The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that, as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The
Boron carbide, also known as black diamond, is one of the hardest synthetic substances known. Credit: Science Museum Group/SPL Boron has long intrigued scientists. Its atoms are amenable to many bonding modes, and pure boron can be found in a variety of phases — some clear; some opaque; most poorly conducting; all, so far, superhard.
Over the past 50 years, musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has become the first artist to have a comedy album debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, amassed five Grammy awards, and one Emmy. As if that weren’t enough, the “Amish Paradise,” “Eat It,” and
Since her 2021 diagnosis, Applegate has gotten used to the feel of an open-front gown. “I’ve been in the hospital upwards of 30 times from throwing up and diarrhea and pain,” she relayed on her pocast in March 2025. “That is unimaginable, OK? They’ve done every test known to man on me, put so much
Doom is such a simple, beautifully designed game that it can run on all sorts of weird things, from pregnancy tests to potatoes. Weird things can play it, too. In an effort to eternally one-up itself, the community has now gotten a map of a fruit fly’s brain to play the 1993 first-person shooter. It
For years, it’s been rumored that Nathan Fielder had been interviewing Theranos founder (and certified huckster) Elizabeth Holmes — including visiting her in prison — for a top-secret documentary. And on Sunday night, that documentary premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Titled “You Can See Everything,” the film is billed as follows: Thirty-four days before
