Who needs pesky human drivers anyways? Uber Bot Two years after selling off its self-driving car business, Uber is rolling out a fleet of six-wheeled delivery robots to replace human Uber Eats drivers in Miami, partnering with California-based sidewalk robot company Cartken for a pilot program in a Miami commercial district called Dadeland. Cartken robots… Continue reading Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers
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New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008
Image by Getty Images/Futurism New Zealand’s parliament has passed new legislation prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or smoked tobacco products to anybody born after 2008. That means the island nation has effectively banned cigarettes for all future generations to come, the first country to have ever passed a law of this kind. The ban will come… Continue reading New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008
Flat Earthers Puzzled by Why People Don’t Fall Off “Bottom” of Globe
And they can’t even spell their memes right! Impossiball-ers The Flat Earthers have struck again — and this time, they’re confused as to why people and cities don’t plummet into space when they’re on the planet’s “bottom.” In spite of, millennia of established science, national news outlets like USA Today are still forced to debunk… Continue reading Flat Earthers Puzzled by Why People Don’t Fall Off “Bottom” of Globe
Judas Identified in FTX Last Supper
It’s getting biblical. Crypto Judas Call him Judas. Call him Brutus. Call him a concerned whistleblower. But a figure has emerged in the epic fall from grace of former cryptocurrency exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and we’re fascinated. The company’s former co-CEO Ryan Salame told Bahamian regulators of “possible mishandling of clients’ assets” by Bankman-Fried two days… Continue reading Judas Identified in FTX Last Supper
Elon Musk Quietly Unloads Billions in Tesla Shares as Price Plummets
“The Twitter nightmare continues as Musk uses Tesla as his own ATM machine to keep funding the red ink at Twitter…” Stonk Wonk Elon Musk has once again sold a mindboggling cache of Tesla stock — even as the electric vehicle maker’s stock value continues a precipitous decline. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Musk quietly sold… Continue reading Elon Musk Quietly Unloads Billions in Tesla Shares as Price Plummets
Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Announces New Limits on Free Speech
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced new limits to free speech on his recently acquired social media platform. After specifically promising last month that he wouldn’t block Jack Sweeney, a university student who has been tracking the movement of Musk’s private jet using publicly available flight tracking information, Musk put… Continue reading Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Announces New Limits on Free Speech
GPT-Powered Chatbot Pesters Comcast Until They Give You a Discount
It’s only problem? It’s too nice. Gentle But Firm Imagine that you could “hire” an AI lawyer to argue with anyone on your behalf — and that it’s strangely polite in the process. That idea undergirds the DoNotPay chatbot, which uses OpenAI’s powerful new ChatGPT text generator to, among other things, argue with customer service… Continue reading GPT-Powered Chatbot Pesters Comcast Until They Give You a Discount
In High School, SBF Reportedly Printed $100 Bills With His Face on Them Called “Bankmans”
Sounds like Sam Bankman-Fried has a long history of minting his own money. Bankman Notes It sounds like former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — now in custody and facing US criminal charges — has a long history with self-minted money. According to a source that spoke with Puck, Bankman-Fried was the literal face of his tony… Continue reading In High School, SBF Reportedly Printed $100 Bills With His Face on Them Called “Bankmans”
China Just Outlawed AI-Generated Media That Isn’t Clearly Labeled
China is seriously worried about AI generators and deepfakes. Ban Hammer The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has issued regulations, spotted by TechCrunch and other outlets, that ban the creation of any artificial intelligence-generated media, including deepfakes, that aren’t clearly labeled. The Chinese government is clearly worried that tampered videos or images showing individuals saying or doing things… Continue reading China Just Outlawed AI-Generated Media That Isn’t Clearly Labeled
Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Bans College Kid Who Annoyed Him
Remember that ElonJet Twitter account? Well, under the site’s new CEO — the self-identified stalwart free speech champion Elon Musk — it just got suspended, despite Musk previously promising he would leave it alone. ElonJet was a bot account that tracked Musk’s private jet travel using publicly available information, and had amassed a following of over 500,000… Continue reading Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Bans College Kid Who Annoyed Him