Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay these robotaxis of their appointed trips — but a power outage apparently will. On Saturday evening, a blackout left nearly a third of San Francisco in the dark. But… Continue reading Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
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Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Several major companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and competitor Anthropic — are eyeing enormous stock market debuts as soon as next year, all vying to attain an astronomical valuation north of $100 billion. In late October, OpenAI was rumored to be laying the groundwork for a mammoth IPO… Continue reading Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Providence Police Department Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was murdered in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Since then, investigators have made several breakthroughs in the unusual case, linking the prime suspect to a separate deadly mass shooting at Brown University earlier in December.… Continue reading Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Justice Department Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers were concerned they would be heavily censored. On Friday, the department launched an entire webpage that included hundreds of thousands of long-awaited records from its investigation into the deceased financier. As… Continue reading Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running up on migrant workers in Home Depot parking lots, the home improvement corporation has decided to take a stand — against the migrant workers.… Continue reading Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch,” we mean it literally. The roughly Jupiter-mass object, designated PSR J2322-2650b, orbits just one million miles away from its star,… Continue reading James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: MattMoney via YouTube / Getty Images The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House said it was launching an investigation after some bearded dude’s YouTube stream suddenly showed up on its official website, Bloomberg reports, heightening the absurdity… Continue reading White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention text file is still pretty jarring. The odd file was uncovered by an X-formerly-Twitter user who goes by the name “charlie.” “Does anyone want to see the scary ass dcd… Continue reading Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Getty / Futurism The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts and human rights groups have decried the use of killer robots, particularly when you consider the possibilities of technological flaws resulting in the deaths of innocent people — not to mention using the tech… Continue reading Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
Viktor Toth In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a curved computer monitor, and a small straw that dispenses sugar water, Tóth managed to teach a rat how to play the classic 1994… Continue reading Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”