Futurism

Orb Ouchies Eyeball-scanning orbs are, apparently, not a dime a dozen — and now, a Sam Altman-backed crypto startup is running out of them. As Semafor reports, the Altman-backed Worldcoin crypto startup, which uses bespoke metallic orbs to scan one's iris and verify their identity, is running low on the spherical devices after giving out somewhere […]

Never Forget Where were you when NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust? For nearly 70 years, NASA — often with help from international friends — has been charting important human history. Landing men on the Moon! Sending the Juno craft to Jupiter! Launching the science-accelerating Hubble Space Telescope, and then vaulting the extraordinary James […]

The Worst After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to the late, great Tupac. As Billboard reports, an attorney for Tupac Shakur's estate sent a cease and desist letter to Aubrey Drake Graham, known mononymously by his middle […]

Webby Awards One of the world's foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering life outside our planet than ever before. Lisa Kaltenegger, who directs the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, told The Telegraph this week that because the […]

Mind Blown Surprise! Sometimes workers do, in fact, work. In December, music streaming giant Spotify fired 1,500 workers, a cohort amounting to a staggering 17 percent of its total workforce at the time. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek chalked the culling up to cost cuts and bloat reduction, saying that too many roles had been "dedicated […]

Speling Is Hard The head of the accounting firm in charge of keeping track of the former president's Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is astonishingly bad at typing out his own name. As the Financial Times reports, Ben F Borgers, whose accountancy firm was hired by TMTG, spelled his name 14 different times in […]

Last month, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station conducted a lengthy spacewalk to repair a solar array damaged by debris. Now, state media outlet Xinhua reports that those repairs were successful, as China undertakes crucial steps to protect its astronauts against an increasingly cluttered orbit. According to China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the debris had […]

Disastertruck Tesla's Cybertruck is really struggling to keep it together. The brutalist pickup, once CEO Elon Musk's much-beloved pet project, has been mired in problems since going on sale late last year, from a major recall caused by a disastrous issue involving the accelerator pedal, to being defeated by small hills and a trip to […]

Catholic Answers, a non-clergy group of Catholics, released an AI priest called "Father Justin" earlier this week — and appears to have defrocked it after the chatbot itself began suggesting it was real. Earlier in the week, Futurism engaged in an exchange with the chatbot, which is now just called "Justin" and refers to itself as […]

Martian Creepy Crawlers The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region. But they're not the arachnids we've come to fear back on Earth — they're the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, bringing darker material from below the surface […]