A UK study has found that people who couldn’t easily reach their smartphone still distracted themselves on their laptop instead. Researchers say it’s not devices that distract us, but how we’ve been trained to constantly check them. The study, published in Frontiers in Computer Science, found that 89% of the time, people pick up their … Read more
The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has allowed users to create high-quality images emulating Hayao Miyazaki’s style from Studio Ghibli. The program has been praised for its precision and ability to generate images with the right number of fingers, but also sparked concerns about copyright and artistic integrity. Ian Bogost, a professor at Washington University … Read more
A man allegedly vandalized a Tesla outside a Planet Fitness gym in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, leaving a swastika scratched into the side of the vehicle. The victim checked the car’s surveillance video and found the incident, which was recorded at 6:00 AM on Monday morning. Employees at Planet Fitness were able to identify the … Read more
British psychiatrist William Sargant’s notorious Ward 5A at London’s Royal Waterloo hospital was a place of unspeakable horrors, where patients were subjected to experimental treatments that left them with permanent memory loss and emotional trauma. In his first non-fiction book, “The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal,” author Jon Stock reveals the haunting first-hand … Read more
Brooke Oleksy, formerly known as Brooke Hogan, claims her mother Linda Hogan and former WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan are making false allegations about the state of their family. The Hogan children have had no contact with their parents for eight years, and Brooke accuses them of being “EXTREMELY verbally and mentally” abusive to her as … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of the early universe. The telescope detected bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in an unexpectedly early time, 330 million years after the Big Bang, when scientists expected the “fog” of neutral hydrogen to have blocked most of the light. The … Read more
The US stock market has been performing exceptionally well over the past year, driven by strong corporate earnings, government spending, and rising productivity. However, financial markets are now questioning whether this era of American exceptionalism is coming to an end due to a mix of slowing economic growth and rising consumer prices, known as stagflation. … Read more
A cryptocurrency whale has moved a significant amount of Pepe coins, worth around $4.4 million, from the Binance exchange. The whale, known as qianbaidu.eth, took out 506 billion Pepe tokens in one transaction. This is not the first time qianbaidu.eth has traded Pepe, previously making a profit of around $7.34 million. The whale now holds … Read more
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected large organic molecules, consisting of carbon atoms linked in long chains with other elements like hydrogen and oxygen, in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock sample from Mars. This finding is significant as it suggests that complex life forms may have existed on the red planet. Scientists believe that if life ever … Read more
US President Donald Trump is set to announce sweeping tariffs in a few days, sending consumer sentiment into a tailspin. A survey by the University of Michigan found that consumer confidence dropped 12% this month, its lowest reading since 2009. Respondents cited Trump’s trade war as the main reason for their concerns. Two-thirds expect unemployment … Read more