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Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is steadfast in his belief in the metaverse, despite stock cratering 20 percent.
Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg “Pretty Confident” About Metaverse After Stock Craters

The ship is starting to sink.

It seems like Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck may finally be becoming a reality now the giant press that will make them are being shipped out to Texas.
Tesla

Tesla Awaiting Delivery of Giant Press for Stamping Out Cybertrucks

It's all happening!

Turning back the clock on aging may be attainable via a controversial method known as "reprogramming." But other experts in the field are skeptical.
Developments

Startup Says It’s Honing in on a Way to Reverse Aging

The reprogramming of epigenomes may hold the key.

Single life can be amazing — and scientists may have just discovered exactly why that is. Spoiler alert? It has a lot to do with you-time.
Developments

Scientists Say They Found the Most Awesome Thing About Being Single

It might surprise you.

Astronauts will make use of a specialized, pressurized rover that can handle any terrain the Moon throws at it, but it also doubles as an RV.
Advanced Transport

NASA Testing Cozy “Lunar RV” for Moon Astronauts

It can spin, it can climb, it can turn on a dime.

Tesla is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its misleading marketing of its driver assisatence system Autopilot.
Tesla

Tesla Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Claiming Its Cars Can Drive Themselves

A lot of eyes are on Tesla right now.

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.
Climate Change

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

"We are still not winning in any sector."

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

Elon Musk Spotted Carrying Sink Into Twitter Headquarters

"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

Scientists Grow Superpowered THC Substance Inside Bioreactors

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

Creepy Deepfake Shows Biden Sing the “National Anthem”: Baby Shark

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

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

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

Saudi Arabia Says Its 100 Mile Skyscraper Will Have a Population of 9 Million

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

Research Confirms TikTok Is a Cesspool of Misinformation

"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

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

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

Companies Are Deepfaking Celebs Into Ads Without Their Permission

"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

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Read Thoughts Using an MRI Machine

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

Assistant Sheriff Expresses Concern About People 3D Printing Guns for Firearm Buyback Programs

"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

Founder of VR Company That Facebook Bought Roasts Zuckerberg’s 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

Scientists Discover That Cats Simply Do Not Give a Crap

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

Developers are Transforming the Fyre Fest Island Into an Exclusive Colony for Crypto Millionaires, Because of Course They Are

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