Image by Getty / Futurism The start of this year marked more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century. And though 2025 might not be full of flying cars and robot servants, there are a few sci-fi tropes that ended up panning out: novels like George Orwell’s “1984,” and Phillip K Dick’s… Continue reading There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances
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Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Image by Getty / Futurism Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that in key ways, it may be a contagious condition. In a provocative new study published in the journal Metabolism, scientists from South Korea and the United States found, while doing studies on human cells and with mice, that injecting… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old proposition — in higher math, it’s common for the suggestion that… Continue reading Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit research institute, dedicated to realizing an “artificial general intelligence” that benefits all of humanity. In a December 2015 blog post introducing the company, its founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and his now bitterly-departed rival Elon Musk, said that to accomplish its goal, it would have to be “unconstrained… Continue reading The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin
The mysterious Shroud of Turin, which is believed by many Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ’s body after his crucifixion, may be even stranger than we previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes lends credence to the theory that the shroud was a work of… Continue reading New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin
Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard
Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog — and it’s a doozy. The Unitree A2 Stellar Explorer, advertised as being “lighter, stronger, and faster,” can perform some impressive stunts, from front flips and traversing extreme environments. In fact, it can even hold up the weight of an adult man riding it like… Continue reading Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard
Disney’s Secret Experiments With AI Have Reportedly Been a Comical Disaster
The popular narrative is that workers in the movie and TV industries are set to be trampled by artificial intelligence. But the reality may be more complicated. Behind the scenes, Disney has reportedly been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech — especially without enraging people they still rely… Continue reading Disney’s Secret Experiments With AI Have Reportedly Been a Comical Disaster
ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed
Months after OpenAI was warned about the potential psychological harms ChatGPT can cause for its users — particularly those predisposed to mental health struggles — the company says it’s rolled out an “optimization” meant to calm the fears of mental health experts who have become increasingly alarmed about the risks its software poses. Yesterday, the… Continue reading ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed
Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubu Graphics
Born of Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung’s series “The Monsters,” Labubus — those Cheshire cat-smiling cryptids now gracing the backpacks and purses of fashionistas the world around — are supposedly based on Nordic folklore. But it’s hard to say where in the series, or in the underlying mythology, Tesla’s notorious Cybertrucks might fit in. Amid the… Continue reading Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubu Graphics
Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn’t betrayed humanity in favor of profits. Referring to themselves as the “legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission” — that is, members of the human species OpenAI pledged to benefit when it was granted nonprofit… Continue reading Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind