Joe Wilkins

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Top African Health Official Blasts Trump Administration's Plans for Human Experimentation in Africa - Futurism

Health January 26, 2026

Last week, officials at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced that health authorities in Guinea-Bissau had moved to halt a controversial study which would have οΏ½...

Trump’s HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as β€œFake” and β€œPowerless” - Futurism

Health January 22, 2026

Last week, we broke down a major debacle unfolding in the health research space. To recap: over the past month, concerned researchers have been sounding the alarm about a reprehensible vaccine study οΏ½...

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop" - Futurism

Technology January 5, 2026

In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose β€œslop” as their word of the year. Their definition: β€œdigital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity...

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself - Futurism

Technology December 25, 2025

On top of the environmental, political, and social toll AI has taken on the world, it’s also been linked to a severe mental health crisis in which users are spiraling into delusions and ending up co...

Bitcoin Crashing is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

Crypto December 20, 2025

After a year of record gains for the crypto industry, recent forces have sent itinto a tailspin. Bitcoin, for example, reached dazzling heights of more than $120,000 in October before crashing back dοΏ½...

McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad - Futurism

Business December 12, 2025

McDonald’s has become corporate enemy number one after its hideous AI holiday commercial went viral across numerous social media platforms for all the wrong reasons. TBWA and The Sweetshop the agen...

Terrifying Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Get Confused by the Sun, Mow Down Innocent Grandmother - futurism.com

Business June 9, 2025

For years, tech entrepreneurs have been preaching that self-driving cars will soon deliver us from our hellscape of vehicular crashes and horrible, fiery deaths. Among the biggest advocates for the οΏ½...

Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive's Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI - futurism.com

Business May 25, 2025

Back in December, Swedish tech entrepreneur Sebastian Siemiatkowski the guy behind Klarna, the infamous burrito financing app directed his family investment company to dump $5 billion into AI startupοΏ½...