J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

AI Americana The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and create ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don't raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human men are pictured embodying J. Crew's vintage Americana-prep aesthetic: vibing on boats, cycling past storefronts in muted colors, drawing and painting in their paint-splattered studio, and so on. But as Blackbird Spyplane first spotted, upon closer inspection, the images are absolutely littered with signs of AI slop. The AI-generated errors […]

Scientists Have Figured Which Types of People Are Successfully Hooking Up the Most on Tinder

Scientists Have Figured Which Types of People Are Successfully Hooking Up the Most on Tinder

In the nearly 13 years since Tinder launched, the dating app has been everything from a straight alternative to Grindr and a sexual harassment factory to a place where people meet their spouses and, finally, an AI-riddled graveyard. Nevertheless, there are some flesh-and-blood humans still successfully using the app, and according to a fascinating new study about folks who regularly get their kicks with people from Tinder, they share some bizarre traits in common. In a new paper published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, psychology researchers Lennart Freyth of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and Peter […]

Aug. 31, 1913: Birth of Bernard Lovell

Aug. 31, 1913: Birth of Bernard Lovell

On Aug. 31, 1913, Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was born in England. When he was 15, a school trip to hear a lecture on electricity prompted a keen interest in science and math, and Lovell would go on to study physics at Bristol University. He graduated with honors in 1934 and finished his Ph.D. only Continue reading "Aug. 31, 1913: Birth of Bernard Lovell" The post Aug. 31, 1913: Birth of Bernard Lovell appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .

Survey Finds That Self-Driving Is Actively Chasing Buyers Away From Tesla

Survey Finds That Self-Driving Is Actively Chasing Buyers Away From Tesla

Tesla's misleading-named "full-self driving" (FSD) feature used to be one of the Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker's biggest selling points, with the boastful multi-hyphenate's years of over-promising and under-delivering serving as an endless hype cycle that seemed like it would always drive up sales. Now, as evidenced by a new survey of American consumers from the Slingshot Strategies consulting firm, it seems the FSD bubble has finally burst amid Tesla's abysmal sales and its CEO's ever-toxic politics. In its monthly Electronic Vehicle Intelligence Report, Slingshot found, upon surveying more than 8,000 people across US demographics in August, that 35 percent of […]

Scientists reveal breakthrough blood pressure treatment that works when others fail

Scientists reveal breakthrough blood pressure treatment that works when others fail

A breakthrough pill, baxdrostat, has shown remarkable success in lowering dangerously high blood pressure in patients resistant to standard treatments. In a large international trial, it cut systolic pressure by nearly 10 mmHg, enough to significantly reduce risks of heart attack, stroke, and kidney disease. The drug works by blocking excess aldosterone, a hormone that drives uncontrolled hypertension.

Woman Alarmed When to Get Brazilian Wax and Find That Employee Was Wearing Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

Woman Alarmed When to Get Brazilian Wax and Find That Employee Was Wearing Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

Advocates have long contended that so-called "smart glasses," which records whatever the wearer sees when turned on, will pose serious privacy risks. With Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses, a new generation is finding out the hard way just how creepy these surveillance wearables can be. In a recent viral TikTok video, influencer Aniessa Navarro said that a few weeks prior, she was in the middle of a Brazilian wax at her regular Manhattan location of the European Wax Center chain when she realized that her esthetician was wearing a pair of the Ray-Ban Meta AI Wayfarers. Surprised, Navarro asked the esthetician […]