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A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla while using Autopilot.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot

They both died on the scene.

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.
Elon Musk

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels

Elon, why?!

The holiday season means presents galore  — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.
Gene Editing

DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret

"What happens if you discover things you didn't know previously?"

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.
Climate Change

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

"If no one had ever said, 'Plant a trillion trees,' I think we'd have been in a lot better space."

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

This is eerie.

The FCC just rejected SpaceX's appeal to reinstate an $886 million grant to bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. SpaceX is furious.
SpaceX

SpaceX Furious That Government Won’t Give It Free Handout of Nearly a Billion Dollars

The company is "deeply disappointed and perplexed."

AI has, for seemingly the first time, solved a famously difficult math problem — and folks, this discovery is huge if true.
Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By

"To be very honest with you, we have hypotheses, but we don’t know exactly why this works."

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.
Off-World

Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations

"The planetary surfaces are just way too small."

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.
Off-World

Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

This latest detection is a real head scratcher.

The streaming platform Twitch has done an about-face just two days after changing its policies to allow "artistic nudity."
Future Society

Twitch Reverses Allowing “Artistic Nudity” After Disastrous Results

Seriously, these guys need to get a life.

NASA has gathered information about drug use at SpaceX — and has apparently been sitting on it for more than four years.
NASA

NASA Refuses to Say What It Found About Drug Use at SpaceX

Elon may have accidentally revealed some of the information, though.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are building a top-secret $100 million mansion in Hawaii, which includes a massive bunker.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Reportedly Building $100 Million Doomsday Bunker

"It's fight club. We don’t talk about fight club."

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.
Future Society

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

Kxxzzthhhhh...

After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, researchers discovered that half of them struck accumulations of methane gas.
Future Society

Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn

"The drillers heard a bubbling sound coming from the well, so we decided to have a look..."

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is teaming up with Curio to bring an AI-powered toy to market called Grok, the same name as her ex Elon Musk's AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Is Working On Her Own AI That’s Also Named Grok, Just Like Elon’s AI

The plot thickens.

Congress has passed legislation that demands the National Archives release its records about UFOs — but not right away, of course.
Future Society

Congress Passes Legislation Demanding US Government Release UFO Archives

"We got ripped off."

A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by an ex-patient of non-consensually inseminating her with his own sperm.
Gene Editing

Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm

"To say I was shocked when I figured this out would be an extreme understatement."

YouTuber and automotive journalist Mat Watson and his buddies tried to damage Tesla's Cybertruck by kicking it. They didn't come far.
Tesla

Video Shows Tesla Fans Viciously Kicking the Cybertruck

Pure cringe.

The site formerly known as Twitter continues to lose ad revenue hand over fist under Elon Musk's ownership.
Elon Musk

Twitter Apparently Lost $1.5 Billion in Ad Revenue as Elon Musk Flailed

"We are not Twitter any longer and not measuring ourselves by old Twitter metrics."

A team of scientists has developed a substance so hard and tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, the hardest material on Earth.
Physics

Scientists Create Substance Rivaling Diamonds in Hardness

They say it could be an ultra-tough coating for spacecraft.