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Just before the year drew to a close, a Toyota Corolla crashed into a Cybertruck that was traveling along a road near Palo Alto, California.
Advanced Transport

Driver Injured in First Cybertruck Crash

Questions abound.

By Victor Tangermann

A group of travelers attempting to turn back the clock to ring in the new year twice got a rude awakening due to flight delays.
Advanced Transport

Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year’s Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year

"You only live once, but you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice."

By Victor Tangermann

According to Reuters, Tesla's main bottleneck in Cybertruck production is producing the next-generation 4680 lithium-ion battery cells.
Tesla

Cybertruck Manufacturing Is a Disaster, Tesla Insiders Say

And it's not the body panels...

By Victor Tangermann

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.
Mars

NASA Releases Image of Epic Lines Carved Into Mars’ Surface

Magnificent.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.
Climate Change

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

Talk about learning self-sufficience.

By Sharon Adarlo

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.
Future Society

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

"This, in my opinion, is partly the fault of Google, who appears to be putting more emphasis on content rather than links."

By Frank Landymore

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

They just found the cause.

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.
Science & Energy

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

It was a mixed success.

By Victor Tangermann

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.
Hacking

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

A judge deemed the teenager a high risk to the public.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers uncovered that penile fractures increase during Christmas after evaluating data from hospital stays.
Studies

Careful, Lads! Scientists Link Christmas to “Penile Fractures”

Wait... what!?

By Sharon Adarlo

Local authorities in Iceland are telling people to stop visiting the volcanic eruption because the terrain is challenging and dangerous. 
Science & Energy

Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption

"As we have seen in the past, people overestimate their ability."

By Sharon Adarlo

A new poll found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be Illegal

The people have spoken!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down.
Hyperloop

The Hyperloop Is Dead. Long Live the Hyperloop.

Is Elon Musk's revolutionary idea really no more?

By Victor Tangermann

Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons and control switches to its new batch of cars after customer complaints.
Advanced Transport

Volkswagen Bringing Back Buttons, Knob After Touchscreen Complaints

Touchscreens are garbage, drivers complain.

By Sharon Adarlo

An AI-generated image of Jack and Rose taking a selfie in front of an intact Titanic ship that is making its rounds has us mystified.
Artificial Intelligence

We Are Completely Mystified by This AI-Generated Image of Jack and Rose Taking a Selfie in “Titanic”

"Where to start with this one."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX fired up the engines of its latest Starship prototype, setting the stage for the company's third orbital test launch.
Starship

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Before Next Orbital Test

Third time's the charm.

By Victor Tangermann

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.
Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

"Rite Aid's reckless use of facial surveillance systems left its customers facing humiliation..."

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk is yet again hyping up the Cybertruck's potential as a boat. But as always, there's reason to doubt that these claims hold water.
Elon Musk

While Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Can Float, Tesla Told a Guy His Model 3 Broke Because He Washed It

"This is the only car that I've ever heard of where a car wash can damage the wiring."

By Frank Landymore

According to The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of customer sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools.
Google

Google Reportedly Replacing Some Human Staff With AI

The era of AI job automation is already here.

By Victor Tangermann

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.
Science & Energy

Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

Terror in the high seas!

By Sharon Adarlo