Futurism

Buyer's Remorse Elon Musk and Donald Trump apparently have a deeper bromance than anyone knew — and the former president even tried to get the owner of the site formerly known as Twitter to buy his terrible social network. As the Washington Post reports based on insider sources, Trump made Musk an offer he was, apparently, […]

Botnet Attack AI company Midjourney has banned all of the employees of its competitor Stability AI from using its AI image-generating services after it allegedly caught one employee scraping huge amounts of important data, including prompt and image pairs, Ars Technica reports. This data could help Stability train or fine-tune its image-generating AI models — […]

After Boeing whistleblower John Barnett's tragic death during his deposition against the company, the man's attorneys are speaking out about his alleged suicide. The 62-year-old Louisiana-based whistleblower had traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to finally be deposed for his 2017 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) complaint against his ex-employer when, as his attorney Brian […]

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery — a fascinating use case for the augmented reality (AR) headsets that goes far beyond movie-watching or productivity-hacking. As Business Insider reports, the expensive "spatial computing" device was used to execute two microspinal procedures at London's Cromwell Hospital. […]

Bottom of Everything After a terrifying nosedive during a three-hour flight from Australia to New Zealand, a pilot admitted to a passenger that he'd lost control of the Boeing 787 due to the plane's instruments going "blank." In an interview with CNN, media-savvy passenger Brian Jokat, who has also spoken to other news outlets about the […]

Big Boned Damien Boschetto, a 25-year-old amateur paleontologist, made a spectacular discovery while walking his dog in a forest in Montouliers, southern France, last year. Boschetto stumbled upon a massive bone sticking out of the ground near a cliff edge, CNN reports, which turned out to be the 32.8-foot fossil of a Titanosaur skeleton, a […]

After waiting years to say his piece, a former Boeing employee who alleged negligence in the company's quality control has turned up dead in his car amid his own whistleblower case and widespread concerns about the company's planes. As the Washington Post, the BBC, and other outlets report, 62-year-old John Barnett was found deceased from what […]

  Despite being roughly 140 million miles away, Mars is triggering "giant whirlpools" in the Earth's oceans. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers analyzed samples from deep-sea drill sites to study deep ocean currents and how they strngethend and weakened over millions of years. According to their analysis, […]

In an excoriating response, OpenAI has pushed back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawsuit, accusing him of making "convoluted" and "incoherent" claims. It's the ChatGPT maker's first legal response to the lawsuit filed by Musk last month, as Bloomberg reports. Musk is accusing the company he co-founded in 2015 of transforming into a "closed-source de […]

A controversial theory posits that life began when RNA spontaneously began to replicate itself — and scientists, in turn, are claiming they've replicated part of that process in a lab. In interviews with the Washington Post, scientists behind the new research say that they have created an RNA molecule that made copies of other types of […]