Noor Al-Sibai

Rule Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that make it impossible to cancel them? That practice may become illegal and punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped. In a press release, the FTC said that its new "click to cancel" rule will require sellers to "make […]

I Heart New York New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which, we should note, featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place […]

Move Over, Oumuamua Remember Oumuamua, that weird and possibly-alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017, when we were all so young and starry-eyed? Some scientists have a simple and boring explanation for what it was — and reader, it may have nothing to do with aliens. In a new study published in the […]

Sensorius Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" for the better part of the past decade — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't come to fruition. As the Washington Post reports, Musk apparently decided a few years back to do away with […]

Space Race, Religion, And Creed For Earthbound Muslims, the beginning of Ramadan this week marked a period of fasting from sunrise until sunset — but for Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, who will be aboard the International Space Station for another five months, it's a somewhat different question As CNN reports, Alneyadi — who will see […]

Grimey Drama Claire "Grimes" Boucher wanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) for her birthday — and one of Neuralink's apparent competitors was happy to comply. After Grimes tweeted about getting a "non invasive brain computer interface" for her birthday, AJ Keller, the CEO of the Neurosity company, confirmed in an interview with Insider that his firm […]

Do The Cyclone After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake. As LA's ABC7 reports, the small tornado claimed the roof of businesses in the East LA County town of Montebello, damaged several cars, and injured at least one […]

Ruh Roh You know that pesky misinformation problem that keeps plaguing AIs like ChatGPT? Well, as it turns out, OpenAI's latest version of its large language model (LLM) is, per expert analysis from NewsGuard, even worse than its predecessor when it comes to spewing outright lies as truths. In their latest report, the misinformation and […]

Dark And Stormy For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and of course, it was the ever-more-powerful James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. A press release on the Space Telescope Science Institute's Webb-site details about the JWST-detected storm, which took place on exoplanet […]

The latest Big Tech chatbot just dropped and, not gonna lie, it seems pretty powerful. We, naturally, have not yet been granted access by the Google gods to the company's Bard chatbot, but per all indications (read: screenshots we've seen on Twitter), it feels pretty safe to say that when it comes to witty banter, […]