More from Mack DeGeurin

What happened when scientists taught parrots to video chat?
Animals

What happened when scientists taught parrots to video chat?

By Mack DeGeurin

solar power
Energy

Battery prices are plummeting. That’s good news for the planet.

By Mack DeGeurin

Can AI help tell the difference between a good and bad sweet potato?
Agriculture

Can AI help tell the difference between a good and bad sweet potato?

By Mack DeGeurin

Newest luxury submersible offers ocean explorers champagne and blackjack
Technology

Newest luxury submersible offers ocean explorers champagne and blackjack

By Mack DeGeurin

robot v roach
Animals

Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers… for now

By Mack DeGeurin

US finally breaks ground on its first-ever high-speed rail
Technology

US finally breaks ground on its first-ever high-speed rail

By Mack DeGeurin

Therapy session
Health

How psychedelic-assisted therapies can be more effective

By Mack DeGeurin

Cybertruck recalled
Technology

Nearly all Cybertrucks recalled over faulty accelerator pedal, misapplied soap

By Mack DeGeurin

Oklahoma City plans to have the country’s tallest skyscraper
Technology

Oklahoma City plans to have the country’s tallest skyscraper

By Mack DeGeurin

When technology can read your brain waves, who owns your thoughts?
Technology

When technology can read your brain waves, who owns your thoughts?

By Mack DeGeurin

Close-up photos of ReachBot.
Animals

Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves

By Mack DeGeurin

atlas robot goodbye
Robots

RIP Atlas, the world’s beefiest humanoid robot

By Mack DeGeurin

washing dishes
Technology

Boeing supplier defends using dish soap as lubricant: ‘This is actually an innovative approach’

By Mack DeGeurin

students using AI in class
AI

Ready or not, AI is in our schools

By Mack DeGeurin

Internet providers finally forced to reveal all hidden fees on ‘nutrition’ label
Internet

Internet providers finally forced to reveal all hidden fees on ‘nutrition’ label

By Mack DeGeurin

Make it snow! Researchers explore sci-fi scenarios of human weather control
Environment

Make it snow! Researchers explore sci-fi scenarios of human weather control

By Mack DeGeurin

Apple’s ‘next big thing’ could be a robot butler
Robots

Apple’s ‘next big thing’ could be a robot butler

By Mack DeGeurin

Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
Internet

Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

By Mack DeGeurin

NYC takes first step towards unleashing robotaxis on city roads
Self Driving

NYC takes first step towards unleashing robotaxis on city roads

By Mack DeGeurin

Autonomous robots help farmers prepare for world’s largest tulip bloom
AI

Autonomous robots help farmers prepare for world’s largest tulip bloom

By Mack DeGeurin

data center dark hallway green shade fluorescent light
AI

AI companies eye fossil fuels to meet booming energy demand

By Mack DeGeurin

surgeons in an operating room
Animals

Surgeons complete first-ever gene-edited pig kidney transplant

By Mack DeGeurin

AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals
AI

AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals

By Mack DeGeurin

parkour robot
Robots

‘Parkour’ robot dog can leap, jump, and crawl its way through complex obstacle courses

By Mack DeGeurin

tesla interior
Technology

‘Safe’ driver assist tools could be doing more harm than good

By Mack DeGeurin

The FAA conducted an audit of Boeing’s 737 Max production facility after a door plug blew off during a commercial flight in January.
Aviation

Dish soap, hotel key cards, and confusion: Boeing FAA audit unearths dozens of issues

By Mack DeGeurin

Can this robot help solve a guide dog shortage?
Robots

Can this robot help solve a guide dog shortage?

By Mack DeGeurin

Too many screens? Why car safety experts want to bring back buttons
Technology

Too many screens? Why car safety experts want to bring back buttons

By Mack DeGeurin

tail of a humpback whale in the ocean sticking out of the waves
AI

Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI

By Mack DeGeurin

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter
AI

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter

By Mack DeGeurin

Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route
Technology

Tourists say they got stranded in the Australian wilderness after following faulty Google Maps route

By Mack DeGeurin

Researchers taught a robot dog to open a door with its leg
Robots

Researchers taught a robot dog to open a door with its leg

By Mack DeGeurin

Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race
AI

Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race

By Mack DeGeurin

ChatGPT has been generating bizarre nonsense (more than usual)
AI

ChatGPT has been generating bizarre nonsense (more than usual)

By Mack DeGeurin

A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journal
AI

A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journal

By Mack DeGeurin

Hands-free driving GM car man driving
Self Driving

GM brings hands free driving to rural America

By Mack DeGeurin

Owners worry Cybertruck of the future rusts after rain
Electric Vehicles

Owners worry Cybertruck of the future rusts after rain

By Mack DeGeurin

Caption: CERT’s four-legged Robodog can manuevuer throguh cramped spaces and use sensors to spot fires, leaks, or other hazards.
Particle Physics

A four-legged ‘Robodog’ is patrolling the Large Hadron Collider

By Mack DeGeurin

Google wants to fight deepfakes with a special badge
AI

Google wants to fight deepfakes with a special badge

By Mack DeGeurin

People walk past the K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in the Times Square subway station in New York on November 28. 2023.
Robots

NYPD retires big, egg-shaped subway surveillance robot—for now

By Mack DeGeurin

Photo of an 18mo baby wearing a head-mounted camera
AI

How a baby with a headcam taught AI to learn words

By Mack DeGeurin

The new policy proposal, if accepted, would make AI-generated robocalls easier to investigate and prosecute.
AI

FCC wants to make AI-generated robocalls illegal

By Mack DeGeurin

X briefly banned search results for the singer’s name on the platform.
AI

AI-generated Taylor Swift porn deepfakes ran rampant on X. Will laws catch up?

By Mack DeGeurin

Worldcoin’s initial basketball-sized iris-scanning Orb resembles an all-seeing floating eyeball.
Technology

Worldcoin’s eye-scanning, identity-verifying Orb will get a ‘more friendly’ face

By Mack DeGeurin

BMW is exploring ways to use Figure’s 5’6, 130 pound humanoid robot in its South Carolina manufacturing facility.
Robots

BMW plans to put humanoid robots in a South Carolina factory to do… something

By Mack DeGeurin

What is teledriving? Vay in Las Vegas
Technology

What is teledriving? Remotely operated cars offer an alternative to ‘driverless’ taxis in Las Vegas

By Mack DeGeurin

Sam Altman: Age of AI will require an ‘energy breakthrough’
AI

Sam Altman: Age of AI will require an ‘energy breakthrough’

By Mack DeGeurin

Apple Watch 9 displaying the blood-oxygen level detection settings
Technology

Apple may ditch controversial blood oxygen feature to avoid Watch ban

By Mack DeGeurin

Biden’s $623 million charging initiative faces struggles to get EVs over the finish line
Electric Vehicles

Biden’s $623 million charging initiative faces struggles to get EVs over the finish line

By Mack DeGeurin

Beware the AI celebrity clones peddling bogus ‘free money’ on YouTube
AI

Beware the AI celebrity clones peddling bogus ‘free money’ on YouTube

By Mack DeGeurin

Waymo plans to put autonomous taxis on freeways ‘in the coming weeks’
Self Driving

Waymo plans to put autonomous taxis on freeways ‘in the coming weeks’

By Mack DeGeurin

Browsing internet with tracking cookies
Internet

Cookies are finally dying. But what comes next?

By Mack DeGeurin

Steamboat Mickey Mouse public domain cartoon
Technology

Disney finally relinquishes ‘Steamboat’ Mickey Mouse to public domain after testy 95 years

By Mack DeGeurin

Teen using phone at night after curfew
Internet

Tech trade group sues over ‘unconstitutional’ Utah teen social media curfew law

By Mack DeGeurin

Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests satellite space lasers
Internet

Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests satellite space lasers

By Mack DeGeurin

Gavel on top of a computer for a judge
AI

New UK guidelines for judges using AI chatbots are a mess

By Mack DeGeurin

EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?
AI

EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?

By Mack DeGeurin