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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."

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."

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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?

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.

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.

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.

Pantone's will soon require users to pay a not-tiny monthly subscription fee to use its fancy colorways on Adobe products. 
Future Society

Adobe Now Charging Extra to Use Pantone Colors Because We Live in Capitalist Hell

Who colors the colorers?

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is on notice from NASA after a review found that it had some serious staffing issues that led blocked its Psyche Mission.
Future Society

NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast Over Psyche Mission Failures

This independent review board pulled no punches.

One disgruntled ex-Twitter employee is sounding off on how bad the site has gotten in the week since Elon Musk took ownership of it.
Elon Musk

Fired Twitter Employee Unloads on Elon Musk’s “Clowntown”

Ouch.

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.
Treatments

Taking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study

This is significant.

Musk said that he wanted Twitter to have an open algorithm. He just fired the "Ethical AI" team responsible for doing just that.
Elon Musk

After Saying He Wanted an Open Algorithm, Elon Musk Just Fired the Twitter Team Responsible for Doing Just That

"The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice."