A group of companies and bioresearchers say they’ll use “leather” made from the lab-grown skin of a T-Rex to fashion luxury, “cruelty-free” purses. The project — led by genomic engineering outfit The Organoid Company, biotechnology group Lab-Grown Leather, and creative agency VML — will purportedly use the fossilized collagen of a Tyrannosaurus rex as a… Continue reading Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
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Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”
“Some of them were like, ‘okay, use my abdomen.’” Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” is like the Doom of the music world. It’s been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an instrument the Canon hasn’t been played on. Recently, a new… Continue reading Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”
Physicist Says He’s Identified a Clue That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation
What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP Advances, University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could… Continue reading Physicist Says He’s Identified a Clue That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation
Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
Visa — yes, the multinational credit card titan — is wading into the world of AI agents. On Wednesday, the finance monolith announced it would be teaming up with some of the AI industry’s leading developers to connect its vast payments network to their AI systems. The end game? Letting an autonomous AI model —… Continue reading Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists
In a world where even our refrigerators have been imbued with AI, it seems nothing good is safe from the perfidious and error-prone tech. Not even the beloved World Science Fiction Convention, often known affectionately as Worldcon, is immune to the AI takeover. Worldcon is the longest running sci-fi gathering on the planet, starting in 1939… Continue reading Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists
There Are Reportedly Serious Concerns About John Fetterman’s Health Following His Stroke
Image by Anna Moneymaker / Getty / Futurism Beyond the obvious characters at the very top of the establishment, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more contentious political figure than Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman. Sporting a Carhartt hoodie and Steve Austin-style goatee, Fetterman rocketed to the national spotlight in 2022 during a closely-contested race for Pennsylvania… Continue reading There Are Reportedly Serious Concerns About John Fetterman’s Health Following His Stroke
Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano
Something is blocking it from erupting. Smoking Lids Researchers have found evidence that a giant “lid” made of magma could be stopping the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park from erupting. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature last month, a team of researchers discovered a “volatile-rich cap” a mere 2.36 miles below… Continue reading Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano
You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas
With Harambe’s tragic death nearly a decade behind us, folks online are now fantasizing about whether 100 men could vanquish single gorilla in mortal combat. Though there are no official databases tallying up the number of humans killed by gorillas — or any other animal, for that matter — experts suggest that it’s exceedingly rare… Continue reading You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas
OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant
Last week, countless users on social media noticed that the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT had made it extremely “sycophantic.” The company rolled out an update to the underlying GPT-4o large language model on April 25 — with results that took users aback at their fawning deference. “Oh God, please stop this,” another user complained,… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant
Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed
President Donald Trump announced his proposed budget today, calling for roughly $163 billion in cuts to non-defense-related funds. Among the cuts, which would kick in for the year starting in October if approved by Congress, are major health cutbacks, slashing the Centers for Disease Control Centers’ budget in more than half, “streamlining” financial assistance to… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed