Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.” The startup also unveiled its next generation of iris-scanning “Orb” and other tools at a live event in San Francisco. Co-founder and CEO of World, […]
Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX for trespassing
Cards Against Humanity is suing Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, for $ 15 million after it allegedly dumped construction equipment all over the game company’s private land in Texas. An email, posted on Threads, went out to around 150,000 Cards Against Humanity Saves America donors. Those donors contributed $ 15 seven years ago to […]
Fact Check: South Korea Files Lawsuit Against Israel For Genocide, War Crimes, And Crimes Against Humanity
On June 24, news circulated that “South Korea has submitted lawsuits targeting Israeli officials,” including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, IOF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Security Minister Yoav Gallant, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. According to Israeli media reports, a lawsuit for war crimes […]
At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech
In the third episode of “Creative Dialogues,” an interview series produced by the filmmaking division of generative AI startup Runway, multimedia artist Claire Hentschker expresses a fear that AI will commoditize the artistic process to the point where art homogenizes, regressing to a sort of derivative sameness. “Are you getting this increasingly narrower average of […]