“It was almost unbelievable.” Wide Magnet On Christmas Day last year, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected and exceedingly rare while orbiting Mars. Specifically, it appears to have noticed the almost complete “disappearance” of solar wind, the steady trickle of charged particles coming from the Sun, in the wake of a powerful solar event,… Continue reading Mars’ Magnetosphere Suddenly Tripled in Size Last Christmas Day
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Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs
Behold our new cetacean overlord: a dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently wasn’t weird enough yet. As Live Science reports, scientists at Greece’s Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute have twice seen the morphed marine mammal when doing boat surveys in the country’s semi-enclosed Gulf of Corinth — and they’re just… Continue reading Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs
Business Insider’s Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI
German media giant Axel Springer, which owns Business Insider and Politico and many other publications, has announced a “global partnership” with ChatGPT maker OpenAI to “strengthen independent journalism in the age of artificial intelligence.” “With this partnership, ChatGPT users around the world will receive summaries of selected global news content from Axel Springer’s media brands,”… Continue reading Business Insider’s Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI
Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot
It can fondle eggs now. Optimus Prime Tesla has unveiled its second-generation Optimus humanoid robot, a marked improvement over the stiff android that awkwardly shuffled across the stage at the EV maker’s AI event last year. In a video shared on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s social media network X, Tesla’s Optimus Gen 2 can be seen… Continue reading Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot
Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters
“We intend to be making tens of thousands of calls a day by the end of the year and into the six digits pretty soon.” Political Dystopia Though this era of artificial intelligence is in its nascent stages, it already sometimes feels like we’re living in a Philip K. Dick tech dystopia, from bots that pretend to… Continue reading Pennsylvania Politician Using Talking AI Chatbot to Call Thousands of Voters
Tech CEO Accused of “Enslaving” Assistant
“A dark abyss of sexual horror.” Trigger Warning The bestselling erotic book “Fifty Shades of Grey” tells the story of a wealthy CEO with the first name Christian who enters into a ripe-for-critique relationship with a younger woman who basically signs up to be his sex slave, complete with a dominance and submission contract. But… Continue reading Tech CEO Accused of “Enslaving” Assistant
Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap
For the past two weeks, the world’s best and brightest have been meeting in Dubai — under a glittering, color-changing dome built to resemble Islamic geometric art — as the petrostate hosts the United Nations’ latest climate change conference. And experts are calling bull. In interviews with The Guardian, climate scientists and advocates said the… Continue reading Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap
SBF’s Lawyer Says He May Be the “Worst Person I’ve Ever Seen Do a Cross Examination”
“I’m not going to get myself emotionally involved on a very deep personal level in a case like this again.” Worst Behavior Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorney is apparently rethinking his career after handling the FTX pariah’s defense. In an interview with Bloomberg, Stanford Law School professor and lawyer David Mills said that the youthful crypto con was… Continue reading SBF’s Lawyer Says He May Be the “Worst Person I’ve Ever Seen Do a Cross Examination”
Amazon Caught Selling Bathroom Spy Cam Disguised as Clothes Hook
Other hidden cameras are disguised as smoke detectors and USB chargers! Evil Eye Here’s a nightmare: you’re about to take a shower when you discover that the plastic clothes hook on the wall contains a tiny camera recording your every move. That’s exactly what happened to a foreign exchange student — a minor at the time… Continue reading Amazon Caught Selling Bathroom Spy Cam Disguised as Clothes Hook
Tech CEOs Freaked Out About Sam Altman’s Firing in a Giant Group Chat
“You should be willing to fight back at least a little more.” Boys’ DM In yet another deep dive look into some of the unreported details about OpenAI’s Thanksgiving massacre, a bunch of new information has been revealed — including that the failed coup mobilized more than a hundred tech bigwigs in a WhatsApp group… Continue reading Tech CEOs Freaked Out About Sam Altman’s Firing in a Giant Group Chat