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This story was originally published byGrist. Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. Thats the radical vision proposed by philosophy professor and Marxist scholar Kohei Saito. Image: Grist / Erika Shimamoto / Ben Denzer / Astra House No one, not even Saito, could have predicted the response. Yet Saitos book has found readers across the world who want to listen. Developing countries also need to grow their economies to raise standards of living....

Cryptocurrency cleaned up its act this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs made their Wall Street debut in January. The decentralized part of cryptocurrency is up for interpretation these days. Bitcoin is now, tangentially, sold through Americas largest financial institutions, such as BlackRock and Fidelity. Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) These corporations literally couldnt play a more central role in finance if they tried. Perhaps thats good a thing for some, but it also takes away a core value of cryptocurrency....

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodos weekly deep dive on whats been happening in artificial intelligence. Concerns about AI pornor, more commonlydeepfake pornare not new. This week,legislation was introducedto combat the issue. Photo: Patrick Smith (Getty Images) The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was introduced as bipartisan legislation by Sens. This month, fake, sexually-explicit images ofTaylor Swiftthat were generated by artificial intelligence swept across social media platforms....

Night has fallen at Shioli Crater, and that means its likely the end of the line for SLIM. The lander has been placed into a hibernation mode from which its not expected to wake. Although both images show the same spot, the varying times of day resulted in distinctly different shadow patterns. Possibly the final image taken by SLIM, which the lander captured at dusk and prior to entering into a dormant state....

25 years ago, the internet was kludged together with duct tape and a dream. Sometimes typing in a URL brought up a website. Sometimes things were just broken. Photo: egaranugrah / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Google, then just a bizarrely named startup, would soon offer a solution. Yes, its been removed. I know, its sad. Im sad too, SullivantweetedFriday. Its one of our oldest features. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it....

Have you ever wonderedwhat kind of phone you have? Believe it or not, yes, sometimes people need some help finding out what their phone is. For the rest of us, the much less technologically adept, its a far more involved process. Don’t be like this guy. By the way this guy is me, and those phones are the iPhone 14 Pro, the iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 6.Gif: Artem Golub / Gizmodo...

A 3-month-old French bulldog named Tyson seems to have pulled off the miraculous. Even better, Tyson remains cancer-free to this day. The case is detailed in a reportpublishedin the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Tyson the jaw-growing Frenchie.Photo: Cornell University Surgery is the standard treatment for these cancers, but his owners were hesitant to go ahead with it. So, with the familys permission, the vets performed the procedure. Tyson had no serious complications afterward....

(Also, whats up with the T. Rex teeth of the hydra lyrical reference?) Here are the four unsettlingly obscure Longlegs posters Neon released earlier this week, to further haunt your imagination. Longlegs opens July 12. Image: Neon Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Image: Neon Image: Neon Image: Neon Image: Neon

Just keep building and doing good work over long periods of time. At the Wednesday hearing, Zuckerberg apologized to the parents of children who had been sexually exploited online. Im sorry for everything you have all been through, Zuckerberg said. Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (Getty Images) Meta shares wereup 15%on Friday. Zuckerberg also announced that Threads, his Twitter alternative, had more than 130 million active users....

But the Quest seems to be taking even more cues from Apples first-time VR release. Now, users can use a pinch gesture to initiate the universal menu. Holding the same gesture would also refresh the headsets view once your FOV starts to go awry. The Vision Pro might be seven times more expensive than the Quest 3, though both now have access to spatial videos.Photo: Dan Ackerman / Gizmodo News from the future, delivered to your present....

TheCEO of Metamay seem like a mild-mannered man. But its all a disguise Mark Zuckerberg lives life on the edge. Meta even said in itslatest annual reportthat its CEO could die because of his dangerous lifestyle. Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Did anyone else just get chills? People dying from mixed martial arts fights is incredibly rare, there areless than 20 recorded deathsfrom the sport. You hit hard, youre serious,said Adesanyaabout the Meta CEOs fighting style....

An unfortunate software glitch delayed Psyches launch two months before its liftoff, therebyaffecting its ride-along missions. The Apophis flyby could be the perfect opportunity to repurpose the twin probes. Apophis is a near-Earth object that measures around 1,100 feet (335 meters) across. Conceptual image of the twin Janus probes.Image: Lockheed Martin When it was first discovered in 2004, it was designated as a hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth. Afterdropping off a sample of asteroid Bennu in September 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ventured off on another mission....

Or more specifically, in an aircraft flying above Earth. During this demonstration, crew members will don the spacesuit outside the orbital lab. The updated suits are woefully overdue. Collins Aerospace recently conducted tests of its upcoming ISS spacesuit on a zero gravity airplane flight.Photo: Collins Aerospace These tests are crucial in ensuring the suits functionality in various space-like conditions. Collinss efforts are part of a broader initiative to advance space exploration....