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A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for highly intelligent alien life forms and their advanced warp drive technologies.

Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, sprung a leak. Officials have now identified a hole following an inspection.

International Space Station

Russia Finds Hole in Spacecraft Docked to International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk's latest poll asking his millions of followers whether he should step down is seriously flawed for a number of reasons.

Elon Musk Seems to Be Trying to Weasel Out of Vote to Resign

By Victor Tangermann

As Air Force Times reports, Andrew Cox, a director at the United States Space Force, is a bit of a character.

Space Force Official Reportedly Showed Off Sex Toys at Work

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of deposits forming "mysterious shapes" inside massive craters.

Orbiter Discovers “Mysterious Shapes” Inside Mars Craters

By Victor Tangermann

Not every college professor out there is convinced that "we’re witnessing the death of the college essay in real time" thanks to ChatGPT.

Professors Say ChatGPT Is Writing Terrible Papers That Would Get Failing Grades

By Victor Tangermann

The second richest man in the world polled his millions of followers Sunday evening if he should step down as CEO. Milllions of people said yes.

Elon Musk Polled Twitter to Ask If He Should Resign, and the Results Were RESOUNDING

By Victor Tangermann

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is in damage control mode after appearing in a TV ad for the since-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Shaq Says It’s Not His Fault He Accidentally Shilled for FTX

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is very pleased with just how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in September.

NASA Pleased With the Degree to Which It Kicked This Asteroid’s A**

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's third largest investor and self-professed Elon Musk "fanboy" KoGuan Leo is calling for the company's embattled CEO to step down.

One of Tesla’s Largest Shareholders Calls to Ditch Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, is rapidly heating up after it sprayed copious amounts of coolant into space.

Russia Alarmed as Spacecraft Heats Up After Coolant Sprays Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

In a fit of rage, Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk suspended the accounts of over a dozen journalists from publications including CNN and The New York Times.

Elon Musk Conducts Poll, Doesn’t Like Results, Conducts New Poll, Still Doesn’t Like Results

By Victor Tangermann

Two years after selling off its self-driving car business, Uber is rolling out a fleet of delivery robots to replace human Uber Eats drivers in Miami.

Advanced Transport

Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers

By Victor Tangermann

New Zealand's parliament has passed new legislation, prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco products to anybody born after 2008.

New Zealand Officially Bans Cigarettes for Anybody Born After 2008

By Victor Tangermann

A Judas figure has emerged in the epic fall from grace of former cryptocurrency exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: former co-CEO Ryan Salame.

Judas Identified in FTX Last Supper

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Image of Volcano-Covered Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced limits to free speech on his recently acquired social media platform.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Announces New Limits on Free Speech

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese regulators have issued regulations aimed at banning the creation of any AI-generated media including deepfakes that isn't clearly labeled.

Artificial Intelligence

China Just Outlawed AI-Generated Media That Isn’t Clearly Labeled

By Victor Tangermann

Following a "major breakthrough" in the field of fusion energy, the US Department of Energy is investing in the development of a pilot fusion plant.

Scientists Now Plotting First Fusion Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

FTX's new CEO John Ray had an unusual explanation for what had happened, telling lawmakers that "this is really just old fashioned embezzlement."

FTX’s New CEO Says Company Did “Old Fashioned Embezzlement”

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Sierra Space intentionally blew up a prototype inflatable space station module to see how much punishment it can take.

Experimental Inflatable Space Station Segment Explodes Violently

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla share are on yet another nosedive this week — and investors are getting increasingly furious at CEO Elon Musk for failing to actually run the company.

Tesla Investors Furious at Elon Musk for Vanishing During Crisis to Play With Shiny New Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

A man was spotted riding on top of what appears to be a SpaceX Dragon capsule bobbing in the water while being towed off the coast of Port Canaveral.

Guy Spotted Riding on SpaceX Spacecraft As It’s Being Towed in the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claim to have generated more energy with a fusion reaction than was needed to start it.

Physicists Say New Breakthrough Proves Fusion Power Is Possible

By Victor Tangermann

Disgraced cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas and is facing US criminal charges.

Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Facing US Criminal Charges

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is relieved that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't actually in charge of running the space company.

Head of NASA Relieved to Hear Elon Musk Isn’t REALLY Running SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk got booed by thousands of people at a Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco on Sunday night.

Video Shows Elon Musk Wilting as Huge Crowd Boos Him Off Stage

By Victor Tangermann

A startup in The Netherlands is using the heat being expelled by Bitcoin mining rigs to grow tulips. Ironic, given the historical context.

Dutch Startup Mining Bitcoin to Grow Tulips, and We Can’t Tell If They’re Joking

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot is seemingly abysmal at coming up with entertaining puns that don't make you groan like a bad dad joke.

OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the government-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California claim to have made a breakthrough in the field of fusion energy.

Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

A team of bioengineers have created a "vagina on a chip" made from donated vaginal cells to mimic key features of the vaginal microbiome, The New York Times reports.

Scientists Have Created a “Vagina on a Chip”

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has announced the crew of his upcoming flight around the Moon on board a SpaceX Starship, which includes DJ Steve Aoki.

Billionaire Paying for Steve Aoki to Join Him on SpaceX Moon Vacation

By Victor Tangermann

Satellite images obtained by MIT Technology Review show Saudi Arabia's astonishing progress in building its 100-miles-long megacity called the "Line."

Science & Energy

Satellite Images Show Progress on 100-Mile Long Skyscraper in Saudi Arabia

By Victor Tangermann

Despite its deftness at mimicking a human writer, ChatGPT is far from perfect. For one, it can be shockingly racist, as The Intercept reports.

ChatGPT’s Recommendations for Airport Security Are Shockingly Racist

By Victor Tangermann

After obliterating Twitter's workforce, the company's new CEO Elon Musk is desperately trying to piece together a workforce to keep the lights on.

Elon Musk Is Hiring Relatives at Twitter in Literal Nepotism

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced that teams have lost contact with its CubeSat to Study Solar Particles (CuSP), which was deployed by Artemis I last month.

Another Satellite Released by NASA’s Artemis I Just Croaked

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe an immense explosion of epic proportions may have been the result of a black hole and a star colliding.

Staggering Galactic Explosion Blamed on Black Hole Collision

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is hellbent on turning the company's San Francisco's offices into a place where he and his "hardcore" employees can live full time.

Elon Musk Installs Washing Machine at Twitter HQ So Overworked Employees Can Wash Their Filthy Rags

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of scientists has recovered 2 million years old DNA from a variety of plants, fish — and even an ancient mastodon.

Scientists Sequence DNA They Found From 2 Million Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

Tech giant Apple is giving up on full autonomy for its upcoming car and is delaying the target launch date by a year to 2026, Bloomberg reports.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Apple Gives Up on Making Its Upcoming Car Fully Autonomous

By Victor Tangermann

Environment officials in the UK were stunned after an entire river turned snow white in the south of England, the BBC reports.

Residents Alarmed When Entire River Turns White

By Victor Tangermann

A UK-based space startup is accidentally using a photo of an exploding Antares rocket on its website to illustrate SpaceX's efforts to develop its Starship.

Space Tourism Company’s Website Accidentally Shows Photo of Rocket Exploding

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has revealed a new project called "Starshield," a satellite project that is "designed for government use," according to the company's website.

SpaceX Unveils Military Satellite Called Starshield

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers may have finally figured out why people are far more likely to get colds and the flu when temperatures drop during the winter.

Scientists May Have Finally Discovered Why People Get Sick in the Winter

By Victor Tangermann

To realize his "hardcore" vision, Elon Musk reportedly turned conference rooms of Twitter's offices in San Francisco into "sad hotel rooms," Forbes reports.

Elon Musk Reportedly Building “Sad Hotel Rooms” at Twitter HQ for Exhausted Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Globe contributor Matt Karolian asked OpenAI's ChatGPT algorithm to come up with a "steamy, love scene featuring Yoda and Chewbacca."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Finally Gone Too Far With This Horrifying Sex Scene Between Yoda and Chewbacca

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video, shared by Sports Illustrated, shows Stephen Curry sinking five consecutive full-court shots, a clip that almost proved convincing enough.

That Viral Video of Stephen Curry Sinking Impossible Shots Is Fake

By Victor Tangermann

Operations at Tesla's massive new factory in Berlin are reportedly in "total chaos" with the Elon Musk-led company falling far short of its hiring goals.

Tesla Is Having Extreme Trouble Hiring, for Some Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Beach erosion caused by Hurricane Nicole and Ian has caused a massive mysterious object to poke out of the sand at Daytona Beach Shores in Florida.

Mysterious Object Emerges From Beach in Florida

By Victor Tangermann

An unusual volcanic comet has unexpectedly erupted in a massive cloud of gas and ice, stunning astronomers, Live Science reports.

Astronomers Spot Volcano Erupting on a Distant Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried stole "customer money used in his hedge fund, plain and simple."

Coinbase CEO Says Only a “Gullible Person” Wouldn’t Think FTX Stole User Funds

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot can come up with believable answers to exam queries that could score students a decent mark, according to this professor.

Artificial Intelligence

Professors Alarmed by New AI That Writes Essays About as Well as Dumb Undergrads

By Victor Tangermann

DeepMind's latest artificial intelligence called DeepNash has beaten a human player at a game of Stratego, a strategic war game.

Google Teaches AI to Play Stratego and It Becomes One of the World’s Top-Rated Players

By Victor Tangermann

Airbus has announced it is strapping an experimental hydrogen fuel cell engine to a modified A380 superjumbo jet for an upcoming test.

Science & Energy

Airbus to Strap Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine to Massive Superjumbo Jet

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental HIV vaccine has intrigued scientists after they found it was able to generate antibodies against the deadly virus in 35 out of 36 people.

Scientists Hopeful About Promising Results From HIV Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla released a timelapse video of one of its all-electric Semi trucks driving a 500-mile journey while carrying 82,000 pounds, a full load.

Tesla Semi Truck Drives 500 Miles Fully Loaded

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline in light of some serious security vulnerabilities.

Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper on a quantum computer simulating a wormhole was picked up by major new outlets, who seemingly jumped to some conclusions in their headlines.

Those Headlines About Scientists Building a Wormhole Are Total Nonsense, People

By Victor Tangermann

During a show and tell, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off what his brain computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink has been working on.

Prosthetics and Devices

Elon Musk Shows Off Monkey That Can Type With Brain Implant Instead of Typewriter

By Victor Tangermann

YouTuber extraordinaire and NASA alum Mark Rober took it upon himself to launch an egg into space only to release it and have it land safely.

Former NASA Guy Drops Egg Out of Space, Tries to Keep It From Breaking

By Victor Tangermann

Lockheed Martin showed off an Amazon Alexa-enabled "party mode" on board NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is making its way around the Moon.

NASA Shows Off Artemis “Party Mode,” Powered by Amazon (TM) Alexa (TM)

By Victor Tangermann

Brian "Liver King" Johnson, a caveman bodybuilder who has risen to fame online for eating raw animal liver on Instagram, has been accused of using steroids.

Raw Liver Eating Bodybuilder Accused of Injecting Himself With $11,000 Worth of Steroids Every Month

By Victor Tangermann

A courtroom in Washington County, Tennessee, erupted in cheers and applause after county commissioners rejected a proposal to build a Bitcoin mining plant.

Courtroom Erupts in Cheers After Bitcoin Plant Rejected From Opening in Community

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to murder civilians using killer robots, a dystopian turn of events.

San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People

By Victor Tangermann

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