Futurism

Binance Executive Reportedly Breaks Out of House Arrest

Bye! A detained Binance executive has reportedly broken out of custody in Nigeria. Per Forbes, the escaped executive, British-Kenyan citizen Nadeem Anjarwalla, was arrested by Nigerian authorities alongside US citizen and fellow Binancer Tigran Gambaryan in February. According to CNBC, reports that Anjarwalla had escaped custody — the pair were sequestered at a guest house […]
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Neuralink Told Its First Human Patient Not to Worry About Those Gruesome Monkey Deaths

The first person to ever get a Neuralink transplant hadn't heard of the Elon Musk-owned company six months ago — and once he found out about its gruesome past, he had some questions. "I read a lot of the negative stuff about this before the surgery — about all the terrible things that [the company […]
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Google Pushing Its Unsafe Search AI on Users Who Didn’t Opt In

All Aboard Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature embedded into your search pages? That might just be too bad. According to Search Engine Land, Google has started unleashing its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) product, which was previously available for users to test on an opt-in basis, unto the browsers of users who didn't […]
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Scientists Find Grim Diseases During Autopsy of NYC’s Flaco the Owl

Postmortem After his tragic death that resulted from flying into a building, veterinarians at the Bronx Zoo have found some underlying — and likely fatal — illnesses in the body of Flaco the Eurasian eagle owl. In a press release, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced that Flaco, who escaped from the Central Park Zoo […]
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Woman Wins Contest, Blasts Off and Docks at Space Station

  Earlier this week, a Russian Soyuz rocket docked with the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy — and Belarusian flight attendant Marina Vasilevskaya, who won the trip as part of a national science award. The three crew members launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, arriving at […]
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OpenAI Let Directors Make Short Films With Sora and the Results Are Wild

AI Air Head OpenAI has given a number of directors, production companies, and creative agencies early access to its Sora text-to-video generator — and the results range from astonishing to downright terrifying. Toronto-based multimedia production company shy kids used the next-generation generative AI tool to come up with a whimsical short film about "Air Head," […]
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ChatGPT Use Linked to Memory Loss, Procrastination in Students

New research has found a worrying link to memory loss and tanking grades in students who relied on ChatGPT, in what is a much needed exploration of the swift impact that large language models have had in education that may be impossible to reverse. As detailed in a new study, published in the International Journal […]
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We’re Waiting for Elon Musk to Go Berzerk as Grimes Debuts New Boyfriend

Instagram Official Musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher went Instagram official with a new beau — the person was untagged, but they appear to be DJ Matteo "Anyma" Milleri — over the weekend. T-minus how many days until her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk, with whom Boucher is locked in a contentious custody battle over their three children, makes […]
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People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

On social media, a bizarre trend seems to be emerging: people discussing their surprise pregnancies when taking the diabetes drug Ozempic and its sister weight loss shot Wegovy. As People reports, there are a few reasons why people might be getting pregnant unexpectedly when taking these semaglutide-based injectable drugs. Dr. Iman Saleh, an obstetrician, gynecologist, […]
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