Oops! Beep! Beep! In an apparent attempt to turn off a beeping noise he allegedly deemed annoying, a janitor turned off the breaker to a freezer that contained extremely valuable cell cultures, samples, and other research. The freezer, which was set to minus-112 degrees Fahrenheit, as the Times Union reports, warmed up to a catastrophic… Continue reading Janitor Attempts to Turn Off Beeping Noise, Destroys Decades of Scientific Research
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OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub
New evidence continues to strongly suggest that OceanGate’s submersible, which catastrophically imploded and killed all five passengers on its way to the wreck of the Titanic last week, unfit for the journey. Arnie Weissman, editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, initially agreed to join the June expedition, the Washington Post reports, but backed out at the last… Continue reading OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub
Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy
“The Grammy will go to human creators at this point.” Music to Our Ears The man in charge of the Recording Academy’s Grammy Awards just laid out some AI guidelines for the upcoming awards season. And though these guidelines are pretty muddled — okay, extremely muddled — he did say that the coveted awards will, for… Continue reading Rejoice, Drake! AI Barred From Winning a Grammy
Scientists Gave a Nazi MDMA and He Renounced Racism
Image by Getty Images A white supremacist took the party drug MDMA as part of a controlled science experiment, the BBC reports, and it proved so life-changing that he dropped his racist, bigoted beliefs. “This is stuff you can’t really put into words, but it was so profound,” the now former white supremacist identified as… Continue reading Scientists Gave a Nazi MDMA and He Renounced Racism
Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist
That’s it?? Time Out Steven Schwartz, the lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations as precedents while attempting to argue a federal court case, has officially been punished by the court. As Ars Technica reports, US District Judge Kevin Castel has ordered Schwartz and his partner Peter LoDuca to pay a $5,000 fine. The original lawsuit… Continue reading Lawyer Who Got in Trouble for Using ChatGPT Gets Away With Slap on the Wrist
Space Probe Takes Stunning Close Up Images of Mercury
What a hunk. Warts and All The BepiColombo mission, a joint European-Japanese effort, has recently completed its third of six planned flybys of Mercury, capturing dozens of images in the process. Three of those images, released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday, show the mission’s probe approaching and leaving the planet, revealing Mercury’s… Continue reading Space Probe Takes Stunning Close Up Images of Mercury
Domino’s Used a Jetpack to Deliver a Pizza at a Music Festival
“I’ve never seen a jet suit, let alone one delivering pizzas.” Rocket Man Domino’s just delivered a pizza — by jetpack. As The Independent reports, Domino’s made the unconventional delivery at the famous Glastonbury music festival in England. And in what was definitely not an accident, the stunt coincided with “Rocket Man” singer Elton John’s… Continue reading Domino’s Used a Jetpack to Deliver a Pizza at a Music Festival
What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images
Absolutely stunning. New Look Mars Mars looks a whole lot different and downright beautiful in new ultraviolet images shared by NASA. Instead of Mars’ dusty red color we are all familiar with, these two UV images originally taken by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in July 2022 and January 2023, bathe the fourth planet from the Sun… Continue reading What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images
Elon and Zuck “Absolutely Dead Serious” About Cage Fighting, UFC Boss Confirms
“This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, bigger than anything that’s ever been done.” On Like Donkey Kong Two of the world’s richest, most powerful tech billionaires, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have both publicly claimed that they’re willing to fight each other… Continue reading Elon and Zuck “Absolutely Dead Serious” About Cage Fighting, UFC Boss Confirms
We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest
It even caused sea levels to rise. Spin Doctors Over less than 20 years, humans extracted so much groundwater that it changed the tilt of the entire planet and even caused sea levels to rise, a new study suggests. Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a new study by a team of researchers at South… Continue reading We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest