Frank Landymore

Sperm whales reacted to being attacked by a pod of vicious orcas by doing what anyone else would in their shoes: shitting themselves violently. Observed by scientists on a tourist expedition off the southern coast of Western Australia, the distressed pod of sperm whales — which are themselves fearsome predators, mind you — unleashed a […]

The next machine to explore alien worlds may not roll, but slither. NASA is currently testing a snake-like robot that its engineers hope will one day be deployed into the oceans of Saturn's moon Enceladus, in search of possible signs of life in its frigid depths. Dubbed the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), the over […]

Researchers have developed a robot that can anticipate your smile and return it almost instantly. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Robotics, is intended to help human-looking robots act more naturally. Named "Emo," the bot can predict your smile about 840 milliseconds before it actually appears. Then just as the smile […]

Researchers have developed a robot that can anticipate your smile and return it almost instantly. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Robotics, is intended to help human-looking robots act more naturally. Named "Emo," the bot can predict your smile about 840 milliseconds before it actually appears. Then just as the smile […]

By now, it seems clear that the hype around generative AI is overblown — if not a bubble that's bound to burst. Some businesses who went all in on the tech, though, are learning that the hard way, Axios reports. The tech's drawbacks are hard to overlook. Large language models like ChatGPT are prone to […]

Double Dealing X, formerly Twitter, has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government for greater transparency on its surveillance practices on the platform. The lawsuit continued under Elon Musk after he took over in 2022. When the Supreme Court eventually struck down the suit in […]

Amazon has been a huge staging ground for the proliferation of AI-generated spam. In fact, as we noticed earlier this year, its marketplace has already started to fill up with shoddy AI-generated listings — at the same time, of course, that Amazon itself is working on the same tech. Now, the consequences of this AI […]

Some would have you worrying about an AI apocalypse à la The Terminator or The Matrix. A new report, however, warns of another catastrophe caused by the tech that's much more immediate and mundane: a "jobs apocalypse." According to the report from Institute for Public Policy Research, up to 8 million jobs in the United […]

New research has found a worrying link to memory loss and tanking grades in students who relied on ChatGPT, in what is a much needed exploration of the swift impact that large language models have had in education that may be impossible to reverse. As detailed in a new study, published in the International Journal […]

Whatever you think of Twitter, now X, over a year after Elon Musk's takeover — whether, perhaps, you think inescapable porn bot spam and paid for blue check reply guys are worth enduring — the numbers tell a dismal story. NBC News reports that a mix of new data shows that the amount of daily […]