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Airline company Boom Supersonic has shown off brand new renders of its Overture aircraft, which it claims will become the "world's fastest airliner."
Advanced Transport

World’s “Fastest Airliner” Could Cross Atlantic In Just 3.5 Hours

"Aviation has not seen a giant leap in decades."

By Victor Tangermann

In light of a Florida family's space-loving young son's unexpected death, they're trying to raise the funds to rest his ashes on the Moon.
Future Society

Parents Crowdfund to Send 11-Year-Old Son’s Ashes to the Moon

"No matter what, we can just look at the Moon every night and I know that he's up there."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

Customers are apparently already using it for movie storyboards and illustrated children's books.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The families of fallen Israeli soldiers are having the dead's sperm harvested, with the hope of that it will one day be used to father a child.
Developments

Israel Extracting Sperm From Dead Soldiers and Using It to Create Children

"It's like erecting a living monument."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.
Future Society

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

This is getting kinda... meta.

By Frank Landymore

As seen in two new videos, real-life Green Goblin and drone rider Hunter Kowald took a plunge while playing a round of flying drone basketball.
Drones

See a Guy Riding Huge Drone Wipe Out After Trying to Shoot a Hoop

"Crashed parts flying everywhere!"

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers were able to hack into fruit fly brains and successfully command specific movements, with just a click of a wireless remote control.
Science & Energy

Scientists Hijack Fruit Fly Brains to Remote Control Their Wings

Fascinating.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to the latest analysis, we could soon be looking at images of the oldest galaxy ever identified, thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb May Have Just Found the Oldest Galaxy Ever Seen

Incredible.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and Roscosmos space relations have been souring. Looking to turn a new leaf, both have agreed to let their astronauts fly on the other's spacecraft.
SpaceX

In Huge Reversal, Russia Letting SpaceX Fly Cosmonauts to Space Station

Just a few years ago, the head of Russia's space program was openly taunting Elon Musk.

By Frank Landymore

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has spoken out about surviving two separate brain aneurysms while filming the epic HBO series in 2011 and 2013.
Developments

Emilia Clarke Says She Had “Quite a Bit” of Her Brain Removed

"It was the most excruciating pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Coinbase secretly announced it is "temporarily shutting down" a US-based affiliate program, according to Insider, scaring investors.
Cryptocurrency

Coinbase Leak Scares Crypto Investors

"This is a MAJOR red flag."

By Victor Tangermann

Another of Neuralink's cofounders has left the neurotechnology company amid an apparent slow exodus of the Elon Musk venture's executives.
Brain

Neuralink Cofounder Leaves as Brain Company Descends Into Chaos

It doesn't seem to be going well at Neuralink, folks!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.
Facial recognition

Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

"Services like this should be banned. That’s how you should regulate it."

By Frank Landymore

The sun was captured letting off a ball of gas — which, in other words, makes a solar flare seem a lot like a solar fart.
Off-World

The Sun Just Let Off a Really Nasty Fart

Hey, knock that off!

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UK — which has announced a "red warning" for extreme heat — weapped London's 135-year-old Hammersmith Bridge silver foil to keep it from cracking.
Climate Change

London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

They aren't ready for this heat.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate-change-driven heat waves spell disaster for the UK as the country buckles under its hottest night and day ever, back to back.
Climate Change

UK Has Hottest Night in Recorded History, Then Hottest Day in Recorded History

"We could see temperatures like this every three years."

By Frank Landymore

The Boulder City Fire Department is responding to an emergency call at the Hoover Dam, a hydroelectric dam and major tourist attraction.
Science & Energy

Something Just Exploded at the Hoover Dam

Well, that's not good.

By Victor Tangermann

Sales for EVs are at a record high. But, as one family in St. Petersburg, FL, found out, so are the costs of replacing their batteries.
Advanced Transport

Family Annoyed When Replacement Batteries Cost More Than Electric Car

The dark side of electric cars.

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is producing more images than ever before — and its latest snapshot of the spiral galaxy Messier M74 is truly spectacular.
James Webb Space Telescope

You’ll Never Guess What This Bizarre New James Webb Image Is Actually Showing

"Oh, good god."

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, one of the famed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US as part of a summer storm system.
Climate Change

Blessed Weather Pattern Looks Exactly Like a Ninja Turtle

Okay, that's just hilarious.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré