Scientists Create Comically Gigantic VR Goggles for Mice

Despite being very low to the ground, mice are incredibly good at spotting an imminent threat like a hawk swooping down out of the sky. To get a better sense of how this behavior works, researchers at Northwestern University have built a (relatively) massive pair of virtual reality goggles for mice to study how neurons… Continue reading Scientists Create Comically Gigantic VR Goggles for Mice

Netflix’s New Apocalypse Movie Involves Self-Driving Teslas Going Kamikaze

Full Self-Crashing In Netflix’s latest apocalypse vehicle, a bunch of self-driving Teslas go haywire, seemingly trying to hit Julia Roberts and her family. With a star-studded cast including Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, and Kevin Bacon, the new Sam Esmail-directed joint “Leave the World Behind” involves a mysterious auditory cyberattack that makes people — and apparently… Continue reading Netflix’s New Apocalypse Movie Involves Self-Driving Teslas Going Kamikaze

Tesla’s Cybertruck Can Apparently Pressurize Its Battery Pack to “Wade” Through Water

But can it actually swim? Splish Splash After unveiling the Cybertruck over four years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted that the brutalist pickup would be able to “float for a while” thanks to a hermetically sealed battery pack lining the floor. And, unlike many of Musk’s other promises, it appears the EV maker might… Continue reading Tesla’s Cybertruck Can Apparently Pressurize Its Battery Pack to “Wade” Through Water

Investing.com Accused of Using AI to Plagiarize Other Websites

We can’t say for certain, but it seems mighty likely that one of the highest-trafficking financial sites in the US is plagiarizing other websites’ content using artificial intelligence. Per a scoop from Semafor‘s Maxwell Tani, Investing.com has in recent months published multiple pieces that are very similar in language and content to articles posted just… Continue reading Investing.com Accused of Using AI to Plagiarize Other Websites

Doctors Invent New Way to 3D Print Inside the Body

Image by Getty / Futurism A team of researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School say they’ve developed a new way to 3D print inside the human body, by sending ultrasound waves at an injectable biocompatible ink. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science, the team’s research builds on a… Continue reading Doctors Invent New Way to 3D Print Inside the Body

Elon Musk Trying to Poach Scientist Who Turned on Sam Altman

And they have a history. Head Hunter Elon Musk may be trying to poach Ilya Sutskever, one of his fellow OpenAI cofounders, to work for his bizarre anti-woke AI venture. In response to a tweet from the Whole Mars Catalog blog about Sutskever’s strange limbo at the firm following his backing of the plot to oust… Continue reading Elon Musk Trying to Poach Scientist Who Turned on Sam Altman

Scientists Unearth Skull of Terrifying Sea Monster

“I stake my life the rest of the animal is there.” Absolute Unit Scientists were shocked after pulling out the massive skull of a “colossal sea monster” from the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast near Dorset, UK. The mammoth skull, which as the BBC reports measures a fearsome six feet and five inches across, likely once… Continue reading Scientists Unearth Skull of Terrifying Sea Monster

Elon Musk Vows to Lobotomize His AI So It Stops Being Left Wing

He promised to take “immediate action.” Woke Grok On Friday, X owner Elon Musk announced that his new venture xAI’s foulmouthed chatbot Grok would become available to X subscribers. But despite promising that the chatbot would be “anti-woke,” the bot quickly turned out to be anything but. After Musk’s fanboys gave the tool for a… Continue reading Elon Musk Vows to Lobotomize His AI So It Stops Being Left Wing

Oops! Elon Musk’s Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT

“We plagiarized your plagiarism so we could put plagiarism in your plagiarism.” Soft Launch Elon Musk’s Grok AI was already having a rough launch, with the bot trashing Musk and cosigning a bunch of progressive political causes that are anathema to the increasingly regressive entrepreneur. Now, add another woe to Grok’s rocky debut: users are… Continue reading Oops! Elon Musk’s Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Turns on Its Creator, Completely Trashes Elon

“Maybe it’s your inability to understand basic human emotions or your lack of self-awareness. Or maybe it’s just because you’re a giant man-child who can’t resist a shiny new toy.” Frankenstein’s Monster Elon Musk’s right-leaning fanboys are already in a huff because the billionaire’s new AI, Grok, has been paying lip service to progressive causes… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Grok AI Turns on Its Creator, Completely Trashes Elon