Read the latest articles from Futurism (Page 410)

We regret to inform you that, sadly, AmazonSmile — which allowed Amazon customers to give a portion of purchase proceeds to charity — is coming to an end.
Future Society

"The program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An economist known for his doomsday predictions is going off on cryptocurrency at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Cryptocurrency

"Literally 99 percent of crypto is a scam."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NVIDIA has released a beta of a new feature called Eye Contact, software that makes you stare into the camera even if you're looking away.
Artificial Intelligence

Why does this need to exist?

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's CEO is warning that its long-rumored successor, GPT-4, could end up being a huge letdown, given the sheer volume of attention.
OpenAI

Turns out those viral graphs about GPT-4 were completely made up.

By Victor Tangermann

Turns out, all you need is a million dollar laser that can shoot high energy pulses at an absurdly fast rate, and you can maybe divert lightning.
Science & Energy

"It's like drilling a hole through the air with the laser."

By Frank Landymore

Sam Bankman-Fried's friend and colleagues turned on him to save themselves. So, his parents have apparently given him a dog — who doubles as security.
Blockchain

His name is Sandor, and he's a 75-pound German shepherd.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to the people actually already working — or attempting to work — in the Meta's Horizon Worlds metaverse, there are a lot of issues.
Metaverse

"There's just a lot that can go wrong."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers have come up with a machine learning-assisted way to detect and estimate the position of people only using WiFi.
Artificial Intelligence

It's eerily accurate.

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot showed off its problem solving skills in a video titled "Atlas Gets a Grip," released by the robot maker today.
Boston Dynamics

The flip at the end is seriously impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

Robots and Machines

The tablet accessory you didn’t know you needed.

By Jaime Carrillo

Robots and Machines

Every detail is worth hearing.

By Julian Vittorio

A provocative court case may prove whether or not a man's recurrent nightmares were evidence of surgery malpractice or of an anesthetic hangover.
Health & Medicine

A horrifying thought!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robots and Machines

Grow vegetables, herbs, and other beneficial plants all year long with high-quality grow lights.

By Timothy Dale

Amid rumors of a huge OpenAI deal, Microsoft has announced that it's laying off a whopping 10,000 employees as the economy continues its downturn.
Artificial Intelligence

This timing is unfortunate.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA. 
NASA

He's not beating the allegations, but that doesn't seem to matter much.

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's no surviving the fireball of a nuclear bomb, but beyond that, there are certain spots indoors where you can try avoid the destructive shockwave.
Science & Energy

"People should stay away from these locations and immediately take shelter."

By Frank Landymore

College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT
OpenAI

The paper was way too coherent and well-structured.

By Victor Tangermann

Experts found that language-modeling AIs like ChatGPT will likely make it easier and more efficient than ever to generate massive amounts of misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

"For society, these developments bring a new set of concerns: the prospect of highly scalable — and perhaps even highly persuasive — campaigns by those seeking to covertly influence public opinion."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have uncovered a macabre potential explanation for why a specific subset of exoplanets haven't been observed yet.
Off-World

This would explain a lot.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of artists are suing Stable Diffusion, an open-source AI image generator, for unfairly using their art to train its AI.
Artificial Intelligence

"Today, we’re tak­ing another step toward mak­ing AI fair and eth­i­cal for every­one."

By Victor Tangermann