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Strange Photos Show NASA Astronauts Testing Spacesuits...

May 19, 2024

Wait, shouldn’t it have… Arms Race New photos from NASA show the space agency’s astronauts testing spacesuits in the Arizona desert — but we’re not sure these things are quite spaceworthy yet. Why? Because they’re missing, among other things, arms, legs and visors, leading to an entertaining photoshoot in which astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas trudge around completing Moonish tasks while garbed half in space gear and half in fairly regular-looking hiking clothes, including sunglasses that look comically...

Tesla Factory Accused of Spewing Illegal Amounts...

May 19, 2024

“The violations are frequent, recurring, and can negatively affect public health and the environment.” Smogging Gun In an awkward turn, an environmental group has slapped Tesla with a lawsuit this week, CNBC reports, for spewing pollution from its factory in Fremont, California and violating the Clean Air Act. Despite Tesla touting that its factories are conscious about limiting waste, the California nonprofit group Environmental Democracy Project alleges in its lawsuit that the electric vehicle company has disregarded the Clean...

Meerkats Keep Dropping Dead From Heart Failure

May 19, 2024

At the start of the spring of 2015, Jeffrey, a three-year-old meerkat, was happily eating, tussling with his brothers, and surveying zoo patrons from his usual perch, his forepaws gathered and his black-tipped snout aloft. But one day in April, his caretakers discovered him in his enclosure, so weak that he could barely lift his head. By the time he was brought to Eric Baitchman, the head vet at Massachusetts’s Stone Zoo, Jeffrey was losing consciousness. Baitchman nudged a...

Doctors Administer Oxytocin Nasal Spray to Lonely...

May 18, 2024

Image by Getty Images We might like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, but the fact is that the whole experience of being human is basically the result of a bunch of swirling chemicals in the brain. Case in point? A team of European and Israeli doctors just released an intriguing study, published in the journal Psychother Psychosom, in which they administered oxytocin — that’s the much hyped feel-good hormone that’s released by physical intimacy, among other activities —...

OpenAI Employees Forced to Sign NDA Preventing...

May 18, 2024

That seems harsh. Cone of Silence ChatGPT creator OpenAI might have “open” in the name, but its business practices seem diametrically opposed to the idea of open dialogue. Take this fascinating scoop from Vox, which pulls back the curtain on the restrictive nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that employees at the Sam Altman-helmed company are forced to sign to retain equity. Here’s what Vox‘s Kelsey Piper wrote of the legal documents: It turns out there’s a very clear reason for that....

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Flames Company for Axing...

May 18, 2024

“But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” OpenAI Shut It might sound like a joke, but OpenAI has dissolved the team responsible for making sure advanced AI doesn’t turn against humankind. Yes, you read that right. The objective of the team, formed just last summer, was to “steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.” “To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by...

What Is Pasteurization, and How Does It...

May 18, 2024

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Recent reports that the H5N1 avian flu virus has been found in cow’s milk have raised questions about whether the U.S. milk supply is safe to drink. According to the federal Food and Drug Administration, the answer is yes, as long as the milk is pasteurized. Nonetheless, raw (unpasteurized) milk sales are up, despite health experts’ warning that raw milk could contain...

Mad Scientists Build “Dune”-Inspired Stillsuit That Can...

May 18, 2024

Still Running In Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi novel “Dune,” those adventurous enough to brave the desert landscapes of the fictional planet Arrakis wear a full body suit called a “stillsuit” that can preserve all of the body’s moisture with the help of a filter that recycles both sweat and urine. A tube inserted into the wearer’s nostrils, as dramatized in the 2021 blockbuster adaptation and its more recent sequel, can replenish the wearer’s water levels without depending on...

Hurricanes Caused Lost Income among at Least...

May 18, 2024

May 18, 2024 2 min read Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops By Thomas Frank & E&E News Thousands of people lined up to receive assistance at a Hurricane Irma disaster center setup at the Hard Rock Stadium on November 7, 2017 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images CLIMATEWIRE | Hurricanes are notorious for their destruction, and a new study shows the storms...

China Shows Off Robot Dogs Armed With...

May 18, 2024

Yikes. Dog Gun It The Chinese military recently showed off numerous robot dogs outfitted with machine guns on their backs during the country’s biggest-ever drill alongside Cambodian troops, as Agence France-Presse reports. The terrifying gun-toting robodogs were part of a massive 15-day military exercise called “Golden Dragon” in a remote training center in central Cambodia and off the country’s coast. During the drill, journalists watched as staff took the robodogs for a walk — but reportedly never fired the...

Scientists Invent Evil Way to Cut Screen...

May 18, 2024

Evil… but ingenious. Slow Burn Can’t kick the smartphone habit? Researchers have devised a clever way to shave your embarrassingly high screen times that involves some downright evil sleight-of-hand. Their app, InteractOut, subtly screws with swiping and tapping inputs on your phone screen, which progressively gets more and more frustrating until you finally decide to put your device down and do literally anything else. The resulting study, presented this week at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,...

A Rat Purge Saved This Island

May 18, 2024

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar—was killed in 2005. Rats had lived on the island for hundreds of rat generations. The rodents likely arrived in the late 1700s, when a French ship—carrying Malagasy people kidnapped for the slave trade—wrecked there, says Matthieu Le Corre, an ecologist at the University of Reunion Island, a French overseas region off the coast...

After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam...

May 18, 2024

“It’s a strangely isolating way to live.” The Fame Monster After spending years relentlessly chasing publicity across the media, huge speaking events and a world tour of multiple continents, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his newfound fame is taking a toll. “The inability to just be mostly anonymous in public is very, very strange,” he said on the Logan Bartlett Show this week. “I think if I had thought about that at the time, I would’ve...

After Accident With First Patient, Neuralink Seeks...

May 18, 2024

Image by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Things haven’t gone entirely according to plan with Neuralink’s first human patient: as the company conceded after questions from the Wall Street Journal, wires inside the patient’s brain appear to have come loose, degrading the quality of implant’s signal. This wasn’t entirely unforeseen. Doctors had previously warned about danger to Neuralink’s test patients due to the company’s lack of transparency, and it even turned out that Neuralink and federal regulators were aware...

The Algorithmic Radicalization of Taylor Swift

May 18, 2024

It is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans are once again trying to figure out what her clothes mean. The star is in a glittering yellow-and-red two-piece set, a possible reference to the colors of the Kansas City Chiefs, the football team Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, plays on. This is also the 87th performance in the tour, and—aha!—Kelce wears jersey number 87. The hundreds of thousands of...

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