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Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.
Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier.

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.
xAI

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

Executives told investors they still have enough money to "continue spending aggressively."

By Joe Wilkins

The Pentagon sent a Toronto-based sex toy shop letters inside two returned items sent back from a US naval base in Bahrain.
Future Society

Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel

"The call was coming from inside the house."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed "Cloud-9."
Dark Matter

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

"This cloud is a window into the dark universe."

By Victor Tangermann

In the face of a chaotic morale environment at NASA, new administrator Jared Isaacman is willing to try to deploy some unusual perks.
NASA

Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff

Talk about tone-deaf.

By Victor Tangermann

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
Ethics

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

The sheer irony.

By Joe Wilkins

A seismic shift is taking place as artist visas to the US are increasingly being given to OnlyFans influencers.
Future Society

Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have

The system is broken.

By Joe Wilkins

China has unveiled a powerful "hypergravity machine" that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth's gravity.
Robots and Machines

China Builds Wild Gravity Machine

It's so powerful, it can compress space and time.

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer has called for complete government censorship of social media.
Cybersecurity

Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech

"We need to control the platforms, all the social platforms."

By Joe Wilkins

A video that's gone viral on social media shows a miniature deer fiercely standing its ground and charging at a far more massive rhino.
Biology

Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros

"Someone probably forgot to look in the mirror this morning."

By Victor Tangermann

Patients who stopped taking GLP-1 weight-loss medications regained weight four times as fast as those using alternative methods.
Treatments

People Who Go Off GLP-1s Are Experiencing a Sudden and Terrible Hunger

A new study found that patients returned to their original weight in just 1.7 years.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese company Linyi Yunchuan recently deployed a massive airborne wind turbine, which dominated the skyline over Sichuan Province.
Renewable Energy

Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China

Absolutely massive.

By Joe Wilkins

A "major disruption in the illicit fentanyl trade, possibly tied to Chinese government actions," may have caused a drop in overdose deaths.
Treatments

Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why

Incredible.

By Victor Tangermann

Five families have agreed to settle lawsuits with Google, after several high-profile teen suicides were linked to its AI chatbots.
Ethics

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

Is it the ending of a dark chapter, or just the beginning of a long tragedy?

By Joe Wilkins

Trying to quit Zyns without weaning them off can lead to panic attacks, intense headaches, and even hallucinations, one power-user discovered.
Health & Medicine

Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey

"I was afraid I'd lost my mind."

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health will ingest your medical records to generate more relevant responses that shouldn't be acted upon.
Ethics

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”

Wait, what?

By Victor Tangermann

One of the more bizarre gadgets showing at CES 2026 is the Breakreal R1, an AI cocktail machine with "unlimited recipes."
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be

It comes with "LLM-powered interactive conversation" and "unlimited AI generated recipes."

By Joe Wilkins

For the first time ever, NASA has been forced to cut a mission to the International Space Station short due to a "serious medical condition."
Crew Dragon

NASA Announces Emergency Evacuation From Space Station

The astronauts are being evacuated due to a medical issue.

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump administration's shutting of NASA's largest library is turning into scandal. Staffers are absolutely furious.
NASA

NASA’s Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning

"The way that they've gone about it has just been extraordinarily haphazard and chaotic."

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.
Ethics

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

Finally, our leisure time has been automated.

By Victor Tangermann