Several crosswalk buttons in Palo Alto and nearby cities were hacked over the weekend to play deepfake-style satirical audio clips mimicking Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Authorities have disabled the altered systems, but the identity of the prankster remains unknown. Videos of the altered crosswalks began circulating on social media Read more…
Formula One cars, the world’s fastest racecars, need to grip the track for speed and safety on the curves — leading engineers to design cars that create downforce. And racing fans are even told that “a Formula 1 racecar generates enough downforce above a certain speed that it could theoretically Read more…
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn’t installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate of fine particulate matter out of any U.S. coal-burning power plant. When inhaled, the Read more…
Researchers say that a person’s intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed, so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use. A new study has found that general cognitive abilities, such as perception, reasoning, and memory, are more important Read more…
The reason tha worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
People “are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments,” citing results from a recent experiment in Germany: Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the Berlin-based non-profit that ran the German study, followed 122 people for three years. From June 2021 to May 2024, this Read more…
The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border under President Donald Trump threaten the world’s most lucrative air routes. Visitors from western Europe who stayed at least one night in the US fell by 17 per Read more…