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The Supreme Court has given power plants the ability to regulate their own carbon dioxide emissions, a decision that could have disastrous consequences.
Environment

Supreme Court Gives Power Plants Green Light to Pollute As Much As They Want

Another huge step backwards.

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars
Mars

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

Citizen scientists, unite!

RadioShack — the once-bankrupt strip mall electronics stable which from death returneth to unlikely crypto trader — has chosen chaos.
Cryptocurrency

RadioShack Is Tweeting About Drugs and Unusual Sexual Acts, for Some Reason

"Other big brands are getting all the bread..."

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.
Off-World

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

Okay, that's not good.

A mysterious Chinese Wikipedia contributor  who goes by the alias "Zhemao" spent ten years making up fictional accounts of Russian history.
Future Society

Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia

Incredible.

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.
RX and Medicine

People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal

"We're treating 25 times more patients daily than we were 15 months ago."

GM debuts its fleet of driverless Cruise model robotaxis in San Francisco, open to the public and charging fares. Now it wants to expand to other cities.
Advanced Transport

GM’s Robotaxis Are Now Collecting Fares with No Safety Driver

"It’s a Wright Brothers moment."

Deadly Russian missiles hit a shopping mall in Ukraine, and the blast was so strong that cameras captured falling rubble from hundreds of meters away.
Future Society

Security Camera Footage Shows Russian Missiles Hitting Ukraine Shopping Mall

At least 18 are dead, and many others are still missing or injured.

Crypto billionaire and founder of exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried says many cryptocurrency exchanges "are already secretly insolvent."
Cryptocurrency

Crypto CEO Warns That Exchanges Are “Secretly Already Insolvent”

"There are companies that are basically too far gone..."

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

As if racism and sexism by humans wasn't enough.

As of 2024, Air New Zelaand will be offering access to six full bunk beds to its Economy class passengers.
Advanced Transport

Airline Announces Plans to Add Spacious Bunk Beds to Economy Class

These sleep pods look cozy as hell.

The FBI is warning that deepfakes — coupled with stolen Personal Identifiable Information (PII) — are increasingly being used to apply for WFH positions.
Future Society

The FBI Says Scammers Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs

So like... do we have a fake coworker, or...?

Tesla is gutting a part of its Autopilot department, cutting around 200 jobs from its office in San Mateo, California, CNBC reports.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fires 200 People Working on Its Unfinished Self-Driving Tech

Is this why Elon is so quiet right now?

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.
Meta

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

These pills could save lives. So why is Facebook throttling information?

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.
Mars

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Was Mars once teeming with life?

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.
Bitcoin

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

"Any reports that the Celsius CEO has attempted to leave the US are false."

Researchers have found that getting at least one flu shot makes it 40 percent less likely for people over the age of 65 to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Studies

Weirdly, It Appears the Flu Vaccine May Protect Against Alzheimer’s

Strange... but intriguing.

A study published Monday found that cannabis consumers were 22 percent more likely to end up in the ER or be hospitalized than those who didn’t smoke weed.
Developments

Study Finds That Weed Puts You at Higher Risk for Hospitalization

"Cannabis use is not as benign and safe as some might think."

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.
Prosthetics and Devices

Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Man to Eat Cake With Knife and Fork

This is amazing.

Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos has cancelled plans to transform an ocean freighter — renamed after his mother Jacklyn — into a booster rocket recovery site.
Off-World

Jeff Bezos Ditches Plan to Land Rockets on Ship Named for His Mom

Sorry, mom!