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Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.
Pollution

What ARE we supposed to do, then?

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has had enough of sanctions. He's cutting the US off from Russian-made rocket engines.
Off-World

"Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what."

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.
Gene Editing

The kids would be regularly checked for “abnormalities."

Russia's internet regulator Roskomnazor has announced it is officially blocking Facebook outright in retaliation of the company blocking state media.
Future Society

"Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information."

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.
Artificial Intelligence

"The internet would be completely unrecognizable."

One UK father is getting backlash online for tricking his family into thinking Russia launched a nuclear bomb attack with a prank BBC news segment.
Future Society

That's seriously messed up.

A team at the University of Southern California managed to capture images of a memory form in laboratory zebra fish brains in real time.
Science & Energy

Oh, so that's what a memory looks like.

The NFT market is starting to cool down, Bloomberg reports. The average trading value of the nonfungible tokens has dropped precipitously lately.
NFTs

It's not quite that simple.

A NASA flight controller and safety engineer aboard the ISS said that geopolitical tensions haven't affected his relationship with his Russian coworkers.
International Space Station

"We have the same goal… to ensure the crew and vehicle are safe."

It looks like McDonald's ice cream machines are gonna stay broken for the foreseeable future. 
Internet Of Things

"They've tarnished our name."

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Food

"It surprises people that these things can turn up on their pet’s plate.”

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.
Off-World

He's reaping what he sowed.

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.
Moon

Your destination has arrived.

As if invading a sovereign nation wasn't provocation enough, Russian troops opened fire at Europe's largest nuclear power station early Friday morning.
Future Society

"It just raises the level of potential catastrophe to a level that nobody wants to see."

The US military is looking to have spy satellites patrol the orbit around the Moon according to a recently shared video, as spotted by Ars Technica.
Military

"Now we need to accelerate our plan because things are happening much faster than we expected."

If a new state legislature bill becomes law, Oklahomans may soon have to go out of state to buy and service their Teslas. 
Tesla

That doesn't seem like a great idea.

Russians are still able to use cryptocurrency exchanges to circumvent newly imposed sanctions — and former First Lady Hillary Clinton is absolutely furious.
Bitcoin

"I would hope somebody at the Treasury Department is trying to figure out how to rein in the leaky valves in the crypto market."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning users in Ukraine who have received one of the company's Starlink dishes could be targeted by Russian actors.
Elon Musk

"Please use with caution."

A sex startup is creating a VR-enabled masturbation pod for companies that want to make their employees very uncomfortable, very quickly.
Future Society

Sounds like a... sticky situation.

Jeffrey Epstein's legacy has extended far beyond his mysterious jailhouse death in 2019 — and it very much includes the breakup of Bill Gates' marriage. 
Future Society

"He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards."