Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell — without, it seems, realizing the author’s well-known far-left political stance that directly contradicts his own worldview. In a Friday the 13th post, the owner of the social network formerly known as Twitter — who blames communism for why his daughter won’t… Continue reading Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist
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Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
They say never meet your heroes. But what if those heroes came in the shape of an AI chatbot designed to emulate a celebrity or literary great? Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company was bringing 28 AI chatbots to its platform, allowing its users to have one-on-one conversations with a seemingly… Continue reading Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”
Woah. Labyrinth of Night A stunning new video by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of Mars’ gigantic 2,500-miles-across Valles Marineris, the Red Planet’s equivalent of our Earth’s Grand Canyon. The flyover provides spectacular views of the canyon’s Noctis Labyrinthus — ‘labyrinth of night’ — which itself spans 740 miles. The unique system of… Continue reading Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”
Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior
“It was like, monologue!” Zoom Police AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette, apparently. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a growing number of companies are using AI bots in video meetings to mediate, transcribe, and — yes — etiquette-check participants who may be lecturing or interrupting others. Often, according to the report, the bots… Continue reading Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior
Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find
We’ll take those odds. Flipping Out All bets are off, because it turns out that flipping a coin — which is rather questionably used to tie-break elections across the world — isn’t actually a fair fifty-fifty chance. As part of a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, a small army of European researchers performed hundreds of thousands of… Continue reading Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find
Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness
Image by Getty / Futurism A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy intended to cure auditory neuropathy, a type of deafness that stops nerve impulses from making it from the inner ear to the brain. The trial, led by Cambridge University ear surgeon Manohar Bance, will involve 18… Continue reading Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness
Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable
Turn that frown upside down. Show Those Chompers Google is releasing a new AI-powered photo editing feature that will allow users to go back and force all sorts of facial expressions onto people in their pictures. Now, everyone in the unflattering group photo — regardless of how enthused they were about being having their picture… Continue reading Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable
Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage
“No f***ing way.” Summon 41 A particularly resourceful Tesla owner used the company’s “Smart Summon” feature to retrieve his Model 3 from a parking garage that had already closed for the night, leaving him stranded outside. The feature lets owners direct their cars to drive to their location, pulling their vehicles out of tight parking… Continue reading Man Uses “Smart Summon” to Get Tesla Out of Locked Parking Garage
Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them
Image by Jena Ardell/Getty Images A researcher who considered himself the “ultimate skeptic” about supplemental vitamins says that his own research ended up convincing him to reconsider his views. In an interview with Insider, Columbia aging brain researcher Adam Brickman said that until six years ago, when he and his colleagues began a study that tested whether… Continue reading Scientist Who Thought Supplements Were a Scam Changed His Mind After Studying Them
DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”
Yikes. Offensive Maneuvers The Department of Defense’s research and development agency is looking for technology that will protect against “cognitive attacks” that could — in theory — disable soldiers wearing virtual or mixed reality devices. As spotted by The Register, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced an initiative to “build tactical mixed… Continue reading DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”