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A team of researchers gave sheep vastly improved vision, using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The same could work in humans.
Prosthetics and Devices

Do bionic sheep dream of ultra sharp vision?

Prominent NFT Marketplace Shuts Down Almost All Sales for Fraud
Cryptocurrency

The CEO straight up admitted it.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman has purchased three flights with the company as a part of their upcoming “Polaris” missions to take humans into high Earth orbit.
SpaceX

"We’re going to go farther into space than humans have gone since we've last walked on the Moon."

The latest recall forced Tesla to call back a software update that allowed drivers to use the outside pointing speakers as a "Boombox" and fart machine.
Elon Musk

"The fun police made us do it."

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.
Robot Dogs

That's quite an image.

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.
Virtual Reality

Sounds like the metaverse is going great.

Neuralink has responded via blog post to say that yes, they have euthanized a few monkeys during the brain experiments. 
Neuroscience and Brain

That seems like a lot.

SpaceX is planning the first-ever commercial extravehicular activity in space, involving astronauts venturing outside of its Crew Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX

And it's scheduled soon.

An old SpaceX rocket is about to reach its final destination after a roughly six year journey — and crash on the Moon in spectacular fashion.
Moon

It’s going to give scientists a rare opportunity to study a fresh crater on the Moon.

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen
Moon

But it probably won’t happen.

An aging SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon — and one space enthusiast has captured it on video.
Moon

Look out below!

Whoops. It turns out that reports of a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon were greatly exaggerated -- and it belongs to someone else entirely.
Moon

You'll never guess who it DOES belong to.

New Zealand May Soon Get a Flying Taxi Service
Advanced Transport

Meet Cora: a taxi that can take off like a helicopter, fly like a plane, and pilot anywhere autonomously.

OpenAI's chief scientist has admitted what we all fear — that artificial intelligence may be gaining consciousness. 
OpenAI

"It may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious."

So much for Tesla having the most advanced self-driving technology in the world.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"It’s unclear who exactly is in control."

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter.
Energy

It's the highest energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.

We've finally gotten our first peek at the James Webb Space Telescope's photos and, naturally, one of them is a "selfie."
James Webb Space Telescope

It's here.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again expressed one of his favorite talking points: the demise of civilization.
Off-World

"I'm going to be frank, civilization is feeling a little bit fragile these days."

A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for planning to blow up a fake government building built in Minecraft. One was sentenced to prison.
Future Society

The building wasn't even real!?

MoviePass is coming back and it wants to track your eyes. Watch ads to earn credits in-app and trade with other users. But they pause if you look away.
Cryptocurrency

"I might just get off the internet entirely."