Archive: January 2025

The autonomous prosthetic hand grasping a bottle using vision and touch sensors. Credit: Kaijie Shi, Xianta Jiang's Lab, Memorial University. The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of more comfortable, smarter and intuitive prosthetic limbs, which cou

An equilibrated interface in an on-site square lattice employed for 2D kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations. Credit: Journal of Applied Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1063/5.0244892 Humans began creating alloys about 5,000 years ago by combining copper and tin to produce bronze. Since then, alloy design has advanced dramatically, says Moneesh Upmanyu, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University. "Now, it's definitely a science [

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> More than 100 organizations just put their names on a warning that AI-enabled attacks will get far worse within months. Nearly every remedy they proposed activates after the attacker is already running code. endif; ?> Credit: Toey Andante/Shutterstock Data and Information SecuritySecurityCyberattacksCybercrimeArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to algorithms. By extracting patterns from troves of data far too vast for any human mind to fathom, so the thinking goes, AI scientists could eventually help solve some of humanity’s most dire technical problems: climate change, cancer, even—according to diehard transhumani

Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images for SDCCMalaga At this year’s New York Comic Con, DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee made a striking announcement: that the company will “not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork.” “Not now, not ever, as long as [SVP, general manager] Anne DePies and I are in charge,” he added, as quoted by The Verge. “People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic,” he added. “We recoil from what feels fake. That’s w

U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame Each election cycle, thousands of candidates vie for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Until now, there has been no comprehensive, publicly available resource cataloging what those candidates say about who they are or what they stand for. A new open-access database called CampaignView, created by researchers at the University of Notre Dame,

Getty / Futurism The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day. Particularly as an onslaught of lazy AI slop subsuming news feeds, the tech is starting to feel like a massive distraction — and huge parts of the internet are disillusioned or even fuming in anger. For instance, a vast number of Windows users refused to upgrade after Microsoft announced it would turn the operating system into a so-calle

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Healthy rangelands are essential for ensuring grazing and forage productivity, reducing wind erosion and wildfire risks, and supporting wildlife ecosystems. Covering about 30% of the United States' land, these vast areas mainly consist of grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, and savannas. Maintaining these rangelands can be challenging. Early signs of soil and vegetation stress, the spread of invasive grass, increased risk

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new AI startup formed from the cast-offs of some of the industry’s biggest, most ethically dubious players says it’s definitely pursuing building the tech with humanity’s best interests in mind. Called Humans& — that’s its actual name, not a typo — the outfit’s founders say their vision is to build AI that empowers people instead of trying to replace their jobs, the New York Times repor

Getty / Futurism For decades, the United States stock market has been a juggernaut on the international stage. The US dollar has been — and still is — the de facto currency globally. But for how much longer that will be the case is now looking uncertain. As the New York Times reports, investors are starting to look elsewhere as the Trump administration continues to threaten the independence of its central bank, start a trade war with Europe, and implement

Using data from known protein structures and sequences, scientists developed an artificial intelligence (AI) workflow to predict the structures and functions of unknown proteins, including how these proteins would interact with metals such as zinc. In this example, predicted to be a zinc-binding protein, the model of the protein shows that four cysteine residues are directly involved in the interaction with zinc. Credit: Qun Liu/Brookhaven National Laborat

Getty / Futurism While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an AI-triggered job apocalypse is nigh are coming to a boiling point. Last week, Twitter cofounder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he was firing 4,000 employees at his fintech company, informing investors that “intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.” “A significantly smaller team, using the t

A Tesla car charges at a home in San Francisco, Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact. Worries about how AI will affect the environment surpass concerns about other industries that worsen climate change, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs

Published on April 7, 2026 at 15:30 Comment Share 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Through an online published document, OpenAI warns about new forms of cyberattacks and the creation of biological weapons using AI. It also discusses measures to be applied in the world of work. This report comes out in a particularly specific context for OpenAI. OpenAI (ChatGPT) has just published a 13-page document titled « An industrial policy in the age of intelligence: ideas to priori

Disney / Futurism On Tuesday, news emerged that OpenAI was canning its chaotic and controversial text-to-video AI app, Sora. The app, which was announced to much fanfare late last year, has struggled to retain users, with downloads plummeting. The stream of uninspired AI slop wasn’t just and rife with copyright-infringing material— the costs to keep it running were also enormous, even for a company the size of OpenAI. In short, we can think of a litany of

@kinamocchi_tech(きなこもっちーの テック深掘り🐹🐦)Gemini 4 Hydrogen とは？公式発表を3分で速報解説AILLMGemini0Posted at 2026-11-12 🐹🦜 This article features two characters 🐹 もっちー （Hamster）… AI is still learning. "What does that mean?" as a naive student asking questions 🦜 きなこ （Parrot）… The explainer role that handles research using AI. A teacher who gently delves deep and explains This article is in the format of a conversation between the two characters. The emoji at the beginning of e

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated that the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the problems that may arise with technological advancement. For him, some negative effects are inevitable and do not justify restricting access to AI.The statement comes amid a debate on how to handle increasingly capable systems. OpenAI and Anthropic acknowledge the challenges of the t

Getty / Futurism As if activity-monitoring software installed on your work computer that snitches on you if you’re away from the keyboard for too long wasn’t enough, Meta is taking the trend to its logical — and dystopian surveillance state-level — conclusion. As Reuters reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is installing new tracking software on all of its US-based employees’ computers that tracks all of their mouse movements and keystrokes, data that