“They don‘t need to find males and have sex, they just start making eggs, which develop.” Good Worming Researchers have successfully reanimated the bodies of 46,000-year-old microscopic roundworms they found frozen 130 feet below the Siberian permafrost. Amazingly, the worms got to work right away, and started reproducing in a laboratory dish. While that may… Continue reading Scientists Resurrect 46,000 Year Old Worms, Which Instantly Started Reproducing
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The Killjoys at Mastercard Are Demanding Weed Shops Not Take Their Payments Anymore
Not cool, man. Unplugged Cash or credit? For potheads, payment processors are leaving them with little say in the matter. Bloomberg reports that Mastercard has told financial institutions to stop allowing weed payments on debit cards — which won’t really stop your average stoner, but could be a massive blow to the struggling marijuana industry.… Continue reading The Killjoys at Mastercard Are Demanding Weed Shops Not Take Their Payments Anymore
Researchers Find That Top Colleges Discriminate Against Low Income Students Even When They’re Just as Smart as Rich Ones
“What I conclude from this study is the Ivy League doesn’t have low-income students because it doesn’t want low-income students.” Great Divide If you need more evidence that the world is stacked up against regular folks, a team of Harvard University economists have found that elite colleges discriminate against students from middle and lower income… Continue reading Researchers Find That Top Colleges Discriminate Against Low Income Students Even When They’re Just as Smart as Rich Ones
Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI
The company’s water use is soaring in large part thanks to AI. So Thirsty Google’s water consumption is rising rapidly as its push into the energy-intensive AI world continues. According to the tech giant’s 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year. That’s a 20 percent increase over… Continue reading Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI
Former Twitter Manager Describes Elon Musk’s Sudden Swings to Rage
His “demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry.” Former Twitter product manager Esther Crawford, who famously slept on the floor at X-formerly-Twitter’s offices last year in an apparent bid to prove her loyalty to newly-minted CEO Elon Musk, has now taken to the platform to air her grievances. Crawford’s inside perspective paints… Continue reading Former Twitter Manager Describes Elon Musk’s Sudden Swings to Rage
It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find
A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has made a worrying discovery, The New York Times reports: guardrails set in place by the likes of OpenAI and Google to keep their AI chatbots in check can easily be circumvented. In a report released this week, the team showed how anybody can easily transform chatbots… Continue reading It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find
Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About the Origin of Life
Cheers to the scientific process! Reprint Eastwood Turns out we might be very wrong about the origin of life on Earth. For decades now, the prevailing scientific theory explaining the Precambrian Avalon explosion — in short, the era dating back to about 685 to 800 million years ago in which multicellular organisms began to proliferate… Continue reading Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About the Origin of Life
Sam Altman Says Sorry, AI Is Definitely Destroying Jobs
“Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.” Disappearing Act So much for artificial intelligence not coming for our jobs, huh? In a new interview with The Atlantic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman chided others in his industry for their rosy-eyed outlook on the future of AI — and appeared to show his hand in… Continue reading Sam Altman Says Sorry, AI Is Definitely Destroying Jobs
OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI
Because self-regulation always goes so well! Bot’s Club The AI industry big boys just formed a brand new table at the Silicon Valley cafeteria. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, in addition to the Google-owned DeepMind and buzzy startup Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, an industry-led body that, per a press release, claims to… Continue reading OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI
Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing
Now this is how you rebrand. Porn Ban Twitter CEO Elon Musk has renamed the social media platform to “X,” seemingly, because it sounded cool back in the late 1990s. The abrupt change, which was rolled out in the most chaotic way possible this week, has already drawn plenty of attention and criticism, from easily… Continue reading Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing