Futurism

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

Elon Musk may not be the biggest believer in aliens — but if he ever sees them, he's going to post them on X.

Optimus might have some new tricks.

“This first of a kind maneuver from the X-37B is an incredibly important milestone.”…

University of Strathclyde’s Prof Stephen Lyth talks about the innovative material graphene and whether it has lived up to its initial hype.

NASA researchers believe that a layer of molten goo, which shifts and moves like ocean tides, sits between the Moon's mantle and core.

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.

Einstein with the help of another scientist predicted the existence of a fifth form of matter, which is neither solid, liquid, nor gaseous.

A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered program that can potentially help them solve cold cases.

He’s not the only former Apple person working on it either.

Now, how can we harness it?

Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into an “everything app,” but is that something we actually want to have? Is it even possible?

But how?

We think this genius Irishman living in California can see into the future, because he hasn't missed a beat with these predictions.

Tiny wormholes could be punching holes through the fabric of space-time, driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Scientists gene hacked Toxoplasma gondii, the same brain parasite that can be spready by cat litter, into becoming a carrier for drugs.

To address its manpower shortage, Ukraine is planning to let lose packs of robot dogs against the invading Russian military.

Nearly 9m AI-capable PCs were shipped in the second quarter of the year, making up 14pc of all PC sales as the AI craze continues.

Neuralink continues to make progress with its device, as its second patient is using it to play video games and design 3D objects.

European scientists are warning in a new study that key places important to keeping global climate stable are in danger of collapsing.

Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.

We sit down with David Lee, the CCO of Squarespace, to hear how his team are learning and using AI tools in their work, and ask whether they might lead to “the next golden age for humanity”.

Where to begin?

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The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes

Generative AI killed the internet. Web3 has failed miserably. What comes next?

Everything is an input and everything is an output. What if you could browse ALL your things in ONE fluid interface?

Does an itemized personal computing user environment have the potential to be a new medium in which software could “actually change the thought patterns of an entire civilization” (Kay, 1989)?