“He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values, or traditions.” Long before Elon Musk became Donald Trump’s buddy-in-chief, the real estate mogul had another right-hand man: Steve Bannon. Bannon was a right-wing media crank, alleged white supremacist, and self-described “economic nationalist.” He served as… Continue reading Top Trump Ally Says Elon Musk Is a “Parasitic Illegal Immigrant”
Author: Futurism_Magazine Online News
As Airplanes Fall Out of Sky, FAA Fires Hundreds and Brings In Elon Musk
Donald Trump kicked off his presidency by gutting aviation regulators — and almost immediately, saw the US’s deadliest air accident in over twenty years happen under his watch. Now, his Transportation secretary Sean Duffy says the already beleaguered Federal Aviation Administration has just laid off “less than 400” employees, Axios reports, even as the country… Continue reading As Airplanes Fall Out of Sky, FAA Fires Hundreds and Brings In Elon Musk
New York Times Encourages Staff to Create Headlines Using AI
The so-called “paper of record” is now encouraging staff to use generative AI tools to write headlines and summarize articles. As Semafor reports, the New York Times recently informed employees that they now have a whole suite of AI tools at their disposal to write search headlines — the version of headlines that appear on search engines like… Continue reading New York Times Encourages Staff to Create Headlines Using AI
Elon Can’t Seem to Get Full Self-Driving Approved in China
As Elon Musk leans the future of Tesla on his long-deferred dream of fully autonomous vehicles, its rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) is faltering in China, the automaker’s second-largest market. In September of last year, Tesla announced that FSD was expected to deploy to the company’s EVs in China and Europe in 2025, pending regulatory… Continue reading Elon Can’t Seem to Get Full Self-Driving Approved in China
Scientists Invent Device That Straps to Any Car’s Tailpipe, Transforming Exhaust Into Electricity
Pretty neat! The combustion engines in gas-powered cars can produce a lot of power by burning dead dinosaurs, but they’re surprisingly inefficient at it, with most of the energy they consume — an estimated three quarters of it — getting lost as heat off the engine and through the tailpipe. That raises an obvious question:… Continue reading Scientists Invent Device That Straps to Any Car’s Tailpipe, Transforming Exhaust Into Electricity
Meta Appears to Have Invented a Device Allowing You to Type With Your Brain
Image by Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta says it’s created a device that lets you produce text simply by thinking what you want to say. As detailed in a pair of studies released by Meta last week, researchers used a state-of-the-art brain scanner and a deep learning AI model to interpret the neural signals… Continue reading Meta Appears to Have Invented a Device Allowing You to Type With Your Brain
Scientists Reveal “Artificial Leaf” That Turns Carbon Into Sustainable Fuels
Living Thing Using an ingenious method inspired by the photosynthesis of living things, scientists have developed a new “artificial leaf” that removes CO2 from the air and turns it into sustainable fuels. For years, scientists at various institutions have experimented with similar artificial leaves that can absorb light and CO2 in similar ways to the… Continue reading Scientists Reveal “Artificial Leaf” That Turns Carbon Into Sustainable Fuels
Insiders at Tesla Concerned That Musk’s Madness Is Damaging Company, Saying It Would Be Better If He Just Resigned
Elon Musk’s antics have gotten so out of control that even his flunkies at Tesla are starting to get worried. According to new reporting from The Washington Post, there’s growing sentiment among employees that Musk — already involved in multiple enterprises before his foray into politics — has become “disengaged” from the automaker as he… Continue reading Insiders at Tesla Concerned That Musk’s Madness Is Damaging Company, Saying It Would Be Better If He Just Resigned
“True Crime” YouTube Channel Busted as Pure, Made-Up AI Slop
From the grisly “resurrection” of murdered children on TikTok to stealthy AI-generated images smuggled into Netflix documentaries, true crime and AI have becoming increasingly entwined. Now, a YouTuber has revealed that he passed off completely fake stories with AI-generated visuals as the real thing on his “true crime” channel. The creator of the now-defunct “True Crime… Continue reading “True Crime” YouTube Channel Busted as Pure, Made-Up AI Slop
Scientists Detect Huge Radioactive “Anomaly” Under Pacific Ocean
Researchers have discovered an “unexpected” accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the international team of scientists believes that the “anomaly” dates back to shifts in ocean currents or cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere approximately… Continue reading Scientists Detect Huge Radioactive “Anomaly” Under Pacific Ocean