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Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weighs in on the self-driving industries promises, and it's not flattering.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Pete Buttigieg Says He Isn’t Sure Self-Driving Cars Are Ever Going to Make It

"It feels like the widespread use of autonomous driving is seven years away, and it’s been seven years away for 10 years."

While everyone was agog at Elon Musk officially buying Twitter, the social network quietly announced that it would let users trade NFTs on the site.
Elon Musk

Twitter Quietly Announced NFT-Trading Integration During Elon Musk’s Takeover

This is certainly curious.

This CEO says generative AI is all flash, no substance — and ultimately, will fail to generate major new revenue streams for VCs' billions.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO of AI Startup Says Many AI Startups Will Fail Because They’re Making a Serious Mistake

"There are hundreds of millions of dollars being deployed towards glorified tech demos."

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claims to be closer to launching Bluesky Social, a new "decentralized social network" that allegedly seeks to reclaim user data.
Future Society

Departed Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Launching a New Social Network

The plot thickens!

A psychological researcher may be close to "Eternal Sunshining" memories of romantic betrayals using a surprising medication regimen.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They Can Damage Memories of Being Cheated On

Remember that movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?

The Elon Musk-ification of Twitter dot com is already underway — and its new owner seems geared up to leave his mark on the site's code.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Brings in Tesla Engineers to Review Twitter Code

"Top notch computering by our age's most revered genius."

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.
Exobiology

Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our Solar System

That's a quintillion with a "q."

Your eyes do not deceive you. These dancing, fuzzy bugs are real, and, yes, they're shaking their rear ends in unison to keep you way.
Science & Energy

These Dancing Bugs Are Straight Out of a Miyazaki Film

Look at those little balls of fuzz go!

NASA's InSight lander detected a magnitude 4 marsquake on Christmas Eve last year, which turned out to be a massive meteorite impact.
Mars

Meteorite Hit Mars So Hard NASA Thought It Was a Quake

It opened a massive gash, exposing ice beneath.

No, it's not just your imagination — gamers are indeed more racist and sexist than the general populace, and now, there's science backing up the obvious. 
Future Society

Scientists Find That Gamers Are Indeed More Racist and Sexist Than Normies

Gamers aren't just like the rest of us, after all.

Amazon may ask SpaceX for help to get its Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit, according to a recent Washington Post interview.
SpaceX

Amazon Admits It Might Need SpaceX to Launch Its Starlink Competitor

"You'd be crazy not to, given their track record."

According to this technologist, Facebook-turned-Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't trying to revolutionize work. He wants to be the god of a digital heaven.
Future Society

Interesting Theory: Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Become God and Build Heaven

"The Metaverse isn’t being built to revolutionize remote working. It's being built because they need to believe they can build heaven."

NASA is crowdsourcing photos from civilians to study a mysterious light phenomenon that stumped scientists have dubbed "sprites." 
Science & Energy

NASA Crowdsourcing Investigation of Otherworldly “Sprites” in Sky

Goin' up to the spirit in the sky.

Elon Musk, famously against advertising and known for his company Tesla's supposed zero dollar marketing strategy, now has a change of heart on ads.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Who Always Hated Ads, Suddenly Says He Loves Ads Now That He Owns a Site That Depends on Them

How convenient!

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.