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Tesla is offering Cybertruck customers a "self-healing" coat of "premium color paint films" to fully black out their vehicle.
Advanced Transport

Aha! There’s an All-Black Cybertruck

Why would you need to protect bulletproof metal?

The first-ever transatlantic commercial flight running on 100 percent used cooking oil went off without a hiccup on Tuesday.
Advanced Transport

Boeing 787 Flies Across Ocean Powered by Used Cooking Oil

But did it smell like French fries?

Cybertruck fans are disappointed and "let down" following Tesla's disastrous delivery event earlier this week.
Tesla

Tesla Fans Furious at Disastrous Cybertruck Reveal

"I was so excited. And then totally let down."

In a rare acquisition by the launch provider, SpaceX saved a venerable parachute vendor that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
SpaceX

SpaceX Is Buying a Company That Makes Parachutes for Spacecraft

Look out below!

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.
Science & Energy

The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

Yikes.

Tesla came up with an awkward workaround, offering customers an entirely separate battery pack for its Cybertruck to get a half-decent range.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Needs a Giant Extra Battery in Its Bed to Get the Range Elon Promised

No, it's not included in the price.

Someone decided it was a good idea to make an entirely AI-generated "singer-songwriter" that is perversely hilarious.
Artificial Intelligence

People Cannot Stop Dunking on that Uncanny “AI Singer-Songwriter”

Don't quit your day job, Anna.

Following OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's firing and rehiring, there are now zero women on the company's non-profit board.
OpenAI

There Are Now Zero Women on OpenAI’s Board

"It’s not a very welcoming field for women."

It sounds like an update to an age old adage: what happens when you take a smartphone away from a narcissist? 
Health & Medicine

Something Fascinating Happens When You Take Smartphones Away From Narcissists

Is this surprising or not?

A top trim "Cyberbeast" model of Tesla's Cybertruck will cost just under $100,000. A rear-wheel model won't be available until 2025.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Actual Price Just Dropped and Yikes

You'll have to be even more patient if you want to save a buck.

Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen halfheartedly lobbed a baseball — not a metal ball — at the Cybertruck's window during today's event.
Advanced Transport

At Awkward Event, Elon Has Guy Halfheartedly Lob Baseball at Cybertruck

That most certainly wasn't a metal ball.

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.
Climate Change

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From Climate Change

Were dinosaurs hanging on by a thread when the asteroid arrived?

The hack is "silly," but it gets ChatGPT to regurgitate incredible amounts of its training data, some of it potentially sensitive.
OpenAI

Hack Tricks ChatGPT Into Spitting Out Private Email Addresses, Phone Numbers

"It's wild to us that our attack works."

OpenAI's on-again CEO Sam Altman is back with a vengeance — but not, apparently, when it comes to cofounder Ilya Sutskever.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says He Has “Zero Ill Will” Toward Guy Who Shanked Him

What happens next is anyone's guess.

SpaceX rockets are tearing huge holes in the Earth's atmosphere as they make their return to the surface, triggering "SpaceX auroras."
SpaceX

Scientists Warn That SpaceX Launches Are Tearing Small Holes in the Sky

Scientists are baffled by the red "auroras" left behind by returning SpaceX rockets.

New documentation included in an update for Tesla's iOS app suggests the Cybertruck will have an outdoor camping attachment.
Advanced Transport

Leak Shows Camping Shelter That Hooks Onto Cybertruck

This looks rad as hell.

Viral photos on both sides of the Isreal-Hamas conflict have been revealed to be AI fakes — and the problem is only going to get worse
Artificial Intelligence

Viral Images of Dead Infants in Israel-Gaza War Are AI Fakes, Experts Say

"It’s going to get worse — a lot worse — before it gets better."

During an event this week, X owner Elon Musk threw a tantrum, addressing his antisemitic comments, and the ensuing flood of criticism.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Throws Epic Tantrum On Stage

"Actually watching this all the way through and it's kind of... disturbing?"

General Motors has lost billions of dollars on Cruise, which has received intense scrutiny from state and federal regulators this year.
Advanced Transport

General Motors to Slash Spending on Robotaxis After Disastrous Year

It was inevitable.

Harvard professor Avi Loeb is headed back to Papua New Guinea to find fragments of a meteor that he thinks was actually an alien probe.
Exobiology

Harvard Scientist Planning New Expedition to Hunt for Bigger Chunks of Possible Alien Spacecraft

"That’s what led me originally to suspect maybe it’s a spacecraft..."