As the rest of the company is mandated to work towards Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dreams, Facebook’s artificial intelligence chief is quietly building a roadmap towards “autonomous” machine intelligence. Case in point, Meta AI Chief and famed computer scientist Yann LeCun published a paper earlier this summer — and presented it last week at Berkeley — that… Continue reading Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs
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Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast
Bless these humble worms. Spit Take Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms, the caterpillar larvae of the wax moths that feeds on beeswax in beehives, can quickly break down polyethylene, a material predominantly used in plastic bags that currently leads to immense waste worldwide. If the humble worms could be scaled into… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast
Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities
Russian researchers are suggesting we could send hordes of satellites into space to display commercials in the night sky over cities by reflecting sunlight in vast formations. It’s a deeply obnoxious vision of the future that’s bound to irritate astronomers — who are already struggling with highly reflective satellite constellations ruining their observations — as… Continue reading Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities
Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police
Talk about commitment to the cause. Take Me Away There’s multitasking, and then there’s what happened on London’s Waterloo Bridge, where a climate activist gave an interview while quite literally being toted away by three burly police officers during a protest. “I’m doing this for my son,” the woman, identified only as “Lora” by the… Continue reading Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police
Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails
Sails are making a big comeback. Come Sail Away A new crude oil supertanker launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping company is making use of four large sails to reduce its fuel consumption. And with great results: the four 130-foot masts cut down the supertanker’s fuel consumption by an impressive 9.8 percent, the company says,… Continue reading Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails
CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts
“It does it faster or more accurately, more reliably and happier than most humans do it.” Robot Replacement If any workforce is under the looming threat of being replaced by automation, it’s the fast food industry. One of such mechanized threats takes the form of Flippy, a hamburger flipping robot developed by Miso Robotics. Operated… Continue reading CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts
University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard
As anyone who’s taken it will probably tell you, organic chemistry is notoriously difficult. It’s widely recognized as a “weed out” course — disproportionately high failure and withdrawal rates are common, if not expected, and many argue that such rigorousness is an effective filter for keeping certain students from entering professions, like medicine, that they… Continue reading University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard
Russia Says Thanks Elon Musk, We Love You Too
“He’s worthy of a promotion to the next officer’s rank.” Kremlin <3 Elon The Kremlin is lauding its occasional foe Elon Musk after he — quite unpopularly, in many circles — advised Ukraine to give in to Russia’s demands. After Musk posted a controversial Twitter poll — yes, he really tried to do foreign relations via Twitter… Continue reading Russia Says Thanks Elon Musk, We Love You Too
Scientists Say All Land on Earth Is Smashing Together Into a New Supercontinent
It’ll only take 300 million years. Come Together Over the next 300 million years, all the Earth’s continents will smash together and form a new supercontinent called Amasia, closing the Pacific Ocean in the process. At least, that’s according to a new study from researchers at Curtin University, published in National Science Review last week, that plots the… Continue reading Scientists Say All Land on Earth Is Smashing Together Into a New Supercontinent
Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real Medicine
Image by Getty Images/Futurism A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine. A three-judge panel in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court is set to look into why the newly-revived suit, filed by an anti-pseudoscience nonprofit called the Center for Inquiry (CFI)… Continue reading Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real Medicine