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According to a scathing new report, NASA's even beefier Moon rocket launch tower may end up being even more expensive than initially thought.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Launcher Is in Big Trouble

It's going to cost how much??

By Victor Tangermann

Peloton founder and former CEO John Foley lost most of his personal fortune as the company tanked in the twilight of the pandemic.
Future Society

Peloton CEO Says Company Has Crashed So Hard He’s Had to Sell Almost All His Possessions

"I've lost all my money."

By Frank Landymore

Boeing's plagued Starliner is coming back empty-handed, a huge embarrassment for the embattled aerospace giant.
Boeing

Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project

It keeps getting worse.

By Victor Tangermann

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

"The web is becoming increasingly a dangerous place to look for your data."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX has had to delay the launch of its Polaris Dawn mission by at least a day after officials found a helium leak.
SpaceX

SpaceX Discovers Starliner-Like Leak Before Launch of Space Tourists

This sounds familiar.

By Victor Tangermann

Truth Social CFO and treasurer Juhan Phillip sold a whopping $1.9 million worth of company shares. Donald Trump is expected to follow suit.
Future Society

Truth Social Exec Dumps Stock as Price Plummets

Experts say it could be headed straight to zero.

By Victor Tangermann

Project 2025's chaotic and contradictory AI policy is rooted in bizarre isolationism, slashing already-nonexistent regulations, and spying.
Artificial Intelligence

Project 2025’s AI Policies Are a Baffling Stew of Grievance and Contradictions

"There's nothing on training, there's nothing on privacy, there's nothing on security and equity, none of that."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A clever car burglar broke into a vacant Cybertruck by popping one of the windows ajar and then peeling it wide open.
Advanced Transport

Burglar Discovers You Can “Peel” Cybertruck and Access the Inside

"No Alarm, No Notifications to my phone."

By Sharon Adarlo

If you think AI platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT seem dumber than before, you are not alone. Others have noticed AI models are not accurate.
Artificial Intelligence

Did AI Already Peak and Now It’s Getting Dumber?

"After all the hype for me, it was kind of a big disappointment."

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter owner Musk reportedly regretted launching Twitter Blue almost immediately, according to an upcoming book.
Elon Musk

As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He’d Pushed For

"Turn it off. Turn it off!"

By Victor Tangermann

French authorities say Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested for failing to moderate content pertaining to child sexual abuse material.
Future Society

Warrant Against Telegram CEO Linked to Crimes Against Minors

Yikes.

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Fauci, who became synonymous with the American government's response to the COVID pandemic, was struck with the rare West Nile virus.
Viruses

Dr. Fauci Hospitalized With Rare Disease

Cue the conspiracy theories.

By Sharon Adarlo

The first-ever private spacewalk will involve depressurizing the entire SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule because it has no airlock.
SpaceX

SpaceX Preparing to Drain All Air From Spacecraft While Astronauts Are Inside

"We have some pretty ambitious objectives."

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing Starliner's malfunctioning thrusters are attached to the service module, which is designed to separate and burn up.
Boeing

When Boeing’s Starliner Comes Back Empty, It’ll Destroy the Malfunctioning Thrusters, Making It Impossible to Study What Went Wrong

Boeing can't catch a break.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's decision to return Boeing's Starliner capsule with no crew on board has been a major blow to morale for employees.
Boeing

Boeing Employees Humiliated That SpaceX Will Rescue the Astronauts Stranded by Starliner

"We hate SpaceX. We talk s**t about them all the time, and now they’re bailing us out."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk amplified a plagiarized article bylined by a fake writer. The original source? An alt-right website riddled with conspiracies.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Tweets Plagiarized Article Bylined by Fake Writer

The article was bylined by a fake writer — and plagiarized word-for-word from an alt-right conspiracy website.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gastroenterologist did not wear his hearing aids during a colonoscopy and couldn't hear a patient screaming.
Health & Medicine

Elderly Doctor Was Apparently Unable to Hear Patient’s Screams Because He Wasn’t Wearing Hearing Aids

Never a good sign when your patient is screaming.

By Sharon Adarlo

AI technology is becoming so advanced that researchers propose people start using personhood credentials to verify they are human.
Artificial Intelligence

CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn

More human than human.

By Sharon Adarlo

German airline Lufthansa is adding a sharkskin-like material to four more of its planes, which it says will reduce carbon emissions.
Advanced Transport

Airline Covers Passenger Jets in Synthetic Sharkskin for Aerodynamic Boost

An ingenious trick.

By Frank Landymore

This AI company says its helping lower advertising costs for underfunded progressive campaigns. Its product feels anything but progressive.
Artificial Intelligence

Democratic Startup Proposes Flooding the Web With AI-Generated Political Ads

"Voters may not be able to easily spot or detect AI-generated content," the company bragged.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré