A tragedy. AquaDump A giant aquarium in Berlin exploded in the lobby of a luxury hotel this week, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and 1,500 tropical fish — and injuring at least two people in the process. As the BBC reports, most of the fish inside the AquaDom aquarium located in Berlin’s Raddison… Continue reading Huge Aquarium Bursts, Spills Tropical Fish And Injures Bystanders
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Artists Mass Protest Against AI Stealing Their Work By Sharing Anti-AI Logo
“No artist gave consent to have their art used. We were not compensated.” Butlerian Jihad The artists are not happy. Over the past week, human artists across the internet have risen up to protest the proliferation of image-generating AI — particularly on ArtStation, a website which has also been a popular source for generators to… Continue reading Artists Mass Protest Against AI Stealing Their Work By Sharing Anti-AI Logo
One of Tesla’s Largest Shareholders Calls to Ditch Elon Musk
“An executioner, Tim Cook-like is needed, not Elon.” CEO Plural Tesla’s third largest investor and self-professed Elon Musk “fanboy” KoGuan Leo is calling for the company’s embattled CEO to step down. “Elon abandoned Tesla and Tesla has no working CEO,” Leo tweeted earlier this week. “Tesla needs and deserves to have working full-time CEO.” “Elon… Continue reading One of Tesla’s Largest Shareholders Calls to Ditch Elon Musk
Bizarre Smartwatch Contains Living Organism
“There were very human responses. Some people were sad, some people really felt like the connection was broken.” Creature Caretaker Scientists at the University of Chicago have designed a truly curious — and partially alive — smartwatch. It incorporates a heart rate monitor that’s (kind of) powered by electrically conductive slime mold, resulting in one of… Continue reading Bizarre Smartwatch Contains Living Organism
Elon Musk Brought His Mommy to a Big Business Meeting For Some Reason
According to Elon, “the proof is in the pudding.” Maybe his mom made that too? OedipusX Things seem to be going really well for CEO of many companies Elon Musk, who reportedly brought his mother to a recent client meeting. According to Bloomberg‘s sourcing, Maye Musk was spotted at Twitter’s New York offices on Halloween, five… Continue reading Elon Musk Brought His Mommy to a Big Business Meeting For Some Reason
Elon Musk Conducts Poll, Doesn’t Like Results, Conducts New Poll, Still Doesn’t Like Results
In a fit of rage last night, Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk suspended the accounts of over a dozen journalists from high profile publications including CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The drama kicked off when Musk accused Jack Sweeney, a university student who has been tracking the movement of Musk’s private… Continue reading Elon Musk Conducts Poll, Doesn’t Like Results, Conducts New Poll, Still Doesn’t Like Results
Donald Trump’s NFT Collection Is So Fantastically Ugly That Even His Biggest Fans Are Aghast
There are lots and lots of issues with a new collection of Donald Trump non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — not least of which that they’re spectacularly ugly and shadily-run. “Hello everyone, this is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time,” the real estate pariah says in a promo video for the drop which, because of… Continue reading Donald Trump’s NFT Collection Is So Fantastically Ugly That Even His Biggest Fans Are Aghast
Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Mass Suspending Twitter Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him
If you thought newly-minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk might be ready to calm down after a long week of chaos, think again. To wit: On Thursday evening, the billionaire(‘s site) purged a significant number of journalists who’d written critically about the acquisition, including New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, and… Continue reading Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Mass Suspending Twitter Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him
Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers
Who needs pesky human drivers anyways? Uber Bot Two years after selling off its self-driving car business, Uber is rolling out a fleet of six-wheeled delivery robots to replace human Uber Eats drivers in Miami, partnering with California-based sidewalk robot company Cartken for a pilot program in a Miami commercial district called Dadeland. Cartken robots… Continue reading Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers
New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008
Image by Getty Images/Futurism New Zealand’s parliament has passed new legislation prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or smoked tobacco products to anybody born after 2008. That means the island nation has effectively banned cigarettes for all future generations to come, the first country to have ever passed a law of this kind. The ban will come… Continue reading New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008