Frank Landymore

Under a Rock A cave that's been closed off to human visitors for 30 years has been found to contain high concentrations of microplastics — and that should worry you. Such were the findings of a pair of new studies, the most recent of which was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, […]

Hell hath no fury like a writer scorned. ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been on the receiving end of two high profile lawsuits by authors who are absolutely livid that the AI startup used their writing to train its large language models, flaunting copyright laws and any form of compensation. One of the lawsuits, led by […]

Outcheat the Cheat ChatGPT has become the go-to cheating tool for lousy students. And that potentially means trouble for the essay ghostwriters that cash in on the hundreds of thousands of college students willing to eschew academic integrity for a better grade, reports The Walrus. Indeed, OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot, and generative AIs in general, may […]

An historic black hole just made history again: it's now the first ever to be observed spinning. Forming the center of its galaxy 55 million light years away, the supermassive black hole M87 was the first to ever be imaged back in 2019, producing a now iconic picture. Since then, astronomers have plowed through more […]

Wake Up Call French authorities just raided the offices of Nvidia, one of the world's foremost computer chip manufacturers. On Wednesday, the French Competition Authority (FCA) announced that it had raided a company in the "graphics cards sector," but did not specify which one. Since then, multiple outlets have confirmed that the target was Nvidia. […]

Help Needed Elon Musk paid a visit to the US-Mexico border on Thursday evening, but his attempt to livestream the occasion on his platform Twitter-now-known-as-X didn't quite go as planned. The centi-billionaire has reignited his obsession with immigration as of late, promising earlier this week to visit the Texan border town of Eagle Pass "to […]

Meta-formerly-Facebook just unveiled its new model of Ray-Ban smart glasses, and as you might expect, they're a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Awkwardly announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, these new pieces of facewear, officially called an unwieldy "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses," are a follow-up to the dismal flop Ray-Ban Stories, and with its […]

Mark Zuckerberg's cartoonish metaverse that we all so relentlessly bullied may be shaping up to be something truly impressive. On Thursday, podcaster and noted tech guy sycophant Lex Fridman released what he calls the "first interview in the Metaverse," where he and the Meta CEO have a conversation in VR through their astoundingly lifelike avatars. […]

Cone of Silence A new speaker can rearrange its seven "self-deploying" microphones to partition a room into so-called speech zones, allowing it to track the position of and identify different voices, even as they move. Even better, the researchers behind the invention say this pinpoint localization allows them to not only separate simultaneous conversations, but […]

Keep your gums and chompers spick and span, folks, because research suggests that bad dental health is associated with a greater risk of mental health decline. In fact, there's a growing body of evidence that shows that dental health may affect your risk of dementia, reports The Washington Post. "People should really be aware that […]