More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 22)

In the wake of Elon Musk's latest round of widespread Tesla layoffs, several big name tech organizations are employing newly ex-Teslians left and right.

Elon Musk Rivals Snatch Up Laid-Off Tesla Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The proposed high speed railway would spiderweb between every major city in the EU, hopefully providing a sustainable, efficient alternative to air travel.

Advanced Transport

Europe Plots High Speed Rail So Fast It Could Replace Airlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

Science & Energy

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Before yesterday's powerful derecho storm, the sky in Sioux Falls, South Dakota turned an eery shade of Powerade-colored neon green.

Science & Energy

Weird Storm Turns Sky Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

FIFA — international overlord of soccer-slash-football — will be implementing a complex offsides-detecting AI system at the forthcoming World Cup.

AI Referee Will Track Players’ Individual Limbs at World Cup

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Endless Snoop Dogg promo has not been enough to save the NFT market, it seems. As predicted, June shaped up to be a pretty horrific month for the industry.

Abysmal New Numbers Show the NFT Market Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

He dropped $18,000 on the Khorum Coast, a virtual property found in Entropia Universe, saying he hopes to see a return on his investment in just four years.

Man Uses Life Savings to Buy Nonexistent Metaverse Land

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Chief Bill Nelson had some choice words to say about China's upcoming Moon missions, alleging that the nation intends to take the Moon for itself.

China Furious After NASA Accuses It of Stealing the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"All members of this group of crabs are hairy to some extent but this one is ridiculous," said Andrew Hosie, an expert at the Western Australia Museum.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Horrifying Crab That’s Covered in “Hair”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blockchain woes persist. Bitcoin lost 38 percent of its value in June alone, making this past month the worst in crypto's 12 year history, CNBC reports.

Bitcoin Just Had Its Worst Month in Crypto’s Entire History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Employee Accuses Zuckerberg of Brandishing Ninja Sword When He Was Angry With Programmers

Former Employee Accuses Zuckerberg of Brandishing Ninja Sword When He Was Angry With Programmers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Obsessed with this sizable turtle, which NASA caught smiling in front of their colossal Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket.

Chunky Turtle Spotted Near NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famed hacktivist sect Anonymous claims to have deleted incredibly revealing — and now, potentially criminalizing — data from unnamed period tracking apps.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Databases to Protect Women Who Get Abortions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Web3 assets continue their impressively catastrophic nosedive today, as NFTs — even celeb-favored BAYC — reach remarkably new lows in value.

Even Bored Ape NFT Prices Are Plummeting Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"I just want to go sit at the beach and do nothing," the anti-productivity icon told Bloomberg. "I'm not thinking about anything else."

CEO Quits $68 Billion Firm to “Sit at the Beach and Do Nothing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RadioShack — the once-bankrupt strip mall electronics stable which from death returneth to unlikely crypto trader — has chosen chaos.

RadioShack Is Tweeting About Drugs and Unusual Sexual Acts, for Some Reason

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.

RX and Medicine

People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Deadly Russian missiles hit a shopping mall in Ukraine, and the blast was so strong that cameras captured falling rubble from hundreds of meters away.

Security Camera Footage Shows Russian Missiles Hitting Ukraine Shopping Mall

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI is warning that deepfakes — coupled with stolen Personal Identifiable Information (PII) — are increasingly being used to apply for WFH positions.

The FBI Says Scammers Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos has cancelled plans to transform an ocean freighter — renamed after his mother Jacklyn — into a booster rocket recovery site.

Jeff Bezos Ditches Plan to Land Rockets on Ship Named for His Mom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins has harvested radishes and mizuna greens aboard the ISS — successfully grown without any soil whatsoever.

NASA Astronauts Harvest Delicious Space Vegetables, Sans Soil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to be destroyed in a supernova — only to be found still alive, burning brighter than ever before.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's job slash is in full swing — and newer employees, including some who had yet to start accepted positions, seem to be bearing the brunt.

As Crisis Deepens, Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who’d Already Accepted Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.

We’re in Awe of this Absolutely Deranged “Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lamented that global supply chain issues and EV battery woes are causing the company's new Gigafactories to bleed cash — fast.

Elon Musk Says New Tesla Factories Are Wasting “Billions of Dollars”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A hacker found that Jacuzzi's SmartTub app leaves users susceptible to data theft — and, could allow a bad actor to turn the tub into disgusting soup.

Robots and Machines

Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Set Hot Tub Temp to Anything They Want

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Good news for Bill Nye the Science Guy! He was married late last month, to best-selling author Liza Mundy — and they met in a truly beautiful way.

Bill Nye Just Got Married, and Their Love Story Is Beautiful

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study linked an inability to balance unsupported on one leg to a nearly-doubled risk of death within the next decade.

If You Can’t Stand on One Foot for Ten Seconds, Doctors Have Bad News

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A maritime tragedy! Sadly, the nearly-completed mega cruise ship Global Dream II will never take to the high seas, and instead will be scrapped.

Advanced Transport

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Headed Straight From Shipyard to Junkyard

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon publicly announced last week that it would launch drone-delivery Prime Air in Lockeford, California — news to many of the rural town's residents.

Local Residents Threaten to Shoot Amazon Drones Out of the Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a crucial Artemis 1 take-off test, the NASA's seemingly doomed Space Launch System sprung a leak in a hydrogen fuel valve.

NASA’s Super Expensive Mega Moon Rocket Starts Leaking During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."

Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers believe that observing this dead star and its solar system might offer an unprecedented glimpse into planetary beginnings.

Scientists Spot Dying Star Brutally Tearing Up Its Unfortunate Planets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In 16 separate Tesla crashes, records showed that the self-driving feature had suspiciously "aborted vehicle control" just before impact.

Tesla Accused of Shutting Off Autopilot Moments Before Impact

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted something interesting tucked into a boulder — but NASA confirmed it was just a regular ol' piece of human trash.

NASA Accuses NASA of Littering on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Economy travel may just get worse. Meet the Chaise Lounge Airplane Seats, a bunk-like, double-decker situation that, well, looks like an utter nightmare.

Advanced Transport

The Future of Air Travel Is Apparently the Final Circle of Hell

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Philadelphia police are reporting that their Special Victims Unit found no evidence of cameras at the Airbnb property, despite a viral tweet.

Robots and Machines

Airbnb Denies That Woman’s Rental Was Filled With Hidden Cameras

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla Semi was seen on California's Highway 580 West, as shown in a video captured by a member of community group Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (TOSV).

Tesla Semi Truck Spotted Cruising Down Public Highway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blake Lemoine, Google engineer making claims of sentient AI, took to Twitter to inform those reaching — he's offline and away on his honeymoon.

Artificial Intelligence

Engineer Who Says AI Came to Life Says He Can’t Comment Further Because He’s on His Honeymoon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are indeed in a band, as footage of the twins un-ironically covering "Don't Stop Believin'" has confirmed.

Horrible Footage Emerges of Winklevoss Twins Singing “Don’t Stop Believin'”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.

Science & Energy

Giant Tortoise, Thought to Be Totally Extinct, Suddenly Found Chilling on Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a huge twist of irony, Norway is building the world's largest wind farm — to power offshore oil and gas fields.

Ironic! Norway is Building a Massive Wind Farm to Boost Oil Production

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nnicotine doesn't have to make it to your lungs to cause injury. Cigarette and e-cigarette residuals can cause skin damage by contact alone.

Cigarette Smoke Damages Your Skin Just by Touching It, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microplastics have reached some of the most remote parts of Antarctica, one of the last natural strongholds against human development.

Even Antarctica Isn’t Safe From Microplastics, Researchers Confirm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you've ever eyed at a Moon rover and thought, "that thing should look like a four-legged humanoid spider crab," you're in luck.

Why Does This New Moon Rover Look Vaguely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA suffered a tragic typo while trying to discuss the American-led Artemis Accords initiative, and Twitter had a field day.

NASA Mocked for Misspelling “New Zealand”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The rise of “genetic paparazzi” is imminent, and courts are poorly ill-equipped to deal with the potential consequences of celebrity DNA theft.

Professors Warn That Creeps Might Start Stealing DNA From Celebs For Dark Purposes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Venus may have once been a life-supporting system, and NASA is looking to shed light on how Earth's "twin" came to be — and how, more sinisterly, it died.

NASA Plotting Journey Through the Hellish Atmosphere of Venus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During the undocking of Roscosmos spacecraft Progress MS-18, ISS Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakav discovered "stowaways" gripping the un-crewed freighter.

No, These Aren’t Weird Visitors on the Outside of the Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a surreal display of absolutely unmatched energy, the Queen journeyed through through the streets of London via hologram.

The UK Is Apparently Just Driving Around a Hologram of the Queen Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Russian government is clearly fed up with speculation about the state of often-shirtless president Vladimir Putin's health.

Russia Says That Vladimir Putin Definitely Does NOT Have a Terminal Illness, Thank You Very Much!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It sounds like Sheryl Sandberg, the outgoing COO of Meta, might have left the social media giant for more complicated reasons than she initially let on.

There May Be a Secret Reason Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA revealed that Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace will provide new-and-improved spacesuits for the upcoming Artemis moon landings, and followers were feeling a little baffled — not to mention left hanging — when the designers failed to produce any actual imagery of the fits.

We Just Got the First Peek at NASA’s Artemis Moon Landing Suits

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If staring at this image makes you feel like you're being swallowed by a black hole, you're not alone. According to a new paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, approximately 86 percent of people experience the same effect.

Neuroscience and Brain

Argh! This Optical Illusion Makes You Feel Like You’re Falling Into a Black Hole

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A startup called SpinLaunch has been working to fling satellites into orbit via giant cannon for nearly a decade. Bad news: it won't work on humans.

Company Says Giant Cannon for Shooting Satellites Into Orbit Would Be Fatal for Astronauts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Australian scientists got a fascinating surprise whenthey discovered what appears to be the world's largest organism, living under the ocean.

Scientists Discover World’s Largest Organism, Chilling Out Under Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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