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Amid his increasingly-embarrassing Metaverse push, Meta-formerly-Facebook investors are growing more and more upset at CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Future Society

"He’s tone deaf to what the owners of the company want, outside of himself."

Dogecoin and other doge meme coins have seen huge gains over the weekend after Elon Musk added Twitter to his growing portfolio of companies he owns. 
Elon Musk

Funny how that works.

E-Bikes are meant to be a boon for green transit — but their explosive lithium ion batteries might make them more dangerous than they're worth. 
Advanced Transport

"When they fail, they fail like a blowtorch."

Videos show what appear to be workers at Foxconn's plant in China jumping a fence to reportedly escape the country's strict zero-COVID policies.
Developments

"It was total chaos..."

E-cigarette vapor caused lung cancer and possibly even bladder cancer in mice, found a new study from New York University.
Cancer

"E-cigarettes are bad news.”

In a presentation earlier this month, a team of researchers identified nine of the most livable caves on the surface of Mars.
Mars

These nine grottos are among some of the hottest Martian real estate.

A gigantic piece of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has seemingly plummeted back down to Earth and lodged itself in a crop in the province of Gansu.
Off-World

Why does this keep happening?

No, you're not seeing things — that really is a picture of the sun giving a "smile," and there's a real scientific reason behind it, too.
NASA

"More so than a smiley face, its eyes are like gleaming laser beams..."

Massive spikes of radiation levels on Earth were once believed to be caused by solar flares, but a new study suggests that something else may be driver.
Future Society

"There's a kind of extreme astrophysical phenomenon that we don't understand and it actually could be a threat to us."

Shift Robotics claims its Moonwalkers, a dorky-looking pair of shoe attachments, will increase your walking speed by up to 250 percent.
Advanced Transport

These "Moonwalkers" are not an April Fool's joke.

Allegedly, the prerolled joints the two plaintiffs bought were barely even half as strong as advertised. Talk about a weed come down.
Future Society

Be a lot cooler if their weed worked.

A bold new theory proposes that a "Conan the Bacterium" microorganism could survive under Mars' barren surface for hundreds of millions of years.
Science & Energy

"In the novel experiments, Conan the Bacterium survived astronomical amounts of radiation in the freezing, arid environment."

Remember back when people insisted that vaping e-cigarettes was better for you than smoking regular cigarettes? As it turns out, that was a load of bull.
Studies

That's not what they used to say!

By using NASA data and US Geological Survey software, scientists say they've found "definitive" evidence of a 3.5 billion year old ocean coastline.
Mars

Now where were the best beaches?

ISS astronauts are quite literally on a mission to save the Earth – or at least to show us which areas are home to the biggest polluters.
Space

This is huge.

Tesla's "Cyberquad for Kids" were just recalled following an instance where the youth ATV was toppled by a 36-year-old adult.
Tesla

Better luck next time, Tesla.

Anime Fans In Japan Are Not Happy With AI-Generated Manga
Future Society

Sounds like tech bros might've poked the bear.

NFTs aren't totally dead just yet. And in order to keep them alive, a growing number of web3 operators are turning towards a more familiar market: housing. 
NFTs

That's a new one!

Jim Cramer, the loud and brash host of CNBC's "Mad Money" stock tips show, feels bad for telling viewers to buy Facebook stock.
Future Society

"I come out here and try to help people everyday. And I failed to help people. And I own that."

Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weighs in on the self-driving industries promises, and it's not flattering.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"It feels like the widespread use of autonomous driving is seven years away, and it’s been seven years away for 10 years."