Frank Landymore

Space may be boundless, but the increasingly cluttered orbital real estate where we like to cram all our satellites is not. And so as we enter a golden age of commercial spaceflight, those of us on terra firma may not be able to write-off death by falling space junk as an astronomically remote implausibility for […]

Tech Takedown Generative AI's potential to allow bad actors to effortlessly impersonate you is the stuff of nightmares. To combat this, YouTube, the world's largest video platform, is now giving people the ability to request the removal of AI-generated content that imitates their appearance or voice, which expands on its light guardrails on the technology. […]

Disease Control AI models may be trained on the entire corpus of humanity's writing, but their vocabulary, it turns out, can be rather limited. A new pre-print study, spotted by Ars Technica, adds to the understanding that large language models tend to overuse certain words that can give their origins away. But, in a novel […]

  Are you ready for an AI-automated future? Because, if not: your landlords are. It hasn't quite taken the real estate world by storm yet, but, as The New York Times reports, some property managers are using AI chatbots to handle the inquiries — and complaints — of their tenants, both existing and prospective. Like […]

The remarkable James Webb Space Telescope has been used to image the furthest reaches of the cosmos. But now, astronomers have leveraged its immense powers on a target far closer to home, Jupiter — and in so doing, they've found mysterious features and structures on the surface of the gas giant that have never been […]

Flow State Our fight against climate change is getting desperate. We may be on our way to a renewables-powered future, but until then, immediate solutions are needed to contend with soaring temperatures and rising sea levels. That has scientists considering ambitious large-scale projects to engineer the climate in our favor, such as reducing the sunlight […]

Back to the Future Beloved Hollywood filmmaker Robert Zemeckis wants us to recall the good old days, back when his movies weren't critical flops and commanded hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. And so, in his new, eras-spanning movie "Here," the director reunites "Forrest Gump" stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as […]

If you thought all the dumb controversy over masking that took place during the height of the COVID pandemic was finally behind us, well, think again. Lawmakers across the country are now considering a ban on wearing masks in public, in a bid to crackdown on pro-Palestianian protestors, The Washington Post reports. In the wake […]

Delayed Date It's heartbreak in the buzzing world of tech, because legions of lonely OpenAI fans have just been stood-up by, well, "her." The expressive — and flirty? — Voice Mode assistant for ChatGPT, which could engage in bubbly, real-time conversations and even read facial expressions, has officially been delayed from launching. The feature, as […]

The US military's experimental new aquatic drone may soon be carrying out stealthy missions in oceans the world over. But right now, it's become the easy target of Google Maps nerds, who've already found it sitting out in the open, The New York Post reports. Known as Manta Ray, the uncrewed underwater vehicle, as of […]