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Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, confirmed leaked text messages with Microsoft's Bill Gates are real. Musk discussed Gates' stock position.
Elon Musk

Billionaire tea sure is sweet.

Head of NASA Completely Bemused by Question from “Angry Astronaut”
Future Society

Awkward.

A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos.
Metaverse

"[It's] the only thing Mark wants to talk about."

Two former gas industry barons, Russian oligarchs worth millions, turned up dead alongside their families as Putin continues to assault Ukraine.
Future Society

It's like something from a horror movie.

NASA captured video this week of Phobos, one of two Martian moons, and it completes a slow death spiral and will eventually crash into Mars' surface.
Mars

"Phobos is doomed."

Ever wanted to travel by both air and sea in a yacht attached to a zeppelin? If you're of the "superyacht" class, you may soon get the chance.
Advanced Transport

Do we get to seize these once the revolution starts?

Science doesn't know exactly how depression works — and, as it turns out, we might not really know whether antidepressants really work, either. 
Health & Medicine

Provocative new research.

A team of scientists are planning to drive a Tesla 9,400 miles around Australia — a journey that's entirely powered by the Sun alone, Reuters reports.
Solar Power

Here's how it'll work.

The world's foremost believer in extraterrestrials has designed a mission to uncover an interstellar object that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
Off-World

"My dream is to press some buttons on a functional piece of equipment that was manufactured outside of Earth."

Censors in China are cracking down on photos and videos of sick people not getting sufficient access to healthcare or reportedly being mistreated by healthcare workers.
Developments

"People have lost trust in the government."

In a new filing with the SEC, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims to have secured $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter.
Elon Musk

Almost half of the $46.5 billion will come out of his own pocket.

For the first entirely private group of space tourists, the ISS is starting to seem a lot like "Hotel California."
Off-World

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

During Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Musk promised to have a "dedicated robotaxi" ready for "volume production" as soon as 2024.
Elon Musk

"Massive scale. Full self-driving."

Former Astronaut Details Quest to Grow Cannabinoids in Space
Off-World

It could be "a breakthrough from a biological science perspective."

Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by trading volume, released a new emoji on Twitter this week — that looked like a swastika.
Future Society

"Well that was obviously really embarrassing."

Wellness culture has really gone too far this time. 
Cryptocurrency

Isn't that literally an episode of "Black Mirror"?

The military tensions between the US and Russia have not harmed the countries' relationship aboard the ISS — at least, that's what NASA's saying.
International Space Station

That's quite a choice of words.

These Chopsticks Make Your Food Taste Better By Electrocuting Your Tongue
Food

It's the first ever demonstration of "salty taste enhancement via electrical stimulation."

Space company Astrobotic has unveiled the Peregrine Lander, the first US lunar lander designed to touch down on the Moon since the Apollo missions.
NASA

It's getting real.

Architects Propose Lighter-Than-Air Buildings That Hover Over City Streets
Science & Energy

Talk about staying high.