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COVID-19 comes for us all — even for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has publicly announced that he's contracted the novel coronavirus.
Developments

Dr. Fauci Catches COVID for the First Time

COVID comes for us all.

An over-the-air software update temporarily turned one Lucid Air owner's luxury EV into an expensive lump of steel and aluminum.
Advanced Transport

After Software Update, Error Warns EV Owner “Vehicle May Not Be Drivable”

"The rear doors would not open and I could see this as a problem if there were an accident."

A British astronaut teased the idea that UFOs are not alien visitors to Earth but could instead be human time-travelers coming back from the future.
Space

Astronaut Speculates That UFOs Are Time Travelers From the Future

"Is it something that's come back from the future?"

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."
Cryptocurrency

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

“Obviously, expensive digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely."

Amid an industry collapse and a class-action investor defrauding lawsuit, the Binance crypto exchange is looking for 2,000 new employees. 
Cryptocurrency

Many Crypto Startups Are Firing People Right Now, But This One Is Hiring 2,000 New Employees

Surely nothing will go wrong with this plan.

It's no secret that Tesla can be lacking in the quality assurance department — and there are no signs of that changing any time soon.
Tesla

Tesla Fan Appalled at Wretched Condition of Tesla He Just Bought

"You know, it doesn’t really feel like you’re getting a $65,000 car when you are taking delivery of it."

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.
Artificial Intelligence

That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

Oof, some of these are not great.

Blake Lemoine, Google engineer making claims of sentient AI, took to Twitter to inform those reaching — he's offline and away on his honeymoon.
Artificial Intelligence

Engineer Who Says AI Came to Life Says He Can’t Comment Further Because He’s on His Honeymoon

Talk about rest and relaxation.

Bitcoin bros are really, really not OK, as evidenced by the latest sad cope from a financial planner who likely just lost his clients a ton of money.
Bitcoin

Financial Planner Desperately Explains to Clients Why the Bitcoin Crash Is Good, Actually

"I regret nothing."

A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.
Science & Energy

Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver

Yet another "bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events."

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Exchanges Lay Off Thousands, Months After Uber-Expensive Super Bowl Ads

This sucks really, really bad for thousands of people.

NASA really doesn't want SpaceX's Starship to blow up on the launch pad at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Reuters reports.
NASA

NASA Afraid SpaceX’s Rocket Will Explode and Blow Up Other Stuff Near It

They just don't want to blow up Kennedy Space Center, okay?

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are indeed in a band, as footage of the twins un-ironically covering "Don't Stop Believin'" has confirmed.
Bitcoin

Horrible Footage Emerges of Winklevoss Twins Singing “Don’t Stop Believin'”

Please make it stop!

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, "Starship will be ready to fly next month," an exciting new update after years of delays and governmental red tape.
Starship

Elon Musk: “Starship Will Be Ready to Fly Next Month”

Is it finally happening?

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."
Artificial Intelligence

Transcript of Conversation With “Sentient” AI Was Heavily Edited

Let's see the raw transcripts.

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.
Science & Energy

Giant Tortoise, Thought to Be Totally Extinct, Suddenly Found Chilling on Island

Let's get a round of applause for this beautiful tortoise!

Turns out dogs may have learned some of their human social skills from a previously undiscovered genetic mutation according to a Nature story.
Future Society

Geneticists Figure Out Why Dogs Are So Friendly to Humans

Good boys are made of these.

Binance is bracing itself for a class-action lawsuit filed against it in a California court about misleading investors over a "stable" stablecoin.
Blockchain

Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Binance Misled Investors Over “Stablecoin”

Turns out it wasn't so stable after all.

The Federal Aviation Administration has released its long-awaited environmental assessment into SpaceX's Starship launch program.
Starship

FAA Demands Changes Before SpaceX Can Launch Starship to Orbit

"One step closer to the first orbital flight test of Starship."

Science is finally backing up what stoners have long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy to boot.
Health & Medicine

Smoking Weed Makes You Nicer and Less Greedy, Scientist Says

Finally, some good news!