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Dressed Down AI image generators that claim the ability to "undress" celebrities and random girls are nothing new — but now, they've been spotted in monetized ads on Instagram. As 404 Media reports, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, contained in its ad library several paid posts promoting so-called "nudify" apps, which use AI to

Engaging in kinky sex acts in real life is associated with greater sexual satisfaction, but watching kinky porn seems to have the opposite effect. A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research has found an association between porn depicting rough sex, lower levels of sexual satisfaction, and higher incidences of sexual dysfunction — but

  It's been less than three months since Apple released its uber-expensive Vision Pro virtual reality headset — and the tech giant is seriously struggling to sell existing stock. As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos to try the $3,500 device out for themselves at stores. Sales have also gone "from a

Sub It Out In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. As the South China Morning Post reports, engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province — where, notably, China's first experimental submarine was developed — claim that the country's military is close to

Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have achieved a breakthrough, stumbling upon an entirely new force of nature that could help us develop propellantless rockets. As The Debrief reports, co-founder Charles Buhler, a NASA veteran, who has worked on a number of major programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and

To save his own hide, disgraced FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to work with prosecutors to name and blame some of the celebrities who shilled his company. As Bloomberg reports, disgruntled investors have agreed to drop their cases against Bankman-Fried in exchange for his cooperation, which will shield him from further civil liability if and

  A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist.

Cloak Engaged Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup's eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard, can turn anything behind it into an indiscernible smudge by effectively bending the light around it. Now Invisibilty Shield is ready to follow up its

Empty Posts Thousands of Tesla employees were blindsided by the company's mass layoffs last week. Workers were left in the dark, only to find out they were fired once their keycards no longer allowed them to get into the office. And while Tesla has already garnered a reputation for less-than-stellar customer service, the situation is

Paint It Black The home panopticon is approaching, and apparently, it will be able to detect people with AI, scream at them, and shoot them with either paintballs or teargas pellets. Known as "Paintcam Eve" — or EVA, depending on which part of the website run by the Slovenia-based OZ-iT's startup you're checking out —

Thirsty AI China is doubling down on AI by focusing its efforts on opening data centers — which consume a staggering amount of water. According to a recent report by Hong Kong-based non-profit China Water Risk, the country could soon be consuming around 343 billion gallons of water in its data centers, the equivalent of

Race Day NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities and, in the process, fueling the off-world rivalry between the two. "We believe that a lot of [China's] so-called civilian space program is a military program," Administrator Bill Nelson said during remarks on Capitol Hill this week, per The Guardian. "And

  Scientists have successfully cloned two baby ferrets called Noreen and Antonia from cells that were frozen almost 40 years ago, potentially paving the way for future efforts to bring back their species from going extinct. As The Washington Post reports, the two ferrets were born last year, according to a Wednesday announcement by the

When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. And in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living in the underground remnants of volcanic activity. As detailed in a new study published in the journal PLOS One, archaeologists have discovered

Beyond Neptune Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet out in the furthest reaches of our Solar System — and new research suggests with even more credibility that it's out there. In two new papers — one published in the Astronomical Journal, another, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, posted to the arXiv

Ketamine has been all over the news in recent years as it sheds its seedy image as a hallucinogenic party drug to becoming an increasingly respectable treatment for severe depression that even Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been reaching for the anesthetic medication to keep the blues away. But ketamine can still be addictive if

AI Diss Track A diss track featuring the vocals of rapper Kendrick Lamar made its rounds on social media earlier this week, escalating an apparent beef between him and Aubrey "Drake" Graham. But as it turns out, the track titled "Hi Whitney," in which Drake allegedly took aim at Lamar's fiancee Whitney, a response to

AngryGF Most AI girlfriend apps — of which there are already very many — are billed as low-maintenance, always-down alternatives to the real deal. They won't fight or nitpick, they'll never make you feel rejected, and they're always around to chat. But as Wired reports, one AI girlfriend app is here to give a user

  NASA's highly ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is on thin ice. An independent review board balked at the Mars Sample Return mission's "unrealistic" budget last year, highly complex mission design, and glaring management failures. Earlier this year, budget cuts forced the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab to let go of a whopping 530 employees, with

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