It’s probably for the best. Time to Stop OceanGate has announced that it is suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” ABC News reports, after its Titan submersible horrendously imploded, killing all five people on board. The doomed submersible, piloted by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, was declared missing on June 18, when it lost contact less… Continue reading OceanGate Ceases Ocean Exploration Following Submersible Disaster
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Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter
Butthurt much? Threadened Twitter is threatening to sue Meta, arguing that it ripped off its platform with its “copycat” Twitter-killer app Threads. The Elon Musk-led company went as far as to accuse Meta of stealing former employees, Semafor reports, something that Meta vehemently denies. On Wednesday, Meta launched its Threads platform, a text-focused social media… Continue reading Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter
Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage
“Embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful.” Dismal Debut On Wednesday, an AI-generated Star Wars article was published on Gizmodo‘s science fiction section io9, barely a week after the site’s owner, G/O Media, announced it would be performing a “modest test” of AI content on its publications. Titled “A Chronological List of Star Wars Movies & TV Shows,” the… Continue reading Io9 Staff Horrified as Site Publishes Error-Filled AI Generated Garbage
OpenAI Pauses New ChatGPT App After People Used It to Read Paywalled Content for Free
ChatGPT is back to not knowing about anything that happened after 2021. Jumping Paywalls Less than two weeks after launching its “Browse With Bing” browser integration, OpenAI has put the kibosh on the plugin after users were able to bypass paywalls on websites with the app. In a tweet posted earlier this week, OpenAI admitted… Continue reading OpenAI Pauses New ChatGPT App After People Used It to Read Paywalled Content for Free
UN Approves Japan’s Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean
Environmental groups are outraged. Ocean Dump The United Nations has given Japan the green light to dump its troves of treated radioactive water from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. As Reuters reports, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded its two-year study into the Fukushima cooling water — which is… Continue reading UN Approves Japan’s Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean
This July 4 Was the Earth’s Hottest Day on Record
It hasn’t been this hot in over 100,000 years, some scientists suggest. Hot Ones Your grill wasn’t the only thing sizzling yesterday. In fact, this year’s July 4 was the hottest day since records began, according to climate data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. As The Washington Post reports, some scientists think yesterday… Continue reading This July 4 Was the Earth’s Hottest Day on Record
Best External Hard Drives of 2023
Backing up your computer is great practice for good digital hygiene, and keeping your important documents and photos safe on an external hard drive can make a PC crash or virus problem much less stressful. These essential tools are easily portable, affordable, and can grant you the storage space needed for a few extra files,… Continue reading Best External Hard Drives of 2023
People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI
Low-quality, AI-generated content farms designed to rake in cash via programmatic advertising revenue are cropping up at an alarming rate. And unfortunately, according to a new report by misinformation tracking company NewsGuard, their business model is working. Per the report, over 141 “blue chip” — or internationally recognized — brands are unknowingly supporting hundreds of… Continue reading People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI
Steam Is Apparently Rejecting Games Using AI Generated Assets
“The legal ownership of such AI-generated art is unclear.” Losing Steam Another heavyweight of the gaming industry seems to be wrestling with the shaky legality of generative AI. Valve, who owns the game client and storefront Steam, is reportedly stopping games that use AI-generated art assets from being sold on its massively popular platform. The… Continue reading Steam Is Apparently Rejecting Games Using AI Generated Assets
Scientists Reconstruct What You’re Looking at by Enhancing Reflection in Your Eye
Wild TV forensics are starting to look more plausible. Enhance! We may soon owe Hollywood an apology for some of its ridiculous forensics. Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed an eerie technique that can reconstruct 3D images from the reflections in your eyes, by building on a neural network model called neural radiance… Continue reading Scientists Reconstruct What You’re Looking at by Enhancing Reflection in Your Eye