More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 21)

The FAA has deemed the Samson Sky Switchblade — a street-legal, three-wheeled VTOL described as a "flying sports car" — airworthy enough for trial flights.

Advanced Transport

FAA Greenlights Adorable Flying Car for Test Flights

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers were able to exploit a basic flaw in crypto bridge Nomad to rob the platform of roughly $190 million in user investments.

Hackers Loot Blockchain Bridge for Millions In “Frenzied Free For All”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After laying off 9 percent of its staff back in April, Robinhood leaders announced yesterday that they'll be cutting an extra 23 percent of the workforce.

Robinhood Laying Off Almost a Quarter of Its Workforce

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Major Luxury Brand Slinging Hideous and Unaffordable NFT Pendants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A crypto enthusiast wants to dig through a landfill to recover a tossed hard drive, which he says contains roughly $180 million worth of Bitcoin.

Man Who Lost $180 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive 9 Years Ago Still Trying to Dig Through Trash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Modern climate change will likely take place over a shorter period of time than previous extinction events, leaving species with far less time to adapt.

Scientists Warn of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused by Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI image generator called Stability.ai created an incredible series of Renaissance-style paintings of famous rappers — and they go hard.

Artificial Intelligence

These AI-Generated, Renaissance-Style Portraits of Rappers Are Incredible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Miraculously, surgeons just successfully completed one of the most complicated conjoined twin separations ever recorded — with the help of virtual reality.

Prosthetics and Devices

Surgeons Use VR Headsets to Separate Conjoined Twins

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A viral Twitter video claims to illustrate how motor proteins move. It's fun, but incorrect — and what those molecules actually do is way cooler.

The Real Story Behind That Viral Clip of a Protein With a Confident Strut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.

Experts Warn UK Government Not to Bury Nuclear Waste Under Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A superhero 12-year-old begged West Virginia lawmakers to think about her young life as they moved to pass an abortion-criminalizing bill.

Brave 12-Year-Old Eviscerates Lawmakers for Outlawing Abortion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Duffer brothers — the directors of Netflix hit "Stranger Things" — retroactive edit their show. Will this become a streaming-wide trend?

Netflix Is Letting Directors Retroactively Edit Shows Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FTC launched an antitrust suit against Mark Zuckberg and Facebook/Meta, blocking — at least for now — Facebook/Meta's acquisition of VR company Within.

Gov Files Antitrust Suit to Stop Facebook From Buying VR Company

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study shows that resistant starch has an astonishing ability to help prevent a range of hereditary cancers, cutting risk by 60 percent.

Study Suggests That Pill Can Cut Hereditary Cancer Risk by 60 Percent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NOAA Ocean Exploration scientists came across a series of organized sublinear holes on the Mid-Atlantic ocean floor, and it's unclear who or what made them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Strange Row of Holes on Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Several NGOs have co-signed a letter to Telsa and Elon Musk, begging the founder to avoid investing in Indonesia's nickel mining industry.

Environmental Groups Horrified by New Tesla Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent analysis shows that Tesla's electric cybertruck is incredibly aerodynamic — its drag is above average for other pickup trucks on the market.

New Analysis Finds That Blocky Cybertruck Has Enviable Wind Resistance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents of Indiana and surrounding states saw a massive fireball meteor hurtle through the atmosphere in the earliest hours on Saturday morning.

Videos Show Meteor So Bright It Lit the Entire Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Quantum physicists have effectively opened a portal to a new time dimension while creating a new topological phase of quantum matter.

Physicists Create New Phase of Matter With “Extra” Time Dimension

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A firm is organizing a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, accusing them of inflating the worth of digital assets BAYC NFTs and native token ApeCoin.

Bored Apes Creators Facing Class Action Lawsuit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On the list of terrible things to wake to wake your pregnant wife up with, the news that you've lost $100,000 in crypto is right up there.

Man Wakes Pregnant Wife to Tell Her He Lost $100,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is reportedly launching a Web3 drug discovery platform called Druglike, allegedly to democratize and decentralize the industry.

RX and Medicine

Martin Shkreli Is out of Prison, so of Course He’s Getting Into Web3

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Upon arriving at harbors in Norway, this Freya the Walrus has chosen chaos: in her endless pursuit of sunny naps, she's has been sinking tiny Nordic boats.

Science & Energy

Chaotic Walrus Keeps Climbing on Small Boats and Sinking Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In light of the confirmed New York case of — checks notes — POLIO, here are all of the trending contagions to watch out for this summer.

A Brief List of Bizarre Diseases Currently Spreading in the United States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This weekend, China plans to launch a powerful Long March 5B rocket — and it's likely that parts of junk from the rocket will crash land back onto Earth.

China Is Sending More Space Junk Hurtling Down to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Several conspiracy theories involving the Mandela effect and portal opening have gone viral, and CERN scientists are trying to counter the misinformation.

Science & Energy

CERN Scientists Annoyed That People Think They’re Ripping a Hole in Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's pretty difficult to justify opting for a 17-minute trip on a private jet over a 45-minute car ride — but that's exactly what Kylie Jenner just did.

Kardashian Slammed for 17-Minute Private Jet Flight to Beat Traffic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a puzzling attempt to parody the practice of purchasing expensive ENS names, an NFT collector had a "joke" title flipped back to him — for over $150k.

NFT Guy Accidentally Spends $150K on Stupid Joke He Tried to Make

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In light of a Florida family's space-loving young son's unexpected death, they're trying to raise the funds to rest his ashes on the Moon.

Parents Crowdfund to Send 11-Year-Old Son’s Ashes to the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The families of fallen Israeli soldiers are having the dead's sperm harvested, with the hope of that it will one day be used to father a child.

Israel Extracting Sperm From Dead Soldiers and Using It to Create Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers were able to hack into fruit fly brains and successfully command specific movements, with just a click of a wireless remote control.

Science & Energy

Scientists Hijack Fruit Fly Brains to Remote Control Their Wings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK — which has announced a "red warning" for extreme heat — weapped London's 135-year-old Hammersmith Bridge silver foil to keep it from cracking.

London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, one of the famed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US as part of a summer storm system.

Blessed Weather Pattern Looks Exactly Like a Ninja Turtle

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Living Carbon has gone back to carbon capture's literal roots, but with a twist: they've created genetically-modified, fast-growing trees.

Startup Says It’s Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welcome to hell. A (checks notes) zombie fungus is infecting female flies and (checks notes) seducing male flies into mating with their undead corpses.

Science & Energy

Horrid Fungus Lures Flies Into Having Sex With Zombified Corpses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid heatwaves, drought, and floods, UN Secretary General António Guterres told state ministers that "no nation is immune" from the climate change crisis.

Head of UN Says Humanity Is Facing “Collective Suicide”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Bill Gates is sad about the world's current state of affairs — so he says he's donating virtually all of his personal wealth in order to fix it.

Bill Gates Says Sorry the World Isn’t Going So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A NASA update has revealed that after a series of delays, the Psyche asteroid mission is under review and may ultimately be scrapped.

NASA May Cancel Mission to Zillion Dollar Asteroid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto winter has apparently reached the high seas. OpenSea, the world's most popular NFT marketplace, has announced widespread layoffs, joining several other industry leaders who have had to make major workforce cuts amid the cryptosphere's catastrophic slump.

Top NFT Marketplace OpenSea Fires 20 Percent of Its Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovered something strange as it traversed Mars on Tuesday — a string-like material that looked like noodles.

NASA Intrigued by Noodle-Like Object Found on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While a Texas weatherman was warning that the ongoing heat wave might cause widespread blackouts, the news studio's power suddenly went out.

Studio Power Goes Out While Weatherman Warns About Rolling Blackouts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some things last forever. Some things, like President Biden's no-handshake policy for his ongoing Israel visit, last, like, five minutes.

Biden Stops Shaking Hands to Fight COVID Spread, Forgets Minutes Later

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Embattled crypto lender Celsius finally filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and there's still no telling when, or if, customers will ever get their money back.

Crypto Lender That Kept Bragging About How Great It Was Files for Bankruptcy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

American dystopia reaches new highs, and startups reach new lows. Case in point: these in-class bulletproof sheds, where students can hide from shooters.

Company Suggests Hiding Students in Fortified Boxes So School Shooters Can’t Get Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Health officials in France are saying that the preservative nitrates often added to processed meat — including charcuterie — are linked to colon cancer.

Doctors Warn That Scrumptious Instagram Trend Is Giving You Colon Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump is angry with billionaire Elon Musk, and yesterday he decided to take to Truth Social to unleash vitriol against the frenemy founder.

Donald Trump Just Bludgeoned Elon Musk With a Vicious Attack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Introducing: The "Bear Market Screaming Therapy Group," a Telegram group where downtrodden everyday crypto investors go to scream crypto winter woes away.

Crypto Investors Are Creating Voice Chats Where They Just Scream and Sob

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Digital grifters are holding a number of restaurants hostage with terrible Google ratings, asking for digital gift cards in exchange for deleting the posts.

Scammers Leaving 1-Star Reviews, Charging to Get Them Taken Down

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are literally missing — and they might be on the lam.

Crypto Hedge Fund Founders Abandon HQ and Disappear After Implosion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Protestors gathered at a major bank in China on Sunday, looking to reclaim government-frozen personal funds — only to face brutality by security forces.

China Attacks Protestors Trying to Get Money Out of Frozen Bank Accounts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Elon Musk, self-memed legal genius, wants you to know that he totally has that Twitter deal under control — and also, that Twitter is stupid!

Elon Musk Posts Meme About How Actually, He Is Very Smart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of ten tourists miraculously survived a massive avalanche while exploring Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains — and one of them got it on video.

Terrifying Video Shows Cameraperson Get Buried by Giant Avalanche

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ex-President and extremely sore loser Donald Trump had some interesting words to say — or well, not say — about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Trump Admits That He Can’t Mention the COVID Vaccine in Front of His Followers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oft-troubled rideshare application Uber is in hot water once again — and this time, allies like French President Emmanuel Macron might be going down, too.

Advanced Transport

If This Leak Is Real, Uber Is in Huge Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Asteroid’s Surface Like a “Plastic Ball Pit,” Scientists Find

Asteroid’s Surface Like a “Plastic Ball Pit,” Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto exchange Voyager Digital has filed for bankruptcy, and according to the paperwork, most customers likely won't be getting their money back.

Man Loses Down Payment for House When Crypto Exchange Goes Bankrupt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has officially decried the startling act of anti-Ukraine propaganda by Russia that took place onboard the ISS earlier this week.

NASA Furious at Russia’s Ukraine Stunt on Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yesterday, Musk casually dismissed Bill Gates' claim that hydrogen power is the "Swiss Army Knife of decarbonization" — with just a laughing face emoji.

Elon Musk Shreds Bill Gates for Supporting Hydrogen Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The ultimate hands-free dental care: a swarm of shapeshifting microrobots, able to treat and remove tooth decay-inducing bacteria and plaque.

Health & Medicine

Lazy Flossers Rejoice! Tiny Robot Shapeshifters Will Brush and Floss for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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