans Niemann of using vibrating, remote-controlled anal beads to beat the Magnus Carlsen, the game's No. 1 grandmaster.

Why Elon Musk Said a Remote Controlled Sex Toy Was Used to Cheat at a Chess Tournament

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of cryptocurrency miners — many of whom stand to lose their main stream of income due to the Ethereum Merge, have made their own Ethereum token.

Furious Crypto Miners Making Their Own Ethereum Where They Can Still Destroy the Environment After the Merge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to 130,000 years' worth of mammalian food webs and extinction patterns, we're in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Very chill.

The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's asteroid-smashing Direct Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is racing towards its celestial target, with the Italian-made LICIACube in tow.

Italian Probe Will Watch as NASA Smashes Asteroid With Battering Ram

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook-turned-Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's worst enemy, according to Harvard expert and author Bill George, is... Mark Zuckerberg

Harvard Expert Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Destroying Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former SpaceX-antagonist and current NASA chief Bill Nelson has some words for anyone who doubts SpaceX — even though he himself once did.

NASA Head Who Didn’t Take SpaceX Seriously Complains That People Didn’t Take SpaceX Seriously

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to economist John Hawkins, El Salvador's grand crypto experiment, led by Crypto Commander in Chief President Nayib Bukele, has been a disaster.

Economist: El Salvador’s Year With Bitcoin Currency Has Been “Spectacular Failure”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.

Concern Grows Around Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Period-Tracking App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Travis Kalanick is back with a venture called CloudKitchen, and surprise! It's terrible to employees and "dark kitchen" operators alike.

The Disgraced Uber Guy Is Back With a Fun New Plan to Kill Restaurants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new analysis has determined that by current emissions, roughly 4.4 million acres of land and 650,000 individual properties will be underwater by 2050.

Hundreds of Thousands of American Homes Will Be Swallowed by the Sea, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant — the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at the war's front lines — is bad. Really bad.

Battle-Scarred Ukraine Nuclear Plant Cooling Systems Hanging by a Thread, Officials Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study shows that kids are actually wildly good at getting around the anti-cheating software Proctorio's promised capabilities.

Study: Students Are Very Good at Outsmarting Anti-Cheating Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Actor Jason Mamoa has taken to Instagram to ferociously protest single-use plastics by shaving his hair off. Is that effective activism?

Jason Momoa So Furious About Environment That He Shaved His Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pentagon has halted F-35 fighter jet deliveries after discovering that a component of the jet's engine is actually made in China.

Military Horrified to Discover Its Most Expensive Jet Has a Part Made in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.

Artificial Intelligence

New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a resurfaced audio clip, television personality and Pennsylvania senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz says that thinks that some incest is fine, actually.

Audio Surfaces of Dr. Oz Saying Some Incest Is Okay, and Also His Daughters Don’t Like How He Smells

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, Zucko took to Instagram to show off his mixed martial arts moves. And honestly? We're not MMA experts, but he seems pretty good.

Experts Surprised by Mark Zuckerberg’s Skill in MMA Sparring Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To some, colonizing Mars with billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might sound fun. To others, like NASA astronaut Stan Love, it sounds like pure misery.

NASA Astronaut Says Elon Musk’s Mars Colony Sounds “Horrible”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you happen to have $7.77 million on hand, you can buy yourself a coveted slice of Alpha City land — by purchasing a real-world Miami Shores villa.

This $7.7 Million Miami Mansion Comes With a Metaverse “Twin”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Kanye West's famous, 1-of-1 "Robot Face" backpack was just purchased for 50 ETH — roughly $100,000 — by an NFT collective called Elon.Space.

Crypto Project Named After Elon Musk, But Not Associated With Him, Buys Kanye West’s Backpack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Babe, wake up. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) SoundCloud audio just dropped — and the soundscapes are absolutely beautiful.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Turns James Webb Images Into Beautiful Music, Uploads It to SoundCloud

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Brands Say Everybody’s Wrong, Actually the Metaverse Looks Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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