Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown “T-Rex Leather” Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable
In April, Polish fashion brand Enfin Levé dropped a bombshell straight from the late cretaceous period: a handbag they claim...
Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating
For 133 years, Princeton University allowed students to take their exams without a proctor — a unusual situation resulting from...
Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find
The 19th century German economist Karl Marx identified a basic tension in human labor: squeeze workers too hard, and they’ll...
Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor
Gene therapy — attempting to help a patient by modifying a gene expression in their body, basically — has shown...
College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio
In Taiwan, a 23-year-old college student is in hot water after hacking the country’s high speed rail system with a...
Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work
On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the hood, employees...
Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation
Is your dentist upselling you on something? Does your old filling really need to be replaced, and is that tooth...
Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus
Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it’s permanently shrouded in a thick and nigh-impenetrable...
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast. Swirling with...
Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that your doctor...
Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of...
Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet
If you’ve ever tried to quit cigarettes, you know that nicotine addiction is ridiculously difficult to beat. A full two-thirds...
Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals
For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals like salamanders...
These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome
You know when you’re in a noisy bar, trying to have a conversation, but you’re missing every other word because...
Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a programmer realizes he’s living in an invisible cage, mediated by algorithms...
