The remains are the biggest and most complete Ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK The fossilised remains of a ten metre long ichthyosaur – also known as a ‘sea dragon’ – have been found in a reservoir owned by Anglian Water in Rutland. Dating back 180 million years, it is the largest and most […]
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, made fun of the metaverse on Tuesday. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, said he wants Facebook to become a “metaverse company.” Dorsey agreed with a tweet that said the metaverse could be “a dystopian corporate dictatorship.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made fun of the “metaverse,” a concept Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]
Hundreds of thousands of Uighur have been detained without trial in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Internment camps with up to a million prisoners. Empty neighborhoods. Students, musicians, athletes, and peaceful academics jailed. A massive high-tech surveillance state that monitors and judges every movement. The future of more than 10 million Uighurs, the members of China’s Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, is looking increasingly grim. As […]
Talking to artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, the ghosts inside the machine. CAN’T HELP MYSELF, SUN YUAN AND PENG YU, 2016. COURTESY OF THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. An enormous robotic arm, brandishing a giant squeegee, is poised over a pool of dark liquid which ceaselessly oozes outwards. With quick, smooth, aggressive movements, the machine performs […]
In a video published to Facebook, which was initially found on a TikTok-style app called Douyin, the man could be seen standing next to a black car wearing all-black while talking and looking at the camera. [embedded content] The similarities between the man and the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is quite remarkable. Although the man hasn’t been named, he’s been […]
Radioactive waste in the basement of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant is making its presence known. The increasing number of neutrons in that area indicates that nuclear reactions are occurring again, which in an extreme scenario could lead to an explosion. Safe confinement shelter which covers the destroyed reactor four at the former Chernobyl […]
If you were online during January 2020 you likely saw the barrage of video clips that were supposedly coming out of China depicting ghastly “Coronavirus” scenes. Most of those videos have been quietly wiped off the internet, but back in January and February those grisly videos were a viral sensation and they scared the sense […]
Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we’re going to write it. — Eric HughesThe Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993 In 1992, three Bay Area computer scientists launched a new mailing list for discussing cryptography, mathematics, politics, and philosophy. They called the members of this mailing list the cypherpunks: a […]
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25. An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, […]
The Rolling Stones and Boston Dynamics have dropped a special collaboration video, as Boston Dynamics robots imitate Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood to recreate a new eye-catching version of the band’s iconic “Start Me Up” video from 1981. The track celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. In a first of its kind […]
In recent years, Philippines-born influencer Bretman Rock skyrocketed to becoming one of the most popular people on social media and now has made history as the first gay male cover star of Playboy Magazine. Since first gaining popularity through his comedy and makeup tutorials on the now defunct-Vine and YouTube, Rock has launched a makeup line, […]
Marvel Studios’ new ‘woke’ president Victoria Alonso is considering dropping the ‘Men’ from ‘X-Men’ to make the brand more inclusive Alonso, who four days ago was promoted to president of Physical Production, ‘hinted that internal thinking is that the name ‘X-Men’ isn’t sufficiently inclusive’ Marvel has been working to streamline their films with the comic […]
With Roger Federer winning the Wimbledon 2017 at the age of 35, it is quite evident that people are aging late. What was considered middle age at 50 is now slowly becoming the early 40s. Image:Chuando However, this 50-year-old photographer has gone a step further. At this age, he has developed such youthful looks with a muscular […]
Cornell University has introduced an astronomy course to explore the connection between the term black holes and “racial blackness” — proof, say critics, that even the hard sciences aren’t immune to universal “racial hysteria.” The course, titled “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos,” uses work from black studies theorists, artists and fiction writers to challenge […]
Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance – a controversial group which has openly collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” bat coronavirus research – for over a decade, The National Pulse can today reveal. The unearthed financial ties between EcoHealth Alliance and Google follow months of big tech censorship of stories and […]