Image by Getty Images/Futurism San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio is making a major claim that’ll likely draw heated scrutiny from the scientific community: that its technology was able to significantly extend the lives of elderly mice. According to a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, scientists at the company say an injection that reprograms genes in the bodies… Continue reading Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan
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Expensive Robodog Walks Down Street, Gets Viciously Stomped By Belligerent Australian
“Poor Stampy.” Here’s The Kicker Thanks to one belligerent Aussie, an expensive robot dog that was trawling the streets of Brisbane late at night got the crap kicked out of it for no apparent reason. In an interview with Vice, that robodog’s operator Mark Trueno said that he’s not really sure why the woman twice kicked “Stampy,”… Continue reading Expensive Robodog Walks Down Street, Gets Viciously Stomped By Belligerent Australian
Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am
“We made a pot of tea and sat outside under the stars and caught up.” Tally-Ho POV: you’re so hyped up for your first flight to space that you wake up around 2am, roughly two hours earlier than you’re supposed to get up. You go downstairs for a cup of water, and to your surprise,… Continue reading Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am
Facebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably
Community leaders were “heartbroken.” Choo Choo You may be shocked to discover that Facebook, the social media company, once tried to open a railroad. You might not be as shocked to discover that the Silicon Valley company abandoned the project after pouring roughly $20 million into it, realizing during the pandemic that it may have… Continue reading Facebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably
The Best Air Fryers of 2023
Air fryers have been buzzy appliances for several years, and they’re not showing any signs of fading out. And for good reason: these electric countertop appliances bring the taste of deep-fried food home in a safe and healthy way. Not to mention, they’re much faster and cheaper than grabbing take-out or fast food. Air fryers… Continue reading The Best Air Fryers of 2023
Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening
Generative AI exploded into the mainstream last year. Led by the Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI — the creator of both DALL-E 2, a text-to-image generator, and ChatGPT, an impressive text-generating system — the industry has absolutely exploded, as these generative tools and others, notably the image-generating systems Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, have dazzled investment firms and… Continue reading Deep Learning Expert Says GPT Startups May Be in for a Very Rude Awakening
Here’s Caroline Ellison’s Advice to Her Younger Self as a High School Senior
It holds up! Fifth Column When she’s right, she’s right. A former high school classmate of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison tweeted that they were flipping through back issues of their high school newspaper, The Newtonite, when they found a column by the alleged FTX polycule member herself. Fascinatingly, the column appears to be… Continue reading Here’s Caroline Ellison’s Advice to Her Younger Self as a High School Senior
Elon Musk Now Denies That His Family’s Emerald Mine Existed, In Spite of Previously Bragging About It
Elon Musk is denying claims that his family owned an emerald mine, even though he was bragging about it less than a decade ago. “The fake emerald mine thing is so annoying (sigh),” Musk tweeted over the weekend. “Like where exactly is this thing anyway!?” As many pointed out, the mine was in Zambia —… Continue reading Elon Musk Now Denies That His Family’s Emerald Mine Existed, In Spite of Previously Bragging About It
There’s a Ridiculously Easy Way to Bypass Louisiana’s New Porn Law
That… that was easy. That Doesn’t Work The state of Louisiana just enacted a new porn access law requiring internet users to upload a digital version of a government-issued ID to some fairly sketchy third-party services to access popular adult websites like Pornhub. The law, according to its backers, seeks to protect children from premature… Continue reading There’s a Ridiculously Easy Way to Bypass Louisiana’s New Porn Law
Guy Brags That His Tesla Drove Him Home When He Was Too Drunk to Drive
This is terrible. Full Self-DUIing A Tesla owner bragged about using his vehicle’s Full Self-Driving feature to drive home while drunk — a worrying confession that should give anybody pause. “I admitted the other day, I was a little bit tipsy after Christmas,” the user bragged during a recent Twitter Spaces call, as spotted by Insider.… Continue reading Guy Brags That His Tesla Drove Him Home When He Was Too Drunk to Drive