“This is what climate change looks like now.” Climate Monsters Temperatures are soaring around the world, beating decades-old records and even venturing into unprecedented territory. Devastating heat waves are gripping much of the northern hemisphere, a perfect storm of the return of El Niño piling onto already high temperatures caused by climate change. And veteran… Continue reading Climate Scientists Horrified That Their Predictions Were Correct
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Scientists Discover Clown Planet With Density of Cotton Candy
I want to go to there. Cotton Feeder An exoplanet way bigger than Jupiter — but with a minuscule fraction of Earth’s density — has just been discovered. In a new not-yet-peer-reviewed paper, a consortium of planetary scientists based on three continents describe the newly-discovered world — located about 1,200 light years away and dubbed “WASP-193b”… Continue reading Scientists Discover Clown Planet With Density of Cotton Candy
Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse
Our modern world is so alienating that legions of lonely men are turning to an unlikely source of comfort: AI-generated girlfriends, powered by chatbot tech. We already knew that could lead to some dark places, but new reporting from The Guardian suggests that these endlessly patient silicon fembots — Replika is one such popular app that generates… Continue reading Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse
SBF’s Lawyers Say It’s Fine to Leak Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Diary to the New York Times
“Mr. Bankman-Fried did nothing wrong.” Leaky Faucet After getting slapped with a warning from the Department of Justice over the leaking of private and personal documents, lawyers for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried have fired back and said that it’s fine, actually. In a Sunday filing to the judge presiding over his federal case, SBF’s… Continue reading SBF’s Lawyers Say It’s Fine to Leak Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Diary to the New York Times
Cops Called as Twitter Tries to Change Sign to “X”
“We’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blow torches.” Sign of the Times Cops were called yesterday to the San Francisco headquarters of the social media company formerly known as Twitter — and now seemingly called X — because crews were trying to remove the Twitter sign but apparently didn’t have required permits.… Continue reading Cops Called as Twitter Tries to Change Sign to “X”
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark
“So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand.” X Wife Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand just got way more complicated. To recap: over the weekend, the billionaire Twitter owner — who, notably, has wanted to own a website called X.com for a really, really, really long… Continue reading Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark
Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating
This is awful, right? We’re in Hell Just when you think reality TV can’t stoop any lower, it does it yet again. To wit: in fresh new manmade horror, a Netflix reality show called “Falso Amor,” which translates to “Deep Fake Love,” splits five real-life couples up into two different houses, adds a bunch of… Continue reading Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating
Lawsuits Claim People Are Dying From Taking Kratom
Image by Joe Raedle/Getty Images According to several lawsuits filed in the US, people are dying after overdosing on an herbal supplement called kratom, a Southeast Asian plant that’s gained global prominence as a recreational drug in recent years. Herbal tea made from the leaves of the plant, which is in the coffee family, can act as… Continue reading Lawsuits Claim People Are Dying From Taking Kratom
X.com Is Telling People That It’s “Parked by GoDaddy”
Welp, this is awkward. Marks the Spot So much for the big X rollout! As Futurism staffers, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, and other writers have discovered, The hastily-announced rollout of the rebrand, which Elon says will involve changing the name of Twitter to X and changing its web address from Twitter.com to X.com, is apparently hitting… Continue reading X.com Is Telling People That It’s “Parked by GoDaddy”
New Scan of Seafloor Is So Detailed, You Can See an Individual Crab
“We don’t realize how much of the picture we’ve been missing.” Crab in the Dark Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have created a stunningly detailed seafloor map of the largest submarine canyon off of the US Pacific coast. Using sonar data collected by submersible research vessels, researchers created a “centimeter-scale resolution”… Continue reading New Scan of Seafloor Is So Detailed, You Can See an Individual Crab