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Despite their feud from just a few years ago, Elon Musk is all-in for Donald Trump and showing his support with cold, hard cash.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Giving $180 Million to Trump Even After Trump Publicly Humiliated Him

Oh, how the turn tables.

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.
Wind

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

This wind turbine can generate electricity even during a storm.

Some people have turned to a drink Feel Free that's often sold in gas stations but has a crippling addictive substance called kratom.
Health & Medicine

A Weird Drink From Gas Stations Is Reportedly Causing Terrible Addictions

"I don’t need a drug dealer. I just go into the store and buy them."

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.
Climate Change

Trump’s Allies Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Weather Reports

Nickel and dime you, come rain or shine.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is deeply unhappy about the $27 million mansion he bought on San Francisco's iconic Lombard Street.
Future Society

Sam Altman Is Suing the People Who Built His Mansion

Apparently, his infinity pool overlooking the Bay is leaking.

Researchers found a new way to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated by using the same techniques astronomers use to analyze stars.
Physics

Something Fascinating Is Wrong With the Eyes in Deepfakes

Did researchers just find the smoking gun?

Loud booms and shakes earlier this week were the result of a meteor burning up over New York City's Statue of Liberty, NASA says.
NASA

NASA Says a Meteor Burnt Up Over the Statue of Liberty

And it seems to have caused a huge and mysterious boom, too.

Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.
Science & Energy

Uncontacted Tribe Emerges From Rainforest

"This is a humanitarian disaster in the making — it’s absolutely vital that the loggers are thrown out."

A 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport recently challenged a Tesla Cybertruck in a race around the Colorado National Speedway.
Advanced Transport

You’ll Never Guess Who Wins in a Race Between a Cybertruck and a 1996 Corvette

USA! USA!

A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has been used to train AI without the permission of the creators whose work was scraped.
Anthropic

YouTubers Furious After Apple and Anthropic Steal Their Data to Train AI

"This is my livelihood, and I put time, resources, money, and staff time into creating this content."

NASA has sent a hip-hop song to space for the very first time and chosen the ineffable Missy Elliott to do the honors.
NASA

NASA Sends Missy Elliott Song to Her Favorite Planet, Venus

"Both space exploration and Missy Elliott’s art have been about pushing boundaries."

Elon Musk Says SpaceX HQ Will Move to Texas Due to His Terror of Trans People
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says SpaceX HQ Will Move to Texas Due to His Terror of Trans People

To him, it's the "final straw."

A window on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Boston suddenly shattered due to the heat as temperatures soared to 95 degrees.
Science & Energy

Skyscraper Window Shatters From Heat, Rains Shards Onto Sidewalk

From casement to basement.

Amazon wrecked a married couple's washable swim diaper business because the tech giant resold and shipped a dirty nappy to a customer.
Future Society

Couple Says Amazon Destroyed Their Small Business by Reselling a Dirty Diaper

Soiled diaper fulfilled by Amazon.

It took a few days, but the FBI has finally cracked the phone of the now-deceased 20-year-old man who shot at Donald Trump.
Future Society

FBI Cracks Phone of Man Who Shot Trump

It's unclear how they did it, though.

Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk has thrown his full weight behind Trump and his running mate JD Vance, despite them opposing EVs.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Announces Support for Trump’s VP, Who’s Trying to Crush the Electric Vehicle Industry

It's a mystifying self-own.

The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.
Science & Energy

Museum Stunned When Someone Anonymously Mails in Two Ancient Artifacts

Experts are begging the sender to come forward.

A former ESA director and a former NASA administrator argue that we should boost the space station's orbit as a gift to future generations.
Off-World

Former Space Agency Leaders Horrified by Plan to Destroy Space Station, Say It Would Be Easier to Save It

They say the station should be rescued into a stable orbit, not destroyed.

Last week, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded mid-flight. The 20 Starlink satellites it was carrying have since crashed.
Future Society

Twenty SpaceX Satellites Fall From Space After Falcon 9 Explodes

"We knew this incredible run had to come to an end at some point, but 344 flights in a row is amazing."

Eli Lilly, the maker of Zepbound, is hoping that new studies into off-label treatments will help get the drugs covered by insurance.
RX and Medicine

Drug Companies Have a Sneaky Idea to Get Insurance to Pay for Drugs Like Zepbound

"It builds this wall of evidence."