Here’s how to get an invite. Blue Skies Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky. A quick search reveals countless accounts giving away or begging for invites. The app, now available on both Android and iOS, is only accepting new users via either a… Continue reading People Are Flocking to Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative
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Pentagon Official Breaks Down UFO Video “Frame-By-Frame” Before Congress
“Why am I showing you this?” Anomalies In mostly overlooked testimony, a ranking Pentagon official explained to Congress just how strange the military’s UFO videos can be. As Fox News reports, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told a Senate subcommittee that although the Defense Department hasn’t yet found “credible… Continue reading Pentagon Official Breaks Down UFO Video “Frame-By-Frame” Before Congress
Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth
Image by Augmental Technologies From the department of extremely cool innovations, design publication Core77 reports that the San Francisco-based firm Augmental Technologies has invented a Bluetooth mouse designed to be worn inside a user’s mouth. Per Core77, the device — which is essentially worn like a mouthguard — is dubbed the MouthPad, and was created… Continue reading Tongue-Controlled Bluetooth Mouse Lives Inside Your Mouth
Twitter Apparently Ignored Its Chance to Stop a Kidnapping
Over a span of roughly two months, NBC News reports, Twitter and law enforcement failed to intervene while a 13-year-old boy was being publicly groomed by a 26-year-old adult on the social media platform. The exchanges eventually led to an abduction, according to prosecutors, with the boy reportedly being driven across state lines and sexually… Continue reading Twitter Apparently Ignored Its Chance to Stop a Kidnapping
Coinbase Is Suing the SEC
How the tables have turned. What’s It Gonna Be? Publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), CNBC reports. With its suit, Coinbase is urging the regulatory arm to publicize its response to a separate petition, which it filed back in July 2022, requesting the SEC to “propose… Continue reading Coinbase Is Suing the SEC
Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial
“Like family, but with more cheese.” Pepperoni Hug Spot A mind-bending, AI-generated pizza restaurant commercial is seriously messing with our brains. The 30-second clip, which went viral on the subreddit r/oddlyterrifying this week, advertises a made-up franchise called “Pepperoni Hug Spot” where all your cheesy pepperoni dreams come true. “Are you ready for best pizza of… Continue reading Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial
First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot
Image by Getty / Futurism A Spanish startup has built a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller. The team successfully used it to fertilize human eggs, eventually resulting in the birth of two healthy babies. As MIT Technology Review reports, one of the engineers working on the world’s first insemination robot… Continue reading First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot
Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder
Why. Another One Rumor has it that Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has yet another burner account on Twitter. And no, we’re not surprised. Just disappointed. To recap: on Monday, the Musk-owned social media site was ablaze with the discovery of an account dubbed Elon Test, which — circumstantially — strongly appears to… Continue reading Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder
Bill Gates Says AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read in 18 Months
“The AIs will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could.” Read My Lips It appears that one of the world’s foremost tech billionaires is going all in on artificial intelligence. As CNBC reports, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates predicted that during the next few years, AIs will “be… Continue reading Bill Gates Says AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read in 18 Months
These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI
Amazon is flooding with AI reviews… and there’s an easy way to spot them. Five Stars A tsunami of phony AI-generated reviews is making a huge mess on Amazon right now. In addition to the shill reviews that have dogged the site for years, sellers are using tools like ChatGPT to flood the e-commerce platform… Continue reading These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI