“Nearly unavoidable.” AI Crash Artificial intelligence is making forays into the financial industry — but the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warns that increasing reliance is likely to trigger the next financial crisis. That’s right. SEC head Gary Gensler told the Financial Times that it’s “nearly unavoidable” that AI will lead to… Continue reading SEC Head Says It’s a Near-Certainty That AI Will Cause a Financial Crash
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Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2
It’s a bold solution. Green Guardians There’s no shortage of worldwide efforts aimed at planting millions of more trees to help offset our planet’s CO2-poisoned atmosphere. But entrepreneurial scientists at a biotech firm called Living Carbon are taking those efforts a step further: creating gene-hacked “mother trees” that are freakishly good at absorbing loads of… Continue reading Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2
Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry
AI code to Stack Overflow: adapt or die. Reaping Season Stack Overflow, the go-to coding resource and forum, is laying off more than a hundred workers totaling 28 percent of its staff — just as AI-powered coding tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are threatening to reshape the industry. CEO Stack Overflow Prashanth Chandrasekar announced the layoffs… Continue reading Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry
Adobe Shows Off Dress That Can Change Its Pattern on the Fly
This is next level. Dress For Success Adobe has unveiled a sparkling, interactive dress — and got the research scientist who created it to model the high-tech couture. Video of the dress debut shows researcher Christine Dierk wearing the slinky strapless number that, upon first glance, looks like the average sequined cocktail dress. With the click… Continue reading Adobe Shows Off Dress That Can Change Its Pattern on the Fly
Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist
Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has once again signaled his love for novelist George Orwell — without, it seems, realizing the author’s well-known far-left political stance that directly contradicts his own worldview. In a Friday the 13th post, the owner of the social network formerly known as Twitter — who blames communism for why his daughter won’t… Continue reading Elon Musk Signals Support for Militant Socialist
Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
They say never meet your heroes. But what if those heroes came in the shape of an AI chatbot designed to emulate a celebrity or literary great? Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company was bringing 28 AI chatbots to its platform, allowing its users to have one-on-one conversations with a seemingly… Continue reading Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam
Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”
Woah. Labyrinth of Night A stunning new video by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of Mars’ gigantic 2,500-miles-across Valles Marineris, the Red Planet’s equivalent of our Earth’s Grand Canyon. The flyover provides spectacular views of the canyon’s Noctis Labyrinthus — ‘labyrinth of night’ — which itself spans 740 miles. The unique system of… Continue reading Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”
Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior
“It was like, monologue!” Zoom Police AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette, apparently. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a growing number of companies are using AI bots in video meetings to mediate, transcribe, and — yes — etiquette-check participants who may be lecturing or interrupting others. Often, according to the report, the bots… Continue reading Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior
Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find
We’ll take those odds. Flipping Out All bets are off, because it turns out that flipping a coin — which is rather questionably used to tie-break elections across the world — isn’t actually a fair fifty-fifty chance. As part of a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, a small army of European researchers performed hundreds of thousands of… Continue reading Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find
Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness
Image by Getty / Futurism A team of researchers has kicked off the first-ever trial of a gene therapy intended to cure auditory neuropathy, a type of deafness that stops nerve impulses from making it from the inner ear to the brain. The trial, led by Cambridge University ear surgeon Manohar Bance, will involve 18… Continue reading Doctors Testing Gene Therapy to Cure a Type of Deafness