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“We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” said one researcher involved in the first-of-its-kind study that dosed fish with psilocybin, the component in magic mushrooms.
A Flock sales pitch; a retracted paper on ChatGPT; and Chinese interference in RightsCon.
It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.
Following the latest iOS update which requires UK mobile Apple device users to verify their ages, Pornhub’s parent company Aylo is lifting its ban—but only for people using iPads and…
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science…
Presenters say that Weber State University’s legal team adopted a narrow construction of a state law designed to withhold funding from public institutions suspected of practicing DEI.
Scientists analyzed thousands of self-reported dreams and discovered that our sleeping visions are influenced by personality traits and external events, such as the pandemic.
RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.
This week, we discuss a wild message, a new anthology, and a visit to a museum.
The Compiler takes a serious amount of time, skill, and luck to get to. Someone on eBay is selling an easy fix.
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.
CBP is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on more high-powered surveillance drones, and other components of DHS may start their own fleet of MQ-9 drones as well.
The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in…
A magic eye that isn't, an AI learning tool that sucks, and more in this week's podcast.
Humans can’t hear low-frequency “infrasound,” but a new study demonstrates that it raises our stress levels and triggers an “unsettling” feeling that could be linked to people’s experiences in haunted…
“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.