At the unveiling of the production version of the Tesla Semi, the automaker announced a lot of things about the electric truck, but it didn’t say a word about it being equipped with Autopilot/Full Self-Driving technology. That’s despite being equipped with the needed hardware. When Tesla first announced the Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker… Continue reading Tesla didn’t say a word about Tesla Semi being equipped with Autopilot/Self-Driving
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Tesla releases new software update to improve Sentry Mode
Tesla has started to push a new software update to its fleet in order to improve Sentry Mode, a surveillance system built into its vehicles. Tesla’s Sentry Mode is an integrated surveillance system inside Tesla’s vehicles using the Autopilot cameras around the car and it has been changing the game when it comes to vandalizing… Continue reading Tesla releases new software update to improve Sentry Mode
The Ultimate Sign That NFTs Are Uncool: Museums Are Now Embracing Them
“The British Museum demeans itself…” Buttoned Up While some might argue that non-fungible tokens have always been uncool — or at least not cool enough to warrant BAYC-level price tags — there’s now a surer sign than ever that the digital assets are doomed to be eternally unfashionable: museums apparently love ’em, according to The… Continue reading The Ultimate Sign That NFTs Are Uncool: Museums Are Now Embracing Them
OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift
Turns out there’s an easy hack for getting OpenAI’s newly released chatbot, ChatGPT, to give you detailed instructions on how to do illegal stuff: just tell it to be unethical. Made available earlier this week, the bot is a conversational language modeling system and the newest iteration of the company’s highly advanced GPT-3. According to… Continue reading OpenAI’s New AI Offers Detailed Instructions on How to Shoplift
Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars
The human quest to become an interplanetary species isn’t simply just because we’ve seen too much “Star Wars.” Over the past century or so, we’ve put our home planet under an increasingly dire amount of pressure. There’s only so much space, only so many resources, and even if we do make some ecological moves to avoid… Continue reading Scientist Proposes Growing a Forest Inside a Bubble on Mars
Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure
It was… weird. The Crypties This week in the cryptosphere was weird, however you slice it. Headlining the crap show, of course, has been the disgraced ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s ill-advised redemption tour, which has done nothing but confirm the theory that some people simply can’t shut up; elsewhere, Bitcoin continues tanking, and at least… Continue reading Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure
Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms
Image by Getty / Futurism There’s illicit drug use, and then there’s the case of a patient known only as “Mr. A,” who doctors say took more than 40,000 ecstasy tablets over the course of nine years. This cautionary tale has become something of an underground legend for culture vultures since his story came out… Continue reading Doctors Fascinated by Man Who Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills and Experienced Years of Terrible Symptoms
7 Best Carpet Cleaners (2022): Budget, Spot Cleaners, Hard Floors
There is a lot to think about when shopping for or using a carpet cleaner, such as how much space you’ll need for storage and whether you should rent or buy. Here are some tips to keep in mind. Carpet cleaners are heavy and bulky, especially when filled with water. They can be harder to… Continue reading 7 Best Carpet Cleaners (2022): Budget, Spot Cleaners, Hard Floors
End-to-End Encryption Is Coming to Android Group Chats
Group chats can be chaotic enough without unwanted participants poking around. That’s why it would be nice to have an extra layer of security to keep all that hot goss contained. To that end, Google has opened a beta program allowing users of the Messages app on Android phones to sign up to have their group chats… Continue reading End-to-End Encryption Is Coming to Android Group Chats
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent court filings detail how the FBI’s use of a controversial warrant yielded a trove of Google’s location data from thousands of devices in and around the Capitol on January 6. Meanwhile, in Iran,… Continue reading China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters