You definitely get what you pay for. Faux Pods Counterfeit products are all around us, from designer handbags and outdoor clothing to sneakers and even pharmaceuticals. And while they often closely resemble the real products they’re replicating, bootleggers usually end up making concessions out of view to keep costs low — and profit margins high.… Continue reading This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds
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Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory
Image by Getty Images For parents who are tempted to order their kids a can of Coca-Cola, a new study from researchers in South Korea and Virginia may dissuade them. The study, published in the journal Substance Use & Misuse, looked at more than 2,000 American children from the ages of nine to ten and found… Continue reading Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory
Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought
Just a teensy bit. Coming Up Short The Sun is just a tiny bit smaller than once believed, according to new research. A new study, available online as it undergoes peer review, backs up previous work that used sound waves in the Sun — essentially its seismic activity — to calculate its size, which also… Continue reading Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought
Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia
Argoland has finally been unearthed. Lost and Found About 155 million years ago, the continent of Argoland broke off from its home, the supercontinent Gondwana, drifted to the northwest, and — confoundingly — disappeared. What happened to this lost continent has long been a mystery to geologists. The main evidence of its existence lies in what’s… Continue reading Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia
A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Sigh… here we go. Silicon Screen Elon Musk is getting the Hollywood treatment. Variety reports that indie movie studio A24 has won the rights to adapt Walter Isaacson’s recent biography about the business magnate, with “Black Swan” and “Requiem for a Dream” director Darren Aronofsky slated to direct. There’s no official word on who’s playing… Continue reading A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists
But who watches the watchers? I Spy Welsh police said they used facial recognition software to scan audience members streaming into a Beyoncé Knowles-Carter concert in May to catch anybody suspected of terrorism or pedophilia, the BBC reports, in a revelation that raises questions about privacy and discrimination with the still-flawed tech. “It seemed to… Continue reading Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists
SEC Chair Says Fine, Go Ahead and Start FTX Up Again
What’s the worst that could happen? Law-Abiding Citizens The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission has said that it’s chill for FTX to be rebooted — as long as whoever does it follows the law for a change. In an interview with CNBC, SEC chair Gary Gensler responded — forgive us — bullishly to reports that former… Continue reading SEC Chair Says Fine, Go Ahead and Start FTX Up Again
AI Industry Insider Claims They Can No Longer Tell Apart Real and Fake
That’s not good. Dream Within a Dream The people building the next iteration of AI technology are growing concerned with how lifelike the next generation of generative content has already become. In an interview with Axios, an unnamed “leading AI architect” said that in private tests, experts can no longer tell whether AI-generated imagery is… Continue reading AI Industry Insider Claims They Can No Longer Tell Apart Real and Fake
AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work
Boohoo. Pay Up Having courted billions of dollars in investment and becoming an unstoppable juggernaut of hype, the generative AI industry should be sitting pretty. But it’s deathly paranoid about one thing: actually having to compensate artists for training AI models using their copyrighted work. Exemplifying those fears, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz —… Continue reading AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work
Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid
Half of homes in Europe could’ve gotten all the energy they needed from rooftop solar panels in 2020. Solar Side Up Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on their own rooftop solar panels and gotten all the energy they needed that year.… Continue reading Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid