Fbombbaggers via Instagram Anybody who’s regularly driven in winter conditions knows the importance of keeping windshield washer fluid topped up. Keeping the salty grime stuck to your windshield and rear window to a minimum is crucial for visibility, especially in inclement weather. In the case of an autonomously operating vehicle, ensuring visibility for the vehicle’s… Continue reading Tesla Cybercab Spotted Dripping Liquid
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They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American higher education from the scourge of cancel culture. They called it the University of Austin, or UATX — and though it lacks accreditation, they boasted that it would be a place where controversial ideas could breathe free,… Continue reading They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
Getty Images / Noel Hendrickson Microsoft is hellbent on stuffing Windows 11 with AI — and many feel that this is coming at the expense of the operating system’s usability. That aggrieved sentiment now seems more vindicated than ever, after Microsoft rolled out a new update that prevented users from shutting down their PCs —… Continue reading As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
Getty Images / Donald Iain Smith Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a crawl? Many experts, including one of the field’s foundational figures, seem to think it’s possible. “There is a clear possibility that we will hit a wall, that there’s some difficulty that… Continue reading Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
Getty Images / Oscar Wong The future moguls of corporate America aren’t living like the new money princes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Instead, today’s aspiring tycoons are pursuing a different kind of luxury: a monastic purity through abstinence. For Mahir Laul, founder of HR software startup Velric, the typically youthful whirlwind of… Continue reading Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Tesla’s “apocalypse-proof” Cybertruck is continuing to experience a near-cataclysmic plunge in sales that seems impossible to recover from. According to a new analysis of Cox Automotive data by InsideEVs, the unorthodox electric pickup truck suffered the steepest drop in sales by volume of any EV sold in the US… Continue reading Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Grand Hindsley / AFP via Getty Images An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a dispute between co-workers spiraled into a shooting that left one man dead and two others implicated in his murder. The incident unfolded just after 10 p.m. on January 10… Continue reading Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
There’s a Particularly Sinister Explanation for Why Trump Wants to Seize Greenland
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Images On the campaign trail leading up to his election in 2024, Donald Trump made a plenty of bizarre promises that have fallen by the wayside. Arguably the strangest one he’s still harping about? Greenland — a massive island in the Arctic Ocean, currently… Continue reading There’s a Particularly Sinister Explanation for Why Trump Wants to Seize Greenland
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe that mysterious stuff that we now call dark matter and dark energy represent a significant portion. In a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper flagged by Live Science, a researcher at… Continue reading Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to five millimeters in size, are absolutely everywhere in nature. They’ve even seemingly invaded our bodies, with studies finding them inside our arteries, reproductive organs, and brains. It’s hard to even grapple with everything that exposes you to… Continue reading Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping