Category: Shorts

Copilot vs. This morning, Microsoft announced the release date for its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot feature and showed off some of its capabilities for the first time. Six months after laying off the team dedicated to upholding responsible AI principles, the execs tried to make a clear statement onstage: Everything is fine. The company executives spoke…

TikTok Search Results Page Feature TikTok search results pages may soon have a link to Google results. According to an app researcher named Radu Oncescu, the company is testing a feature that allows search results from Google in some markets. The Verge has also seen evidence of this in a court case against Google filed…

Phoneutria nigriventer A new alternative to Viagra is being developed with the help of spider venom. Yep, scientists have actually created a synthetic version of the molecule and are using it to treat men with erectile dysfunction. It’s called BZ371A and it’s derived from the venom of a banana spider. If you get bitten by…

E.T. This story just keeps getting weirder. Last week, journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan presented the aliens to the Mexican congress, claiming that they were a thousand years old. Well, now scientists have sent some of the mummies for X-rays and CT scans. And what they’ve found is not a dog or a child,…

Cryptocurrency in India: Global Crypto Adoption Index Despite India’s anti-crypto regulatory and tax environment, the demand for cryptocurrency in the country remains robust, according to a new report from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The firm’s Global Crypto Adoption Index shows that over the period from July 2022 to June 2023, cryptocurrency transaction volumes in India…

Pumas in Patagonia: Animals Up Close A prowling puma is foiled by a barking alarm call of guard dogs in this new National Geographic series, Animals Up Close. Bertie Gregory is there with a team using thermal imaging cameras to track the invading puma, and in doing so captured a behavior never seen before. Pumas…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Almost three years after touching the surface of the giant space rock Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx capsule is coming back to Earth. It will bring with it a sample collected during its 3-year mission, and it will be the first ever US mission to bring a piece of an asteroid back to soil. The…

Hyperion, the World’s Tallest Tree In California, there’s an impressive giant redwood tree called Hyperion. It’s also the tallest living thing in the world. According to science, it’s even taller than the Statue of Liberty. Despite this fact, though, hordes of visitors continue to flock to the tree, so the National Park Service has closed…

Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) A coronal mass ejection (CME) occurs when the sun gets caught in a powerful magnetic field, and it can be very harmful to satellites and the Earth. Coronal Mass Ejections are more famous than the flares and sunspots that accompany them, and they’re also what travelers in the inner Solar System…

Jets of the Protostar 211 The latest image from JWST shows two jets of material ejected from a star, Herbig-Har-Haro 211. Though the term star doesn’t apply to this particular star, astronomers call it a protostar because its core isn’t hot enough for Nuclear Fusion . But despite its small size, it is growing and…