Futurism

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest. Its authors suggest their new-and-improved model solves the mystery of dark matter — by suggesting it doesn't exist in the first place. Dark matter is the hypothetical form of matter that doesn't interact with light or the electromagnetic field in […]

See Ya The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of AI-generated authors and allegedly AI-generated content to Sports Illustrated and its sister site TheStreet, has lost Sports Illustrated entirely, The New York Times reports. Sports Illustrated's magazine publishing deal is — or, well, was — widely regarded as one of the stranger deals in media. […]

Earlier this month, Google — the web's primary monopolistic landlord/organizer/feudal ruler — announced a major spam policy shakeup. Given that algorithmic updates are often very boring, they don't always make big media waves. But these updates, which largely read as a response to the mass-produced, AI-automated drivel proliferating across the internet, have been a big […]

All Apologies As things continue to literally and metaphorically fall apart at Boeing, the CEO of United Airlines is trying to reassure (and retain) customers. "Unfortunately, in the past few weeks, our airline has experienced a number of incidents that are reminders of the importance of safety," United CEO Scott Kirby said in a Monday […]

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon's interview with multihyphenate billionaire and conservative pundit Elon Musk finally aired on Monday, allowing us to get a better glimpse at why the X-formerly-Twitter owner may have canceled the former's show on the platform. Musk abruptly canceled the show following the interview, leading to widespread speculation about the billionaire's real […]

Dog Days An at-home DNA testing kit for dogs claimed that human saliva returned various dog breed results — and when pressed, the firm held firm. As Boston's WBZ-TV reports, the Toronto-based DNA My Dog company told not one but two humans who sent cheek swabs in that their results contained Alaskan Malamute genes, calling into question […]

Reefer Madness A dead coral reef destroyed years ago by fishermen has been brought back to life after scientists installed specially-made steel frames into the sea floor and coaxed transplanted coral to grow and flourish on these metallic skeletons. The scientists were able to restore the coral reef in just four years, which points to […]

Going Nova Between now and September, have your eyes peeled for a truly spectacular night show. Not for manmade fireworks but for a rare celestial event: a nova explosion from 3,000 light years away is predicted to flare into our night sky and become visible to our naked eyes in the Northern Hemisphere. NASA says […]

  Chinese scientists are working on a giant electromagnetic launch track to launch a massive 50-ton space plane that's longer than a Boeing 737 into orbit. As the South China Morning Post reports, the "giant rail gun" system is designed to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to speeds of up to Mach 1.6. Once it reaches […]

Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently, it's easy for hackers to figure out. "Currently, anybody can read private chats sent from ChatGPT and other services," Yisroel Mirsky, the head of the Offensive AI Research Lab at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, told Ars Technica in an email. "This includes malicious actors on the same Wi-Fi […]