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New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the list of climate-related events afflicting the US and world.
Future Society

We're in trouble.

Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold
Future Society

Banana for scale.

Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind Trump's AG pick Matt Gaetz amid damning allegations about his sexual conduct.
Elon Musk

"Our Hammer of Justice."

Nvidia's unreleased AI chips are apparently melting down, causing their shipment to be delayed until the beginning of 2025 at the earliest. 
Artificial Intelligence

Customers are pissed.

Scientists launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain humans on the way to the next star.
Off-World

"Think about the difference between a drone and an ocean liner."

President Joe Biden is ready to hop on a space rocket and rescue the two NASA astronauts, who have been stranded on board the ISS.
Future Society

"I’m a little concerned he may want to send me to space because we got to get some folks back home!"

A small school in Pennsylvania shut down on Monday after parents accused leaders of covering up an explicit AI nudes scandal.
Artificial Intelligence

Two of the school's leaders just resigned.

A hacker has apparently gotten access to testimony from a woman who claims she was paid to have sex with Matt Gaetz when she was underage.
Hacking

This is a labyrinthine web of accusations.

London School of Economics professor Jonathan Birch told The Guardian that he is "worried about major societal splits" over AI consciousness. 
Future Society

Get ready for chaos.

Donald Trump is today expected to attend the sixth orbital flight test of its Starship rocket, the largest rocket in the world.
Advanced Transport

Elon's presidential plus one.

Scientists have found that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is so loud that its sonic boom could cause property damage back on the ground.
Starship

Ouch.

Old emails between Elon Musk and two of his OpenAI confounders show just how afraid the firm was of an "AGI dictatorship."
OpenAI

"The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship."

After discovering that his voice has been cloned by AI, veteran documentarian David Attenborough has been moved to genteel fury. 
Artificial Intelligence

"I am profoundly disturbed."

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber's Mandarin name "Lantian" literally translates to "blue sky," a wild coincidence. Or was it meant to be?
Future Society

It was meant to be.

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.
Exobiology

"We may not live in the most likely of universes."

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's adviser Boris Epshteyn got into a nasty public fight at Mar-a-Lago last week as the pair vie for influence.
Elon Musk

The girls are fighting.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Now that Trump is in the White House, Musk could fast-track the Cybercab.

RFK Jr. -- a huge critic of fast food -- has been spotted snacking on McDonald's with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

"It's actually pretty dark."

The US Secret Service has deployed a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog in front of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Robot Dogs

"DO NOT PET."

Sam Altman found that Elon Musk's supposed "anti-woke" Grok AI chatbot argued that Kamala Harris was the "better" pick for president.
OpenAI

"Which one is supposed to be the left-wing propaganda machine again?"