More from Noor Al-Sibai (Page 28)

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can.

Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots may, as new research suggests, be able to infer information about you based on small things you mention to them.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Announcing a solid-state battery partnership, Toyota displayed the sand-like electrolyte in a glass vessel that looks like a butt plug.

Science & Energy

Toyota Put This Fascinating Photo in a Press Release About Electric Vehicles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humans have always decided what happens to animals without the creatures themselves having a vote. What if that changed?

Science & Energy

Lawyer Suggests Giving Animals the Right to Vote

By Noor Al-Sibai

Adobe has unveiled a sparkling, interactive dress — and got the research scientist who created it to model the high-tech couture.

Adobe Shows Off Dress That Can Change Its Pattern on the Fly

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell – without acknowledging the writer's well-known political stance.

Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before.

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

By Noor Al-Sibai

A researcher who considers himself "the ultimate skeptic" was convinced by his own research that taking supplements is good, actually.

Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.

Virtual Reality

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A document penned by former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried has come to light — and reader, it is absolutely buckwild.

You Have Got To See This Unhinged SBF Memo

By Noor Al-Sibai

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it.

The IRS Says Microsoft Owes More in Back Taxes Than It Invested in OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A week after setting a world record for being the oldest person to skydive, a Chicago woman died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 104.

104-Year-Old Dies Days After Skydiving From Airplane

By Noor Al-Sibai

A public employee in Washington State is suing to get her health insurer to cover Wegovy, the expensive, headline-grabbing weight loss med.

RX and Medicine

Woman Sues to Get Wegovy Covered by Her Health Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.

Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe

By Noor Al-Sibai

SBF's former colleague and romantic partner Caroline Ellison says that her ex had what seems to be a pretty skewed moral compass.

Caroline Ellison Testifies That SBF’s Strange Philosophy Justified Lying and Stealing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, clearly came to court with guns blazing.

Caroline Ellison Says Sam Bankman-Fried “Directed” Her to Commit Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

The food industry is apparently in a tizzy over the appetite-suppressing semaglutide — and even the megastore Walmart is feeling the burn.

Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk hopes that SpaceX's Starship won't explode again next time it attempts to launch into orbit — but he's tempering his expectations.

Elon Musk Expresses Hope Starship Won’t Explode Next Time He Launches It

By Noor Al-Sibai

DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies report is far more surprising than expected.

DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents’ Secrets

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found a sad but unsurprising statistic: that nearly 10% of folks who use AI chatbots are doing so for horny purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.

Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have long known that Mercury shrank — but new research suggests that that process is ongoing, and leaving wrinkles behind.

Mercury Has Wrinkles Because It’s Shrinking, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

You can now purchase an NFT of Starbucks' famous pumpkin spice latte, though of course, you won't be able to taste it.

Starbucks Is Now Selling Pumpkin Spice NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to rush off the selves, snack industry investors are concerned about its appetite suppressing qualities.

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

FTX employees stumbled upon a line of code that gave the company special privileges — and then one of them got fired.

Months Before Collapse, FTX Employees Discovered a Mysterious Backdoor

By Noor Al-Sibai

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried strongly suggests that the disgraced FTX founder, now on trial for fraud, was a bad boyfriend.

Sam Bankman-Fried Apparently Told Caroline Ellison That “In a Lot of Ways I Don’t Really Have a Soul”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

By Noor Al-Sibai

A perfectly-timed SBF biography reveals strange stories about the disgraced crypto czar, including unknown details about his killer pup.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Dog Apparently Is Trained to Kill, But He Doesn’t Know the Command

By Noor Al-Sibai

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it.

Artificial Intelligence

Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is once again being sued for discrimination over alleged racist displays and retaliation at its California factories.

Tesla Factory Accused of Displaying Swastikas and Other Racist Material

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has had it up to here with artificial intelligence used to mimic her father's voice in films.

Artificial Intelligence

Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by Efforts to Bring Her Dad Back With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems scammers who use AI to mimic writers are getting smarter after a journalist found a book that bore a strong resemblance to his own.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a super-tall dust devil on the Red Planet — and the agency has released the footage, y'all.

NASA’s Mars Rover Spots Super-Tall Dust Devil

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean judge has for the first time in that country's history sent down a sentence related to AI-generated child abuse images.

Artificial Intelligence

South Korea Sentences Man for Creating Child Abuse Images Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter's new-ish CEO didn't have the X app on her iPhone home screen when she showed it to a crowd last week.

The CEO of X Doesn’t Have X on Her Home Screen

By Noor Al-Sibai

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists have finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia.

Science & Energy

Scientists Map Sunken Eighth Continent

By Noor Al-Sibai

An aging research center formerly used by NASA is polluting the Los Angeles River and the farms that draw water from it.

Former NASA Lab Accused of Leaking Toxic Chemicals Into LA River

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investigation has revealed that the camera on an UberEats delivery robot has been used to convict two men of trying to steal said robot.

Dudes Arrested for Trying to Steal Entire Uber Eats Delivery Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Disgraced crypto scion Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial is about to start heating up — and the judge has a stark warning for the FTX founder.

Judge Warns Sam Bankman-Fried He’s Facing a “Very Long Sentence”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozempic, the uber-popular injectable diabetes drug, has had to update its potential side effect warnings to include intestinal blockage.

RX and Medicine

The FDA Says Ozempic Might Block Your Intestines

By Noor Al-Sibai

Learning you're fired via tweet is one thing — but learning that you're about to take over as Twitter CEO from an Elon Musk post is another entirely.

Elon Musk Didn’t Bother Telling Twitter’s New CEO She Was Hired Before Announcing It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers are arguing in a new paper that disco balls should be placed in universities and scientific facilities.

Astronomers Call for More Disco Balls at Scientific Facilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

The world's land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant desert supercontinent.

Scientists Say Earth Will Become a Barren Wasteland

By Noor Al-Sibai

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they have developed a drug that can trick the body into thinking it has exercised — but as always, there are caveats.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Drug That Mimics the Effects of Exercise in Mice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Binance was left to clean up the mess last fall when FTX crashed — but now, the world's biggest crypto exchange is itself falling apart.

The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Appears to Be Melting Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alabama wants to use an experimental execution technique on one of its death row inmates — and the inmate in question is fighting back.

Alabama Prisoner Protests Being Test Subject for New Execution Technique

By Noor Al-Sibai

Government officials in Iran are looking to modernize by using artificial intelligence to help clerics issue fatwas.

Artificial Intelligence

Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Hitler beetle," Anophthalmus hitleri, is close to extinction as neo-Nazis keep snatching specimens up as collectors' items.

Science & Energy

Beetle Named After Hitler Being Driven to Extinction by Neo-Nazis Collecting It

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian woman has pleaded guilty after being caught flying a drone filled with contraband into a prison yard.

Woman Pleads Guilty for Flying Drug- and Porn-Laden Drone Into Prison

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it's not a glitch — it's the app's expensive new subscription plan.

Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is, as anecdotes from Walter Isaacson's bombastic new biography illustrate, apparently a huge crybaby.

Elon Musk Apparently Bursts Into Tears With Surprising Frequency

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pastor in Austin used ChatGPT to write a sermon as he grapples with whether robots can be used to channel God.

Texas Pastor Defends Using ChatGPT to Write “Shotgun Sermon”

By Noor Al-Sibai

If killing X-formerly-Twitter was always Elon Musk's plan, he might soon be successful if he starts charging everyone to use it.

Elon Musk May Actually Kill Twitter For Real This Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Marines have somehow lost an F-35 fighter jet that may have continued to cruise around on autopilot after its human operator was ejected.

Advanced Transport

US Marines Lose $80 Million Stealth Fighter Jet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lights on Venus that scientists thought were from lightning may be something else entirely, a new study has found.

Scientists Stumped by Mysterious Flashes of Light on Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced its first-ever UFO czar after initially declining to name him out of concerns for his safety.

NASA Releases Name of Its First-Ever “UFO Czar” After Threats

By Noor Al-Sibai

Flying hubcaps are not part of the Cybertruck's tech specs, but that seems to be what happened to one beta driver in California.

Advanced Transport

Piece Comes Flying Off Cybertruck While Driving

By Noor Al-Sibai

Archaeologists were affronted to discover that billionaires had sent ancient hominin bones up on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight.

Paleontologists Furious When Ancient Human Fossils Blasted to Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone got an AI art generator to copy the illustration style of Tim Burton — and the director himself is having none of it.

Artificial Intelligence

Tim Burton Horrified by AI-Generated Art That Copies His Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

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