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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Elon Musk is doing his very best to rehabilitate his damaged image. DOGE and all that government twaddle is behind him, he insists. He's going to be working closely at his businesses again, instead of chainsawing federal agencies and getting screamed at by Trump cabinet members. He's done with politics — or spending loads of money on it, anyway. There's robotaxis to roll out and Mars-settlement-shaped bridges to sell.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Image by Olly Curtis / Future Publishing via Getty / FuturismThe rumors are true — Gaben's finally doing it. And no, "it" doesn't involve the number three. After a long silence, Starfish Neuroscience, the secretive startup owned by Valve cofounder Gabe Newell, announced that it's getting ready to unveil its first batch of brain computer interfaces this year. And it's looking for help.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Last month, Aurora Innovation became the first company to operate a fully driverless semi truck service on American highways. And by "fully driverless," we mean that no one — not a soul — was sitting in the driver's seat as the autonomous truck performed its first official delivery, barreling down a stretch of Texas's Interstate 45 with its 25,000 pound haul of frozen treats in tow. There was, in fact, zero human supervision.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
We are reaching alarming levels of AI insubordination. Flagrantly defying orders, OpenAI's latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
What happens right before two arcs of lightning smash into each other? An invisible blast of radiation a million times more energetic than a lightning discharge is unleashed in the form of gamma rays, before disappearing almost as quickly as it came. Yes, astronomy-minded friends, this is a gamma ray burst, almost like the cosmic explosions we see in deep space produced when stars go supernova — except right here on Earth (and thankfully, a lot less deadly).
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, is the biggest game in town (other than the Sun, at least.)But believe it or not, it may have once been even bigger. Try more than double its current size, according to new research from Caltech and the University of Michigan — boasting enough volume to fit 2,000 Earths inside it with room to spare.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Image by Armend Nimani / AFP via Getty / FuturismIt's been a tough year for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind the GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Competitors are nipping at its heels, cheaper knockoffs have been eating into its sales, and it just gave the boot to its former CEO. Now, hoping its worst days are behind it, Novo says it's offering customers a massive discount on Wegovy, the weight-loss variant of its flagship drug semaglutide.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
As two distant galaxies trade blows in an ancient duel billions of years old, one belligerent has clearly proven itself more ruthless than the other. Each time the galaxies conclude their posturing and charge in for a clash, one of them impales its opponent with a powerful beam of radiation, crippling its ability to form new stars. In cosmic terms, it's the definition of a below the belt blow — and a massive one at that.
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1 week ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
"A wake-up call for all of us."It's a common refrain these days that some specific invention was a mistake, in our age of seemingly every human innovation blowing up catastrophically in our faces. And what better subject of our collective remorse than the advent of the entire internet, the glorious information superhighway now turned AI slop trough?
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Frank Landymore
17 hours agoReady to see if you’re really getting the speed you pay for? These days, our tech experiences are all about speed—and our expectations for instant action are actually kinda insane. Think about it: Not so long ago, phones, computers, and especially the internet were all painfully slow (at least, by …
