Bless them. Vroom Vroom The scientists who taught rats to drive itty bitty cars are back at it again — and this time, they have even more insights about how much these rodents enjoy their unusual pastime. In an essay for The Conversation, University of Richmond neuroscientist Kelly Lambert said that over the course of her… Continue reading Scientists Teach Rats to Drive Tiny Cars, Discover That They Love Revving the Engine
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China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle
Where have we seen this before? Car-Plane-Go China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station. As Space.com reports, the project — dubbed Haolong — recently won the state-owned Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute a government contract to develop a low-cost… Continue reading China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle
CEO in Charge of Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Out After Allegations of Mass Employee Death
This career casualty is nothing compared to Neom’s death toll. Natural Selection The head of the world’s largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid jaw-dropping claims about its death toll. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Nadhmi al-Nasr, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city project Neom — which includes The Line,… Continue reading CEO in Charge of Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Out After Allegations of Mass Employee Death
Rural Hospital Installs Holograph Machine So Doctors Can Appear From Elsewhere
Image by Holobox Doctor out of town? No problem — they can be beamed in as a 3D image. Crescent Regional Hospital outside Dallas, Texas, has become the first in the country to offer doctor appointments with a holographic machine, allowing overworked medical specialists, who often have to visit multiple medical centers in a week and… Continue reading Rural Hospital Installs Holograph Machine So Doctors Can Appear From Elsewhere
Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow
Wait, what? Shadow and Bone A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser, under specific conditions, can cast a shadow — a counterintuitive finding that could open the doors for new applications of optical lasers. Conventional knowledge presupposes that if two light beams cross, nothing of note happens. But in… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow
Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time
Thanks, Grandma. Grandma Design UK telecom company Virgin Media O2 just revealed a fascinating AI entity: an audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry. “As ‘Head of Scammer Relations,’ this state-of-the-art AI Granny’s mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much… Continue reading Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time
New App Claims to Launch Users Into Lucid Dreams
Image by Getty / Futurism Scientists looked into the efficacy of an app that claims to help people lucid dream — and found it was a runaway success. Published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, this study out of Northwestern University seems to demonstrate that so-called “Targeted Lucidity Reactivation” (TLR) can help people remember their dreams, and… Continue reading New App Claims to Launch Users Into Lucid Dreams
Elon Musk’s “DOGE” Department Sounds Like It Might Be a Fake Thing to Make Him Feel Important
Mercurial Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a big deal out of being put in charge of a “Department of Government Efficiency” or DOGE by president-elect Donald Trump, where he says he’ll excise $2 trillion from the national budget. But as NBC News reports, it sounds an awful lot like the so-called “Department”… Continue reading Elon Musk’s “DOGE” Department Sounds Like It Might Be a Fake Thing to Make Him Feel Important
Sam Altman’s Collab With Arianna Huffington Is a Busted Mess
Thrive AI Health is useless. Survive AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington — yes, the publishing mogul who started the Huffington Post during the mid-Bush administration — thought they could improve healthcare with AI. But so far, their joint venture Thrive AI Health seems more useless than reading WebMD when you have a… Continue reading Sam Altman’s Collab With Arianna Huffington Is a Busted Mess
The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Will.I.Am Shakespeare It’s no secret that Google has been slammed with a tidal wave of AI-generated slop. The wide proliferation of easy-to-use large language models and image generators has polluted the company’s search results, watering down its value as the de facto librarian of the internet.… Continue reading The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop