Surprise! That futuristic COVID mask was even sketchier than we thought
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered Razer to issue over $1.1 million in full refunds for its Razer Zephyr facemasks...
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Romance scams just ‘happen in life,’ says CEO of biggest dating app company in the US
Online romance scams netted con artists over $1.1 billion in 2023, with an average reported loss of around $2,000 per...
Can AI help tell the difference between a good and bad sweet potato?
Most grocery store patrons take for granted just what it takes to transport a humble sweet potato out of the...
A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite
A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of...
Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera
It’s a bold pitch for homeowners: What if you let a small tech startup’s crowdfunded AI surveillance system dispense vigilante...
ChatGPT can now see, hear, and talk to some users
ChatGPT has a voice—or, rather, five voices. On Monday, OpenAI announced its buzzworthy, controversial large language model (LLM) can now...
Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station
Andreas Mogensen returned to Earth in mid-March after a six-and-a-half month stint aboard the International Space Station. To mark his...
Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station
Andreas Mogensen returned to Earth in mid-March after a six-and-a-half month stint aboard the International Space Station. To mark his...
Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality
New data indicates a once-in-a-generation eclipse is a pretty surefire way to convince people to finally log off the internet—at...
Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts
It could have been the perfect crime, had they used better spray paint. Recently, authorities have seized over 320 lbs...
Here is what a Tesla Cybertruck cop car could look like
Tesla’s Cybertruck isn’t even available to the public yet, but concept art for a Cybertruck cop-car made its appearance in...
How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes
An international team of cryptographers has published a new whitepaper detailing the massive amounts of work, crowdsourcing, and computational programming...
