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NASA is gearing up for the Artemis 1 Moon mission launch later this month, and the space program is packing it with appearances by celebrity guests.
Moon

NASA Packs Artemis 1 Moon Launch With a Crop of Celebrity Guests

Hey, we'll absolutely take it.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an effort to bolster tourism, Tanzania just finished building the first installments of a high-speed internet network at Mount Kilimanjaro.
Future Society

Africa’s Tallest Mountain Gets High Speed Internet So Tourists Can Post Selfies

That's a sign of the times!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Janet Jackson's hip-shaking 1989 hit "Rhythm Nation" was known to crash some Windows XP-era laptops — and as per an official CVE ID, it's absolutely true.
Future Society

Microsoft Software Engineer Says Specific Janet Jackson Song Was Crashing Hard Drives

Janet Jackson's power knows no bounds.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One specific group of jilted Celsius investors may have found a loophole that, by some miracle, might actually help them get their money back.
Cryptocurrency

People Who Lost Crypto in the Celsius Collapse Desperately Trying to Get It Back

"If I do become part of the cautionary tale in crypto, I'll know I didn’t just sit by and do nothing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.
Medical

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

Grim.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of scientists say they have cracked the code on how to scale up the creation of lab-grown meat, potentially paving the way for mass production.
Science & Energy

Scientists Cook Comically Tiny Lab-Grown Hamburger

It's adorable — but probably not very filling.

By Victor Tangermann

Zuckerberg's metaverse, seen in the viral screenshot of Meta's VR game Horizon Worlds, seems to lack any real vision at all — and that's concerning.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg’s Lifeless Metaverse Avatar Is Comically Different From the One He Advertised

Where could Zuck possibly be going with this?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk supposedly told the GOP to "get out of people's bedrooms" at a swanky political donor dinner this week.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Warns Conservatives to “Stay Out of People’s Bedrooms”

Hard to argue with that!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Marina Smith, a 87-year-old woman who passed away in June, was able to talk to the people at her own wedding in the UK — all thanks to the power of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Allows Dead Woman to Talk to People Who Showed Up at Her Funeral

"Mom answered questions from grieving relatives after they had watched her cremation."

By Victor Tangermann

China's worst-ever drought in history caused the country to begin cloud seeding, using silver iodide rods to encourage rainfall.
Climate Change

China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

Talk about making it rain!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the FTC, claiming that an investigation into the company has become "unduly burdensome" on Jeff Bezos and Andrew Jassy.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Says the FTC is Being Vewy Vewy Mean

Invade his privacy? How dare they!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has announced that the Artemis 1 will contain living yeast samples that will be dropped off on the Moon later this month — surely nothing can go wrong!
Moon

NASA’s Moon Mission This Month Will Shoot a Probe Containing Life into Deep Space

"It will carry living organisms farther into space than ever before."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change makes bee wings more asymmetrical because they develop in difficult climate and environmental conditions, two new studies say.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Deforming Our Precious Bees, Scientists Say

Not good, man.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia warned that the nuclear power plant it is occupying in southern Ukraine could suffer damage and result in an accident if shelling continues.
Future Society

Russia Warns That Nuclear Plant It Captured May Leak Waste Over Europe

Or, perhaps, it could just give Ukraine its power plant back.

By Victor Tangermann

There's no way to sugarcoat it. Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouring billions — bot unfathomably bad.
Metaverse

Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap

"Billions and billions poured into it and this is the result."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dodge's upcoming Charger Daytona EV will not only generate enough noise to warn pedestrians of their presence, it will mimic the sound of a loud exhaust.
Advanced Transport

Dodge Says It’s Making an Electric Muscle Car That’s Super Loud and Obnoxious

This is the most American thing we've ever heard.

By Victor Tangermann

Sir Anthony Hopkins is doing what none other has done before — transforming his iconic body of work into NFTs, for some reason.
NFTs

We’re Ambivalent: Anthony Hopkins Is Turning His Work Into NFTs

"I’m probably the oldest guy in the NFT community..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A psychedelic church is suing the city of Oakland and its cops for infringing upon their civil right to get high — as a religious sacrament, that is.
Health & Medicine

Church Sues Cops, Saying Psychedelics Are Its Sacrament

"This is what we truly believe is the origin of all religion and really what religion should be."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Coinbase Is Riddled With Insider Trading, Researchers Allege
Blockchain

Coinbase Is Riddled With Insider Trading, Researchers Allege

Who could have foreseen this?

By Victor Tangermann

This fall, Nicole Aunapu Mann will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard the SpaceX Crew-5 — making her first indigenous woman in space. 
SpaceX

SpaceX Is about to Launch the First Ever Astronaut Who’s an Indigenous Woman

Big round of applause for Nicole Aunapu Mann, a member of the Wailacki nation!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré