Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for inducing powerful hallucinations. They can induce feelings of euphoria, a sense of belonging in the world, and distort reality by messing with the brain’s visual cortex, turning the world into a trippy, shimmering pocket dimension full of… Continue reading Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface
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Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An alarming proportion of kids just starting school are baffled by how books work. In a new survey of primary, or elementary, school staff conducted by the UK charity Kindred Squared, the teachers estimated that nearly a third of students in reception class — the equivalent… Continue reading Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones
Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse
Getty Images / SDI Productions If Waymo thought regulators would get off its back for its robotaxis blowing past stopped school buses, it thought wrong. On Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it opened an investigation into the self-driving company over the alarming incidents, and specifically the more than 20 instances reported in Austin,… Continue reading Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse
Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing
Heather Diehl/Getty Images Three months ago, the Trump administration broke ground on its highly controversial plans to add a sprawling ballroom to the White House’s East Wing. The State Department-funded buildout attracted plenty of scrutiny from congressional inquiries, lawsuits, and the press. Just this week, a US District judge will be weighing a bid by… Continue reading Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing
Asset Manager Warns That OpenAI Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster
Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images Just over three years ago, OpenAI opened the floodgates with the launch of ChatGPT. The frantic industry-wide race that followed has resulted in soaring valuations for AI companies, tens of billions of dollars invested in data center infrastructure — and plenty of skepticism as well. For one, experts have pointed… Continue reading Asset Manager Warns That OpenAI Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster
Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research
ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak needs a second pair of eyes. It also excels at coming up with a rough first draft for non-mission-critical writing, allowing you to carefully pick it apart and refine it. But like all of its competitors, ChatGPT… Continue reading Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research
Top African Health Official Blasts Trump Administration’s Plans for Human Experimentation in Africa
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Samuel Corum / Getty Images Last week, officials at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced that health authorities in Guinea-Bissau had moved to halt a controversial study which would have used unvaccinated infants as lab rats. The US Department of Health and Human… Continue reading Top African Health Official Blasts Trump Administration’s Plans for Human Experimentation in Africa
Trump’s Huge AI Project Is Running Into a Major Financial Problem
It’s 2026, and tech companies continue to insist they need to spend staggering amounts of money on AI data centers. Yet for all of its enthusiasm over the past few years, Wall Street is finally starting to squint at the numbers. According to new reporting by Business Insider, JPMorgan Chase is running into trouble finding… Continue reading Trump’s Huge AI Project Is Running Into a Major Financial Problem
Mind Blowing James Webb Photo Shows Star Crumbling Into Dust
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) A new image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides an astonishingly close up look of a dying star crumbling into gas and dust — as well as a morbid preview of the fate that could eventually befall our Sun. Taken with the Webb’s… Continue reading Mind Blowing James Webb Photo Shows Star Crumbling Into Dust
Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It’s a Productivity Miracle
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Bosses being severely disconnected from the needs of their employees is a tale as old as time. But it sure feels like the AI craze has driven them to lock themselves in ever taller ivory towers, as employees are told that the tech is going to… Continue reading Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It’s a Productivity Miracle