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The White House is proposing a 30 percent tax on crypto mining operations to better reflect the effects they're having on the environment.
Cryptocurrency

"Instead, the energy is used to generate digital assets whose broader social benefits have yet to materialize."

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram this week to show off some 3D-printed dresses that he created for his daughters.
Future Society

Billionaire CEO, fashion designer.

Gary James Harmon of Ohio was sentenced for stealing 712 Bitcoin from his brother, fellow Ohioan crypto convict Larry Dean Harmon.
Bitcoin

We wouldn't be looking forward to any holidays in that household.

Over 150 African content moderators — whose work has helped to power AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have unionized.
OpenAI

"For too long we, the workers powering the AI revolution, were treated as different and less than moderators."

As the saying goes, the bill always comes due — and as it stands, it's unclear whether billionaire Elon Musk's Twitter can pay up.
Elon Musk

It's hard being the second richest man in the world.

A small suborbital rocket carrying cremated remains failed to launch earlier this week, exploding over the New Mexico desert.
Off-World

Well, this is awkward.

Tourism Company Offering Zero-G Concerts
Off-World

"Just imagine Dua Lipa singing 'Levitating,' while actually floating in zero gravity."

Scientists are horrified as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month.
Climate Change

"This is getting ridiculous."

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.
Moon

"This is a big step for developing the architecture to build sustainable human bases on other planets."

Chegg, an online tutoring company that once dominated its industry, is majorly hurting in the wake of ChatGPT. 
OpenAI

It's happening.

There is, it seems, another mysterious balloon floating over the United States, this time over the island state of Hawaii. 
Future Society

We still have no idea where it came from or who owns it.

Researchers noticed a surge in brain activity that is correlated with consciousness even after two comatose patients' hearts stopped beating.
Neuroscience and Brain

Did we just find signs of near-death experiences?

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.
Artificial Intelligence

"Like how an alien intelligence would understand our beer commercials."

In 2022, dozens of app gig workers were killed on the job — and, for some reason, labor laws haven't caught up yet. 
Future Society

The real number is probably even higher.

The unfortunate explosion was "roughly what I expected," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly said in a Twitter Spaces session on Saturday.
Starship

"Roughly what I expected."

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.
Artificial Intelligence

"I could easily see 30 percent of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period."

Starting this week, Pornhub has completely disabled its websites for everybody living in the state of Utah.
Future Society

The site argues the new law "will put children and your privacy at risk."

During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starship only self-destructed after a 40-second delay.
Starship

That's not good.

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.
Black Holes

RIP.

Robots and Machines

Convert your ride into a mobile sound system.