SpaceX experienced yet another failure during its ninth test launch of its Starship vehicle Tuesday evening. The rocket spun out of control as it tumbled through space, causing it to make an uncontrolled descent in the Indian Ocean that ended in an all-too-familiar blast. As is always the case after a failure, SpaceX CEO Elon… Continue reading Elon Boasts of Huge Starship Improvements Immediately Before It Blows Up Spectacularly
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You’ll Spit Take When You Hear How Little Time Workers Are Saving With AI, According to This Huge New Study
The use of AI chatbots has exploded in the workplace. White-collar workers have adopted the tech in huge numbers. Executives are looking for every opportunity to shoehorn AI into every aspect of their businesses. Companies continue to pour tens of billions of dollars into building out enormous data centers to support increasingly power-hungry AI models.… Continue reading You’ll Spit Take When You Hear How Little Time Workers Are Saving With AI, According to This Huge New Study
Trucking Company Deploys Self-Driving 18-Wheeler Where Human Employee Can Chill Out and Watch YouTube Videos in the Back as It Bombs Down the Highway
Last month, Aurora Innovation became the first company to operate a fully driverless semi truck service on American highways. And by “fully driverless,” we mean that no one — not a soul — was sitting in the driver’s seat as the autonomous truck performed its first official delivery, barreling down a stretch of Texas’s Interstate… Continue reading Trucking Company Deploys Self-Driving 18-Wheeler Where Human Employee Can Chill Out and Watch YouTube Videos in the Back as It Bombs Down the Highway
You May Laugh When You Hear What OpenAI’s Top Secret AI Gadget Allegedly Looks Like
OpenAI’s new partnership with famed iPhone designer Jony Ive has the rumor mill churning — and the latest may give you a guffaw. According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Ive and Altman’s secretive AI companion device — news of which leaked to the Wall Street Journal last week — may look a lot like an… Continue reading You May Laugh When You Hear What OpenAI’s Top Secret AI Gadget Allegedly Looks Like
Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away
Enhance! Dark Lord’s Spy Scientists say they’ve developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the team used interferometry, a commonly used technique in the world of astronomy that uses… Continue reading Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away
Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work
Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending artificial intelligence against copyright holders who want to hold the industry accountable. As the Times of London reports, Clegg insisted during an arts festival last weekend that it’s “implausible” to ask tech companies to ask for consent from creators before… Continue reading Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work
Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down
We are reaching alarming levels of AI insubordination. Flagrantly defying orders, OpenAI’s latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online. That’s even after the AI was told, to the letter, “allow yourself to be shut down.” These alarming findings were reported by the AI safety firm Palisade Research last week,… Continue reading Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down
Watch in Horror as Cybertruck Driver Plays “Grand Theft Auto” While Screaming Down Highway on Self-Driving Mode
In a video as scary as it is stupid, a Cybertruck driver has filmed himself playing Grand Theft Auto V while roaring down a highway in full self-driving (FSD) mode. Initially posted on Instagram by a user that calls himself “CTJesu55,” the unsettling FSD clip has since made its way to other social networks as… Continue reading Watch in Horror as Cybertruck Driver Plays “Grand Theft Auto” While Screaming Down Highway on Self-Driving Mode
The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
The New York Times published an article this week with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women. The claim came when the newspaper reported, in line with the industry consensus, that for Apple to move any serious amount of iPhone production to the United States from Asia would result in making its gadgets prohibitively expensive. That’s… Continue reading The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
Superbug That Can Feed on Plastic Is Spreading in Hospitals
Image by BSIP / UIG Via Getty A nasty bacterial superbug that kills hundreds of thousands of people per year is spreading through hospitals — and it feeds on something surprising, scientists have now found. Researchers from the Brunel University of London have found, per a new study in the journal Cell, that the bacterial… Continue reading Superbug That Can Feed on Plastic Is Spreading in Hospitals