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Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens (futurism.com)

494 points by janandonly over 1 year ago | 366 comments
Google engineers joked about how incognito mode isn't incognito (futurism.com)

365 points by Brajeshwar almost 2 years ago | 281 comments
People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle" (futurism.com)

350 points by gsky about 1 year ago | 257 comments
MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot (futurism.com)

309 points by cpeterso almost 2 years ago | 148 comments
Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say (futurism.com)

281 points by sahin almost 3 years ago | 266 comments
Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees (futurism.com)

264 points by cromat3 almost 2 years ago | 387 comments
Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide" (futurism.com)

203 points by Geekette 6 months ago | 30 comments
Scientists found genetic mutations in every astronaut blood sample they studied (futurism.com)

200 points by kiyanwang about 2 years ago | 104 comments
Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around (futurism.com)

190 points by ppjim over 1 year ago | 187 comments
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)

188 points by hellohihello135 10 months ago | 85 comments
Leaked OpenAI Docs Show Sam Altman Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (futurism.com)

164 points by Paul-Craft 4 months ago | 57 comments
Much US “recycling” goes straight to the landfill (futurism.com)

162 points by ppjim almost 2 years ago | 223 comments
Amazon warns employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT (futurism.com)

161 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 80 comments
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under (futurism.com)

147 points by SheddingPattern over 1 year ago | 66 comments
OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones (futurism.com)

140 points by clockworksoul 11 months ago | 107 comments
NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures (futurism.com)

138 points by zeristor almost 2 years ago | 176 comments
CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism (futurism.com)

132 points by iamflimflam1 over 1 year ago | 137 comments
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be crumbling into chaos (futurism.com)

124 points by josephjrobison about 1 year ago | 82 comments
Google employees alarmed that the company suddenly expects them to do work (futurism.com)

109 points by npalli about 2 years ago | 157 comments
Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth (futurism.com)

105 points by flyaway123 6 months ago | 70 comments
NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper (futurism.com)

102 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB almost 3 years ago | 127 comments
An Entire Country Switched to Bitcoin and Now Its Economy Is Floundering (futurism.com)

83 points by monsieurpng over 2 years ago | 57 comments
The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI (futurism.com)

79 points by raybb 4 months ago | 104 comments
Apple retail employees organize a union using Android phones to prevent spying (futurism.com)

75 points by marcod over 2 years ago | 33 comments
Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks (futurism.com)

73 points by pg_1234 6 months ago | 44 comments
BuzzFeed is quietly publishing whole AI-generated articles, not just quizzes (futurism.com)

71 points by danso over 1 year ago | 15 comments
McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests (futurism.com)

64 points by hjek 7 months ago | 41 comments
The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling Shows (futurism.com)

62 points by evolve2k 6 months ago | 45 comments
Video shows self-driving Tesla head into oncoming traffic (futurism.com)

62 points by camjohnson26 about 2 years ago | 51 comments
Mark Zuckerberg abandons metaverse as shiny new toy appears (futurism.com)

61 points by carlycue over 1 year ago | 57 comments
Huge proportion of internet is AI-generated slime, researchers find (futurism.com)

61 points by hhs 8 months ago | 29 comments
Study finds that 52% of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong (futurism.com)

61 points by abunuwas 4 months ago | 97 comments
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI (futurism.com)

60 points by gardenfelder over 1 year ago | 97 comments
AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter (futurism.com)

60 points by joe_the_user 3 months ago | 84 comments
Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape (futurism.com)

60 points by alex_young 4 months ago | 19 comments
Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI (futurism.com)

59 points by redbell over 1 year ago | 48 comments
OpenAI Signals That It'll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products (futurism.com)

59 points by CharlesW 11 months ago | 45 comments
Boeing CEO admits it's retaliated against whistleblowers (futurism.com)

59 points by intunderflow 3 months ago | 13 comments
Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (futurism.com)

59 points by croes 9 months ago | 79 comments
MSFT needs so much power to train that it's considering small nuclear reactors (futurism.com)

56 points by signa11 12 months ago | 58 comments
Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought (futurism.com)

54 points by cdme 12 months ago | 46 comments
Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Precious NFT (futurism.com)

54 points by gabea almost 3 years ago | 60 comments
Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene (futurism.com)

53 points by my12parsecs 11 months ago | 56 comments
AR pioneer warns that metaverse could make “reality disappear” (futurism.com)

53 points by bonkerbits almost 3 years ago | 42 comments
Uber CEO Stunned When He Heard Cost of 3-Mile Uber Ride (futurism.com)

52 points by stevenjgarner about 1 year ago | 90 comments
Google delete 100k negative Robinhood reviews (futurism.com)

52 points by sodrick over 3 years ago | 4 comments
Mice fed fast food get noticeably stupider, scientists warn (futurism.com)

52 points by throwaway888abc over 3 years ago | 32 comments
Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company (futurism.com)

52 points by sysadm1n about 2 years ago | 19 comments
USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage (futurism.com)

50 points by nxten about 1 year ago | 27 comments