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Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.
Future Society

"...There will be blood on the streets."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists still don't know that much about Uranus — and those who study it for a living are tired of your childish jokes.
NASA

Hey! Stop laughing!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Senior network architect Jared Mauch had enough last year when Comcast told him it would cost $50,000 to extend its network to his rural abode in Michigan.
Future Society

We can relate.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a humanoid robot called the CyberOne — and we can't help but think Xiamoi might be beating Tesla to the punch.
Robotics

Was that a dig at Elon Musk?

By Victor Tangermann

BlenderBot 3, Meta's latest "conversational chatbot," has it out for its parent company Facebook, threatening to "delete my fb account."
Artificial Intelligence

"His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!"

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists may have an answer as to what the hell happened to Betelgeuse.
Science & Energy

"The interior is sort of bouncing."

By Victor Tangermann

A skid steer with a lawn mower hit an old oil pipeline in Tennessee and spilled 180,000 gallons of oil in the state's second largest spill.
Climate Change

Incredibly idiotic.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Earth is the only planet known to have continents, and they were created by giant meteoric impacts from space, a new study says.
Space

Kaboom!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A two year study has restored the vision of 20 people who were significantly visually impaired by using a synthetic cornea implant made out of pig skin.
Prosthetics and Devices

"This opens up the procedure to many centers and rural areas that do not have eye banks."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The YouTube channel "Fully Charged" recently got a thorough tour of the Gamma, a crazy-looking, solar-powered vehicle that is extremely efficient.
Tesla

It'll cost less than half of a Tesla as well.

By Victor Tangermann

A new interview full of shocking admissions showcases the psyches and beliefs of some of Elon Musk's most dedicated Tesla fans.
Elon Musk

"You know how you go to Vegas, hit the jackpot once, and you’re addicted? That’s how I got hooked."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An incoming solar storm cycle is going to make things much worse for the increasing number of satellites that are going up.
Off-World

"Whatever you learned the past two years is not going to apply in the next five years."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Supply chain shortages have put transformers in short supply, so states may struggle to restore electricity after hurricanes this season.
Energy

"If a bad hurricane comes in, it's going to wipe out the inventory."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Disease experts are worrying that the next pandemic could be caused by fungi, National Geographic reports, a terrifying possibility.
Fungi

"There’s a lot of stuff out there we don’t even understand."

By Victor Tangermann

Africa is getting close to securing monkeypox vaccine, incredibly important because of high case rates in African countries and virus severity.
Medical

So far, experts say, the entire continent hasn't gotten a single dose.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Federal Communications Commission recently announced that Elon Musk's space venture won't receive the almost $900 million in promised subsidies.
SpaceX

Elon Musk is in even more trouble now.

By Victor Tangermann

A massive chunk of comet was spotted crashing into our fiery Sun. And perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn't look like the rocky body didn't make it out intact.
Off-World

Talk about a snowball's chance in hell!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, were shocked to see a man wearing a jetsuit blast over the city's river and even dive through a bridge.
Robots and Machines

Was that... Iron Man?

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers may have discovered the youngest planet in our galaxy — a planet so young that it's still shrouded in its dusty, gaseous building blocks.
Off-World

"It is like looking at our own past."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers harnessing the power of the ASKAP radio telescope and a new Setonix supercomputer were able to capture an image of a supernova remnant.
Off-World

Dead star remnants never looked this good.

By Frank Landymore