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Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, speaks via video before the ringing of opening bell at the Nasdaq Marketsite at the launch of the company's initial public offering.
SpaceX

SpaceX Stock Has Now Started to Fall

Sorry, folks.

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fantasizes About Killing Journalists

What an odd thing to say.

A comic photo illustration of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appearing to hand the viewer a crack pipe.
Ethics

OpenAI Is Taking the “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing

"They've kind of taken the crack approach to AI. Give it to people for free, get them hooked, then jack up prices."

A photo illustration featuring former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby.
Finance

Texas Tech Quarterback’s College Career Over After Getting Caught Betting on His Own Games

"There is no practical way to resolve all the various pending legal disputes and ensure his eligibility."

Comic composite illustration featuring a robot saluting in front of a waving Chinese flag.
Artificial Intelligence

Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI

Global opinion is starting to turn.

A screenshot from a TikTok video by Clavicular comparing his nose job jokingly to a Michael Jackson impersonator next to him.
Mental Health

Clavicular’s “Botched” Nose Job Illustrates the Dangers of Looksmaxxing

"You’re lowkey descending."

Photo illustration featuring Pico Lopes #4 of Cabo Verde dribbling the ball as Pedri #20 of Spain defends during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group H match between Spain and Cabo Verde at Atlanta Stadium on June 15, 2026.
Finance

$1 Million Polymarket Bet That Spain Will Win First World Cup Game Backfires Epically

Ouch.

A man with curly hair wearing a white button-up shirt with rolled-up sleeves stands with his hands resting on a railing. He is looking to his left with a thoughtful expression. The background is filled with a crowd of people, all bathed in blue lighting.
Ethics

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

"I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."

Comic photo illustration featuring a McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffin replacing the skull over a pair of cross-bones.
Food

Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges

“Wholly unfit for human consumption."

A comic photo illustration featuring a man on his hands and knees with his ear to the ground in an icy Antarctica landscape.
Future Society

Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica

They say they've figured out what caused them.

Photo illustration featuring a high school student in a library opening a book to study it.
Education

Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

"Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back."

A stylized illustration featuring a photograph of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Ethics

Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest

"Take a stance against war profiteering. Tell the Google CEO that he is not welcome."

A photo illustration featuring a CEO in a suit from behind scratching the back of his head as he considers his options.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending

The age of "tokenmaxxing" didn't last long.

An expanding mini universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar.
Black Holes

Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars

It's like a baby Big Bang.

A stylized illustration featuring a photograph of Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta

Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe

"It's literally the gulag."

Color-treated photograph of patient's arm as they lay in a hospital bed.
Ethics

Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System

"What we saw was that doctors lost the autonomy to decide if a patient is very seriously ill."

A composite image of Pablo and his robot Pemba on top of a snow-covered mountain.
Robotics

Humanoid Robot Preparing to Climb Mount Everest

Do robots dream of ostentatious feats?

A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA’s Artemis III mission from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah, June 2, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Starship

NASA Loads Moon Rocket onto Giant Trump-Branded Train

It's like a metaphor.

A comic illustration featuring a man in the Utah desert listening for rumbles in the ground.
Physics

Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah

"It’s sort of a mystery in terms of fundamental physics."

A rendering of the globe with an overlay featuring the extensive underground fungal network on Earth.
Biology

Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems

We've been underestimating fungi.