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Elon Musk's new Twitter account verification system, which gives anybody a checkmark for $8 a month, has spectacularly backfired.
Elon Musk

It's pure chaos.

What would happen if the International Space Station was circling the planet at the altitude of an airplane? This video shows what that would look like.
International Space Station

Blink and you'll miss it.

A Wisconsin hospice nurse and taxidermist is facing jail time after allegedly cutting off a dying 62-year-old man's frostbitten foot without permission.
Developments

She wanted to display it at her family's taxidermy shop next to a sign saying "wear your boots, kids."

The tech industry appears to be bearing the brunt of 2022's economic downturn, with recent and planned layoffs totaling in the tens of thousands.
Future Society

Remember when tech was on top of the world?

Months after claiming he was done selling Tesla stock, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold off another $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to filings.
Elon Musk

He promised he was done selling in August.

Per Starlink's new fair use policy, the Elon Musk-owned ISP is about to start throttling users' service if they use over 1TB per month data cap.
SpaceX

How the tables have turned!

Over 135,000 users joined Mastodon, an open-source microblogging platform and alternative to Twitter, within just 24 hours, according to a new graph.
Future Society

"We can’t keep up with those requests, so we just opened the floodgates."

The value of Bitcoin has slid significantly, and is now hovering at a two-year low, following the news of Binance offering to bail out FTX.
Bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies are in a bad state right now.

It's not a great day over at Meta, where 11,000 people just learned that they're out of a job as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces mass layoffs.
Future Society

"I got this wrong," Zuckerberg said, "and I take responsibility for that."

If you caught that MSN story alleging that Grimes took to Twitter to publicly ask ex-boyfriend Elon Musk to pay child support, uncatch it. It's fake.
Elon Musk

This is a terrible look.

Ex-child star and pop singer Aaron Carter was only 34 when he died last weekend — and now, newly-released details suggest that he may have overdosed. 
Developments

A terrible tragedy.

McDonald's has come up with a hideous gaming chair called the "McCrispy," which features "stain-proof leather" and even a French fry holder.
Future Society

It'll keep your sandwich warm while you get your game on.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who led one of the biggest exchanges in the world, has lost a stunning 94 percent of his entire net worth in a single day.
Cryptocurrency

This appears to be the biggest wealth collapse in history.

For a man who's made a lot of comments about the dangers of ideological echochambers, the Elon Musk's favorites are just an echochamber of kissassery.
Elon Musk

This is... concerning.

Bad news for Tesla investors — all that money you dumped into the company at the beginning of the year has been halved amid a major stock selloff.
Tesla

Ouch.

A blockchain businessman claims he's burned a priceless Frida Kahlo drawing in service of minting 10,000 NFTs of it. Many aren't sure if it's the real deal.
NFTs

"I think this man should be put in jail."

The NG-18 Cygnus cargo spacecraft has failed to deploy one of its solar arrays during its journey to ressuply the International Space Station.
Advanced Transport

But it might still make it.

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.
Off-World

"We're finding the oldest stellar remnants in the Milky Way that are polluted by once Earth-like planets."

A dazzling array of fabulously strange deep sea creatures were just discovered off of Australia's Western Coast — some new, some just very rare.
Science & Energy

We stan the "bony-eared a**fish." Yes, that's its actual name.

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume, has announced plans to buy one of its biggest rivals, FTX, sending ripples throughout the industry.
Cryptocurrency

This does not inspire confidence.