Following several high-profile UFO sightings, which are now being investigated by the Pentagon, researchers are analyzing the data — and are finding that the numbers simply aren’t adding up. Director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Sean Kirpatrick and notorious Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb have turned their sights to “highly maneuverable” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena… Continue reading Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics
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Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm
Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked. As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human “faceprints,” has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms. According to the report, Cher Scarlett, a software engineer and writer, made the discovery while searching the site for… Continue reading Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm
High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work
It’s not just the students. Truth or Dare In an ironic twist on an growing trend, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans. Shannon Ahern, a 27-year-old high school math and science teacher in Dublin, Ireland, wrote in an Insider column that although she was initially “frightened”… Continue reading High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work
General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars
What could possibly go wrong? Onboard Assistant General Motors is making use of its existing collaboration with Microsoft by exploring ways to incorporate a ChatGPT-powered assistant into its cars, Reuters reports, confirming an earlier Semafor report. “ChatGPT is going to be in everything,” GM Vice President Scott Miller told Reuters in an interview. In other… Continue reading General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars
Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places
What the hell is going on? All The Way Up Bitcoin is way, way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult in the rest of the financial world. As Decrypt notes, the cryptocurrency rose nearly 20 percent in value over the last 24 hours alone, with the price currently hovering around $24,000,… Continue reading Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places
Scientists Figured Out Why Mars’ South Pole Looks Like Swiss Cheese
In stark contrast to the rest of the planet’s rusty-red surface, Mars’ south pole is covered in bizarre, Swiss cheese-like formations. While scientists have known for a few years now what those formations are made of — layers of frozen carbon dioxide and frozen water that have been deposited over many years — researchers have had… Continue reading Scientists Figured Out Why Mars’ South Pole Looks Like Swiss Cheese
Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans
“Robots, unlike people, are spiritually incorruptible.” Crisis of Faith Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and worshippers as well as religious experts are freaked out by it. As anthropology expert Holly Waters describes in her recent piece for The Conversation, there are substantial concerns surrounding the use of robots… Continue reading Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans
Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster
Things aren’t looking great, folks. Seize Up The fallout from the government seizure of Silicon Valley Bank continued apace this weekend with the regulator-mandated shutdown of Signature Bank, which is known as a big cryptocurrency industry lender. In a jointly-released statement, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation cited the “systemic risk”… Continue reading Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster
This Bill Would Make the Four-Day Workweek a Federal Law in the US
It only makes sense. 32 Hours California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make four-day workweeks a federal mandate, something that would bring about “a significant change which will increase the happiness of humankind,” as Takano told CNBC. “Workers across the nation are collectively reimagining their relationship to labor — and our laws need… Continue reading This Bill Would Make the Four-Day Workweek a Federal Law in the US
Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain
Image by Getty / Futurism Scientists have created the first complete map of an insect’s brain and, crucially, all of the synaptic wiring that connects it together, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The resulting map is known as a connectome, and is an absolute cornerstone of neuroscience. “Now we have a… Continue reading Scientists Just Created the First Complete Map of an Insect Brain