Getty Images For years, any American kid eying a stable, future-proof job was told to “learn to code.” Now in 2025, anyone who followed that advice faces a painful reckoning: a decade of booming computer science enrollments has created a massive pile-up of graduates entering an abysmal job market. A new report by the analyst… Continue reading Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble
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Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids, Teachers Say
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students. It’s a divisive topic, and the effects are only starting to come into focus. Just look at New York State,… Continue reading Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids, Teachers Say
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
Getty Images We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans. And though the tech remains imperfect, it’s getting closer all the time: now a team of scientists say they’ve developed a… Continue reading Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan
You’ll Never Guess What Happened to Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper
Not long after being appointed crown prince by Saudi Arabia’s royal family in 2017, Mohammed bin Salman announced an enormous construction project for a futuristic linear city called Neom. At the heart of the vision is a 1,600 by 660-foot skyscraper called The Line, initially meant to span the entire 105-mile length of the city… Continue reading You’ll Never Guess What Happened to Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper
Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Imags Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, Meta comes out and accuses a random man of hosting a trove of illegally torrented smut. The whole thing started with a July lawsuit by an adult film companies Strike 3 — which has been called the “most… Continue reading Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash
Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached
Since Boston Dynamic first teased its BigDog robot in 2004, four-legged hound automatons have exploded in popularity. There are now dozens of robot dogs in development, ranging from military and surveillance applications to companionship models that can carry groceries and talk back to their human owners. One of the most distinctive uses for a quadrupedal… Continue reading Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached
Kim Kardashian Says She Screamed at ChatGPT After It “Made” Her Fail Law School Tests
Vanity Fair via YouTube During a new video with Vanity Fair that challenges celebrities to answer probing questions while taking a lie detector test, reality TV star Kim Kardashian admitted that she used ChatGPT for “legal advice” — causing her to fail tests in her ongoing quest to become a Bar-certified attorney. “So, when I… Continue reading Kim Kardashian Says She Screamed at ChatGPT After It “Made” Her Fail Law School Tests
Physicists Say They’ve Proven Whether We’re Living in a Simulation
Getty / Futurism The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly influential paper that if a civilization were to become capable of creating simulated universes, it would create so many of them… Continue reading Physicists Say They’ve Proven Whether We’re Living in a Simulation
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
Andon Labs A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, in what the researchers described as a “doom spiral” including a… Continue reading Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
Sam Altman Says That in a Few Years, a Whole Company Could Be Run by AI, Including the CEO
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that an era when entire companies are run by AI models is nearly upon us. And if he has it his way, it’ll be OpenAI leading the charge, even if it means losing his job. “Shame on me… Continue reading Sam Altman Says That in a Few Years, a Whole Company Could Be Run by AI, Including the CEO