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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' idea for giant off-world space colonies "makes no sense."
Off-World

Elon Musk Ridicules Jeff Bezos’ Plan For Space Colonies

Musk says Bezos' idea "makes no sense."

By Jon Christian

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft just underwent a series of extreme tests to prepare it for the intense conditions on the Red Planet's surface. 
Mars

Here’s How NASA Prepares Its Spacecraft for Mars

"This is the most comprehensive stress test you can put a spacecraft through here on Earth."

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA executive who was appointed only six weeks ago to lead the strategy for future missions to the Moon has resigned.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Mission Leader Just Quit After Only Six Weeks

Will NASA still be able to send humans to the Moon as soon as 2024?

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia announced a new hydraulic, quadrupedal robot dog, and showed the bot pulling a three-ton airplane.
Robot Dogs

Watch a Super-Strong Robot Dog Pull a Three-Ton Airplane

These bots don't fetch papers, they fetch planes.

By Jacob Banas

Two Tesla Model 3s race in a new Boring Company video, with one taking the surface streets and the other opting for the company's underground tunnel.
Tesla

Watch a Tesla in an Underground Tunnel Race One on the Street

Can you guess which car had a top speed of 127 miles per hour?

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Unleashed 60 Starlink Satellites Into Orbit

60 down, and 11,940 to go.

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.
Science & Energy

Asteroid Flying by Earth Is so Big It Has Its Own Moon

"It's one of the closest binary flybys probably in recent history."

By Kristin Houser

Programmers are creating sexist AI voice assistants, which are then encouraging users to be sexist, according to a new UN report.
Artificial Intelligence

United Nations: Siri and Alexa Are Encouraging Misogyny

Today's voice assistants are facing their own "Me Too" moment.

By Kristin Houser

The Senate just voted in favor of a bipartisan bill that could put an end to spam and unsolicited marketing calls once and for all.
Future Society

New Law Could End Robocalling Once and For All

In the near future, we might chose to pick up the phone again.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discover a superconductor that works at temperatures nearly 50 Celsius degrees (84.6 Fahrenheit degrees) hotter than the previous record high.
Energy

Scientists Set New Temperature Record for Superconductivity

It’s 50 degrees closer to room-temperature.

By Kristin Houser

Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.
Artificial Intelligence

Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?

The virtual model just scored her first real-life modeling gig.

By Victor Tangermann

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

"Changing Tesla's horn to be silent."

By Jon Christian

A Chinese rocket failed to successful launch a satellite into orbit Thursday morning, marking the second failed rocket launch in the nation this year.
Off-World

Chinese Rocket Fails Spectacularly, Raining Debris Back to Earth

It’s the second failed rocket launch in the nation this year.

By Kristin Houser

Las Vegas will pay the Boring Company $48.6 million to build the LVCC Loop, an underground tunnel system connected to the city's convention center.
Advanced Transport

Las Vegas Approves $48.6 Million Boring Company Tunnel

The City of Sin will likely be home to the company's first tunnel.

By Kristin Houser

Harvard professor Avi Loeb thinks finding signs of dead aliens could help humanity know what not to do if it wants to survive indefinitely.
Off-World

Harvard Prof: Finding Dead Alien Civilizations Could Save Humans

He thinks we could learn from the mistakes of deceased ETs.

By Kristin Houser

An investigation revealed that a quality assurance engineer at an aerospace parts company forged signatures for some 38 inspection reports.
SpaceX

SpaceX Component Engineer Charged With Faking Inspection Reports

The engineer "took the act of forgery to a new level."

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese artist Guo O Dong is selling a laptop infected with the six most dangeous viruses in history for $1.2 million dollars.
Viruses

This Dude Is Selling a Virus-Infested Laptop For $1.2 Million

He say it's a "kind of bestiary, a catalogue of historical threats."

By Natalie Coleman

Using a highly sensitive algorithm, German astronomers have discovered 18 new exoplanets, including one that "could offer conditions friendly to life."
Science & Energy

Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”

Astronomers think liquid water could flow on its surface.

By Kristin Houser

At an annual shareholder meeting, a disgruntled Amazon investor brought their package up to Jeff Bezos, complaining about how hard it was to return things.
Jeff Bezos

Someone Tried to Return an Amazon Package Directly to Jeff Bezos

They took the returns straight to the top.

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon says that it wants access to images of more diverse body types so it can improve its 3D model-rendering technology.
Future Society

Amazon Will Give You a $25 Gift Card to 3D Scan Your Entire Body

But you'll have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

By Dan Robitzski