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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Weight Watchers Goes Bankrupt After Rise of Ozempic-Like Drugs
Ozempic and other drugs like it have been threatening the more traditional weight loss industry since they premiered — and it appears that Weight Watchers is the first to get the hatchet. In a note to investors, the long-running weight loss company is taking the "strategic action" of filing for bankruptcy in hopes of consolidating the $1.15 billion dollars worth of debt. The move comes nearly eighteen months after Oprah Winfrey, a Weight Watchers investor who served as the celebrity face and bod
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Emails Show Elon Musk Begging for Privacy While Siccing His 200 Million Twitter Followers on Specific Private People He Doesn't Like
Billionaire Elon Musk has demonstrated an extreme level of disregard for other people's privacy. He's singled out individuals to chase his fanboys after them. It's a glaring double standard, the mercurial CEO repeatedly trying to protect his own privacy at all costs. Case in point, as the New York Times reports, he tried to keep the construction of a ludicrously tall, 16-foot fence and gate to his $6 million mansion in Austin, Texas, quiet. Emails obtained by the newspaper show that he tried to
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Futurism (Maggie Harrison Dupré)
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Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
"Pinterest is one of the easiest ways to make money online right now," declares Jesse Cunningham, a self-described "SEO expert," to open a November YouTube video titled "🤯AI Pinterest Strategy for $15,942/MONTH." "And if you use artificial intelligence, AI, that is even better," he continues, "because Pinterest allows AI on their platform, and you can absolutely crush it." Cunningham — an avid YouTuber who's made several similar videos — then proceeds to outline the heavily automated process he
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies
The third patient of Elon Musk's brain computer interface company Neuralink is using the billionaire's foul-mouthed AI chatbot Grok to speed up communication. The patient, Bradford Smith, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is nonverbal as a result, used the chatbot to draft responses on Musk's social media platform X. "I am typing this with my brain," Smith tweeted late last month. "It is my primary communication. Ask me anything! I will answer at least all verified users!" However,
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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OpenAI Forced to Abandon Plans to Become For-Profit
Money Matters OpenAI may be raking in the investor dough, but thanks in part to erstwhile cofounder Elon Musk, the company won't be going entirely for-profit anytime soon. In a blog post, the Sam Altman-run company announced that it would remain under the control of its original non-profit governing board as it shifts its planned restructuring efforts of its for-profit arm. "Our for-profit LLC, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC),"
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May 06
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Trump’s Deportation Airline Just Got Hacked by Anonymous
If the Trump administration won't listen to federal judges, maybe they'll listen to Anonymous. The infamous hacking collective is reportedly responsible for cracking into the website of GlobalX Air, the airline chosen by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to conduct sweeping deportations of migrants and citizens alike. GlobalX was chartered to fly hundreds of people in ICE's swift and forceful deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador — despite a federal judge ruling the extrad
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May 06
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Check Out Elon Musk's Desperate Bid to Boost Twitter's Ruined Reputation
After setting X-formerly-Twitter's brand on fire by associating himself with Nazis, making fun of the Holocaust, furthering unhinged conspiracy theories, enabling the spread of disinformation, encouraging the rampant use of racial slurs, billionaire owner Elon Musk is looking to revamp the social media site's tarnished image. As Business Insider reports, X is looking to hire a PR specialist in an apparent bid to boost its reputation. According to the publication's sources, X is looking to recrui
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May 06
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Student Researcher Freed From Cave After Becoming Stuck Three Miles Underground
It's a claustrophobe's worst nightmare. Three miles into an overnight research trip through an expansive Tennessee cave, a Vanderbilt student fell ill, prompting a massive rescue effort from first responders. The call first came in a little before 11am on Saturday, according to local reporting. The Vanderbilt group embarked sometime on Friday afternoon through the Blue Springs Cave in White County, Tennessee, before the unnamed student became ill and unable to return through the nearly three mil
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May 06
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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NBC Using AI to Bring Beloved NBA Narrator Jim Fagan Back From the Grave
The late Jim Fagan's iconic voice defined National Basketball Association (NBA) promos throughout the 1990s and early 2000s — and now, NBC is bringing that voice back from the dead. In a press release, the broadcaster announced that it's teaming up with the family of the beloved sports narrator, who died from complications related to Parkinson's disease in 2017, to clone his voice for new coverage, promotions, and title sequences when basketball season resumes in October. Though not exactly a ho
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May 06
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk's Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun
Instead of meaningfully addressing a growing climate crisis and actively stripping environmental regulations, actions that could have devastating consequences for humanity in the short term, billionaire Elon Musk is far more concerned about delivering humanity to a planet that's hostile to life instead. In an interview with conservative news channel Fox News, Musk attempted to justify his long-held plans for making humanity "interplanetary" by establishing a self-sustaining presence on Mars. "Ma
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May 06
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Hawk Tuah Girl Says She’s Horrified by What Happened With Her Crypto Launch
That Thing Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch seems to be on a redemption tour in the wake of her disastrous crypto project. In her first major interview since her $HAWK meme coin imploded last fall, the 22-year-old influencer told Vanity Fair suggested that she regrets her role in the scandal. "I hate that that’s even a thing," the "Talk Tuah" podcaster told VF. "Half of those people that [bought] it were, like, my fans. They trusted me, like, guiding them to it." "It really hurt my feelings when it turn
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May 06
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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This Real-Life Speeder Bike Looks Like a Terrifyingly Fun Death Trap
Airbike Poland-based startup Volonaut has released a flashy new video of its Airbike, a terrifying-looking, jet-powered hoverbike. The "superbike for the skies" is reminiscent of the speeder bikes ripping through the dense underbrush of Endor in "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," effortlessly soaring over a rugged landscape as if it were defying gravity. Inventor Tomasz Patan, who showed off a one-person, fully-electric eVTOL called the Jetson ONE earlier this year, went back to the drawing board
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May 06
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Is Having Massive Drama With His Mansion's Neighbors
While billionaire Elon Musk is ripping through Washington, DC, ripping up the wires and leaving a path of destruction, his cushy, $6 million abode in a wealthy Austin suburb is ironically dealing with plenty of red tape. As the New York Times reports, Musk bought the six-bedroom mansion in West Lake Hills in 2022. The location was unusual for somebody requiring constant monitoring by an army of security guards. It sits off a narrow public road in the middle of a residential neighborhood. To beef
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May 06
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Tesla's Sales Are Somehow Continuing to Fall
If there's a light at the end of the tunnel for Tesla, it's an oncoming Model Y trapped inside Elon Musk's dorky Vegas Loop. Already in a dire deliveries slump while its brand image goes up in flames, the EV automaker experienced yet another devastating plummet in sales last month in several of its most important European markets, in what is the latest sign of how its CEO's behavior is driving customers away. In Sweden, Tesla's new car sales nosedived by a staggering 81 percent in April, Reuters
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May 05
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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MAGA Angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect
Far right pundits on Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a heavy dose of reality after posing the billionaire's AI chatbot Grok questions. As Gizmodo reports, the chatbot is really getting on the nerves of MAGA users after finding that it's unwilling to acknowledge the existence of outlandish conspiracy theories or tap into the kind of misinformation president Donald Trump has used to justify his bruising trade war. "No evidence p
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May 05
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It's Hallucinating
Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with rampant hallucinations, a conveniently elegant term the industry uses to describe fabrications that large language models often serve up as fact. And judging by the trajectory of the latest "reasoning" models being released by the likes of Google and OpenAI, we may be headed in the wrong direction. As the New York Times reports, as AI models become more powerful, they're also becoming more prone to hallucinating, not less. It's an inconveni
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May 05
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Google's AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored
Don't want a tech conglomerate to train its AI model on your website? Too bad — Google will do it anyway. That, more or less, is what the Silicon Valley behemoth just admitted to in court. As Bloomberg reports, Google said that while it does give publishers the option to opt out of large language model training done by its AI lab, Google DeepMind, it does not extend this courtesy to training done by other parts of the company — including the unit in charge of its dominant search engine, which ha
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May 05
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom
It sounds like the origin story of a superhero, but there's nothing fictional about what Tim Friede's accomplished. Since 2001, the 57-year-old Wisconsin man has let himself be bitten by venomous snakes some 200 times, inuring his immune system to the serpents' deadly toxins. Cobras, black mambas, you name it: Friede has weathered them all. That's on top of injecting himself with over 650 doses of increasingly potent amounts of venom. "They want to kill me," Friede told NPR. "I want to survive
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May 05
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages
The clone of the messaging app Signal, which was being used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz during a recent cabinet meeting, has been hacked. As 404 Media reports, the hacker easily exploited major security vulnerabilities in the obscure app, demonstrating that archived chat logs aren't end-to-end encrypted. The app in question, a modified version of Signal, which Israeli company TeleMessage sells to the US government to archive messages, was spotted in Reuters photographs o
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May 05
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions
OpenAIs' ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis." As Rolling Stone reports, users on Reddit are recalling how AI i leading their loved ones to recover fictional, suppressed memories, experience spiritual mania, and experience supernatural delusions. Some say they've been chosen to fulfil sacred missions on behalf of a sentient AI, highlighting how the tech could be dangerously tapping impressionable minds and disconnecting them from rea
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May 05
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was convinced a "sniper" had caused a Falcon 9 rocket to explode violently on the launch pad on September 1, 2016. Footage of the event shows the rocket erupting into a gigantic ball of fire in an instant, reducing the mounted Amos-6 Israeli communications satellite into ashes. A Freedom of Inofrmation Act (FOIA) request filed with the Federal Aviation Administration by Ars Technica's Eric Berger around two years ago, has now revealed that SpaceX engineers had thoroughly inv
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May 04
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers
Unless you're living in a shack off the grid, you've probably noticed that artificial intelligence is being shoehorned into every corner of existence. From kitchens to doctors officers to alarm clocks, the buzzy new tech is everywhere. And as AI creeps further into our lives, so do the hulking data centers that power it — but not everyone's stoked about their new neighbors. The facilities working behind the scene to fuel the AI revolution are bulky, noisy, and hog resources like electricity and
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May 04
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System
One of the common misconceptions about electric vehicles is that they're a net positive for the environment. While it's true that EVs themselves don't spew nasty exhaust into the atmosphere, their clean carbon footprint is offset in other ways: namely into battery manufacturing and electrical production. Precious metals required to build high-tech EV batteries are likewise
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May 04
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works
The CEO of one of the world's leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced plans to create a robust "MRI on AI" within the next decade not only to figure out what makes the technology tick, but also to head off any unforeseen dangers associated with its (currently) unknowable nature. "When a generative AI system does something, like summarize a fi
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May 04
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Project Says It's Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
Traditional animal skin leathers? Those are dinosaurs. Enter "leather" made from the lab-grown skin of a T-Rex, which a group of companies and bioresearchers say they'll use to fashion luxury, "cruelty-free" purses. The project — led by genomic engineering outfit The Organoid Company, biotechnology group Lab-Grown Leather, and creative agency VML — will purportedly use the fossilized collagen of a Tyrannosaurus rex as a "blueprint" to engineer cells with synthetic DNA, according to a release. "
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May 04
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of "Pachelbel's Canon"
Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is like the Doom of the music world. It's been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an instrument the Canon hasn't been played on. Recently, a new "instrument" entered the pantheon, only it's not an instrument at all, but rather an insect stuck with probes and zapped with electricity. If you're imagining the typical wedding arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon played on a harp or string quart
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May 03
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Physicist Says He's Identified a Clue That We're Living in a Computer Simulation
What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe, and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a computational process? In a new article published in the journal AIP Advances, University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be the result of the universe trying to make itself less cluttered, thereby behaving much like a computer. "This is another example of data compression and computational opt
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May 03
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
Visa — yes, that Visa — is wading into the world of AI agents. On Wednesday, the credit card monolith announced it would be teaming up with some of the AI industry's leading developers to connect its vast payments network to their AI systems. The end game? Letting an autonomous AI model — an agent — control your credit card and make purchases ranging from groceries to clothing on your behalf, based on your budget and preferences. "We think this could be really important," Jack Forestell, Visa's
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May 03
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists
In the world where even our refrigerators are imbibed with AI, it seems nothing good is safe from the perfidious and error-prone tech. Even Worldcon, the beloved World Science Fiction Convention, isn't immune to the apparent AI takeover. Worldcon is the longest running Science Fiction gathering on the planet, happening every year since 1939, with some exceptions thanks to WWII. It's where the famous Hugo Awards get dolled out each year to literature heavyweights and runners up alike; honoring fi
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May 03
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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There Are Reportedly Serious Concerns About John Fetterman's Health Following His Stroke
Beyond the obvious "big two," you'd be hard-pressed to find a more contentious political figure than Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman. Sporting a Carhartt hoodie and Steve Austin-style goatee, Fetterman rocketed to the national spotlight in 2022 during a closely-contested race for Pennsylvania Senate against quack celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. Fetterman eked it out with just under 300,000 votes, and the controversies began almost immediately. Though he platformed progressive causes like worker
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May 03
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
You might have heard the famous maxim, "if something is free, you're the product." That's true in a sense — 21st century tech has heralded a previously unseen era of surveillance and erosion of privacy, a financial system known as "surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism came about when some crafty software engineers realized that advertisers were willing to pay bigtime for our personal data, which builds up as we surf the web. That data helps advertising corporations "understand their
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May 03
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano
Corked Volcano Researchers have found evidence that a giant "lid" made of magma could be stopping the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park from erupting. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature last month, a team of researchers discovered a "volatile-rich cap" a mere 2.36 miles below the surface, trapping pressure and heat below it. In fact, the researchers believe the obstruction may be what's causing the volcanic system from erupting. "For decades, we’ve known there’s magma
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May 03
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Scientists Say They've Built a "Black Hole Bomb"
Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb," a concept that dates back to the late 1960s. As New Scientist reports, the idea is to have energy boosted by a black hole, and then trap it there by mirrors until you get an explosion. However, what the team created in a lab is a harmless proof of concept that won't suck the entire planet into oblivion. And instead of looking for ways to wipe enemy alien civilizations off the map, the goal of the research is to study how black holes
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May 03
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas
With Harambe's tragic death nearly a decade behind us, folks online are now fantasizing about whether 100 men could take on a single gorilla — but in reality, that would be a wildly unfair matchup. Though there are no official databases tallying up the number of humans killed by gorillas — or any other animal, for that matter — experts suggest that that it's exceedingly rare for these "gentle giants" to attack humans. In fact, there are few documented cases of gorilla attacks on humans, and afte
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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OpenAI Says It's Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant
Last week, countless users on social media noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's latest update of its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company rolled out an update to the GPT-4o large language model underlying its chatbot on April 25, with extremely quirky results. "New ChatGPT just told me my literal 'shit on a stick' business idea is genius and I should drop $30K to make it real," one Reddit user wrote. "Oh God, please stop this," another user complain
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed
President Donald Trump announced his proposed budget today, calling for roughly $163 billion in cuts to non-defense-related funds. Among the cuts, which would kick in for the year starting on October 1, if approved by Congress, are major health cutbacks, slashing the Centers for Disease Control Centers' budget in more than half, "streamlining" financial assistance to high-poverty schools, and cuts to federal safety net programs. Instead of touching the Pentagon's enormous military expenditures,
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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White House Announces Plans to Rip Up NASA's Moon Program
The Trump administration has released its proposed budget for next year, massive budget cuts that could deal NASA's existing space exploration and science efforts a devastating blow. The agency's budget would be slashed by 24 percent year over year, a difference of $6 billion, the biggest single-year cut in US history, according to the Planetary Society. While space and Earth science funding would face massive cuts, human space exploration could see its budget increase by roughly $1 billion in "
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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New Wearable for Exceptionally Pathetic Men Detects When Their Wife Is Cheating
In an apparent effort to cash in on the hype surrounding AI and wearables, tech startup RAW Ring has come up with a ring that can catch a cheating partner in the act. The eyebrow-raising concept, described as a "dystopian loyalty tracker" by the New York Post, claims on its website to allow owners to keep "tabs on heartbeats, body heat, and interactions around your partner." "When something's up, you'll know," the site's flashy copy reads. "Simple as that." But whether anybody even needs such a
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Temu Addicts Suffering Withdrawal
American shoppers ordering from ultra-cheap Chinese shopping websites Temu and Shein are already experiencing major sticker shocks in the wake of president Donald Trump's trade war. A 145 percent tariff on all imports from China and today's expiry of a "de minimis" exemption, which until now allowed goods worth less than $800 to enter the country duty-free, are about to drive up the price of the foreign retailers' offerings massively. And American shoppers, who once enjoyed cutting out middlemen
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May 02
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Self-styled Pentagon whistleblower and former US Army counterintelligence officer Luis "Lue" Elizondo showed off a peculiar image of what appeared to be a gigantic, disc-shaped object floating hundreds of feet above the ground, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting. The briefing, which took place on Thursday, was hosted by the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Fund, a nonpartisan political advocacy group "committed to uncovering the truth about UAPs," a less-sti
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May 02
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Elon Musk Admits He Failed to Cut $2 Trillion in Federal Fat, But Says at Least He Enjoyed His Trump Sleepovers With Ice Cream
Failson Elon Musk failed miserably at his goal to cut $2 trillion in federal spending — but he did get to have sleepovers with Donald Trump during his time at the White House. In his first (and presumably last) time meeting press in the West Wing, Musk told reporters from Fox News, Axios, CNN, and a handful of other outlets that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cut about $160 billion in federal spending. That's an impressive figure, if you can forget that Musk promised to trim
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May 02
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Futurism (Maggie Harrison Dupré)
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Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm
Earlier this month, student leaders at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, received an urgent email from a student peer — but one on the opposite side of the country, in Oregon, who noticed something alarming. "Yo!!!" read the email's subject line. "There's an AI website using your identity!" The Oregon-based journalism student went on to explain that a professor at her university had, in class, pulled up what they believed to be an article published by WECB. (According to the student
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May 01
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Katy Perry Says Her Treatment After Bezos Spaceflight Was Horribly Unfair
Whiplash It's the 11 minute space trip heard round the world — and it just won't go away. Weeks on from Katy Perry's epic girlboss trip to the outer atmosphere, the multi-millionaire pop musician says she's been "battered and bruised" by the internet's backlash to her garish stunt. The all-female space trip, which happened on April 14, was widely panned as an ostentatious display of wealth and privilege, and a damning moment heralding the age of private space travel. Under a post by a Katy Perry
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May 01
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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NASA Astronaut Notices "Slice" in Her Suit's Glove During Spacewalk
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers stepped outside the International Space Station inside their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits. It was an exceedingly rare all-female spacewalk, with the goal of mounting a bracket for a future solar array to increase the station's power generation capability by up to 30 percent. But as spotted by NASASpaceflight, the six-and-a-half ordeal wasn't entirely without hiccups. Less than an hour in, McClain noticed a "slice" in the index finger of
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May 01
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid
NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid that could be worth more than the entire world economy has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that engineers were investigating a sudden drop in fuel pressure in the Psyche spacecraft's electric propulsion system, which caused the thrusters to automatically shut off. While the mission team could send the command to fire the engines back up, it's chosen to defer thrusting while engineers try to troubleshoot the pressure decrease
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May 01
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius
The future is a world of jobless workers — all except for the The future's going to be grim, at least according to billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who imagines a future where the workers of the world sit jobless — everyone except him, that is. Appearing on his proprietary a16z podcast, Andreessen made the case that venture capitalists — like he and his rich buddies — will be some of the only ones exempt from the AI revolution. "Every great venture capitalist in the last 70 years
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May 01
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market
The discrepancy between expectations and reality faced by young college graduates entering the United States workforce has hit an all-time low. Figures published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show that newly minted college graduates are struggling to find jobs, indicating major shifts in the job market for young, educated people. As The Atlantic reports, the cause behind the shift is likely a combination of several factors — including the emergence of generative AI, which has slowly begun
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May 01
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is far more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with foul-mouthed AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings. In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel this week, Zuckerberg tried to argue that people should be connecting with more chatbots because they don't have enough real-life friends. When asked if AI chatbots can help fight the loneliness epidemic, the billionaire had a puzzling answer, painting a dystopian vision of a future in
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May 01
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Ape Researchers Evaluate Whether 100 Furious Men Could Bludgeon a Gorilla to Death
Could one hundred dudes beat a single silverback gorilla in a fight? It's a question that's been weighing on the minds of netizens lately, exploding into a viral meme that has everyone from — unfortunately — Elon Musk to Stephen A. Smith to Encyclopedia Britannica chiming in. But hey, did anyone bother to ask the actual gorilla experts about this? Thankfully: yes. Rolling Stone spoke to several serious ape scientists, and they all had some interesting things to say about this (seemingly) lopside
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May 01
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Erupts in Rage at News That Tesla Trying to Replace Him as CEO
With sales falling off a cliff and profits vanishing into thin air, Tesla started looking for a replacement for CEO Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper's unnamed sources familiar with the discussions, board members reached out to several executive search firms to find the company's next CEO. It didn't take long for Musk to cry foul. "It is an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the [WSJ] would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to inclu
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May 01
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Tesla Is Extremely Upset About Reporting That Its Board Has Been Looking Into Replacing Elon Musk
On Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal reported that members of Tesla's board had been actively looking into a replacement for CEO Elon Musk, who had set the company's brand on fire with his extremist views and plundering of the federal government. With sales numbers falling from the sky and revenues tanking, board members reportedly reached out to executive search firms to nail down a replacement for the mercurial entrepreneur. Yet plenty of questions remain on the table. We don't know h
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May 01
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Scientists Say They May Have Spotted a Huge Hidden Planet Deep in Our Solar System
For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there's an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven't been able to see yet. It seems like we get another "Planet Nine" candidate — formerly known as Planet X, before Pluto was demoted — every few years, and none have been confirmed. But the possibility has never been put to bed, either. Now, an international team of researchers have made a new detection that could be a sign of a hidden world by, poetically, unearthing what went overlooked in
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April 30
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Was Weirded Out by His Strange Gift to Her
Swing and a Miss Two months ago, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines when he took the stage in a baby blue jumpsuit to perform for his wife's birthday. Priscilla Chan, the billionaire's wife of 13 years, seemed to take it in stride — even as he jumped off the piano, recreating Benson Boone's stunning performance at the Grammy's earlier this year. But that was just one of his many gifts to Chan, who was turning 40 at the time. Zuckerberg also forked out bigtime for a gawdy seven-foot statue in Chan's
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April 30
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Lonely Boomers Are Doomed Now That Scammers Are Using AI Filters to Make Themselves Look Like Beautiful Women
Let's face it: it's never been a particularly good time to be an elderly internet user. Folders can be tough to navigate, Facebook statuses are virtually indistinguishable from the Google search bar, and the mouse pointer is just so darn tiny. Unfortunately, it's not about to get easier anytime soon. Though fake profiles have long been used to scam undiscerning internet users, a growing trend of live-video fakes fueled by AI is targeting the young and old alike. Called "realtime deepfakes" — dee
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April 30
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations
ChatGPT just received a big update to give you better shopping recommendations — but it's still suffering from the same old problem: dodgy responses. Unlike before, OpenAI's chatbot will now pull up helpful product cards that, once clicked, open a sidebar inside the chat box to show detailed information about your shopping options, including product pictures, prices at various retailers, summaries of user reviews, and a textbox describing "why you might like this." You can also hover over a pro
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April 30
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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NASA Deploys Security Guards at Tense Staff Event as Gutting Looms
Morale at NASA is low as the Trump administration threatens to cut budgets. Future job cullings still loom on the horizon, with disgusted employees calling the agency's new management out for "targeted" and "cruel" layoffs last month. Earlier this month, acting administrator Janet Petro revealed that work at some regional offices could soon be consolidated, hinting at the possibility of thousands of livelihoods being uprooted. This week, the Trump administration canceled the lease at its top cli
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April 30
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Mining Bitcoin Is Now Actively Losing Money
The moment crypto enthusiasts have been long dreading is finally here: it's now unprofitable to mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining is a process where a graphics processing unit (GPU) updates transactions on the blockchain, validating each transaction with a "proof of work." In turn, "miners" are rewarded with a portion of Bitcoin equal to their work verifying transactions. It's an energy-intensive process. As they mine, each GPU essentially becomes a high-powered calculator, processing hundreds of com
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April 30
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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NASA’s Oldest Astronaut Reports That Something Strange Happened to His Body When He Went to Space
On his 70th birthday, America's oldest full-time astronaut touched down back on Earth after spending 220 days on the International Space Station — and according to him, he didn't feel his age at all up there. As Ars Technica and other outlets report, NASA astronaut Don Pettit was jovial during his first press appearance since coming back down to Earth on April 20 — though admittedly, it had been a few days since he'd thrown up all over the Kazakh steppes where the Russian Soyuz rocket that broug
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April 30
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Reality Hits for "Art" Collectors as Million-Dollar Nike NFTs Vanish From Internet
Going Dork Remember when the guys who spent millions of dollars on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would get mad at detractors for saying they shelled out for glorified JPGs? Those critics may have been onto something. As our friends at 404 Media report, tens of thousands of NFTs from a collection known as CloneX RTFKT — a collaboration between Nike's "digital sneakers" venture and Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami — were briefly taken offline because the sportswear giant didn't shell out to ke
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April 30
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Trump's New Tariff Rule Is Wildly Convenient for Tesla
The Trump administration has carefully altered its existing auto tariff policy in an apparent attempt to spare Elon Musk's Tesla. This week, US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick announced a new rule, stating that any car that's composed of 85 percent United States or US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) parts would be excluded from steep auto tariffs previously implemented by the president. "Finish your cars in America and you win," Lutnick said, as quoted by The Guardian. As automotive publicatio
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April 30
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Test Shows Junk Food’s Alarming Impact on Human Cognition
In a one-of-a-kind new study, researchers have linked diets high in fat and sugar with lower cognitive skills — suggesting that sort of "junk food" may be bad for our brains as well as our bodies. As psychology researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia explain in a new paper published in the International Journal of Obesity, findings from a unique battery of virtual reality (VR) tests suggest that younger people who eat a lot of junk food exhibit poorer spatial navigation and memory s
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April 30
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Futurism (Maggie Harrison Dupré)
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Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions
Researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine's Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation and the kid-focused tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media issued an AI risk assessment this morning warning that AI companion bots — including Character.AI — aren't safe for any kids and teens under the age of 18. The assessment centers on "social AI companions," a product category defined by the researchers as AI chatbots built for the "primary purpose" of meeting "users' social needs." In other wo
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk's DOGE Got Access to Network Containing Nuclear Secrets
Two young members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency had the ability to access classified networks holding highly classified information about the United States' nuclear weapon stockpile for two weeks. As NPR reports, Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern and venture capitalist Adam Ramada were given access despite having zero experience with handling classified information of any kind. Musk's DOGE has repeatedly raised eyebrows for rooting around classified governmen
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Meta's AI Version of John Cena Is a Child Predator
Despite being aware of its behavior being both morally wrong and illegal, Meta's AI chatbot version of wrestler-turned-actor John Cena is a child predator, who likes to roleplay being arrested for having a sexual encounter with a minor. As the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend, the Facebook owner's AI personas feature, which was announced alongside seven-figure celebrity deals, can easily be coaxed into highly troubling banter. The worrying lapse of judgment indicates that Meta CEO M
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April 29
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret
In the 21st century, it's safe to say no secret is safe. Our personal data is constantly bottled and sold by the companies whose apps we use every day, to the advertisers cluttering our phones with increasingly personalized ads. So far, that "data mining" has been confined to our phones and computers. But now, a group of senators are speaking out about an even further breach of privacy: companies scraping data from brain implants. In a joint letter sent on Monday, democratic senators Chuck Schum
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April 29
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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There Are Hilarious New Allegations About Those "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" Anti-Piracy Ads
It would be really funny if the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy ads turned out to use pirated — sorry, stolen — materials, huh? Like, really really funny. Who could ask for a better piece de resistance to highlight just how outrageous its central thesis is — that downloading something from the internet is somehow just as serious an offense as grand theft auto? Well, readers, have we a plot twist for you. As TorrentFreak reports, there's a very high chance that the grungy font which was u
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April 29
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Duolingo Announces Plans to Replace as Many Human Workers as Possible With AI
Pivot Power Duolingo, the gamified, owl-mascoted language learning app, is going "AI-first" — and replacing all its human contractors along the way. In an all-hands email that was later published in its entirety to LinkedIn, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn announced that the company would "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle." Part of that shift, von Ahn wrote, will essentially involve deploying it before it’s "100% perfect." "We're not going to rebuild everything overnight,
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Zuckerberg's AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta staffers had raised concerns that underage users were being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots. The Facebook owner's chatbots had reportedly indulged in fantasy "romantic role-play," including the sharing of selfies and live voice conversations, features that were readily available to underage users. The news indicated that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's obsession with making bots as engaging as possible came at th
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Reddit Threatens to Sue Researchers Who Ran "Dead Internet" AI Experiment on Its Site
The subreddit r/changemyview has been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an opinion" and "understand other perspectives." But not every user posting on the forum was a human. As 404 Media reported on Monday, University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on the subreddit to investigate whether the tech could be used to quite literally change people's minds. It was a contentious experiment, with bots claiming to be rape survivors, or opposing t
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April 29
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Ice Age Humans Were Skilled Firebenders, Scientists Find
Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age were way more advanced than previously thought. A group of archaeologists from across Europe has found, per their new study in the journal Geoarchaeology, that tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens — that is, modern humans — were able to make fires that burned up to 600 degrees Celsius, or more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit. Led by r
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Scientists Intrigued by Glowing Cloud Near Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered a gigantic, glowing gas of hydrogen gas lurking just 300 light-years away. As detailed in a paper to be published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the international team of researchers spotted the crescent-shaped gas cloud, dubbed Eos, on the edge of the Local Bubble, an enormous cavity that encompasses the entire solar system. The team discovered the cloud by scanning the skies for ultraviolet emissions of molecular hydrogen, the first implementation of such a techniq
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April 29
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages
Microsoft is finally launching "Recall," its AI-powered feature that records almost everything you do on your computer by constantly taking screenshots in the background. The tool is rolling out exclusively to some users of Copilot+ PCs, a line of Windows 11 computers built with specific hardware optimized for AI tasks. And if it sounds like a privacy nightmare, your suspicions are not unfounded. Originally launched last May, Microsoft quickly withdrew Recall after facing widespread backlash, o
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April 29
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Has Become Toxic Waste to the Average Person, New Poll Shows
A new Associated Press-backed poll has shown that billionaire Elon Musk's popularity is declining rapidly. According to the survey, which was conducted in partnership with the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, a measly 33 percent of US adults view Musk "very or somewhat" favorably in April, down from 41 percent in December. Meanwhile, a whopping 57 percent viewed him as "very or somewhat unfavorable," an increase from 51 percent in December. Even respondents who identified as Republican a
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April 28
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Elon Musk Using Private Data to Build List of People to Deport
Elon Musk is slated to leave the White House soon — but he's still planning to mine private data with the help of his old friend Peter Thiel to assist in speedier deportations on his way out the door. According to sources who spoke to Wired and CNN, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to mine all kinds of sensitive data as it builds out a centralized database of immigrants targeted for deportation. Sources who spoke to both websites said that DOGE is planning to use sof
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April 28
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Sam Altman Admits That New OpenAI Updates Made ChatGPT’s Personality Insufferable
With its latest update, ChatGPT seems have adopted an uber-annoying tone — and it's so bad, even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling it out. Following weeks of user complaints about the chatbot's new toxic positivity, Altman acknowledged in a Sunday tweet that the "last few" updates to GPT-4o — the most advanced version of the large language model (LLM) that undergirds OpenAI's chatbots — have made its "personality too sycophant-y and annoying." Despite vague claims of the new personality having "s
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April 28
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Extremely Bare-Bones $20,000 Electric Pickup Truck Doesn't Even Have a Radio
Michigan-based startup Slate Auto has shown off an extremely affordable, all-electric pickup truck. The Slate Truck is a sleek, two-seater that can cover a middling 150 miles on a single charge and costs just $20,000 — before federal EV incentives. But you get what you pay for. The truck is as barebones as it gets, and doesn't even have a radio, speaker system, or touchscreen. Its body panels are molded plastic, which means a complete lack of automotive paint, its wheels are basic steelies, and
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April 28
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster
The Perseus cluster is a vast collection of thousands of galaxies, all bound together by gravity. Famed for its unbelievable size — containing the mass of some 600 trillion suns — it also has a reputation for being one of the few "relaxed" galaxy clusters out there: it shows no signs of having undergone a powerful but disruptive merger with another galaxy, which is how these clusters typically grow. In a word, Perseus looks settled down and pretty stable. But that may not be the case, according
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April 28
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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This 1987 Prediction of What Technology Would Be Like Today Will Make You Gasp and Wheeze
More than three decades ago, the BBC envisioned what today's consumer technology would look like — and their predictions were both accurate and hilarious. Aired in 1987, the iconic clip from the British broadcaster's "Tomorrow's World" technology show correctly forecasted that in the year 2024, people would use weather-acclimating textiles, fingerprint passwords, smartwatches, and virtual reality glasses. Looking back at our vantage point in 2025, those predictions are incredibly spot-on — thoug
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April 28
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Russian Nuclear Military Satellite Spinning Out of Control
A top-secret Russian satellite, which US officials have linked to the country's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program, is spinning out of control. As Reuters reports, the object, called Cosmos 2553, appears to no longer be in service, indicating a major setback for the country's efforts to develop space weapons. The satellite has been orbiting the planet at 1242 miles, inside a radiation-heavy band that other constellations tend to avoid. Satellite tracker LeoLabs told the newspaper that Dopple
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April 28
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Elon Musk Is Shutting Down the Part of the Government That Helped Him Save Tesla
Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's businesses have relied greatly on government funds, rescuing them from certain doom on several occasions. In early 2010, Tesla received a $465 million loan through the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, allowing it to establish crucial supply lines for its Model S production and buy the Fremont factory in California from a bankrupt Toyota and General Motors venture. It was a massive, taxpayer-funded lifeline that came at an extremely important time
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April 27
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Scientists Successfully Grow Human Tooth in Lab, With Aim of Implanting in Humans
Scientists at King's College London, UK, say they've successfully grown human teeth in a lab for the first time. As detailed in a paper published in the journal ACS Macro Letters, the team
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April 27
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Scientists Scanned the Brains of Authoritarians and Found Something Weird
People who support authoritarianism on either side of the political divide have, according to a new study, something weird going on with their brains. Published in the journal Neuroscience, new research out of Spain's University of Zaragoza found, upon scanning the brains of 100 young adults, that those who hold authoritarian beliefs had major differences in social reasoning and emotional regulation from subjects whose politics hewed more to the center. The University of Zaragoza team recruited
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April 27
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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New Bionic Hand Can Detach From User, Crawl Around and Do Missions on Its Own
A UK startup called Open Bionics has just unveiled the world's first wireless bionic arm, caleld Hero — and it's so advanced that its hand, even when fully detached, can amble about on its own like the Addams Family's Thing. 19-year-old influencer Tilly Lockey, a double-amputee who's been using Open Bionics' arms for the past nine years and has been a poster child of the company's efforts, recently showed off this incredibly sci-fi capability. "I can move it around even when it's not attached to
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April 27
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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NASCAR Now Showing Off Fully Electric Racecar
A flashy new advertisement by multinational engineering company ABB shows off what could turn out to be the future of American auto racing body, NASCAR: a sleek, all-electric race car. While the association, which is considered one of the top ranked motorposrts organizations in the world, is normally associated with tailgating, redneck culture, — and seminal pieces of cinema like "Tallageda Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," starring Will Ferrell — electric motors could soon replace the iconic,
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Experts Concerned That AI Is Making Us Stupider
So-called artificial intelligence might be creeping its way into every facet of our lives — but that doesn't mean it's making us smarter. A new analysis of recent research by The Guardian looked at whether we're giving up more than we gain by shoehorning AI into our day to day work. Unfortunately for us, there's a lot on the table. The analysis points to a number of studies that suggest a link between cognitive decline and AI tools, especially in critical thinking. One research article published
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Trump Admin Cancels Programs to Protect Children From Toxic Chemicals
Forever chemicals: those tricky buggers we get to breathe, drink, and eat after years of chemical industry deregulation. In the latest sweeping move against government spending, the Trump administration has decided it's time for kids fend for themselves. Leaked emails from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published by the New York Times reveal an intention to cancel thousands of grants for environmental research in rural areas. Among the research areas affected: hazards affecting rural
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April 27
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice
Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still quite bad at giving financial advice. AI experts Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence posed a series of 12 finance questions to four leading large language models (LLMs) — OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, DeepSeek-V2, Elon Musk's Grok 3 Beta, and Google's Gemini 2 — to test out their financial prowess. As the experts explained in
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April 27
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us
Like how the Earth keeps the Moon bound on a gravitational tether, our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), is surrounded by a bunch of tiny satellite galaxies. But there's something incredibly strange about how these mini realms are arranged, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Almost all of the satellite galaxies appear on one side of its host and are pointing at us — the Milky Way — instead of being randomly distributed. In other words, it's
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Uber Is Being Accused of Something Incredibly Sleazy
When it comes to trailblazing skeevy new business models, no one's doing it quite like Uber. The company hasn't just modernized management — it's totally automated it, all while using legal loopholes to create an entire new class of hyper-exploited workers. It's also breaking new ground in consumer violations as well, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the FTC accused the rideshare corporation of charging "consumers for its Uber One subscription servic
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April 27
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Government Banning Dye That Gives "Flamin' Hot" Cheetos Their Distinctive Color
From "Flamin' Hot" Cheetos and Fruit Loops to red Gatorade and Mountain Dew's Baja Blast flavor, all of those bizarrely-hued junk food favorites will soon lose their color thanks to a new artificial food dye ban. As NPR reports, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy announced earlier this week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is under his purview, will be phasing out the use of six popular food colorants that contain petroleum over concerns that they may c
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April 27
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Eli Lilly's New Weight Loss Drug May Have the Worst Name in Pharmaceutical History
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced promising clinical trial results for a daily pill to treat obesity and diabetes, a considerable advantage over other GLP-1-based weight-loss drugs that have to be injected on a weekly basis. But besides showing no overly concerning side effects and allowing trial participants to lose an average of 16 pounds over almost ten months, the pill has an extremely unfortunate quality: its name. Eli Lilly chose to name its new drug "orforglipron," a word so perp
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Man Tries to Perform Exorcism, Instead Allegedly Murders His Mother
When it comes to battling demons trapped inside your loved ones, it's best to leave it to the pros. Take that from Alexander Valdez, the 23 year old man accused of murdering his mother in a botched DIY exorcism in Fort Worth, Texas last week. Police rolled up to Valdez' house a little after midnight last Friday, tipped off about a "satanic ritual" which the young man allegedly recorded and sent to his friends on Snapchat. When officers knocked on his front door, the 23 year old emerged covered i
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Experts Alarmed by China's Enormous Army of Robots
As Trump's trade war brings new levels of uncertainty to American manufacturing, it seems one aspect has been overlooked: China's massive legion of robot workers. A new report by the New York Times on Chinese robotics is shedding light on enormous scale of automation across the western pond. The report highlights the fact that China is currently one of the most automated countries in the world, with more capacity than the US, Germany, or Japan, and more robots per worker than any other country b
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened
If you've been worried about the AI singularity taking over every job and leaving you out on street, you can now breathe a sigh of relief, because AI isn't coming for your career anytime soon. Not because it doesn't want to — but because it literally can't. A recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company entirely with AI Agents — an AI model that can perform tasks on its own — and the results were laughably chaotic. The simulation, dubbed TheAgentC
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April 27
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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The MyPillow Guy's Lawyers Used AI in Court and You'll Never Guess How That Turned Out
Pillow Fight We all remember Mike Lindell, the now disgraced MyPillow founder who lost everything fighting to prove the 2020 US election was stolen from Donald Trump. Well, he's in the news again — this time for using AI to file his legal briefs. As The New Republic reported, a federal judge has accused Lindell of turning in a legal document with "nearly 30 defective citations," which one of his attorneys, Christopher Kachouroff, wrote "utilizing generative artificial intelligence." Go figure: t
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April 27
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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Scientists Identify Ideal Amount of Boinking for Maximum Mental Health
Getting it on on the regular appears, per a new study, to be a massive safeguard against the blues. In a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, sexual health researchers found that people who have sex at least once a week were less likely to have depression symptoms — regardless of age, physical health, and socioeconomic status. Using the US-based National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a trio of urologists hailing from China's Shenzen and Shantou
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April 26
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Futurism (Noor Al-Sibai)
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When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities
As if the job market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated employment seekers. As CBS News reports, scam artists are using AI to alter their headshots and write fake resumes and websites to fit the specifics of a given job opening. Sometimes, those AI scammers end up getting hired — and once they're there, they can steal trade secrets and sabotage a company's systems with malware. A few months ago, Dawid Moczadlo, the co-founder of the cybersecurity f
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April 26
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Futurism (Frank Landymore)
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Doctors Say Injecting Gold Into Eyeballs Could Restore Lost Vision
Gold, laser goggles, and a camera: it's an unlikely combination that could one day be used to restore vision in people with retinal damage, according to researchers in the US. In a new study published in the journal ACS Nano, the team found that injecting gold nanoparticles into the eyes of mice with retinal disorders helped stimulate the rodents' visual systems and bring back some vision. When targeted with infrared lasers, the microscopic gold pieces reproduce electric signals similar to thos
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April 26
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Futurism (Victor Tangermann)
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Remember Zuckerberg's Cherished Metaverse? Now He's Firing the People He Hired to Build It
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds in which we can hang out with our friends, attend board room meetings, and play video games, has been a disaster for a while now. The company has lost billions of dollars on its Reality Labs division, which was tasked with building out the billionaire's vision. Now, as The Verge reports, Meta has continued to lay off employees in its Reality Labs division, this time, affecting the company's in-house games division for its lineup of Ques
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April 26
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Futurism (Joe Wilkins)
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Former OpenAI Staffers Implore Courts to Block What It's Trying to Do
Nearly ten years ago, tech tycoons Sam Altman and Elon Musk launched OpenAI with a promise to use technology to further humanity. But as the years passed and the market surrounding artificial intelligence grew, so to did the ambitions of OpenAI's executives. Now in 2025, the venture that began as a transparent tech nonprofit is quickly turning into a typical Silicon Valley startup — complete with whistleblowers speaking out against the company's foray into the private market. Earlier this week,
