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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Musk's ghost is lingering in the White House. / Future Society/ Cybersecurity/ Elon Musk/ StarlinkImage by Kevin Dietsch / Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty / FuturismElon Musk's lackeys at his so-called Department of Government Efficiency installed a Starlink terminal on the roof of the White House — and then totally blew off the major security concerns raised by communications experts, the Washington Post reports.
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Researchers in China have developed a technique to give lithium-ion battery cells a second shot at life. Delivered as an injection, it significantly extends the cells' lifespan and has them perform almost like they're young again, the team report in a study published in the prestigious journal Nature.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Frank Landymore
3 hours agoUSB-C was meant to simplify everything — here’s how it failed. I’ve been writing about USB-C for what seems like forever (seriously, it’s been seven or eight years!). From a unifying, one-size-fits-all specification to the grim reality of compatibility issues and opaque feature support, USB-C has …
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Elite athletes love their ice baths, or "cold plunges." After sweating it out on the court or on the pitch, you slide into a tub of freezing cold water to keep the muscle cramps away. Lately, the practice has gained popularity in wellness and bodybuilding circles — with the additional step of snapping a photo of yourself to signal that you belong to a higher echelon of physical specimen — but influencer gym bros especially.
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
A team of more than two dozen AI researchers from MIT, Cornell University, the University of Toronto, and other institutions have trained a large language model only using data that was openly licensed or in the public domain, the Washington Post reports, providing a blueprint for ethically developing the technology. But, as the creators readily admit, it was far from easy.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Frank Landymore
20 hours agoAgentic AI can independently make decisions instead of waiting for your commands. Here's what you need to know about AI agents, including the possible pitfalls of minimal human involvement. You've probably heard a lot about ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, image generators and AI writing tools. But there's …
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
You've heard of how mighty supernovas are, or of the ungodly amounts of energy released by gamma ray bursts. But astronomers have just discovered a type of cosmic blast that puts all those to shame. They're called "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs) — and they're quite literally the most powerful explosion witnessed since the dawn of time. What produces ENTs is appropriately catastrophic: a star, at least three times as massive as our Sun, being obliterated by a supermassive black hole.
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
The standard model of cosmology may be the best explanation we've got for why the universe is the way it is and how it all came to be. But it's not the only explanation. Enter black hole cosmology. It's a radical idea which proposes that the Big Bang — the rapid unraveling of an infinitely dense point, believed to have given birth to the cosmos as we know it — actually took place in a black hole, which itself formed inside a larger "parent" universe.
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2 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
A team of nanoscientists in the UK say they've created the "world's smallest violin," which many public figures could probably use this week. Narrower than the width of a human hair, it boasts equal parts meme and engineering potential, and serves as a cheeky proof of concept for a cutting-edge approach to designing structures at the smallest scales that humans can possibly tinker at. But if you were hoping for some literal fiddling on a dust-speck-sized Stradivarius, think again.
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3 weeks ago | 
futurism.com | Frank Landymore
Musk-O-Drama"He should be deported from the country immediately."/ Future Society/ Donald Trump/ Elon Musk/ Steve BannonImage by Drew Angerer / Dominick Reuter / Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty / FuturismAs Elon Musk and Donald Trump's bromance experiences a rapid but totally predictable disassembly, Musk's archnemesis Steve Bannon is calling on the president to investigate the world's richest man's dubious immigration history.
