Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of “A Better Tomorrow II” (1987), John Woo’s sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic “A Better Tomorrow” (1986), was discovered and is now slated to be released to the public. For nearly 40 years, Woo’s preferred cut of the Hong… Continue reading Amazon Startup Announces Plans to “Finish” Orson Welles’ Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage
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A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage
Before his first presidential bid, TV personality and real estate tycoon Donald Trump was doing just fine, financially speaking. The benefactor of a $5.5 million trust fund, adjusted for inflation — not to mention a $20 million inheritance from his father, split with his siblings — Trump’s actual net worth has always been a hazy… Continue reading A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage
Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury
Image by Getty / Futurism Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients’ brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke, defying conventional thinking that the brain cannot regenerate following such a traumatic event. As the New York Times reports, researchers previously discovered a gene that codes for a receptor called CCR5,… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury
Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall
Scientists believe they’re close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull, neither Neanderthal nor human, that was found fused to a cave wall — with a stalagmite sticking out of the top, to complete the eerie scene — in Macedonia, Greece. In a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers from France’s Institut… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall
Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth
Losing a baby to a stillbirth is arguably the most heartbreaking outcome an expecting mother can experience. But what would you do if that stillbirth kicked off a lengthy and protracted legal battle in which your most intimate details are spilled to the police, the courts, and social media? That’s the horrifying conundrum facing Rebecca… Continue reading Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth
Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT
Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a “godfather of AI” and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, has a complicated relationship with the tech he pioneered at Google many years ago. He’s long argued that AI poses an existential risk to humanity, and signed a letter earlier this year calling on OpenAI not to… Continue reading Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT
Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials”
It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it’s possible that our planet was instead seeded by “advanced… Continue reading Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials”
Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time
A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It’s also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate. Placed over the chest, the “smart” gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood flow that’re undetectable to the human ear, while also performing a quick… Continue reading Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time
Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work
Writing is a wonderful profession… in writers’ dreams! In reality, it’s a grind that’s comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with having to deal with actually writing, or the thought of actually writing, or the thought of what you aren’t right now actually writing. And the economics are… Continue reading Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work
RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble
Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from an alleged brain worm, and a few sex scandals both minor and major — and now he’s weathering condemnation from his own political allies that could presage a genuine crash out. Amid his single-minded quest… Continue reading RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble