From the very first frames, you can tell there’s something off about Netflix’s version of “A Different World,” a “Cosby Show” spin-off that aired on NBC from 1987 to 1993. As spotted by developer and blogger Scott Hanselman, the streamer — or whatever rightsholder licensed the show to it — seriously bungled its efforts to… Continue reading Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific
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Tesla Just Got Even More Bad News
Tesla’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year isn’t letting up. As Bloomberg reports, the electric vehicle maker’s sales numbers are still in freefall, recording the worst sales month in years in France, one of its biggest EV markets in Europe. According to French industry association Plateforme Automobile, Tesla only registered 2,395 vehicles in February,… Continue reading Tesla Just Got Even More Bad News
Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago
Uncannily preserved in the sands of New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a vehicle used by humans: drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground that have been dated to 22,000 years ago. As detailed in a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances, these marks were left behind… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago
People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work
New research suggests that most Americans don’t typically use artificial intelligence at work — yet many of our country’s highly educated people do. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, involving a demographically representative sample of more than 5,200 US workers, 63 percent of American workers said they don’t use AI much… Continue reading People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work
DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon — is now seeking public input on its plans to construct massive “bio-mechanical space structures.” As spotted by Gizmodo, the agency filed a Request for Information… Continue reading DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”
Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass
Don’t worry, he probably didn’t feel it. The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries. Since the early 1700s, engineers have been excavating the remnants of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, flash frozen in mounds of volcanic ash. And of all the narratives pulled from the… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass
Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI
Microsoft just modified a lawsuit to name four multinational developers who allegedly bypassed safety guardrails and abused Microsoft’s AI tools to generate deepfaked celebrity porn and other harmful content. The tech giant announced the update in a blog post yesterday, saying that all four developers are members of Storm-2139, a cybercrime network. Being alleged cybercriminals,… Continue reading Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI
Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs
We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are no longer just clumsy curiosities, but genuine candidates — if not outright replacements — for human jobs. As the Wall Street Journal reports, two bipedal helpers, built by Agility Robotics, are currently moving bins around in a busy warehouse in Georgia. Dropped right into… Continue reading Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs
Hospital Named Abandoned Baby “Unakite Thirteen Hotel”
Image by Getty / Futurism A woman who had been struggling with homelessness and drug abuse gave birth to a baby daughter in November 2022, and with the help of a friend, arranged for the newborn to be taken to a hospital. As the New York Times reports, due to a hazy bureaucratic screwup, the… Continue reading Hospital Named Abandoned Baby “Unakite Thirteen Hotel”
You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying
Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia. As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk’s tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts… Continue reading You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying