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With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.
Mars

Scientists Release Audio of NASA Rover Getting Swallowed by a 387 Foot Dust Devil On Mars

An encounter with a Martian monster.

A lawsuit filed against Tesla alleges it misled consumers by claiming its cars are self-driving, to which Tesla's lawyers retort: well, it's not fraud.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Lawyers Say Failure to Deliver Self-Driving Isn’t Technically Fraud

Failure *is* an option!

Elon Musk has used his platform to falsely insinuate that Yoel Roth, forced to flee his home, was implicit in a partisan muzzling of former president Trump.
Elon Musk

Former Twitter Employee Flees Home After Elon Musk Whips Up Mob

This is grim.

Space startup Sierra Space intentionally blew up a prototype inflatable space station module to see how much punishment it can take.
Off-World

Experimental Inflatable Space Station Segment Explodes Violently

Woomp!

Tesla share are on yet another nosedive this week — and investors are getting increasingly furious at CEO Elon Musk for failing to actually run the company.
Elon Musk

Tesla Investors Furious at Elon Musk for Vanishing During Crisis to Play With Shiny New Twitter

"There is no Tesla CEO today."

The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him

I'm not owned, I'm not owned!

A new report alleges that ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison were in a secret groupchat called "Wirefraud."
Blockchain

SBF and Caroline Ellison Allegedly Had a Secret Groupchat Called “Wirefraud”

You can't make this up.

A man was spotted riding on top of what appears to be a SpaceX Dragon capsule bobbing in the water while being towed off the coast of Port Canaveral.
SpaceX

Guy Spotted Riding on SpaceX Spacecraft As It’s Being Towed in the Ocean

How to train your Dragon.

Star Trek alum George Takei, handily — and eloquently — eviscerated Twitter CEO Elon Musk's recent dive into far-right conspiracies.
Elon Musk

Beloved Actor George Takei Absolutely Skewers Elon Musk

"That red pill rabbit hole is no joke."

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claim to have generated more energy with a fusion reaction than was needed to start it.
Energy

Physicists Say New Breakthrough Proves Fusion Power Is Possible

It's "an engineering marvel beyond belief," a White House science adviser said.

Disgraced cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas and is facing US criminal charges.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Facing US Criminal Charges

The walls are closing in.

Who better than to call Elon Musk out on extremely gross, transphobic behavior than fellow Space Dude and Outspoken Guy, former US astronaut Scott Kelly?
NASA

Elon Musk Rages as NASA Astronaut Calls Out His Transphobia and Conspiracy Theories

Musk tweeted something transphobic, and Kelly spoke out.

A lawsuit is alleging that Yuga Labs conspired to inflate the worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs through undisclosed celebrity endorsements.
Blockchain

Huge List of Celebs Accused of Taking Secret Payments to Shill Bored Apes

These are serious allegations.

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is relieved that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't actually in charge of running the space company.
NASA

Head of NASA Relieved to Hear Elon Musk Isn’t REALLY Running SpaceX

Oof.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk got booed by thousands of people at a Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco on Sunday night.
Elon Musk

Video Shows Elon Musk Wilting as Huge Crowd Boos Him Off Stage

It's an excruciating watch.

A startup in The Netherlands is using the heat being expelled by Bitcoin mining rigs to grow tulips. Ironic, given the historical context.
Bitcoin

Dutch Startup Mining Bitcoin to Grow Tulips, and We Can’t Tell If They’re Joking

You can't make this stuff up.

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot is seemingly abysmal at coming up with entertaining puns that don't make you groan like a bad dad joke.
OpenAI

OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition

Turns out there's one thing AI can't do well... yet.

Researchers at the government-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California claim to have made a breakthrough in the field of fusion energy.
Energy

Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough

"If this is true, we are witnessing a moment of history."

Twitter owner Elon Musk might have a new way to solve his App Store problem: just charge iOS users 30 percent extra for a Twitter Blue subscription.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More

Sorry, iOS users.

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Captures Its First Look At Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon

"At first glance, it is simply extraordinary!"