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Just before his 200th birthday, scientists exhumed the remains of Gregor Mendel, the Czech friar credited with being the father of genetics.
Genetics

Scientists Think Gregor Mendel Would Be “Happy” That They Dug Up His Body to Study His Genetics

How the tables have turned!

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to officials, a man intentionally drove his Tesla off a 250-foot cliff in California in an alleged attempt to murder his family.
Tesla

Man Allegedly Drives Tesla Off 250 Foot Cliff on Purpose, But Whole Family Survives

"We were actually very shocked when we found survivable victims in the vehicle."

By Victor Tangermann

Business Insider had real hiring managers take a look at two cover letters that OpenAI's ChatGPT bot wrote, and their responses were mixed.
OpenAI

In a Fresh Horror, ChatGPT Can Apply to Jobs Now

"We would likely think this was written by a genuine candidate and follow up with a screening call."

By Frank Landymore

It appears that Twitter has taken to suspending space-watching journalists for posting rockets, which is an integral part of their jobs.
Off-World

Twitter Suspends Multiple Space Journalists for Posting Rockets

Seriously, what rules did they even break?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report by The Information has shed light on Apple's hotly-anticipated mixed reality headset — and it sounds like a pretty quirky device.
Virtual Reality

Apple VR Headset Will Apparently Have Display Facing Outward to Show the User’s Facial Expressions

Wait, what?

By Victor Tangermann

On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.
Climate Change

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

"Humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we're sawing off."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed into cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football. According to some reports, the league wanted to play on.
Developments

NFL Accused of Trying to Continue Game After Player Suffered Cardiac Arrest on Field

"Imagine a coworker/friend of yours needed CPR for 9 minutes in your office and then after your boss was like — take 5 minutes."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of researchers have come up with a new theory that could allow for objects to go faster than the speed of light.
Physics

Traveling Faster Than Light Would Mean Experiencing Multiple Timelines Simultaneously

Mind blown.

By Victor Tangermann

After leaving Neuralink in 2021, Max Hodak is back with a brain-computer interface startup of his own — and his plans are pretty next-level.
Virtual Reality

Neuralink Cofounder Says New Company’s Eye Implant Could Be “Ultimate” VR Tech

"We think we see a way to create what ends up as the ultimate AR/VR display technology without meaningful surgery."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Soda and energy drink drinkers, beware — it looks like your favorite sugary drinks may be linked to male pattern hair loss.
Studies

Scientists Link Male Pattern Balding to Wildly Popular Beverage

Not that!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neill Blomkamp, director of 2009's "District 9," was apparently shocked to discover that his Tesla had a major malfunction.
Tesla

The Director of “District 9” Says His Tesla’s Window Spontaneously Shattered For No Reason

"I’m sitting in [my] car and this just happened."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German driver has lost his license after seemingly falling asleep while his Tesla drove down the Autobahn with its Autopilot feature turned on.
Tesla

Tesla Autopilot Leads Cops on High Speed Chase While Driver Completely Passed Out

They had to chase the Tesla for 15 minutes — at speeds reaching 70mph.

By Victor Tangermann

Jeremy Renner in “Critical But Stable Condition” Following Gruesome Accident
Developments

Jeremy Renner in “Critical But Stable Condition” Following Gruesome Accident

Here's what we know.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is afraid that China may get to the Moon first — and claim portions of the surface as its own territory.
Moon

The Head of NASA Is Scared Chinese Astronauts Will Seize Portions of the Moon

"And it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they say, ‘Keep out, we’re here, this is our territory.'"

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter's offices in San Francisco are quickly turning into a smelly, body odor-infested rat's nest, The New York Times reported last week.
Elon Musk

Twitter HQ Marinates in Stench After Elon Musk Fires Janitors, Forces Engineers Back to Office

"You know it smell crazy in there."

By Victor Tangermann

Max Hodak started Neuralink with Elon Musk. But he later left the company and started Science Corp -- and now he's rapidly catching up.
Prosthetics and Devices

Meet the Neuralink Cofounder Who Left and Started a Competitor That’s Now Rapidly Catching Up

"Engineering the brain is really this very transcendent goal if you take it seriously."

By Simon Spichak

Chinese protest content posted to Twitter was impossible to find due to bots, ultimately rendering Elon Musk's Twitter an ineffective ally to protestors.
Future Society

An Overwhelming Number of Porn Bot Accounts “Drowned Out” Chinese Protest Content on Twitter

"Given how effective it was at drowning out other people, I wouldn’t be surprised if a government of some kind tries to use this technique in the future."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At a certain point, everyone's gonna get tired of the internet — or so goes the argument of one of the people who pioneered the web.
Future Society

Professor Predicts That This Whole Internet Thing Will Soon Blow Over

"It's clearly already broken."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The agency will buy at least 45,000 electric "Next Generation Delivery Vehicles," plus a minimum of another 21,000 EVs provided by commercial automakers.
Electric Vehicles

US Postal Service Buying 66,000 Electric Vehicles, Plans to Only Buy EVs By 2026

"Finally we're seeing the common-sense decision to move the government's largest fleet of vehicles to all-electric, a massive win for climate and public health."

By Frank Landymore

Swatting is bad enough, but now, these sorts of dangerous trolls are using Ring cameras to make this crime that much worse.
Hacking

Fiends Allegedly Swatted Victims, Use Hacked Ring Cameras to Livestream It

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

By Noor Al-Sibai