Image by Getty / Futurism Forget injections. A new drug promises to be just as effective as Ozempic — but is taken as a daily pill. Called orforglipron, the results of a new clinical trial announced Thursday by manufacturer Eli Lilly suggest that the pill could be a breakthrough in a class of drugs called… Continue reading Human Experiments on GLP-1 Pill Looking Extremely Promising
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James Webb Spots Disturbing Sight: Entire Planet Sinking Into Star
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope appear to have made the first-ever direct observation of a star swallowing a planet. Clearly the stellar host was the culprit of this gruesome crime. Acts of “planetary engulfment” occur when a star enters its red giant stage — as our own Sun is fated to do —… Continue reading James Webb Spots Disturbing Sight: Entire Planet Sinking Into Star
Single Injection Appears to Prevent Virtually All Allergic Reactions
Image by H. Armstrong / Debrocke / ClassicStock via Getty / Futurism We could be nearing a cure for those nasty spring allergies — and even allergic reactions altogether. A decades-old asthma medication called omalizumab, which is sold as Xolair, has shown that it can successfully treat seasonal allergies in preliminary clinical trials. Administered as… Continue reading Single Injection Appears to Prevent Virtually All Allergic Reactions
Hypocrite Teachers Are Telling Students Not to Use AI While Using It to Grade Their Work
Teachers are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their work — all while telling their pupils they can’t do the same. As the New York Times reports, educators and administrators are using AI for grading papers, tutoring students, and even analyzing their records. For Rhode Island history teacher Jon Gold, using ChatGPT for lesson plans seems like a… Continue reading Hypocrite Teachers Are Telling Students Not to Use AI While Using It to Grade Their Work
Rumors Swirl of Even Worse Celebrities Jeff Bezos May Shoot Into Space Next
Katy Perry’s 11-minute jaunt to the lowest reaches of space may be thankfully behind us, but the fun isn’t quite over yet. As the UK’s Sun tabloid speculates, celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even Rihanna have been named as potential passengers on Jeff Bezos’ next expensive trip via Blue Origin, the billionaire’s… Continue reading Rumors Swirl of Even Worse Celebrities Jeff Bezos May Shoot Into Space Next
There’s Something Horrifying in Your Toothpaste
Image by Getty / Futurism Alarming new research has found that toothpastes are often contaminated with lead and other heavy metals. In tests conducted by the lead safety activist Tamara Rubin, who runs the website Lead Safe Mama, 90 percent of the 51 examined brands were found to contain the toxic metal — in some… Continue reading There’s Something Horrifying in Your Toothpaste
Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean
To combat climate change, a team of scientists are sucking CO2 out of the ocean. The project, dubbed SeaCURE, began operating a small-scale trial this year on England’s south coast, the BBC reports. It hangs its hopes on a simple premise: that the ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing nearly a third of… Continue reading Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean
Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power
If chivalry isn’t already dead, it’s certainly circling the drain. OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that people politely saying “please” and “thank you” to their AI chatbots is costing him bigtime. When one poster on X-formerly-Twitter wondered aloud “how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’… Continue reading Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power
Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”
Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant’s defense is pretty thin. In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the… Continue reading Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”
Thailand Deploys Humanoid Robot Dressed in Police Uniform
Unperturbed by the dystopian optics, the Royal Thai Police have deployed a humanoid police robot during a festival. As the Straits Times reports, the unsettling robot, dubbed “AI police cyborg 1.0” — even though it’s technically more of an android and not a cyborg — surveyed the streets during the country’s Songkran festival using 360-degree… Continue reading Thailand Deploys Humanoid Robot Dressed in Police Uniform