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Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

If true, a staggering figure.

Gen Z workers are entering the workforce with plenty of technological know-how, but plenty of glaring gaps as well, making navigating office life difficult.
Future Society

"Sadly, neither watching TikTok videos nor playing Minecraft fulfills the technology brief."

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots. 
Artificial Intelligence

"If data is the new oil, then AI is the new electricity."

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.
Artificial Intelligence

It's stupid! Here's why.

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.
SpaceX

"We're going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted."

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.
Elon Musk

Google, play "The Future Freaks Me Out" by Motion City Soundtrack.

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?
Artificial Intelligence

Nothing to see here, folks!

The Federal Trade Commission is making moves to bar the controversial online therapy company BetterHelp from sharing private mental health information.
Health & Medicine

Should online therapy apps share your private information with advertisers?

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

"There isn't anything like this today."

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?
OpenAI

OpenAI makes a lot of big promises about looking out for humanity's best interests — but forgive us for having some trust issues.

US regulators denied Elon Musk's Neuralink's application to start testing the company's brain chips in humans last year, Reuters reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

"He can’t appreciate that this is not a car. This is a person’s brain. This is not a toy."

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

"CNET's being gutted for parts."

A team of engineers in Sydney, Australia has developed a tiny, flexible robotic arm that is designed to 3D-print inside the body.
Prosthetics and Devices

This tiny device could be a game changer.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are studying the earliest chemical reactions that may have led to the formation of life on Earth.
NASA

It's the ultimate scientific mystery.

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Because nothing says eternal love like a robot writing your vows.

A man in Peru was caught lugging around the mummified remains of a woman, who likely died well over 600 years ago, tucked inside a food delivery cooler bad.
Future Society

"She sleeps with me. I take care of her."

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Perfect. No notes.

All is not well in the county that's home to some of Jack Daniel's barrel houses amid a fungus infestation caused by the whiskey itself. 
Science & Energy

Who knew whiskey had such a horrible price tag?

A new lawsuit against the NFL alleges that the league keeps a massive database of lewd shots of women — both cheerleaders of fans — captured at games.
Future Society

An incredibly disturbing allegation.

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.
Elon Musk

"Dude, you can't go on Twitter Spaces when you're in the bathroom, bro."