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A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.
Environment

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

"As a materials expert, I believe that plastic one of the misunderstood materials."

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli military technology startup Camero-Tech has unveiled a device that it claims could allow soldiers to literally "see through walls," Insider reports.
Military

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

Kinda creepy!

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's job slash is in full swing — and newer employees, including some who had yet to start accepted positions, seem to be bearing the brunt.
Tesla

As Crisis Deepens, Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who’d Already Accepted Them

"D*mn, talk about a gut punch."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, is suing Ryder Ripps, an outspoken NFT critic who minted his own collection of Bored Ape clones.
Blockchain

Yuga Labs Files Furious Lawsuit Against Guy Minting Copies of Bored Apes

"This is no mere monkey business."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Show Off “Wearable Muscles” You Can Strap on to Get Way Stronger

It's compact enough to fit underneath a shirt.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at UC Riverside and the University of Delaware say they convinced food-bearing plants to grow in total darkness with acetate.
Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Way to Grow Plants in Complete Darkness

That could really come in handy.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Police in China are putting surveillance on the future with footage, data and patterns of residents and reporting troublemakers to the government.
Future Society

Police in China Stalk Citizens With Surveillance That Predicts Future Crime

It's giving 1984.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Snoop Dogg and Eminem released a new music video for "D 2 the LBC" featured the rappers as Bored Ape Yacht Club apes based on NFTs they own.
Blockchain

Eminem and Snoop Dogg Make Music Video Where They Appear as Their Bored Apes

Finally, apes that aren't boring af.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.
Off-World

Scientists Say the Sun Is Acting Up and Causing Satellites to Fall Back to Earth

Space weather is weird.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A pilot readying to land a plane at the giant, uber busy Los Angeles International Airport spotted someone flying a jetpack just 15 miles away from LAX.
Advanced Transport

Pilot Spots Jetpack While Landing at LAX

Not the smartest move.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.
Blockchain

Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash

"As far as buying food and all that, maybe not."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.
Future Society

NASA Demands Return of Moon Dust Pooped Out by Cockroaches

"No person has permission to keep them."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.
Nuclear Fusion

We’re in Awe of this Absolutely Deranged “Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel”

"I bet I still end up next to someone else's screaming three year old for the entire trip."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.
Pollution

Stranded Oil Tanker That Could Start Leaking Any Time Now, Experts Warn

Time's running out.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of Cambridge scientists say dyslexia encourages creativity and innovation and could lead to humanity's success as we evolve.
Studies

Dyslexia Actually Grants Special Powers, Researchers Say

"The deficit-centered view of dyslexia isn’t telling the whole story."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.
Energy

Startup Says It’s Honing in on Simple Solution for Practical Fusion Power

Critics say it's "propaganda," too good to be true. Who do we believe?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla brought back its Enhanced Autopilot feature this week for $6,000. Full Self Driving mode now only includes one additional feature and costs $12,000.
Future Society

Tesla Brings Back Enhanced Autopilot, in Clever Scheme to Extract Even More Money From Drivers

"I’m not convinced $6k is worth it."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon
Moon

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

One more crater!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time, SpaceX has managed to lift and place its Super Heavy rocket booster onto its launch pad using its "chopsticks"-wielding launch tower.
SpaceX

SpaceX Finally Lifts Super Heavy Booster Using Giant Robot Arms

It finally did the thing!

By Victor Tangermann

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

Talk about an invasion of privacy!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré