Zuck doesn’t want to get left behind. Second Wind As OpenAI and Google sprint ahead in the ongoing Silicon Valley AI race, Meta — yes, the company that renamed itself just three years ago to go all in on the prior tech craze of the metaverse — appears more determined than ever to catch up.… Continue reading Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI
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Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Body Parts From Harvard Morgue
Image by East Pennsboro Township Police Department A member of a network of gruesome individuals has pleaded guilty to procuring and selling body parts, some sourced from the morgue at Harvard Medical School. In a press release, the US District Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 41-year-old man named Jeremy… Continue reading Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Body Parts From Harvard Morgue
Bill Gates Says Elon Musk’s Reasoning on Mars and Electric Cars Is Flawed
The kids are fighting again. Going Overboard Microsoft co-founer and philanthropist Bill Gates has a complicated relationship with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In his hotly-anticipated upcoming book titled “Elon Musk,” serial biographer Walter Isaacson details how Gates became disillusioned with Musk’s ongoing efforts to colonize Mars and leave a doomed Earth behind. “I’m not a… Continue reading Bill Gates Says Elon Musk’s Reasoning on Mars and Electric Cars Is Flawed
Another Brand of Electric Trucks Keeps Catching on Fire
Its stock is in freefall. Truck Fire Hydrogen and electric truck maker Nikola Motor is running into some serious issues with its battery-powered trucks. As Reuters reports, a pre-production version of one of the company’s semi truck caught fire near Nikola’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona last week, the second incident involving the company’s trucks within… Continue reading Another Brand of Electric Trucks Keeps Catching on Fire
Scientists Says Those Interstellar Debris May Be Something Totally Different
Okay, that’s an interesting theory. Debunk Science Harvard’s resident alien hunter believes he’s found evidence of something from outside our Solar System at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean — but one of his fellow scientists isn’t convinced. In a detailed takedown published by The Conversation, British planetary scientist Monica Grady wrote that the conclusions… Continue reading Scientists Says Those Interstellar Debris May Be Something Totally Different
Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto
Hindsight is 20/20. Margin Call It’s been just over a year since last summer’s crypto crashes, and investors who lost out are still licking their wounds. One young crypto enthusiast, 22-year-old software engineer Ethan Nguonly, reflected on his crypto losses to CNBC this week, explaining to the broadcaster that back in 2021, he invested —… Continue reading Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto
Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest
“It could change the dynamics of lithium globally…” Struck Gold In the race to hoard lithium, a metal crucial for creating the batteries that power electric vehicles, the US may have fortuitously stumbled on the world’s biggest deposit yet. A new study, published in the journal Science Advances, estimates that the McDermitt Caldera, a volcanic… Continue reading Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest
Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus
Interesting name choice. Name Game Thought you were up to date on the drama surrounding international busy guy Elon Musk’s ever-expanding brood of offspring? Well, you’d be wrong. A new revelation from biographer Walter Isaacson’s upcoming book about Musk, courtesy of a new review in the New York Times: he has a third child with… Continue reading Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus
Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage
Image by Rapeepong Puttakumwong via Getty Images Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so, in fact, that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the US is experiencing a scarcity of polyethylene glycol 3350, the pharmaceutical powering name-brand products like Miralax… Continue reading Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage
People Are “Fishing” by Just Throwing Dynamite in the Water
In what may be a resurgence of an outdated and wasteful custom, people in fishing towns are launching dynamite into the water — to catch fish. As The Guardian reports, this method known as “blast fishing” is illegal in most parts of the world, including the waters around the island country of Sri Lanka, where an uptick… Continue reading People Are “Fishing” by Just Throwing Dynamite in the Water