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These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.
Climate Change

Add "exploding craters" to your climate change bingo card.

Elon Musk appears to be feeling the burn of his own bad decisions — and is making threats about breaking off from Tesla because of them.
Elon Musk

This seems like a lose-lose scenario for everyone but Elon.

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Moon

It's been a "great honor."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.
Robotics

It needed a *substantial* amount of help.

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.
Off-World

"From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible."

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.
NASA

It's taken them over three months.

eBay has to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after harassing a couple by sending them a box full of spiders and other disturbing items.
Future Society

That's one way to do it!

The first rule of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse is, apparently, that you don't talk about the Metaverse.
Metaverse

Whatever you do, don't mention the old avatar.

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.
Drones

It works by harnessing energy from nuclear decay.

The researchers trained an AI model on over 60,000 fingerprints, finding similarities they claim have gone overlooked.
Artificial Intelligence

Not so special now.

In Japan, a flight crew was forced to turn around during a trip after they had found a crack in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737-800.
Future Society

It's been a bad month at Boeing.

Young people are getting diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than ever before — and doctors are stumped as to why.
Cancer

"The patients are getting younger."

Microsoft is set to introduce its Copilot AI, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, to keyboards on new Windows computers.
Artificial Intelligence

This might be a way bigger deal than it looks.

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”
OpenAI

It was only a matter of time.

The startup that sells the glacier chunks, Arctic Ice, claims it plans to be carbon neutral following backlash over the practice.
Artificial Intelligence

Behold: novelty ice.

Following a shocking study, the bottled water industry has cried foul, claiming that it's totally fine we're all ingesting nanoplastics.
Developments

Nothing to see here, folks!

It is the second recently reported case of organs missing from the bodies of inmates who died in Alabama's prison system.
Developments

Horrifying.

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.
Off-World

It could be a never before seen part of the cosmos.

Footage shared by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell earlier this week shows a "jellyfish" UFO. We still don't know for sure what it is.
Future Society

Why is it moving so smoothly?

A Microsoft researcher giving an internal presentation on an early demo of an AI tool admits that the responses were "cherry-picked."
Artificial Intelligence

"It wasn't that easy to get good answers."