More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 20)

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

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.

Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese astronauts onboard China's Tiangong Space Station are reported to have successfully hatched rice seedlings in space.

Chinese Astronauts Successfully Grow Rice Seedlings on New Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former president Donald Trump's floundering social media platform, TRUTH Social, has been banned from Google Play due to content moderation concerns.

Trump’s Failing Social Network Banned From Android App Store

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The world's most popular NFT trading platform, OpenSea, has reportedly seen a 99 percent drop in trading volume since May.

World’s Top NFT Marketplace Has Allegedly Lost 99 Percent of Its Trading Volume Since May

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After sending a Melbourne woman roughly over $7 million USD by mistake, cringe crypto exchange Crypto.com has won a lawsuit against the user.

Crypto.com Accidentally Sends Woman $7 Million, Sues Her to Get It Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study showed that feeding rats Cola-based soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi caused enough damage to their brains to cause... uh, some... stupidity.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Fed Rats Sugary Soda for Two Months and They Got Demonstrably Stupider

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from Vice, many Americans are turning to illegal, unregulated online pharmacies in order to access birth control and contraception.

Illegal Online Pharmacies for Contraceptives are Booming in Post-Roe America

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Drought-stricken California soil has, over the course of several years, been slowly releasing a meningitis-causing fungus into the air.

Climate Change Releasing Horrid Disease-Causing Fungus from California Soil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have long thought early galaxies to be chaotic, misshapen messes — but new James Webb imagery proves that theory to be completely false.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Puzzled Because James Webb Is Seeing Stuff That Shouldn’t Be There

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK's Environmental Agency announced that Britons may soon be drinking sewage water to counter the region's worsening environmental circumstances.

UK May Have to Make Peace With Drinking Water Made From Sewage, Official Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US military is saying that Russia just launched a new satellite, Kosmos 2558, in order to shadow an orbital US spy satellite. Again.

Russian Spacecraft Accused of Tailgating US Spy Satellite by Just 37 Miles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's first test of a planetary defense system — developed to deflect Earth-threatening asteroids or comets — is slated for launch in late September.

Red Alert! NASA Is About to Test Deflecting a Killer Asteroid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A scientist is attempting to build a framework for understanding "plant neurobiology," with the hope of answering the question: are plants conscious?

Science & Energy

New Experiments Examine Whether Plants Might Be Conscious Beings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

Artificial Intelligence

Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Insider, there are several silly, annoying, and/or stupid words forced upon Amazon employees by its founder and Executive Chairman, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon Makes Its Employees Use a Bunch of Stupid Made-Up Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some Tesla Model S owners are complaining that at just ten to 20,000 miles on their vehicles, their steering yokes have started to, uh... disintegrate.

Tesla’s Futuristic Steering Yokes Are Already Falling Apart, Drivers Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pennsylvania vegetable wars between Dr. Oz and John Fetterman have reached a crescendo — but was what the Oz campaign said about Fetterman's stoke true?

Dr. Oz’s Campaign Criticized for Making Fun of Opponent’s Stroke

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Binance CCO Patrick Hillman claims cybercriminals have been using a deepfake to take meetings with — and money from — a number of eager crypto projects.

Scammers Deepfake Crypto Exec to Steal Money From People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Louisiana woman has been denied abortion access, despite the fact that the fetus, diagnosed with acrania, has no skull and will die shortly after birth.

Brutal Abortion Law Forces Woman to Carry Fetus That Will Definitely Die After Birth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers may have discovered a new and effective way of stimulating and improving memory in older humans — and all they need to do is wear a headset.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say This Headset Significantly Improves Elders’ Memory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Whole Bunch of Tesla’s Lawyers Are Quitting for Some Reason

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI that predicts crime before it happens is being implemented in several US cities — but it's founder says that he forsees no police abuse of the system.

Professor Says He Foresees No Issues With His AI That Predicts Crimes Before They Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ocean Builders has unveiled the SeaPod, a rounded, two-person luxury pod home that hovers above the ocean by way of buoyant, air-filled steel tubes.

Science & Energy

Startup Selling Luxurious Homes That Poke Out of the Ocean on Stalks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The spotted lanternfly, though invasive and devastating to grape vines and fruit trees, is beautiful. But does that mean it deserves mercy?

Science & Energy

Tender New Yorkers Refuse to Kill Horrible Invasive Bug

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cursed Filter Turns Anyone Into Metaverse Mark Zuckerberg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla owner Brandon Dalaly now has a contactless, car-unlocking microchip, outfitted with a Tesla-linked app, installed in the back of his right hand.

Tesla Enthusiast Implants Car Key Inside His Flesh

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet me in the metaverse. Virtual reality dating is here, and as The New York Times reports, it's growing — and frankly, it sounds, uh, super weird.

People Are Going on Dates in the Metaverse and It Sounds Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an effort to bolster tourism, Tanzania just finished building the first installments of a high-speed internet network at Mount Kilimanjaro.

Africa’s Tallest Mountain Gets High Speed Internet So Tourists Can Post Selfies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Janet Jackson's hip-shaking 1989 hit "Rhythm Nation" was known to crash some Windows XP-era laptops — and as per an official CVE ID, it's absolutely true.

Microsoft Software Engineer Says Specific Janet Jackson Song Was Crashing Hard Drives

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One specific group of jilted Celsius investors may have found a loophole that, by some miracle, might actually help them get their money back.

People Who Lost Crypto in the Celsius Collapse Desperately Trying to Get It Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zuckerberg’s Lifeless Metaverse Avatar Is Comically Different From the One He Advertised

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the FTC, claiming that an investigation into the company has become "unduly burdensome" on Jeff Bezos and Andrew Jassy.

Jeff Bezos Says the FTC is Being Vewy Vewy Mean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's no way to sugarcoat it. Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouring billions — bot unfathomably bad.

Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This fall, Nicole Aunapu Mann will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard the SpaceX Crew-5 — making her first indigenous woman in space.

SpaceX Is about to Launch the First Ever Astronaut Who’s an Indigenous Woman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Though the company has yet to make a public announcement, embattled cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is reportedly set to make another round of layoffs.

Crypto.com Reportedly Doing More Layoffs After Promising It Wouldn’t

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Cuban, billionaire and Dallas Mavericks governor, is the target of a class action lawsuit aimed at himself and Stephen Ehrlich, CEO of Voyager Digital.

Mark Cuban Sued for Promoting Crypto Exchange That Exploded

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

UK doctors have been able to successfully change the blood type of three donor kidneys from the rarer blood type B to "universal donor" type O.

Doctors Say They’ve Figured Out How to Switch an Organ’s Blood Type

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the missing founders of bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), likely have caused the domino-like crypto market crash.

Two Blockchain Sleazebags May Have Crashed the Entire Crypto Market

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk, vocal free speech advocate, has once again proven that his self-avowed free speech absolutism far from absolute.

Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk Writes Column For Chinese State Censor’s Magazine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine is saying that he never set out to convince anyone else that LaMDA, the language modeling system, is sentient.

Fired Engineer Says He Begged Google to Test Whether Experimental AI Was Sentient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, astronauts who board a crewed mission to Mars will likely face devastating levels of radiation.

Mars Astronauts Would Get Horrifying Dose of Radiation, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Machine learning is an increasingly popular tool of scientific research, but a lot of the scientists using it might not really know what they're doing.

Machine Learning

Lazy Scientists Botching Research With Machine Learning They Don’t Understand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tired of COVID-19 precautions? So is the CDC, apparently. The new guidelines were just released, and they're shockingly lenient.

The CDC’s New COVID Guidelines Are Pretty Stupid Even by American Standards

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.

Google Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive chunk of comet was spotted crashing into our fiery Sun. And perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn't look like the rocky body didn't make it out intact.

Hey Kids, Wanna See a Giant Comet Smash Into the Sun?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers may have discovered the youngest planet in our galaxy — a planet so young that it's still shrouded in its dusty, gaseous building blocks.

Astronomers Think They Found the Youngest Planet in the Galaxy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of researchers may have developed a VR headset that actually resembles normal eyeglasses — and not, you know, heavy, oversized scuba goggles.

Virtual Reality

Researchers Develop a VR Headset That’s Barely Thicker Than a Pair of Glasses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook provided Nebraska police with private data that led to the arrest and prosecution of a teenage girl who underwent an at-home abortion.

Facebook Just Sold Out Abortion Rights to Cops in Nebraska

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos and Amazon just purchased Roomba creator iRobot for $1.7 billion. Why? Amazon probably wants to map your home.

Report: Amazon Bought Roomba to Better Creep on Your Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On Saturday, park rangers came across yet another set of human remains in Lake Mead. This is the fourth discovery of the like since May.

Rangers Keep Discovering Human Remains in Drying Up Lake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.

Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost immediately after the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex made Artemis 1 Moon misson launch tickets available to the public, the website crashed.

Website Selling Moon Mission Launch Tickets Crashed Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.

Virtual Reality

This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space Force is to deploy Ghost Robotics' Q-UGVs in order to automate "damage assessments and patrol" at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Space Force Sending in Robot Dogs to Patrol a Space Port

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark D'Amico, one of several New Jersey grifters who conned thousands of good samaritans out of over $400k, has been sentenced to five years in jail.

Dirtbag Behind Homeless Man GoFundMe Scam Sentenced to Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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