Futurism

Website builder Wix has launched a tool that leverages generative AI to create smartphone apps from text descriptions.

Back in October 2018 I started a note with the title "The Web is Dead" while being part of the startup studio called eFounders. I was working on what is now Multis (crypto stuff) and also spending time surrounded by other startups building products on the web. Serendipity was ubiquitous. Especially when I'd go for a coffee walk around the 9th arrondissement with my wordsmith friend Jonathan. I probably started the note after an intense debate about Intercom (more on that later).

Issue 199: What does the future of website building look like?

Lab-grown diamonds are taking the jewelry industry by storm — and those invested in the natural-grown kind are none too pleased.

Thoughts on what will have a lasting impact on us at the intersection of creativity and technology

How to get ahead of changes in the design industry that are likely to happen in 2024.

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.

Clouds of debris could cut off access to space.

Falling into the event horizon of a black hole may mean certain death, but it sure as hell makes for a cool view.

Scientists have long argued about how the Universe is shaped — and according to a new study, the more complex explanations are more correct.

Explore the future of user interface design, from AR/VR and AI to gesture-based interactions and Neuralink's potential impact on human-computer interaction.

Interstellar space, here we come.

Google said that it is collaborating with HP to start commercializing Project Starline in 2025.

Will Mumford believes the robots will not lead to fewer farmers but help them farm more sustainably.

A 20-second video from inside a Chinese humanoid robot factory is causing some consternation today around social media. It shows a range of highly realistic-looking, partially skinned humanoids under construction.

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

GPT Home is a smart home assistant device that harnesses the power of ChatGPT to very confidently answer any question with eloquence.

The power of AI in my ears

Sites such as Twitter/X have been overrun by automated accounts

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

Bored Ape Yacht Club developer Yuga Labs is laying off an unspecified number of employees as the appetite for NFTs continues to evaporate.

As the speculative bubble surrounding AI begins to burst, the people behind them — and their financiers — are starting to feel the burn.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has turned its full attention towards the distant ocean-covered world called K2-18b last week.

Easel is a new startup that sits at the intersection of generative AI and social, founded by two former employees at Snap.

The programmable so-called "metafluid" is made of rubber-like spheres that allow it to radically alter its properties.

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says many people are confused about whether AI is a "creature" or a "tool." Which is it?

Albedo Space wants to launch satellites that can track the movements of and even image individual people. Obviously, privacy is an issue.

The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind.

J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson is among the star-studded signatories of a new open letter about the dangers of AI.