You don’t need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, is the biggest game in town (other than the Sun, at least.) But believe it or not, it may have once been even bigger. Try more than double its… Continue reading Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size
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After Disastrous Experiments Into AI, Target Pledges to Pile on Even More AI
Just days before Christmas in 2023, the big box megachain Target announced it was using artificial intelligence to make the holiday shopping experience “even better.” It was a little over a year after OpenAI released the first mass-market large language model (LLM) chatbot, ChatGPT, and you could practically cut the AI hype with a knife.… Continue reading After Disastrous Experiments Into AI, Target Pledges to Pile on Even More AI
Company Tells Customers Who Paid $13,500 for Glamorous Yurts That It’s Bankrupt, the Yurts Are Unavailable, and Refunds Are Impossible
In the lead-up to the United Kingdom’s famous Glastonbury festival this summer, well-heeled partiers shelled out for fancy “glamping” yurts — those tent-like dwellings with ancient origins in Central Asia that have been appropriated by hippies in recent decades — and the people who took their money are now telling them they’re out of luck. As the… Continue reading Company Tells Customers Who Paid $13,500 for Glamorous Yurts That It’s Bankrupt, the Yurts Are Unavailable, and Refunds Are Impossible
Novo Nordisk Offering Large Discount on Wegovy in Bid to Recapture Market
Image by Armend Nimani / AFP via Getty / Futurism It’s been a tough year for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind the GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Competitors are nipping at its heels, cheaper knockoffs have been eating into its sales, and it just gave the boot to its former CEO. Now, hoping… Continue reading Novo Nordisk Offering Large Discount on Wegovy in Bid to Recapture Market
The Dinner People Got for Spending Tons of Money On Trump’s Meme Coin is Unintentionally Hilarious
“It was the worst food I’ve ever had at a Trump golf course.” Poor Retch Imagine not only spending your hard-earned American dollars on president Donald Trump’s worthless memecoin, but also being threatened with a barely-edible meal at his golf course. That was the reality for 200 “lucky” investors, who, as four of the attendees… Continue reading The Dinner People Got for Spending Tons of Money On Trump’s Meme Coin is Unintentionally Hilarious
Tesla Executive Admits That Self-Driving Is Going Nowhere Fast
Nearly ten years ago in 2015, rising tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made a bold announcement: Tesla vehicles would be fully driving themselves by 2017. The billionaire was talking about vehicles with level 5 autonomy — a designation by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) commonly used as the benchmark for a full self-driving car that can… Continue reading Tesla Executive Admits That Self-Driving Is Going Nowhere Fast
Self-Driving Tesla Suddenly Swerves Off the Road and Crashes
A video that went viral on Reddit shows a Tesla Model 3 with its so-called “Full Self-Driving” driver assistance feature turned on veering off a country road, crashing into some fencing, and flipping onto its roof. An image shared by Wally, a Tesla owner in Alabama, shows the aftermath: deployed airbags, smashed windows, and a… Continue reading Self-Driving Tesla Suddenly Swerves Off the Road and Crashes
Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented
Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a common refrain these days that some specific invention was a mistake, in our age of seemingly every human innovation blowing up catastrophically in our faces. And what better subject of our collective remorse than the advent of the entire internet, the glorious information superhighway now turned AI slop… Continue reading Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented
Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive’s Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI
Back in December, Swedish tech entrepreneur Sebastian Siemiatkowski — the guy behind Klarna, the infamous burrito financing app — directed his family investment company to dump $5 billion into AI startups. The investment made up a “mini portfolio” of four “prominent US-based AI companies,” a press release said at the time. Those were software engineer… Continue reading Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive’s Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI
New Olympics-Style Games Will Let Contestants Dope Up on as Many Steroids and Drugs as They Want
Image by Getty / Futurism A new Olympics-style sporting event invites athletes to get as doped up on as many drugs as they want to compete. The so-called Enhanced Games, which are set to kick off exactly a year from now at Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip, will see roided-up weightlifters, swimmers, and… Continue reading New Olympics-Style Games Will Let Contestants Dope Up on as Many Steroids and Drugs as They Want