More from Noor Al-Sibai (Page 34)

To the shock of absolutely no one, it turns out that those images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes. 
Artificial Intelligence

That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember Oumuamua, that weird and possibly-alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017? Some scientists have a boring explanation for what it was.
Off-World

Boring Scientists Say Strange “Oumuamua” Space Object Wasn’t Alien, Just Gassy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tired of pesky subscriptions that make it near-impossible to cancel? That practice may become illegal, thanks to a new FTC rule proposal that just dropped.
Future Society

Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being nice, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots in Greenwich Village.
Robotics

Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" forever — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Apparently Made a Stupid Engineering Decision That’s Kneecapped Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises

By Noor Al-Sibai

Given that the sun rises and sets 16 times per day on the ISS, it may be kind of difficult for Muslim astronaut Sultan Alneyadi to fast during Ramadan.
Off-World

During Ramadan, Muslims Fast From Sunrise to Sunset. A Muslim Astronaut Will Experience 16 Per Day.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply.
Brain Implants

Grimes Using Custom Brain Interface From Elon Musk Competitor

By Noor Al-Sibai

After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake.
Science & Energy

Bizarrely, Los Angeles County Just Got Hit By a Tornado

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts asked GPT-4 100 leading prompts about conspiracy theories — and, shockingly, the chatbot didn't push back against any of them.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and it was the James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. 
James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System

By Noor Al-Sibai

The latest Big Tech chatbot, the Bard AI by Google, just dropped, and there seems to be something kind of funny going on with it. 
Google

Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images

By Noor Al-Sibai

With a silly name and an even sillier startup cost, Stanford's Alpaca ChatGPT clone costs only $600 and shows how easy OpenAI's may be to replicate.
OpenAI

Stanford Scientists Pretty Much Cloned OpenAI’s GPT for a Measly $600

By Noor Al-Sibai

Every reporter's worst nightmare came to life for one Ecuadorian journalist when he plugged a USB device into his computer and it exploded in the newsroom.
Robots and Machines

Journalist Gets USB Drive, Turns Out to Be a Bomb That Explodes When He Plugs It In

By Noor Al-Sibai

The White House is more irked with Elon Musk than ever after a selfie of him with a Russian propagandist ended up online.
Off-World

White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk’s Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist

By Noor Al-Sibai

People are using AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested by the NYPD before it actually happens, because that's the world we live in now.
Artificial Intelligence

People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in a river n Australia that millions of fish have turned up on its shores — but don't worry, everything's fine.
Climate Change

Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's an old joke in the bisexual community that goes: "How can you tell if someone is bisexual? Don't worry, they'll tell you."
Developments

Scientists Tested Whether People Could Identify Bisexual Men by Listening to Their Voices, and the Results Were Hilarious

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's not over just yet, but we're almost there, the United Nations' IPCC watchdog group has said in its latest anxiety-inspiring report.
Climate Change

Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some scientists have made fancy space concrete out of potato starch — and it works much better thank building bricks out of blood and urine to work.
Mars

Scientists Propose Mars Settlers Live in Potato-Based Structures

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat
Elon Musk

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rolls-Royce Will Be Building a Nuclear Reactor for the Moon
Moon

Rolls-Royce Will Be Building a Nuclear Reactor for the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

MIT students have dreamed up a lunar colony-building robot that's part spider and part worm — and looks 100% creepy as heck.
Robotics

MIT Students Built a Terrifying Mix-and-Match Spider Robot to Build Lunar Colonies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pandemic Wasn’t So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study
Mental Health

Pandemic Wasn’t So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of philosophers sounded the alarm on the dystopian applications they see being ushered in by brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
Computers

Experts Warn: Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Usher In the Singularity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Canada’s New Space Agency Logo Is Very Awesome (and Very Canadian)
Off-World

Canada’s New Space Agency Logo Is Very Awesome (and Very Canadian)

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup co-founded by a SpaceX alum plans to jumpstart the future of space manufacturing with its orbital pharmaceutical lab run by robots.
Space

Startup Wants to Use Robots to Make Drugs in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It
Drones

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Virgin Orbit's financial woes have apparently deepened to the point that it has reportedly had to furlough its staff while looking for new money.
Off-World

Virgin’s Satellite Launch Company Is in Deep Financial Doo-Doo

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's most respected physicists has proposed a devilishly simple bargain: that we're living in a multiverse, and he'd bet his dog on it.
Science & Energy

Famed Astronomer Willing to Bet His Dog’s Life That We’re Living in a Multiverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's finally happened — scientists have brought about the birth of baby mammals using stem cells from two males to create lab-made eggs. 
Gene Editing

Scientists Create Litter of Mice From Two Male Fathers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Axiom Space showed off a prototype of its brand new spacesuit today — a design created by the costume designer of the hit sci-fi show "For All Mankind."
Moon

NASA Debuts Its Brand New Sci-Fi-Inspired Moonsuit — But It’s a Rental

By Noor Al-Sibai

A weird bug is allowing Tesla owners to drive off with somebody else's Tesla by using the EV maker's bespoke smartphone app.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Freaked Out After App Allows Him to Drive Off With the Wrong Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.
OpenAI

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.
Future Society

CEO: Matthew McConaughey’s Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants

By Noor Al-Sibai

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places

By Noor Al-Sibai

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it. 
Robotics

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

By Noor Al-Sibai

Financial regulators have shut down Signature Bank, which was known for letting people make deposits via crypto, in an effort to stem a wider banking crash.
Cryptocurrency

Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

The space arms race is continuing along, as indicated by recent statements from the US Space Force about its current posturing toward China and Russia.
Space Force

US Space Force Says It’s “Under Threat” and in “Perpetual Competition” With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Robotics

Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Art lovers are understandably peeved at an art exhibit in The Hague after one artist used AI to recreate Veermeer's masterpiece "Girl With a Pearl Earring."
Artificial Intelligence

Lazy Artists Use AI to Rip Off Famous Dutch Painting for Museum Exhibition

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German Microsoft executive, for some reason, is claiming that OpenAI will drop GPT-4, its follow-up to the powerful GPT-3, "next week."
OpenAI

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

By Noor Al-Sibai

College admissions are at an all-time low in the wake of COVID-19 because it seems, would-be students don't think it's worth the money anymore.
Future Society

A Shocking Percentage of High School Graduates Are Absolutely Refusing to Go to College

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform and had to apologize later.
Elon Musk

Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of Johns Hopkins economics experts eviscerated the crypto industry and equated it to cocaine in a scathing anti-regulation takedown. 
Cryptocurrency

Economists Compare Crypto to “Cocaine” in Scathing Takedown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today. 
Artificial Intelligence

Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to one conspiracy-minded Congressional Republican, there's a chance that his employer is reverse-engineering alien technology salvaged from UFOs. 
Off-World

Congressman Claims the US Government Has “Reverse-Engineered” Alien Tech from UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient "zombie" viruses found in permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change's freakiest eventualities.
Viruses

We’re Totally OK With This 48,500 Year Old “Zombie” Virus Being Resurrected

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook's new artificial intelligence model for researchers and governments has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan. 
OpenAI

Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan

By Noor Al-Sibai

We're closer than ever to a dystopian future where corporations can read our thoughts without our permission using brain-computer interfaces.
Future Society

Legal Expert Proposes “Cognitive Liberty” to Avoid Corporate Brain Spying

By Noor Al-Sibai

After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Finally Relents and Apologizes for Mocking Disabled Twitter Ex-Employee

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.
Moon

NASA Says It’ll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have quantified why people are afraid of clowns — and their findings kind of take the air out of this common fear. 
Health & Medicine

Scientists Investigated Why Clowns Are So Terrifying and [Sinister Circus Music Plays]

By Noor Al-Sibai

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there.
Artificial Intelligence

HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns. 
Off-World

Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction

By Noor Al-Sibai

In spite of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, Bruce Willis' wife is saying that people are still accosting him in public.
Neuroscience and Brain

Paparazzi Won’t Stop Harassing Bruce Willis Even Though He Has Dementia

By Noor Al-Sibai

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.
NASA

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Toilet Paper Contains Toxic “Forever” Chemicals

By Noor Al-Sibai

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots. 
Artificial Intelligence

Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

By Noor Al-Sibai