This week, the Senate voted to shutter a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program that provides free internet for low-income children, which could risk cutting them off from tools they need to do homework. As Ars Technica reports, the GOP-controlled Senate voted along party lines to repeal the late Biden-era initiative that lends out free Wi-Fi hotspots to… Continue reading Lawmakers Want to Cut Low-Income Schoolchildren Off from the Internet
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Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI
I can has cheeseburger? Doodle Translate Chinese tech company Baidu is working on an artificial intelligence-based translation system that could finally decode the greatest language mystery in the world: your cat’s meows. As Reuters reports, the company filed a patent with the China National Intellectual Property Administration proposing an AI-powered system to translate animal sounds.… Continue reading Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI
Wind Farms Accused of Stealing Each Others’ Wind
You can’t own the wind, but you can, apparently, “steal” it. Enter “wind theft” — a phenomenon that wind farms across Europe are encountering as more of these renewable power plants pop up across the continent, the BBC reports. As powerful and vast as the currents of air that wrap our planet may be, it turns out… Continue reading Wind Farms Accused of Stealing Each Others’ Wind
The FDA Will Use AI to Accelerate Approving Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration just announced that it will immediately start using AI across all of its centers, after completing a new generative AI pilot for scientific reviewers. Supposedly, the AI tool will speed up the FDA’s drug review process by reducing the time its scientists have to spend doing tedious, repetitive tasks —… Continue reading The FDA Will Use AI to Accelerate Approving Drugs
Scientists Say Shock Collar-Like Device Can Treat PTSD
Image by Powers, Mark B. et al. / Futurism Using a device that vaguely functions like a shock collar, researchers say they have found a promising way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Neuroscientists at the University of Texas at Dallas and Baylor have developed a tiny chip that, when fitted inside a soft collar… Continue reading Scientists Say Shock Collar-Like Device Can Treat PTSD
Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete
Talk to a teacher lately, and you’ll probably get an earful about AI’s effects on student attention spans, reading comprehension, and cheating. As AI becomes ubiquitous in everyday life — thanks to tech companies forcing it down our throats — it’s probably no shocker that students are using software like ChatGPT at a nearly unprecedented… Continue reading Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete
MAHA Are Losing Their Mind At Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General for the Stupidest Reason Possible
Image by Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty / Futurism “Make America Healthy Again” diehards are fuming about president Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Casey Means — and it’s for a brain-meltingly stupid reason. It’s not because Means, a self-styled “wellness influencer,” doesn’t have an active medical license, never finished her surgical residency, or… Continue reading MAHA Are Losing Their Mind At Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General for the Stupidest Reason Possible
Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan
In 2021, Facebook said it was scrapping efforts to build powerful facial recognition software into its then-nascent smart glasses, citing the tech’s glaring privacy and ethics concerns. Four years later, as The Information reports, the Silicon Valley behemoth has officially dusted off the effort and is once again working on transforming its wearable smart glasses… Continue reading Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan
Community Complains of Choking Fumes From Elon Musk’s AI Fortress
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is building one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since coming online in September, the facility, dubbed Colossus, has amassed an absurd arsenal of 200,000 Nvidia graphics processing units to train Musk’s chatbot, Grok. That comes with monstrous energy demands, and the way xAI is meeting… Continue reading Community Complains of Choking Fumes From Elon Musk’s AI Fortress
Lazy Sam Altman Hires New OpenAI “CEO” to Do All the Work for Him Without Having to Resign
How convenient. Shadow CEO OpenAI has poached the CEO of Instacart for a fancy new gig — but there’s something weird going on with her job description. In a statement, CEO and cofounder Sam Altman announced that Fidji Simo, a former Facebook executive who took over at Instacart in 2021 and became an OpenAI board… Continue reading Lazy Sam Altman Hires New OpenAI “CEO” to Do All the Work for Him Without Having to Resign