Search results for "wikipedia"
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4.3KSocialA Bored Chinese Housewife Was Caught Falsifying Russian History On Wikipedia, After Her Edits Tricked Readers For Years
Yet another scandal is rocking Wikipedia. This time, a bored Chinese housewife spent years on Chinese Wikipedia falsifying Russian history – and...
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4.9KMiscWikipedia’s Founder Takes On the Giants with Growing Social Media Platform WT:Social
In a move no one saw coming, earlier this month Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced a social media platform called WT:Social. That...
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2.4KMiscStart-up Stores All 16G of Wikipedia Onto DNA Strand
Say goodbye to hard disks and 3D memory chips, start-up Catalog announced on Friday it’s stored all of the text of Wikipedia...
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3.7KFutureAI-Generated Wikipedia Blurbs To Help Overlooked Scientists
One of the best projects in the AI writing area (other than weird poetry) is definitely the Quicksilver AI, which helps put...
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952FutureLab-Grown Eel Meat Is Finally Here And Yes, It’s A Huge Breakthrough Actually
Some fantastic news for the future of the planet: a company has made lab-grown eel. While it might sound like a niche...
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901StreamlandThe Apple TV+ 2024 Schedule Is Quality, Not Quantity
Yes, Netflix might have hundreds if not thousands of movies and shows but how many hours did you lose scrolling through it...
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992GamingNew Songs In Rock Band? This Month, It Will Be for the Very Last Time
During the past sixteen years, Rock Band has amassed almost 3,000 songs but that humongous catalog will stop growing this month. Harmonix,...
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996FutureHow OpenAI Is Preparing So That ChatGPT Won’t Destroy the Upcoming Elections
Thought the last election cycle was bad thanks to social-media fuelled disinformation? Now add ChatGPT and deepfakes to the mix. The first...
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934FutureThe Absurd Reason Why UK’s Ministry of Justice Wants to Destroy 100 Million Wills
Since COVID, the movement to digitize archives has accelerated across the world but in the UK the speed might kill some incredible...
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893Future‘My Dad’s Blood Boy’: How A Multimillionaire Tech Investor Is De-Aging His Father
‘I am my dad’s blood boy’, said this tech investor on X (formerly Twitter) when discussing rejuvenation techniques. Bryan Johnson, a millionaire...
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5.5KFutureBlogger Says New iOS Feature Is ‘Astonishing’, ‘Breathtaking’ and ‘Compelling’
Any Apple launch is always accompanied by hype and hyperboles and this story about the latest iOS features is no exception. Tech...
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2.8KSecurityDouble Trouble: Can Identical Twins Swap Biometric Passports?
In the era of technological advancements, biometric identification is becoming the standard in various aspects of our lives, including travel. Passports, once...
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1.1KSmart LifeWhat Did the First TV Look Like? Each Decade for TV, In Pictures That Will Make You Dream of Better Times
In part one of this series about the evolution of TV, we answered the question of “when did TVs come out” and...
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773FutureHow A Russian Researcher Revived A 46,000 Years Old Worm From Permafrost
Can anything be revived after 46,000 years? This is the incredible story of how scientists indeed brought back to life a pair...
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1.6KStreamlandNot Seen In Oppenheimer: How the Man Who Actually Assembled the Bomb Died Soon After While Handling Another One
Something Christoper Nolan didn’t show in Oppenheimer? Louis Slotin was the person who actually assembled the nuclear bomb used in the Trinity...
