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Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.

Experts Alarmed by Tech That Identifies Human DNA Floating in Air

By Victor Tangermann

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean.

NASA’s Giant Balloon Crashes Into Ocean, Sinks

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Telly is planning to give away a whopping 500,000 55-inch TVs to consumers with a second screen that shows ads.

Robots and Machines

Company Giving Away TVs With Second Screen That Shows Constant Ads

By Victor Tangermann

Nobody is entirely sure why the Space Force, the youngest branch of the military, exists. Even the service's top general isn't sure.

Top Space Force General Confused About Why Space Force Exists

By Victor Tangermann

Google employees reportedly played a drinking game during the company's I/O developer conference last week, mocking executives mentioning AI.

Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Rhea Space Activity has announced that it's planning to launch a mission to breathe new life into NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Military Funding “Resurrection” Mission for Derelict NASA Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

After the Turkish government asked Twitter to censor the opposition during the country's election, the Elon Musk-run social media complied.

Elon Musk Obediently Censors Twitter When Dictator Tells Him To

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have confirmed that an avocado-sized rock that smashed through a New Jersey roof is a meteorite.

Experts Confirm Rock That Punched Through Family’s House Was Meteorite

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has found what scientists suggest could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that once flowed on Mars.

NASA Mars Rover Appears to Have Found Remnants of Ancient Raging River

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Jed McCaleb, who founded the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has announced he's planning to launch the world's first private space station.

The Mt Gox Guy Is Back and He Says He’s Launching a Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.

After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target

By Victor Tangermann

A scammer claims to have made thousands of dollars by selling "leaked" tracks by Frank Ocean that were actually generated by an AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Frank Ocean Tracks Were Actually AI-Generated Fakes

By Victor Tangermann

Janaese robotics company Jizai has come up with robotic limb contraption called Arms that can triple the number of arms of its wearer.

Robots and Machines

God Help Us! They Built Real Doctor Octopus Arms

By Victor Tangermann

Fox recently announced that it's pitting a unusual mix of celebrities against each other during a simulated stay in a Martian colony.

New Show Traps Lance Armstrong and Ariel Winter in Simulated Mars Base

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted by eagle-eyed onlookers outside Corpus Christi, Texas, stuck in a field.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Prototype Gets Stuck in Field

By Victor Tangermann

Generative AI-powered tools are making it easy to create deepfakes — and lawyers are trying to seize the moment as an opportunity.

Artificial Intelligence

Reality Is Melting as Lawyers Claim Real Videos Are Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

After completing a seven-hour spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts intentionally left a bundle of discarded hardware drift away into empty space.

Cosmonauts Caught Littering Directly Into Space During Spacewalk

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.

NASA Tests Snake Robot Designed to Look for Alien Life on Icy Moons

By Victor Tangermann

While users are still clamoring to get an invite to Jack Dorsey's Bluesky, it will not accept "heads of state" like president Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Can’t Get a Bluesky Invite

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, doesn't believe NASA landed on the Moon.

Former Roscosmos Head Refuses to Believe NASA Landed on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A stock portfolio picked by ChatGPT outperformed the S&P 500 Index over eight weeks, according to financial comparison service Finder.

ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500

By Victor Tangermann

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.

ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

By Victor Tangermann

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

In a CNN interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claimed that a Tesla is "trying to kill you every chance it can."

Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.

NASA Hack Squeezes More Time Out of Dying Voyager 2 Probe

By Victor Tangermann

Saturn's rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's atmosphere and scientists are trying to figure out why.

Saturn Is Sucking Up Its Rings

By Victor Tangermann

The White House is proposing a 30 percent tax on crypto mining operations to better reflect the effects they're having on the environment.

White House Proposes 30 Percent Tax on Crypto Mining

By Victor Tangermann

A small suborbital rocket carrying cremated remains failed to launch earlier this week, exploding over the New Mexico desert.

Rocket Carrying Cremated Remains Explodes Seconds After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are horrified as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month.

Scientists Horrified as Sea Surface Temperatures Spike Off the Charts

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.

NASA Extracts Oxygen From Simulated Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Detect Surge of Brain Activity in Dying Coma Patients

By Victor Tangermann

Starting this week, Pornhub has completely disabled its websites for everybody living in the state of Utah.

Pornhub Just Blocked the Entire State of Utah

By Victor Tangermann

During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starship only self-destructed after a 40-second delay.

Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command

By Victor Tangermann

Joshua Browder, the CEO of robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay, allegedly handed over his entire financial life to OpenAI's GPT-4 to save money.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Gives All His Financial Info to AI and Lets It Make Decisions

By Victor Tangermann

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

By Victor Tangermann

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform.

Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong rover, which has spent months exploring the Martian surface, may have found evidence of liquid water at low latitudes.

Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere around the Sun, like deconstructing an entire Jupiter-sized planet.

Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, astronomers have captured the powerful jets spewing out of a black hole and the black hole itself in the same image.

New Image of Black Hole Shows Colossal Jets Looking Like Tentacles

By Victor Tangermann

In a new video, mad inventor and popular YouTuber Colin Furze built an oversized, counterweight arm to offset almost all of his body weight.

Robots and Machines

YouTube Inventor Builds Incredibly Fun-Looking Weightlessness Machine

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky.

People Are Flocking to Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's test launch of its Starship rocket lit 3.5 acres, including land belonging to the neighboring Boca Chica State Park, on fire.

Starship Launch Lit a Large Portion of a State Park on Fire

By Victor Tangermann

Over months, Twitter and police failed to intervene while a 13-year-old boy was being publicly groomed and eventually kidnapped.

Twitter Apparently Ignored Its Chance to Stop a Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

A mind-bending, AI-generated pizza restaurant commercial for a franchise called Pepperoni Hug Spot is seriously messing with our brains.

Artificial Intelligence

Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon sellers are using tools like ChatGPT to flood the e-commerce platform with AI-generated reviews. Here's how to spot them.

Artificial Intelligence

These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI

By Victor Tangermann

The Republican National Committee has fired back after Biden announced he's running again with an ad that features AI-generated images.

Artificial Intelligence

Republicans Release AI-Generated Ad of Chinese Invasion

By Victor Tangermann

China's Mars rover Zhurong has remained in its hibernation state since May 2022. Officials are finally ready to talk.

China Addresses Awkward Situation on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

After spending the last five months making its way to the Moon, a Japanese spacecraft is about to make its first attempt to land on the lunar surface.

A Private Spacecraft Will Attempt to Land on the Moon Tomorrow

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese lunar lander Hakuto-R Mission 1, developed by ispace, lost contact with mission control during today's landing attempt.

Private Company Landing on Moon Appears to Have Failed

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Starship orbital test flight, the most powerful rocket ever built, left a huge mark on its surroundings, triggering an FAA investigation.

SpaceX Is in Big Trouble With the FAA After Starship Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

Experimental artist and futurist Claire "Grimes" Boucher is looking at AI as an opportunity and is willing to split royalties for songs that use her voice.

Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song

By Victor Tangermann

There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat

Science & Energy

There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat

By Victor Tangermann

After yoinking legacy verification checkmarks from Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk has brought back the checkmark to a number of dead celebrity profiles.

Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge gravity battery facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, China, CNET reports.

Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Artist and music producer Austin Richard "Post Malone" Post got a rare chance to talk to NASA astronauts currently stationed on board the ISS.

Space Station Contacted by Bizarre Life Form: Post Malone

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft for having the company's partner OpenAI train its AI models "illegally using Twitter data."

Furious Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

By Victor Tangermann

Experts Say SpaceX’s Rocket Exploding Was a Huge Success

Experts Say SpaceX’s Rocket Exploding Was a Huge Success

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has revealed what caused its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototype to blow up during the company's inaugural orbital test launch today.

It Turns Out SpaceX Blew Up Starship on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

Reddit has announced that it will start charging a premium for AI companies that scrape all of its data to train their models.

Artificial Intelligence

Reddit Demands Payments for AI Trained on Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation.

Science & Energy

Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine

By Victor Tangermann

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