Futurism

Resistance is Futile This year's South by Southwest (SXSW) is full of fraught ideologies, and its audiences have had enough. As tweets from the annual festival show, folks were mighty unhappy when a sizzle reel promising that artificial intelligence is the best thing since sliced bread was screened before an unrelated rom-com. "The incredibly pro-AI […]

Oh Dear Just weeks after reports swirled about Russia possibly sending nuclear weapons into orbit, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a not-so-subtle message to the West on Wednesday: he's got nukes and he is ready to use them, NBC News reports. Putin relayed this combative message during an interview with Russian state news, right before […]

The third time's the charm. After two spectacular explosions in April and November, SpaceX's massive Starship has officially made it to space for the second time. Its return journey, however, appears to have been a lot more harrowing, seemingly making a hard impact on the surface of the ocean. As it turns out, SpaceX lost […]

X-formerly-Twitter owner and self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk abruptly canceled TV journalist Don Lemon's upcoming X show on Wednesday, an incident that put Musk's glaring double standard when it comes to his town square "for all" on full display. Despite Musk telling Lemon he had his "full support," he "informed me of his decision" […]

Strange New World In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found. But this forest is unlike anything we see today out in nature. What's notable about this extremely ancient grove, detailed […]

The constitutionally enshrined freedom of expression apparently doesn't extend to transgender space camp employees in Alabama. That's the resounding message, per The Birmingham News, as Republican elected officials and reactionary influencers alike melt down over one parent's claim that a trans person is working at Huntsville, Alabama's US Space and Rocket Center. In an interview […]

Anyone There? One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars — and this one's searching for life outside of our pale blue dot. As Gizmodo reports, the space agency has recruited a nonprofit specializing in research and design for future interstellar messaging to assist in […]

AI hustle bros are back at it. And this time, their get-rich-quick schemes are gunning for your kids' attention spans. AI scammers are using generative tools to churn out bizarre and nonsensical YouTube kids' videos, a troubling Wired report reveals. The videos are often created in a style akin to that of the addictive hit […]

You Grow Girl Until now, scientists believed they understood how fast the Universe is growing — but with the advent of the James Webb Space Telescope, those theories are expanding as fast as the Universe itself. Named for astronomer Edwin Hubble, who nearly a century ago discovered the so-called "Hubble constant" which posits that the […]

And More Shortly after the Apple Vision Pro's January release, many buyers were horrified to discover that their wildly expensive new headsetS didn't let them download and watch porn. (This isn't all too surprising, given Apple's generally porn-avoidant history. Still, as 404 Media reported, buyers were pissed.) Enter: Meta, which knows what the people buying […]