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Chinese EV automaker and Tesla rival Xpeng decided that, if it's going to make an actual car fly, why not just strap it to a giant drone?
Drones

Company Builds Electric Flying Car Powered By Giant Drone Propellers

Well, that's one way to get a car airborne.

A Model 3 was found this week stranded in the water off the coast of Carpinteria, California, but its owner is fortunately unharmed.
Tesla

Tesla Spotted Blubbering in the Ocean After Owner Drove It Onto the Beach For Some Reason

"We advised the owner, you need to get your car out of the ocean."

Incorporating ads into Windows may become the norm as Microsoft considers implementing them to offset the cost of providing low-cost PCs.
Future Society

Microsoft Considering Cheap Computers Monetized With Relentless Ads

Are you kiddin' me?

SpaceX has dismantled its one-mile-long Hyperloop test tunnel at its factory in Hawthorne, California — only to make way for more parking spots.
Hyperloop

SpaceX Dismantles Hyperloop Prototype to Build a New Parking Lot

They held a "memorial service" for it.

As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have begun with a "Big Bounce" — and not a Big Bang.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang

We might be entirely wrong about the Big Bang.

LG XBOOM 360 in a reading nook showing off Ambient light mode.
Robots and Machines

Byte-Sized Review: The LG XBOOM 360 is a Portable Dance Party

Get ready to rave.

Pantone's will soon require users to pay a not-tiny monthly subscription fee to use its fancy colorways on Adobe products. 
Future Society

Adobe Now Charging Extra to Use Pantone Colors Because We Live in Capitalist Hell

Who colors the colorers?

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is on notice from NASA after a review found that it had some serious staffing issues that led blocked its Psyche Mission.
Future Society

NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast Over Psyche Mission Failures

This independent review board pulled no punches.

One disgruntled ex-Twitter employee is sounding off on how bad the site has gotten in the week since Elon Musk took ownership of it.
Elon Musk

Fired Twitter Employee Unloads on Elon Musk’s “Clowntown”

Ouch.

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.
Treatments

Taking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study

This is significant.

Musk said that he wanted Twitter to have an open algorithm. He just fired the "Ethical AI" team responsible for doing just that.
Elon Musk

After Saying He Wanted an Open Algorithm, Elon Musk Just Fired the Twitter Team Responsible for Doing Just That

"The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice."

Five hundred drones took to the sky in NYC, not to entertain onlookers with a futuristic dance of lights — but to show them Candy Crush ads.
Future Society

New Yorkers Furious at Drones Forming Huge “Candy Crush” Ad Over Skyline

"Hoping some of the NYC residents shoot down the candy crush drones."

Advertisers are running for the hills, now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter — and the billionaire is clearly pissed about the sudden drop in revenue.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Melts Down as Advertisers Flee Twitter Chaos

"Welcome to hell."

According to documents obtained by the New York Times, getting verified on Twitter won't even require users to authenticate their identity.
Elon Musk

Twitter Leak: Elon Musk Planning to Charge for Blue Checkmarks But Not Actually Verify Identify

Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

Against all odds, NASA's Mars lander has, somehow, continued truckin' along — but its inevitable death seems to finally be at hand. 
Mars

NASA Releases Final Desolate Photo From Doomed Mars Lander

"Imagine how silent, how empty it is. How lonely."

The culling at Twitter has begun with many employees resorting to posting jokes on the platform right up until they were summarily cut off from work access.
Future Society

Twitter Employees Kept Posting Jokes Until the Moment They Got Fired

"Has the red wedding started?"

An ominous and relatively uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" has been hiding a cluster of galaxies, according to astronomers.
Off-World

Astronomers Spot “Extragalactic Structure” Lurking In Obscured Zone of the Universe

A hidden trove of galaxy clusters.

That "study" claiming that smartphones are going to turn humans into hunchbacks with claws by 2100 was paid for by a clickbait site, folks.
Studies

That “Research” About How Smartphones Are Causing Deformed Human Bodies Is SEO Spam, You Idiots

Paid for by the erudite minds at TollFreeForwarding.com.

Jeff Bezos' ex- housekeeper is suing him for discrimination that led to her allegedly having to literally sneak out out of his house to use the bathroom.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Housekeeper Says She Had to Climb Out the Window to Use the Bathroom

Bezos' household staff allegedly developed health issues because they couldn't use the bathroom.

ALMA is one of the largest and most advanced radio telescopes in the world. And for reasons still unknown to the public, hackers decided to take it down.
Future Society

Hackers Just Took Down One of the World’s Most Advanced Telescopes

Why would they do that?