Jeez, man. Circus Monkey Now that president-elect Donald Trump’s proud new spiritual godsons Tesla CEO Elon Musk and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy have been put in charge of the mysterious and largely symbolic Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the pair have become the best of pals. But their relationship — much like Musk and… Continue reading Vivek Ramaswamy Once Called Elon Musk Something Truly Heinous
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Dr. Oz Will Have a Fascinating Conflict of Interest Running Medicare: Ozempic
Image by John Nacion / Variety via Getty Donald Trump’s top pick to lead Medicare, the celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, has at least one glaring conflict of interest: that he was sponsored by the company that makes Ozempic. As the Washington Post reports, the drug’s manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, not only hosted multiple infomercials hosted by Oz on… Continue reading Dr. Oz Will Have a Fascinating Conflict of Interest Running Medicare: Ozempic
People’s Reactions to a Health Insurance CEO Getting Assassinated Are Incredibly Dark
Image by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot outside of a Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan earlier this morning, in what the New York Police Department is calling a “brazen, targeted attack.” “I want to be clear at this time, every indication is that this was a… Continue reading People’s Reactions to a Health Insurance CEO Getting Assassinated Are Incredibly Dark
ChatGPT Outperforms Human Doctors At Accurately Diagnosing Patients
Image by Getty / Futurism Could a chatbot be your doctor someday? It’s looking more likely than you’d think. In a recently published study, 50 doctors were asked to diagnose medical conditions from examining case reports, with some of them being randomly assigned to use ChatGPT to help with their decision making. During the experiment,… Continue reading ChatGPT Outperforms Human Doctors At Accurately Diagnosing Patients
United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate
Is someone already secretly geoengineering the Earth? Tracking Device Experiments to alter the climate are starting to take place all over the world — to the degree that the United States is now building a system to detect when and where it’s happening. As the New York Times reports, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)… Continue reading United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate
World Rolls Eyes at Jaguar’s Yassified Electric Car
Did Jaguar want its own Cybertruck moment? Forced Jassification Old-world luxury automaker Jaguar has announced that it’s pulling a 180 with a new electric concept car dubbed the Type 00 — a coupe that looks absolutely nothing like anything the company has built in its 102-year history. The painfully yassified rebranding, which includes a soulless… Continue reading World Rolls Eyes at Jaguar’s Yassified Electric Car
Tesla Tells Workers Building Cybertruck to Stay Home as Demand Slumps
They’re being paid not to come to work. Paid Leave Demand for Tesla’s highly controversial Cybertruck appears to be waning. According to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, workers at the company’s Austin factory were told to take the next three days off, while still receiving eight hours of pay. It’s a mysterious development,… Continue reading Tesla Tells Workers Building Cybertruck to Stay Home as Demand Slumps
Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea
“I have realized that I waste too much time on Character.AI.” Generational Gap The youth are addicted to generative AI models — but their parents have no idea what their kids actually use them for. As part of a new study set to be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, a team… Continue reading Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea
The Voyager Probes Are Dying
The end is nigh. My Battery Is Low NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the solar system’s outer planets when they launched in 1977. But both have outgrown their original… Continue reading The Voyager Probes Are Dying
Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Elon Musk’s Plans to Cut Pentagon Spending
Strange bedfellows. Broken Clock Bernie Sanders may be on the opposite end of the left-right spectrum from freshly-minted politico Elon Musk — but on the issue of military spending, they have one big take in common. “Elon Musk is right,” the Vermont senator tweeted. “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its… Continue reading Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Elon Musk’s Plans to Cut Pentagon Spending