Killer Heat Scientists have found that it's not just older adults succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change — even younger people may be more susceptible to extreme heat…
Worst Experience Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes as a result — with often chaotic…
Spectacular Oracular Earlier this year in a Silicon Valley warehouse, a nuclear fusion startup held a strange secret ceremony that featured, among other things, a bunch of giant capacitors and…
In Las Vegas, a strip mall corpse salesman's shady dealings are drawing controversy. As NBC News reports, the near-complete lack of regulations surrounding the educational body broker business provided ample room…
White Knight Despite previously using artificial intelligence tools to help resuscitate old John Lennon vocals, fellow Beatle Paul McCartney is now singing a different tune about the tech. As the…
Stuck in the Office Billionaire Jared Isaacman has been to space twice. First, he commanded the first all-civilian mission to orbit in September 2021 on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.…
Being Tailed Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet with a long "tail" of gas trailing behind it, not unlike a giant comet. As NASA details in a recent article about…
Gain Pain The head of the "buy now, pay later" firm Klarna is now bragging that artificial intelligence has begun to successfully replace his human workforce. In an interview with Bloomberg,…
A group of the world's leading biologists have called for an immediate halt on a technology you've probably never even heard of — but is so dangerous, they say, that it…
Imperial Police In Eastern China, police are now patrolling the streets with a rolling robot that can chase down suspects — and, they say, beat them in a fight. As the South…
Vicious Cycle If you've ever felt like you're going around in circles, you can probably relate to this Waymo robotaxi. A video making the rounds online shows the driverless cab…
Over the past few months, traffic to the site formerly known as Twitter has taken an absolute nosedive as competitors like Bluesky and Threads continue to bring in more and…
Breaking Things There's always something you can learn from failure. Sometimes failure looks like your rocket blowing up after crashing into the ocean — but it's a learning opportunity nonetheless.…
Mr. Miser The holidays may be approaching, but it appears that SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is remaining a total scrooge. The New York Times reports that the centibillionaire's…
Cold Product Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones," for $82.5 million to save itself from…
A large number of Character.AI users are reporting that they were unexpectedly signed into a stranger's account, allowing them to see their entire chat history, personas, and even identifying information. "This…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he's launched an investigation into the Google-backed AI chatbot startup Character.AI over its privacy and safety practices for minors. The news comes…
In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder last week, the insurer's parent company is now asking journalists to remove photos of its remaining executives' names and faces. After Futurism…
Space Soldiers President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator billionaire SpaceX tourist Jared Isaacman wants to send soldiers into space. During the Space Force Association’s Spacepower 2024 conference in Orlando,…
OpenAI has long refused to say whether its Sora video generator was trained on YouTube content — but its propensity for generating videos that look a whole lot like real…