Futurism

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

Amazon has been a huge staging ground for the proliferation of AI-generated spam. In fact, as we noticed earlier this year, its marketplace has already started to fill up with shoddy AI-generated listings — at the same time, of course, that Amazon itself is working on the same tech. Now, the consequences of this AI […]
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Andrew Huberman Fans Are Absolutely Disgusted With His Behavior

Just Condemnation While some podcast fans may blindly stan their parasocial icons, it appears that those who listen to Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman are not among them. In several posts on the r/AndrewHuberman subreddit, many of the podcaster's erstwhile followers are sounding off on the alleged mistreatment and bizarre behavior he enacted on former partners, […]
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Whoopi Goldberg Insists Aliens Are “Watching Us”

The world of alien-believers has just gained a new out acolyte: veteran actress and "The View" moderator Whoopi Goldberg. "They're already here," Goldberg said during a recent exchange with "Ghostbusters" star Kumail Nanjiani on the talk show. "They've been here for quite some time." The topic arose after another of the show's hosts asked Nanjiani, […]
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Ozempic Is Being Sold for Hundreds of Times What It Costs to Make

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk is charging around $1,000 a month in the US for its diabetes and obesity treatment. But according to a new investigation by a team of researchers, that's nowhere near the actual cost of producing semaglutide, the scientific name of Ozempic's active ingredient. The researchers from Yale University, King’s College Hospital in […]
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Lex Fridman Defends Andrew Huberman Amid Scandal

Hit Squad In the wake of some jarring allegations against Stanford neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman, his fellow brother-in-microphones, Lex Fridman, is coming to his defense. "It's heartbreaking to see a hit-piece written about my friend Andrew Huberman," Fridman, an MIT AI researcher who has appeared on Huberman's show and vice versa, said in a […]
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NASA’s Privately-Launched Moon Lander Permanently Dead After Failing to Wake Up

It's official, folks: the privately-launched Moon lander is dead. Intuitive Machines, the company that launched the "Odysseus" lander with funding from NASA, has announced in a series of posts on X-formerly-Twitter that the historic first landing of a commercial craft on the lunar surface is not quite as successful as hoped. Launched back in February, […]
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Cargo Giant That Took Out Bridge Had Silenced Whistleblower Who Warned About Safety

Workers Rights Violations In incredibly unexpected news that absolutely no one saw coming, The Lever reports that the shipping giant responsible for Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse — a tragedy that's left at least six people missing and presumed dead and gutted the area's infrastructure — was recently sanctioned by US regulators for stifling whistleblowers. […]
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