Getty / Futurism For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The staggering number of overdose deaths caused by the drug has been used by Donald Trump’s administration to justify attacking boats in the Caribbean, deploy militarized forces to detain legal citizens, and impose sweeping tariffs — despite having little… Continue reading Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why
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Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
Getty / Futurism A stack of major AI ethics lawsuits against Google have finally come to an end. According to the New York Times, the family of a deceased 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Google and the AI companion company Character.AI out of court for an undisclosed sum.… Continue reading Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Thinking about dropping those flavorful white sachets of nicotine this resolution season? You might want to reconsider how fast you hit the off ramp. Zyns — those tiny nicotine pouches that seem to nowinfest every urinal, bar-top, and sidewalk — have captured the hearts… Continue reading Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
Getty Images AI chatbots may be explosively popular, but they’re known to dispense some seriously wacky— and potentially dangerous — health advice, in a flood of easily accessible misinformation that has alarmed experts. Their advent has turned countless users into armchair experts, who often end up relying on obsolete, misattributed, or completely made-up advice. A… Continue reading OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Watch out, bartenders: your jobs might be next on the AI chopping block — at least if tech startup Breakreal has anything to say about it. With CES 2026 in full-swing, tech insiders and industry journalists are getting a first-hand look at the madcap gadgets that… Continue reading New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway
@ElectricIsraeli via X After a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode suddenly swerved off of a busy highway and almost straight into a ditch, the owner of the vehicle praised the driving technology to high heaven for supposedly saving his skin. “Tesla FSD saved my life last night on Interstate 95 in South Carolina,” wrote the… Continue reading Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway
Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Back in April, we came across a flashy and almost entirely CGI video of a bizarre concept for a rideable, four-legged robotic “horse.” The video showed the mysterious concept, dubbed Corleo, roaming rocky terrain, leaping over icy crevasses, crossing snowy landscapes without losing its footing, and traversing a dark forest at night… Continue reading Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production
Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one recent study, it isn’t any of that stuff, but instead something psychologically revealing: a deep insecurity about the world they inhabit. The study, published in the journal Applied… Continue reading Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories
Chinese Moon Astronauts Emerge From Month-Long Journey Into Deep Cave
@wulei2020 via X Forget Mars. For 28 member of China’s astronaut corps, the brave new world is a dark, damp hole in the ground — cut off from light, wind, and even the internet. As reported by Space News, the China Astronaut Research and Training Center (CARTC) just wrapped up a month-long training regimen meant… Continue reading Chinese Moon Astronauts Emerge From Month-Long Journey Into Deep Cave
Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At
In the future, you may not need to get a new prescription for your eye glasses — because a Finnish company called IXI is claiming to have manufactured the world’s first eyeglasses that can adjust their corrective lenses automatically. These special glasses have “dynamic lenses” made of liquid crystals, which can transform to accommodate whatever… Continue reading Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At