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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared a video of himself carrying what appears to be a ceramic bathroom sink into the lobby of Twitter HQ in San Francisco.
Elon Musk

"Let that sink in!"

Israeli biotech company BioHarvest claims to have grown a powerful THC substance inside a bioreactor that is 12 times more potent.
Developments

It's 12 times more potent than traditionally grown cannabis.

Someone made an amazing, horrific deepfake of President Joe Biden singing "Baby Shark" and calling it our "national anthem."
Artificial Intelligence

This is equal parts terrifying and hilarious.

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.
Nuclear Fusion

And the timing couldn't be worse.

Saudi Arabia has broken ground on its gigantic and controversial 100-mile skyscraper city called The Line, which is meant to house up to 9 million people.
Future Society

If it ever gets completed.

According to a new report, TikTok is absolutely terrible at filtering out harmful misinformation and disinformation regarding elections and politics.
Future Society

"If the TikToks of the world really want to fight fake news, they could do it."

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.
Science & Energy

You'll never buffer again.

The likes of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are among some of the biggest names on the planet who are getting deepfaked into ads.
Future Society

"We're having a hard enough time with fake information. Now we have deepfakes, which look ever more convincing."

Researchers claim to have built a "decoder" algorithm that can reconstruct what somebody is thinking just by monitoring their brain activity using MRI.
Neuroscience and Brain

This is seriously impressive.

An upstate New York sheriff is irked that people around the US are 3D printing firearms to turn into gun buyback programs for cold, hard cash. 
Future Society

"You can’t guarantee that those guns will never be used to harm someone."

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey criticized Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's infamous doubling down on the metaverse.
Metaverse

"It's not good, it's not fun."

Every cat person has suspected that their cats are ignoring them — and now, researchers seem to have proven that they're right. 
Science & Energy

Yes, your cat knows you're talking to it — it just doesn't care.

The Fyre Fest island has reached its only natural next form: a luxury real estate colony for the crypto elite, where homes will be bought and sold via NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

"We bought this property because we see its future, not its past."

Onlookers have been puzzled by the weird look in the eyes of the astronauts selected for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission, and there's a cool reason why.
Off-World

Not your average piece of eyewear.

A tech entrepreneur was shocked not only to find that he was charged crazy Uber fees for taking a car between cities, but also that he went viral for it.
Advanced Transport

You can't get mad when you go viral like this, dude.

Who needs robot claws or imitations of the human hand when you can just throw a bunch of tentacles at a problem and see what sticks instead?
Robotics

Gross... but practical?

Astronomers have discovered a neutron star that is far lighter than previously thought possible, undermining our understanding of the evolution of stars.
Science & Energy

It's made of... what?

Last year, Elon Musk was crowned the world's richest person in history. Fast forward a year later, and $100 billion of his historic net worth has vanished.
Elon Musk

Yikes.

The International Space Station had to ignite its thrusters for over five minutes to dodge pieces of the satellite Russia intentionally blew up last year.
Off-World

It's going to keep happening.

Hackers at open-source hardware company Adafruit have created the ultimate candy bar — that can literally run the videogame "Doom."
Computers

Parents beware.