Image by Getty / Futurism Imagine preparing for a funeral — only to discover your loved one isn’t actually dead. That was apparently the case in the city of Babahoyo, Ecuador over the weekend, where, as the Associated Press reports a 76-year-old woman who’d been declared dead after a stroke gasped for air when her coffin… Continue reading Funeral Home Startled When Body in Coffin Turns Out to Be Alive
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Scientist Behind Ozempic Warns That There’s a “Price”
Image by Mario Tama via Getty / Futurism Semaglutide, the diabetes medication that’s skyrocketed in popularity after it turned out to be a strikingly effective weight loss drug, has its drawbacks — and, per one of the researchers who discovered its underlying mechanism, they can be life-altering. In interviews with Wired, scientists who pioneered research into glucagon-like peptide 1… Continue reading Scientist Behind Ozempic Warns That There’s a “Price”
Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
Attention, doomsday preppers: forget the gas masks and Spam, and maybe buy some encyclopedias instead. Now more than ever in our history, humans around the globe — especially those living in wealthy nations — enjoy unfettered access to information, a massive societal shift that’s been increasingly ushered forward by technological progress. And it would be… Continue reading Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday
Godlike Hack Steals Encrypted Keys by Watching LED From 16 Meters Away
Is nothing safe? Spy Craft It sounds like a scene from a spy thriller movie: hackers recover the encrypted keys to a locked room by analyzing the glow from the power LED on the device storing them. This may sound like a too-cool to-be-real plot point, but a team of researchers recently published a method… Continue reading Godlike Hack Steals Encrypted Keys by Watching LED From 16 Meters Away
Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond
Talk about bling! Bright Like a Diamond Researchers are studying a white dwarf star about 104 light years away — practically in our cosmic backyard — that’s slowly crystallizing. The star, with the ungainly name of HD 190412 C, appears to be in the initial stages of turning into what ScienceAlert is referring to as… Continue reading Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond
After Blowing Up Crypto Industry, Exec Turns to Magic Mushrooms
“You touch the grass, and it feels, like, not like normal grass.” Crypto Tripto Wondering what Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the crypto hedge fund managers widely credited as the first major domino to fall in last year’s devastating crypto crash, have been up to since the collapse their now-defunct firm led to the vaporization… Continue reading After Blowing Up Crypto Industry, Exec Turns to Magic Mushrooms
OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth
Microsoft launched the feature anyways. 2000 and Late Last fall, as Microsoft was rushing to stuff AI tech into its Bing search engine, its partner OpenAI warned the tech giant about the dangers of integrating its GPT-4 large language model (LLM) early without training it more, the Wall Street Journal reports. Despite OpenAI cautioning Microsoft… Continue reading OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth
Elon Musk Expresses Interest in Planet Four Light-Years Away
It’s in the star system where “Avatar” is set. Shiny New Planet He hasn’t even made it to Mars yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s wandering eye is already on a new planet — this one completely outside our star system. Over the weekend, Musk seemed to ideate on the prospect of visiting the relatively nearby… Continue reading Elon Musk Expresses Interest in Planet Four Light-Years Away
Winklevoss Twin Compares “War on Crypto” to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Yikes. Can’t Make This Up Crypto-obsessed twins and “long-time Bitcoin permabulls” Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss took to Twitter over the weekend to decry a recent crackdown on crypto by US regulators, with Tyler inexplicably going as far as to compare the Democrats’ so-called “war on crypto” to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Yes. Really.… Continue reading Winklevoss Twin Compares “War on Crypto” to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
ChatGPT Delivers Church Sermon, Tells Congregants Not to Fear Death
“There was no heart and no soul.” GPT-Preach Over 300 parishioners gathered in Feurth, Germany last week to attend a church service written — and delivered — by AI, the Associated Press reports. “I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98 percent comes from the machine,”… Continue reading ChatGPT Delivers Church Sermon, Tells Congregants Not to Fear Death