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US-based Bitcoin mining company Stronghold Digital Mining is facing an uncertain future following the devastating cryptocurrency crash that rocked the industry this year.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Miners Forced to Sell Mining Rigs to Pay Debts

Sign of the times.

By Victor Tangermann

Do not panic when you read the following sentence: there are now walking sharks who have come out of the ocean to walk on land.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Sharks That Can Walk on Land for Two Hours

Land sharks!

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Ethiopian Airlines airliner failed to descend to the runway in the country's capital Addis Ababa — because the pilot was reportedly asleep.
Sleep

Pilot Falls Asleep, Forgets to Land Plane

That's not good.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owner Brandon Dalaly now has a contactless, car-unlocking microchip, outfitted with a Tesla-linked app, installed in the back of his right hand.
Tesla

Tesla Enthusiast Implants Car Key Inside His Flesh

Talk about a superfan!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Low doses of minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, may reverse balding super cheaply — and yet most of us still haven't heard of it. 
RX and Medicine

Doctors Say a Random Cheap Pill May Actually Reverse Balding

Okay, interesting.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken criticisms to heart and is promising "major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics" while posting new selfies.
Metaverse

People Bullied Mark Zuckerberg So Much That He’s Improving the Metaverse Graphics

Is he... literally trying to save face?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is jacking up the price of its still unfinished and misleadingly named Full Self-Driving (FSD) software yet again from $12,000 to $15,000.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Jacking Up the Cost of Its Unfinished Self-Driving Feature Again

It now costs about as much as an entry-level car.

By Victor Tangermann

Meet me in the metaverse. Virtual reality dating is here, and as The New York Times reports, it's growing — and frankly, it sounds, uh, super weird.
Metaverse

People Are Going on Dates in the Metaverse and It Sounds Very Strange

"It's like high school drama but from people who are very much out of high school."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is gearing up for the Artemis 1 Moon mission launch later this month, and the space program is packing it with appearances by celebrity guests.
Moon

NASA Packs Artemis 1 Moon Launch With a Crop of Celebrity Guests

Hey, we'll absolutely take it.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an effort to bolster tourism, Tanzania just finished building the first installments of a high-speed internet network at Mount Kilimanjaro.
Future Society

Africa’s Tallest Mountain Gets High Speed Internet So Tourists Can Post Selfies

That's a sign of the times!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Janet Jackson's hip-shaking 1989 hit "Rhythm Nation" was known to crash some Windows XP-era laptops — and as per an official CVE ID, it's absolutely true.
Future Society

Microsoft Software Engineer Says Specific Janet Jackson Song Was Crashing Hard Drives

Janet Jackson's power knows no bounds.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One specific group of jilted Celsius investors may have found a loophole that, by some miracle, might actually help them get their money back.
Cryptocurrency

People Who Lost Crypto in the Celsius Collapse Desperately Trying to Get It Back

"If I do become part of the cautionary tale in crypto, I'll know I didn’t just sit by and do nothing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.
Medical

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

Grim.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of scientists say they have cracked the code on how to scale up the creation of lab-grown meat, potentially paving the way for mass production.
Science & Energy

Scientists Cook Comically Tiny Lab-Grown Hamburger

It's adorable — but probably not very filling.

By Victor Tangermann

Zuckerberg's metaverse, seen in the viral screenshot of Meta's VR game Horizon Worlds, seems to lack any real vision at all — and that's concerning.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg’s Lifeless Metaverse Avatar Is Comically Different From the One He Advertised

Where could Zuck possibly be going with this?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk supposedly told the GOP to "get out of people's bedrooms" at a swanky political donor dinner this week.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Warns Conservatives to “Stay Out of People’s Bedrooms”

Hard to argue with that!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Marina Smith, a 87-year-old woman who passed away in June, was able to talk to the people at her own wedding in the UK — all thanks to the power of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Allows Dead Woman to Talk to People Who Showed Up at Her Funeral

"Mom answered questions from grieving relatives after they had watched her cremation."

By Victor Tangermann

China's worst-ever drought in history caused the country to begin cloud seeding, using silver iodide rods to encourage rainfall.
Climate Change

China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

Talk about making it rain!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the FTC, claiming that an investigation into the company has become "unduly burdensome" on Jeff Bezos and Andrew Jassy.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Says the FTC is Being Vewy Vewy Mean

Invade his privacy? How dare they!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has announced that the Artemis 1 will contain living yeast samples that will be dropped off on the Moon later this month — surely nothing can go wrong!
Moon

NASA’s Moon Mission This Month Will Shoot a Probe Containing Life into Deep Space

"It will carry living organisms farther into space than ever before."

By Noor Al-Sibai