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NASA's uber-expensive Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket is officially back on the launch pad, but the agency is getting nervous about Hurricane Nicole.
Moon

NASA Watches Nervously as Hurricane Threatens Exposed Moon Rocket

Hurricane Nicole is on its way — and it's getting stronger.

By Victor Tangermann

NFT marketplaces are doing away with royalties, or creator fees, and creators are predictably concerned. Now, OpenSea has caused even more chaos.
NFTs

NFT Marketplaces Say Oops, Paying Royalties to Artists Is Optional Now

"Philosophically, abandoning creator royalties throws the entire mission of Web3/NFTs off."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is "straight-up alone right now and winging this," as early Twitter investor Chris Sacca, who's a friend of Elon Musk's, argues.
Elon Musk

Friend of Elon Musk Says He’s Surrounded by Sycophants and Yes Men

"The hard truth is that he is straight-up alone right now and winging this."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered a dead magnetar star that appears to have a frozen, crusty outer shell — and no atmosphere, to boot.
Science & Energy

Scientists Startled by Dead Star That Appears to Have a Solid Exterior

"This was completely unexpected."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
Virtual Reality

Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game

"If you die in the game, you die in real life."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has begun running simulations about how well we could handle an asteroid headed towards Earth — and the results are pretty jarring.
NASA

In NASA Simulation, Humankind Dismally Failed to Save Earth From Killer Asteroid

"The participants could do nothing to prevent the impact."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in the UK have injected lab-grown blood into humans for the first time, the BBC reports, a potentially game-changing technology.
Developments

First Ever Humans Injected With Synthetic, Lab-Grown Blood

"We want to make as much blood as possible in the future, so the vision in my head is a room full of machines producing it continually from a normal blood donation."

By Victor Tangermann

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.
Black Holes

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

It's very large, and it's also very sleepy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers strapped cameras to tiger sharks and discovered a massive underwater forest of seagrass stretching 35,000 square miles across the seabed.
Climate Change

Scientists Strap Cameras to Sharks and Discover Huge Underwater Forest

The ocean is stranger than we know.

By Victor Tangermann

A Northern California man and some eyewitnesses believe a meteorite crashed into his home and caused a fire — but NASA has denied that any made landfall.
NASA

NASA Fires Back at Claim Meteor Destroyed House and Killed Dog

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has rolled out its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center yet again.
Moon

NASA Rolls Moon Rocket Out to the Pad for Lunar Mission

NASA isn't giving up.

By Victor Tangermann

Some Twitter employees were reportedly laid off by mistake with management realizing they were needed after all to do Musk's bidding, Bloomberg reports.
Future Society

Realizing Its Mistake, Twitter Pleads With Fired Employees to Come Back

Elon Musk seems to have no idea what he's doing.

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to making fun of the man himself, "free speech absolutist" and new Twitter owner Elon Musk is pro-censorship and against "impersonation."
Elon Musk

Furious Elon Musk Pledges to Ban Anyone Who Changes Their Display Name to “Elon Musk”

And another thing: he's not mad. Don't put in the newspaper that he got mad.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The California DMV wanted a demo of Tesla's Full Self-Driving, but the automaker resisted letting some of the DMV's advisers attend.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Didn’t Want to Give Full Self-Driving Demo to DMV Authorities

That's a little petty.

By Frank Landymore

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.

By Frank Landymore

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."

By Frank Landymore

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?

By Frank Landymore

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Jaime Carrillo