Journalists from the newsroom weren’t allowed inside the robotaxis and were mocked for asking riders basic questions. Journalists from the newsroom weren’t allowed inside the robotaxis and were mocked for asking riders basic questions. Over the years, Tesla has built part of its reputation on hosting big, bold events to generate authentic hype for upcoming… Continue reading ‘We are the media now’: why Tesla’s robotaxis were dominated by Elon Musk superfans
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This stuff is way better than super glue (and it’s less messy)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Whether due to being dropped, misused, or aged, broken plastics are a fact of life these days. My weapon of choice in the war against waste and sending things to the landfill has been cyanoacrylate adhesive — this stuff goes by many names, such as Krazy Glue,… Continue reading This stuff is way better than super glue (and it’s less messy)
Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy
We love microlending, don’t we, folks? Unlike old-school credit cards, with their days-long approval processes and prior credit minimums, buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) apps — companies like Klarna and Afterpay — offer hard-up customers instant financing options to buy the junk they crave the instant they see it. In the United States, purchases made with these… Continue reading Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy
OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren have joined Meta’s superintelligence team. Their OpenAI Slack profiles have been deactivated. The Information first reported on the departures. It’s the latest in a series of aggressive moves by Mark… Continue reading OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Wasn’t Tesla supposed to start making a more affordable model 2 days from now?
For the better part of a year, Tesla has been promising “more affordable models” to replace the cancelled “Model 2.” The new models were supposed to go into production in the next 2 days, but it sure feels like that might not happen, because nobody’s heard anything at all about them. For several years now,… Continue reading Wasn’t Tesla supposed to start making a more affordable model 2 days from now?
Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur
We’re a happy fa-m-ily! Funky Dino Deep in the heart of Texas, a goofy-looking dinosaur skeleton has been unearthed — and it’s got a funny head that makes it look like a dead wringer for Barney, the purple lizard of 90s television fame with the annoyingly cheery voice. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the dinosaur in… Continue reading Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur
Families Get Unpleasant Surprise After Trying to Shoot Their Loved Ones’ Ashes Into Space
Hundreds of families shelled out to pay an out-of-this-world tribute to their lost loved ones — but tragically, their mortal remains ended up floating in the Pacific thanks to an error with the capsule they were riding in. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports, a capsule containing the ashes and DNA of some 166 departed souls was… Continue reading Families Get Unpleasant Surprise After Trying to Shoot Their Loved Ones’ Ashes Into Space
Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior
What can a comet tell us about the Universe? Vomit Comet Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet — possibly the largest ever discovered — and it’s spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is 85 miles in diameter, far bigger than the six-mile asteroid that ended… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior
The Economy Is So Off the Rails That They’re Trying to Figure Out How to Make Ads Specifically Targeted at AI Bots
As artificial intelligence ruins the economy and takes over the world, Google is quietly working to change the advertising game in a mind-bending way. As Semafor reports, AI has so utterly altered the way search engine advertising works that Google is now being forced to rewrite the script it forged itself. Chief among its new directives: creating… Continue reading The Economy Is So Off the Rails That They’re Trying to Figure Out How to Make Ads Specifically Targeted at AI Bots
FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector
The FBI and cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector. In a brief statement on Friday shared with TechCrunch, the FBI said it had “recently observed” cyberattacks resembling Scattered Spider to include the airline sector. Executives from Google’s cybersecurity unit Mandiant… Continue reading FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector