Image by Getty Images If there’s one thing that most folks will remember from even just high school biology class, it’s that the mitochondria is the “powerhouse of the cell.” Why? Because it creates ATP, a cellular chemical that gives every life form on Earth, humans included, their energy. But while humans have been aware… Continue reading Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why ATP Powers All Life on Earth
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Tesla Delivering First Semi Truck to Pepsi in December, Elon Musk Says
Pepsi’s getting a Semi. Semi Delivery Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is finally delivering its first all-electric Semi truck this winter. And while Musk has made plenty of promises in the past without making good on them, this time he’s willing to name a customer — which is none other than… Continue reading Tesla Delivering First Semi Truck to Pepsi in December, Elon Musk Says
Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It
“Why don’t we love the product we’ve built so much that we use it all the time?” Now or Never Facebook parent company Meta, at the behest of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has poured billions of dollars into its Horizon Worlds, the Quest headset app that, for now, forms the backbone of the company’s metaverse efforts. But… Continue reading Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It
Elon Musk Has a Big Problem on His Hands
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s disastrous attempt to back out of an ill-advised bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion is backfiring spectacularly — and his car company Tesla could be along for the ride. According to a recent New York Times report, Musk went as far as to beg for a 30 percent discount during… Continue reading Elon Musk Has a Big Problem on His Hands
Oops! Facebook Tells Interns It Already Hired That It Can’t Afford Them Anymore
Sorry, kids! Fake News Amid reported layoffs, a hiring freeze, and its stock plummeting by an astonishing margin, Meta — Facebook’s rebranded parent company — has stumbled yet again in its efforts to balance the budget with an unusually cruel decision: withdrawing internships en masse, according to the New York Post. Bright eyed, would-be-interns with gigs… Continue reading Oops! Facebook Tells Interns It Already Hired That It Can’t Afford Them Anymore
Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name
The jokes write themselves. Hardly Joking Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take. “When I got a paper in that journal, my husband kept referring to it as my ‘penis paper,’” Western University relationship sociologist Samantha Joel tweeted. “It’s important to surround yourself with people who keep… Continue reading Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name
China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere
Described as “war dogs” that “descend from the sky.” Air Drop A video has gone viral of a large drone dropping off a gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of what the future of warfare and policing could soon look like. The footage shows a sizable octocopter drone dropping off its armed payload on a… Continue reading China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere
Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge
“We have been BAMBOOZLED.” Frogger 3D Dumpy, an Australian white frog, went viral this week for being delightfully enormous. Truly massive. An absolute unit. But sadly, Dumpy — while we still absolutely stan — isn’t actually that big. Also, he doesn’t eat bananas. Sorry, folks! Dumpy — gotta say: perfect frog name — is owned by… Continue reading Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge
Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs
As the rest of the company is mandated to work towards Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dreams, Facebook’s artificial intelligence chief is quietly building a roadmap towards “autonomous” machine intelligence. Case in point, Meta AI Chief and famed computer scientist Yann LeCun published a paper earlier this summer — and presented it last week at Berkeley — that… Continue reading Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs
Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast
Bless these humble worms. Spit Take Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms, the caterpillar larvae of the wax moths that feeds on beeswax in beehives, can quickly break down polyethylene, a material predominantly used in plastic bags that currently leads to immense waste worldwide. If the humble worms could be scaled into… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast