A huge engineering win. Unwrecking Ball A 730-ton steel ball suspended inside Taiwan’s iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the region’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week. The ball is visible to the public on the skyscraper’s 89th-floor observatory and has become a popular tourist attraction. While it’s also a beautiful object in and of… Continue reading Huge Pendulum in Skyscraper Protected It When Epic Earthquake Struck
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Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women
Bias keeps leaking out of these AI models. Asian Confusion Meta’s AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble imagining certain interracial relationships. As The Verge found, prompting the tool to come up with images like “Asian man and Caucasian friend” and “Asian man and white wife,” the app consistently generated pictures of two… Continue reading Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women
Patient Leaves Hospital as Transplanted Gene-Hacked Pig Organ Seems to Be Functioning Well
Image by Mass General Hospital/Michelle Rose Last month, surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living 62-year-old man. The unusual procedure appears to have been a resounding success, with the patient being discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. The achievement could usher in a new era,… Continue reading Patient Leaves Hospital as Transplanted Gene-Hacked Pig Organ Seems to Be Functioning Well
Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results
Even if you pay, you’ll still see ads. Search for Profit Amid a greater industry struggle to successfully monetize AI tech — thus turning billions of dollars of investment into profit — Google is reportedly looking to start charging users to use its AI-powered search results. As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering… Continue reading Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results
Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”
Wait, how was this legal?! Remain in Touch When a murder case goes cold, what happens to the victim’s body? In an eyebrow-raising report from the Mississippi Free Press, a Pascagoula Police lieutenant discovered the horrifying answer. For decades, human remains that were sent to an out-of-state crime lab weren’t being returned to Mississippi. Instead,… Continue reading Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”
Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It
“I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies.” Delete This The podcast dudes that used AI to make a fake George Carlin special have deleted the hour-long video months after being sued by the late comedian’s estate. In January, the comedy duo known as “Dudesy,” which features former… Continue reading Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It
Oregon Forced to Recriminalize Drugs After Disastrous Decriminalization Experiment
Image by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post In late 2020, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of heroin and cocaine — despite a standing federal prohibition — making their possession no longer punishable by jail time. While experts lauded the new measure at the time as a meaningful step towards dismantling the war on drugs and a way… Continue reading Oregon Forced to Recriminalize Drugs After Disastrous Decriminalization Experiment
Teenage Girls Are Taking Way More Antidepressents and Boys Are Taking Way Fewer
Image by Getty / Futurism When it comes to depression, the mental illness doesn’t discriminate. And yet a new study from the journal Pediatrics found that teenage girls are taking antidepressants at a much higher rate than teenage boys, whose usage rate has actually declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. The easy answer is to conclude is… Continue reading Teenage Girls Are Taking Way More Antidepressents and Boys Are Taking Way Fewer
Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket
Wait, are they serious? Specious Delivery Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with e-commerce platform and Alibaba-owned landfill generator Taobao to make deliveries via rocket around the world in just one hour — and to be entirely honest, the concept is so outlandish that we can’t quite tell if it’s an early April… Continue reading Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket
Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs
Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders making bombastic claims about how the tech will solve anything from climate change to genetic diseases — while celebrating the demise of the human job market. In an excoriating Monday episode of “The Daily Show,” Stewart took AI tech CEOs to task,… Continue reading Jon Stewart Skewers AI Industry for Salivating Over Replacing Jobs