Noor Al-Sibai

Walk Softly When going on a nature walk with friends, an Indian scientist uncovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of its back. In an interview with the New York Times, Lohit Y.T., the river and wetlands specialist said he and his hiking group of fellow scientists had merely […]

Has wokeness gone too far? That is, essentially, the premise of Goody-2, an artificial intelligence chatbot that is so ethical — or "woke," depending on what kind of podcasts you listen to — that it simply refuses to answer any questions at all. Billed satirically as "the world's most responsible AI model," Goody-2 is, as Wired reports, […]

Lit Up In the battle between San Franciscans and robotaxis, it's clear who's winning. As the San Francisco Standard reports, the driverless taxi operated by the company Waymo was set ablaze on Saturday night in the city's Chinatown after a crowd spontaneously surrounded it and, well, trashed it. It's unclear how the incident involving the largely […]

Love across language barriers has a mixed track record of success — but in the case of one AI-assisted couple, it seems there may be a happy ending. As the New York Times reports, a couple who met through a mutual friend's idea to set them up on a blind date, and who currently live on […]

Sex and drugs have, along with their bedfellow rock n' roll, always gone together — but as a new study suggests, the sex lives of shroom-eaters may improve even after they have worn off. In a press release, Imperial College London announced that its new study, which the school claims is the first known academic […]

Back in the Day Before channeling his anxiety into martial arts and doomsday prepping, Meta-formerly-Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a panicked, sweaty mess — and at least one of his employees, tried to warn a reporter about it. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, as published by New York Magazine, veteran tech journalist […]

Historic Precedence A former NASA employee is sounding off on government short-sightedness — and, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically, comparing Congress to Rome. In an editorial for NASA Watch, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) proposal manager Jeff Nosanov compared the agency's recent layoffs, which affected eight percent of the lab's employees, to other "historic mistakes" made by fallen […]

Sun Gazing Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth. First reported by SpaceWeather.com, the sunspot is expected to blast a coronal mass ejection (CME) out towards Earth and will be "not just a near miss, but […]

It's sportsball season in the US of A, and the National Basketball Association is being sued by pissed-off investors who lost billions over a cryptocurrency scam promoted by the Dallas Mavericks at the behest of its former owner, Mark Cuban. The new class action lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court of Southern […]

Loose Lips After leaving the government last month, the Pentagon's former UFO chief has had multiple media hits revealing more than he likely could have while still in the military's employ — but this latest one, we must admit, is a doozy. In an interview with Politico, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of the Pentagon's All-domain […]