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A man staying in a Hilton Hotel in Tennessee woke up to quite the predicament when he caught the evening manager sucking on his toes. According to Law & Crime, David Patrick Neal was arrested Friday after he allegedly entered the room of the man staying at the downtown Nashville Hilton Hotel on March 30 […]
Khalid is expressing his concerns over the recent virality of AI-generated tracks. Speaking with a TMZ paparazzo over the weekend, Khalid was asked about the wave of recent AI-generated sounds emulating Drake’s voice, specifically whether he would be okay with someone doing the same with his voice. “I have mixed feelings about it,” he explained. […]
A human skeleton was discovered this week in an abandoned building on the University of Berkely campus. UC Berkeley police were alerted to the remains on Tuesday, according to a statement shared with CNN. The skeleton was found in a building on the Clark Kerr Campus, which is a residential hall complex located a mile from the school’s main […]
Planet earth is getting very close to reaching a population of 8 billion human beings. While eight billion people sounds like a lot of fucking people, and it undeniably is, there is quite clearly some division among population-focused researchers and related experts on whether or not the rate we’ve seen in recent decades will continue. […]
A viral video making the rounds on social media captures an unlucky man being attacked by an aggressive orangutan at a zoo. It’s unclear whether he suffered any injuries. The 30-second clip begins with the orangutan grabbing the man by his T-shirt and pulling him closer to the enclosure. From there a tug-of-war ensues as the man and his companion try unsuccessfully […]
A Russian robotics company has issued an unusual offer. The company is willing to pay someone $200,000 to use their face and voice for a human-like robot. According to a press release, Promobot has been “seeking a face for a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls, and other crowded places. The company is ready […]
In a new study, researchers have suggested there’s substantial evidence to point towards a coronavirus epidemic that hit East Asia around 20,000 years ago. The research shows that the epidemic, which was present in the region for multiple years, left traces of itself in the genetic make-up of people from the region. “It should make us […]
Humans have disturbed almost all of the Earth’s habitats and animal populations. A new study from Frontier Forest and Global Change reveals that only three percent of the Earth’s land remains untouched or “ecologically intact.” Rather than just rely on satellite imagery, Andrew Plumptre—lead author of the study—and his team studied superimposed maps of human […]
They’re calling it a “zombie gene.” A new study published in Scientific Reports challenges the widespread belief that brain activity comes to a halt immediately at death or shortly after. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that glial cells not only come alive, but also increase in size and grow arm-like appendages hours after a […]
Human activity has forced the world’s wildlife populations to plummet by 68 percent in the last 50 years, with human consumption being the primary culprit. This new data comes from the 2020 Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund, which evaluates population declines in over 4,392 observed species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians […]
