Category: SCI/TECH

March 6, 2024 at 12:39 pm

Genetics Company Wants To Sell Gene-Hacked Pigs That Are Less Susceptible To Disease

Genetics Company Wants To Sell Gene-Hacked Pigs That Are Less Susceptible To Disease

A cause for concern?

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March 5, 2024 at 11:45 am

Vending Machine Error Shows That There’s Facial Recognition Watching Customers When They Buy

Source: SquidKid47 via Reddit

This is pretty creepy…

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March 4, 2024 at 12:33 pm

MIT Finds It’s Actually More Expensive To Replace Workers With AI

MIT Finds It's Actually More Expensive To Replace Workers With AI

Here we are, being told for months and months that we’re all going to lose our jobs to AI because computers are not only more efficient, but cheaper labor. It turns out that, according to MIT, that isn’t true. They detailed their research in a new paper after examining the cost-effectiveness of 1,000 tasks across…

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March 4, 2024 at 7:38 am

New Gene Therapy Using A Virus Cures Deafness In 11-Year-Old Boy

New Gene Therapy Using A Virus Cures Deafness In 11-Year-Old Boy

We hear about advances in science all of the time, but when we hear about advancements that actually help real-life people, it really makes you feel good. Probably not as good as the people who actually made it happen, but still. This groundbreaking gene therapy replaces a mutated gene with the correct version, and in…

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March 3, 2024 at 3:41 pm

Japanese Startup EX-Fusion Wants To Use Giant Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk

Japanese Startup EX-Fusion Wants To Use Giant Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk

An interesting solution!

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March 3, 2024 at 1:25 pm

There’s Enough Ice On Mars To Cover The Entire Planet In A 5-Foot Ocean If It Melted

There's Enough Ice On Mars To Cover The Entire Planet In A 5-Foot Ocean If It Melted

“These massive deposits would change our understanding of Mars climate history.”

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March 3, 2024 at 2:25 am

A 9-Year-Old Girl Once Debunked “Therapeutic Touch” For Her Science Project And Became The Youngest Published Author In A Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal

A 9-Year-Old Girl Once Debunked "Therapeutic Touch" For Her Science Project And Became The Youngest Published Author In A Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal

If there’s one thing that having kids teaches a person, it’s that much of the time, adults make things unnecessarily complicated. There is an easy way, even a simple one – but we’re just convinced that things have to be hard to be effective. Which is possibly why a young girl managed to debunk a…

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March 2, 2024 at 3:33 pm

Upcoming RoboFab Factory Set To Create Hordes Of Humanoid Robots That Can Replace Human Jobs

Source: Agility Robotics

This seems inevitable…

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March 2, 2024 at 12:31 pm

71 Million Email Addresses And 100 Million Passwords Were Stolen In One Of The Biggest Data Leaks Ever

71 Million Email Addresses And 100 Million Passwords Were Stolen In One Of The Biggest Data Leaks Ever

Time to change those passwords again…

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March 2, 2024 at 11:21 am

Elon Musk Is Now Saying Fossil Fuels Might Be So Bad After All And Thinks Climate Change Claims Might Be Exaggerated

Elon Musk Is Now Saying Fossil Fuels Might Be So Bad After All And Thinks Climate Change Claims Might Be Exaggerated

Some cognitive dissonance going on here…

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