Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Tattoos, as anyone's concerned parents have reminded them, are notoriously permanent. But even ink needled under the surface of the skin can't withstand time's inescapable weathering. Untreated dead bodies eventually decay, and skin dotted with panels of stark-lined tigers or delicate wildflowers eventually break down to nothing more than the soil around it. A father and son team of morticians are trying to break that natural cycle using a secretive formula, preservative chemicals, and a taxidermist's eye.

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier investigates concerns that artificial intelligence is becoming too advanced on'Special Report.' Every tattoo starts with a single black dot. That tiny mark is the base for every design, no matter how complex. And now, thanks to a new AI tattoo machine, that dot is more perfect than ever. Welcome to the future of tattooing.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Face tattoos, typically reserved for rappers and rockers, could one day be used to make sure everyday office workers aren't overexerting themselves. This week, researchers from the University of Texas unveiled a new, removable, sticker-like electronic face wearable that uses electroencephalography (EEG) and electrooculography (EOG) to constantly monitor changes in the wearer's mental strain as they complete tasks. In theory, the e-tattoo could ensure air traffic controllers or other workers in similarly high-stress environments stay in the "Goldilocks zone" of mental exertion: not so much that it causes errors, but not so little that it leads to boredom and distraction. And unlike regular face tats, these can come off at the end of the day.

Whether it's Hinge, Tinder, Bumble, or something else, everyone on them has become algorithmic fodder in a game that often feels pay-to-play. Colloquial wisdom suggests you're better off trying to meet someone in person, but ever since the arrival of Covid-19 people just don't mingle like they used to. It's not surprising, then, that some romance seekers are skipping human companions and turning to AI. WIRED went looking for love and found that modern romance is a web of scams, AI boyfriends, and Tinder burnout. But a smarter, more human, and more pleasure-filled future is possible. People falling in love with their AI companions is no longer the stuff of Hollywood tales about futuristic romance.

Tattoos printed onto a person's scalp can detect electrical activity in the brain and carry signals to a recording device Analysing brainwaves could be made easier by printing a temporary tattoo onto a person's head. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a way of measuring electrical activity in the brain via electrodes placed on the scalp. It can be used to test patients for neurological conditions such as epilepsy, tumours or injury from stroke or traumatic impacts to the head. Because people's skulls vary in size and shape, technicians have to spend considerable amounts of time measuring and marking the scalp to get accurate readings. A gel helps the electrodes detect brain signals, but it stops working well as it dries.

The Chinese language is difficult, and perhaps no one has struggled more with it than the inkers and bearers of America's Chinese-character tattoos. Most infamous was probably the tattoo on Britney Spears' hip, which intended to be the character for "mysterious," but ended expressing something closer to "strange." Another popular choice is the Chinese character for "freedom," which mistranslates to mian fei, or "free of charge." I've also seen tattoos intended to represent the Chinese character for "power" represented as dian, which means "electricity" rather than "strength." I got my first tattoo in 2014 at My Tattoo in Alhambra, a road map of Los Angeles in black and red. My second came from a tattoo parlor in a neon lit alley in Shihlin Night Market in Taipei, a Chinese family stamp that depicts the meaning of my last name, a bear.

I thought my interview with Grimes--the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world--would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s.

Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show. The show is getting back to normal after going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pandemic. You might see the next big thing or something that will never make it past the prototype stage. On Tuesday night, the show kicked off with media previews from just some of the 3,000 companies signed up to attend. Bird Buddy showed off a smart bird feeder that takes snapshots of feathered friends as they fly in to eat some treats.

Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show. The show is getting back to normal after going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pandemic. You might see the next big thing or something that will never make it past the prototype stage. On Tuesday night, the show kicked off with media previews from just some of the 3,000 companies signed up to attend. Bird Buddy showed off a smart bird feeder that takes snapshots of feathered friends as they fly in to eat some treats.

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