Joe Russo, a director who's helmed some of Marvel's biggest movies, thinks it's only a matter of time before AIs can make legit films. | Continue reading
When the publisher of Sports Illustrated and Men's Journal announced last week that its magazines would start to publish AI-generated articles, its CEO assured readers that the practice wouldn't result in a decline in quality. "It's not about 'crank out AI content and do as much … | Continue reading
Former US president and reality TV star Donald Trump went on an unhinged rant about electric cars during a speech in Pennsylvania. | Continue reading
The site initially addressed widespread backlash to the bot-written articles by assuring readers that a human editor was carefully fact-checking them all prior to publication. Afterward, though, Futurism found that a substantial number of errors had been slipping into the AI's pu … | Continue reading
Last week, we reported that the prominent technology news site CNET had been quietly publishing articles generated by an unspecified "AI engine." The news sparked outrage. Critics pointed out that the experiment felt like an attempt to eliminate work for entry-level writers, and … | Continue reading
According to a scathing new Greenpeace USA report, only five percent of plastic waste generated by US households — a shockingly low number. | Continue reading
A team of researchers claim to have created a biodegradable and renewable alternative to both glass and plastic in the form of "transparent wood." | Continue reading
Rents across the country have skyrocketed thanks in part to an algorithm that hikes rental prices on behalf of landlords. | Continue reading
Google is embroiled in a lawsuit that alleges its private browsing mode isn't very private, a sentiment apparently shared by the jokes of Google employees. | Continue reading
The US military finally tested Microsoft's expensive HoloLens smart goggles for combat, and it's probably safe to say that the goggles failed. | Continue reading
With all the hype around self-driving cars, one key-but-now-disgraced pioneer of the industry says the tech is far, far from being viable. | Continue reading
Metaverse project Decentraland, a sandbox environment that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, isn't exactly teeming with people. | Continue reading
Bad news for social media stans: researchers have compelling reasons to believe that using these apps may be making you depressed. | Continue reading
Insider reports that Facebook is planning a mass round of "quiet layoffs," which could impact up to 15 percent of the entire company. | Continue reading
One man claims he was able to exploit a gun buyback program by 3D printing more than 100 guns and selling them to his state's attorney general's office. | Continue reading
UC Davis is refusing to release a cache of grisly photos of the monkeys injured during experiments testing Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant technology. | Continue reading
Scientists in the UK conducted a trial of an experimental cancer therapy that uses the cold sore virus to make cancer cells explode. | Continue reading
Well, that's not right. | Continue reading
Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov is likening the emergence of qantum computers to a financial bubble in a commentary piece for the Financial Times. | Continue reading
A crypto enthusiast wants to dig through a landfill to recover a tossed hard drive, which he says contains roughly $180 million worth of Bitcoin. | Continue reading
Hackers were able to exploit a basic flaw in crypto bridge Nomad to rob the platform of roughly $190 million in user investments. | Continue reading
An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror. | Continue reading
A Romanian rocket startup called ARCA Space has come up with an absolutely ludicrous rocket design to launch payloads into orbit. | Continue reading
The mysterious red ocean glow pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was caused by commercial saury fishing vessel lights. | Continue reading
Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US. | Continue reading
Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed. | Continue reading
The United Nations is estimating that the world's population could reach the eight billion mark as soon as November, with India replacing China in 2023. | Continue reading
In a reent video YouTuber HyperChange had his own rather terrifying incident while testing out Tesla's half-baked Full Self-Driving feature. | Continue reading
Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person. | Continue reading
Researchers have come up with an ingenious new solution to tackle our renewable energy storage woes — which would turn skyscrapers into massive batteries. | Continue reading
Startup JetPack Aviation has shown off its latest adrenaline-fueling invention: a prototype for its upcoming P2 Speeder flying motorcycle. | Continue reading
NASA has identified a top priority of what to study once on the Moon: the Gruithuisen Domes, two mysterious mounds that have scientists puzzled. | Continue reading
A team of scientists at the regenerative medicine company 3DBio Therapeutics have successfully implanted a 3D printed ear made from the patient's own cells. | Continue reading
A team published a new study in the preprint journal Arxiv and said humanity could become an interplanetary Kardashev Type I Civilization by the year 2371. | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to grow "wood-like plant material" in a lab, without ever having to resort to chopping down a tree. | Continue reading
Walmart announced an expansion to its drone delivery program that will offer $3.99 deliver fees on shipments of 10 pounds or less. | Continue reading
Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope — and it doesn't match the first one. | Continue reading
Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI. | Continue reading
Good one, Elon. | Continue reading
China is building a new hydroelectric dam using AI and 3D printing. No human workers will be involved, according to a new study. | Continue reading
The US Food and Drug Administration's newest head, Robert Califf, M.D., says pandemic misinformation is the US' leading cause of death. | Continue reading
Imagine, if you will, that future humans manage to travel to other worlds and find...more humans. | Continue reading
Tesla cut corners to deal with the rampant supply chain issues — putting yet another hurdle in the way to level three full-self driving cars. | Continue reading
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group modified a virtual reality headset to simulate haptics on the mouth and kissing in VR. | Continue reading
At the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Ray Kurzweil made yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime in the next 30 years. | Continue reading
Lab-grown meat company Primeval Foods is planning to bring a whole host of exotic meats to the market, including zebra, lion, elephant, and tiger. | Continue reading
A marketplace best-known for selling Jack Dorsey's first tweet as an NFT has had to "pause" nearly all sales because it was being used to break the law. | Continue reading