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Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.
Virtual Reality

This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

"What happens in VR is that sense of completely forgetting about the existence of the external world."

Space Force is to deploy Ghost Robotics' Q-UGVs in order to automate "damage assessments and patrol" at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space Force

Space Force Sending in Robot Dogs to Patrol a Space Port

Coming to a launch pad near you.

A team of scientists in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker's yeast for the first time.
Gene Editing

Mad Scientists Create Human Bread Yeast in a Lab

It "works like a charm."

Gigantic “Jet” Lightning Bolt That Reached Edge of Space Puzzles Scientists
Space

Gigantic “Jet” Lightning Bolt That Reached Edge of Space Puzzles Scientists

Was that you, Thor?

Mark D'Amico, one of several New Jersey grifters who conned thousands of good samaritans out of over $400k, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Future Society

Dirtbag Behind Homeless Man GoFundMe Scam Sentenced to Prison

The whole thing was entirely made up.

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.
Meta

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

"I don't like him very much. He is a bad person. You?"

Researchers have found a simple trick to unmask somebody, who is using live deepfake software on a video call: ask them to turn their head to the side.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Reveal Astonishingly Simple Trick to Unmask a Deepfaker

It's really that easy.

US Senate Democrats passed a bill to address climate change and energy needs through new corporate taxes on Sunday. Is it enough?
Energy

Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate and Energy Bill

Next stop: the House of Representatives.

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated a decade on the Red Planet on Friday with an art poster. New missions and helicopters are in the Red Planet's future.
NASA

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Stay curious.

Hundreds of people living in New York state may have polio, the New York's Department of Health said. Wastewater samples tested positive for polio.
Medical

Hundreds May Have Polio, New York Health Officials Say

"There may be hundreds of other people infected."

Crypto exchange Coinbase got slapped with two class-action lawsuits less than two weeks after it was reportedly under SEC investigation.
Blockchain

Coinbase Slapped With Two Separate Class-Action Suits

Here we go again.

A Death Valley flood trapped 1,000 people after record rainfall caused flash flooding. The National Park Service said climate change will continue.
Medical

Death Valley Flooding Traps Nearly 1,000 People

"This was the worst storm I've seen damage wise."

Amazing News! The Great Barrier Reef Just Made a Massive Comeback
Climate Change

Amazing News! The Great Barrier Reef Just Made a Massive Comeback

The actually-good climate news we all needed.

China Launches Mysterious “Reusable Test” Spacecraft
Off-World

China Launches Mysterious “Reusable Test” Spacecraft

Was that a spaceplane?

The $40,000 Cybertruck is Officially Dead
Advanced Transport

The $40,000 Cybertruck is Officially Dead

"I think there's no way to have sort of anticipated quite the inflation that we've seen."

A cryptocurrency company is offering a bounty of up to $19 million to its "white hat hacker friends" after hackers made off with hundreds of millions.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Company Offers Massive Bounty to “White Hat Hackers” After Giant Heist

It just wants its money back.

Somehow, Elon Musk's 2018 blunt rip on Joe Rogan's show is still making news — but mostly because the toker in question can't stop talking about it. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Had to Prove He’s “Not a Drug Addict” After Smoking Weed With Joe Rogan

"I had to have, like, random drug tests and stuff after that."

The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage rocket responsible for carrying Crew-5 astronauts to the International Space Station hit a bridge during transport.
SpaceX

SpaceX Astronaut Launch Delayed Because Its Rocket Smashed Into a Bridge

Oops.

Geoscientists may have figured out why dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the Milky Way's asteroid belt, shows signs of ocean and seismic activity.
Off-World

Unexpected “Geological Activity” on Dwarf Planet Ceres Shocks Scientists

It's not supposed to do that.

At Tesla's Cyber Roundup, concerned shareholders were consistently jeered offstage by other attendees, and Elon Musk failed to address any ethics concerns.
Future Society

Concerned Shareholders Heckled While Addressing Tesla Ethics

It's absolutely infuriating.