METABLOKS / SCIENCE

Futurism

McDonald's Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

As large language models (LLMs) become ever more integrated into the platforms that define daily life, major flaws in the software's security capabilities are starting to show. McDonalds is among the growing list of companies that have quickly shoehorned LLM chatbots into their hiring systems, consequences ...

13 hours ago

Futurism

McDonald's Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

Futurism

Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Snag

Twitter co-founder and erstwhile CEO Jack Dorsey has started yet another new app — and this one's got an embarrassing secret. As TechCrunch reports, Dorsey's new open source messaging app, Bitchat, is supposed to be decentralized, private, and secure. There's only one problem: the Bluetooth-based ...

13 hours ago

Futurism

Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Snag

Futurism

Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

Astronomers who examined the sound waves from the Big Bang say that the Earth and the entire Milky Way could be trapped in a huge void billions of light years across. Their research, presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's recent National Astronomy Meeting, could solve one of cosmology's greatest ...

14 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

New York Times Science

How Much of Our ‘Math, Revealed’ Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz.

Test your knowledge of taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more.

14 hours ago

New York Times Science

How Much of Our ‘Math, Revealed’ Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz.

New York Times Science

Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.

15 hours ago

New York Times Science

Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92

Futurism

If You Still Vape, You Might Wanna Read This

In the wake of a terrifying new study about heavy metals in vape mist, experts who have long warned about the potential dangers of vaping are again ringing alarm bells. As the New York Times notes, researchers from University of California, Davis found such high levels of heavy metals when analyzing ...

15 hours ago

Futurism

If You Still Vape, You Might Wanna Read This

Futurism

Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Hint at Something Brutal, Scientists Say

Astronomers believe they've uncovered the source behind mysterious cosmic signals known as fast x-ray transients (FXTs) — and it's something absolutely brutal. Right as a massive star explodes in a supernova, it unleashes a tremendously energetic stream of particles that travel at near light speed ...

16 hours ago

Futurism

Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Hint at Something Brutal, Scientists Say

Futurism

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses similar specimens. As the Denver Museum of Nature and Science explained in Catalyst, its online magazine, the ...

16 hours ago

Futurism

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

WIRED Science

How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear

There are just a few weeks left to tap federal programs that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable.

20 hours ago

WIRED Science

How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear

WIRED Science

How to Watch the Southern Delta Aquariids and Perseids Meteor Showers

In July and August two spectacular meteor showers will arrive in quick succession. Here’s everything you need to know to watch them and the other major showers that will appear in 2025.

21 hours ago

WIRED Science

How to Watch the Southern Delta Aquariids and Perseids Meteor Showers

New York Times Science

Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

Singularity HUB

This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data

With FlexOlmo, people can train AI without handing over their data. They can even remove their contribution after the model is complete. The post This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data appeared first on SingularityHub.

1 day ago

Singularity HUB

This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data

Singularity HUB

A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley

Portable, reusable, and affordable, the device is the latest in technologies aiming to expand access to drinking water. The post A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley appeared first on SingularityHub.

2 days ago

Singularity HUB

A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley

New York Times Science

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

WIRED Science

Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now

Patients and doctors are turning to AI for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, often with stellar results, but problems arise when experts and algorithms disagree.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now

WIRED Science

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this complex disease will likely need multiple complementary treatments.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

WIRED Science

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized