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NASA is finally making moves to boot up its James Webb Space Telescope, according to a NASA statement — a historic moment.
James Webb Space Telescope

It's finally time.

Hip-hop star and fashion designer Kanye West took to Instagram to let the world know that he wants people to stop asking him about NFTs.
NFTs

"Do not ask me to do a fucking NFT." 

JetPack Aviation is in talks to create a category of air racing specifically for jetpacks, New Atlas reports — what could possibly go wrong?
Advanced Transport

We were promised jetpack racing.

North Korea has reportedly test-fired several big missiles, sending back photos from space taken by a camera installed on one of the missile's warheads.
Off-World

Well, that's low key terrifying.

Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according Fortune.
Elon Musk

He barely kept in touch with the company.

Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, what they're dubbing the "quantum apocalypse."
Future Society

"It's a threat to our way of life."

Texas governor Greg Abbott begged crypto miners to halt operations in the event the Texas grid shuts down completely like in February 2021.
Cryptocurrency

"Help me get through the winter."

How does one hold the Winter Olympics when "winter" as we knew it is changing for the worse?
Climate Change

Beijing is shipping in snow because it's just not cold enough.

He posted a video on his Instagram on Sunday wherein he addressed recent criticism that his show has spread COVID misinformation.
Developments

His podcast episodes have caused several major artists to pull their music off the platform.

SpaceX was forced to scrub a launch after a cruise ship from Port Canaveral, Florida wandered into the launch exclusion zone on Sunday evening.
Future Society

It might have put the company at greater risk for bankruptcy, too.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say
Elon Musk

"Everyone in that whole empire is just driven by fear."

A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.
Off-World

Nice try, Flat Earthers!

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.
Nuclear Fusion

Something is up with those trees.

Elon Musk says he took his kids to watch people panic buy toilet paper during the COVID pandemic, revealed during Tesla's Q4 earnings call.
Elon Musk

He's right, but he shouldn't say it.

Paul Krugman declares the current crypto crisis and tanking currency values to be really similar to the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s.
Bitcoin

People are losing way too much money.

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.
Mars

So that's NOT a tree!?

Johnny Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage and cognitive decline for three months following a bull hit stunt filming "Jackass Forever."
Neuroscience and Brain

He's lucky to be alive.

OpenSea announced this week that a solid 80 percent of the NFTs minted through its free NFT creation tool are spam or fraud.
Cryptocurrency

That's a lot of fraud...

In an interview with Australian website Finder, two Ubisoft VPs tried to explain why gamers should care about NFTs and embrace them as the future of gaming.
NFTs

"It’s really beneficial. But they don’t get it for now."

Crisis Text Line, one of the most popular suicide crisis hotline chat sources, is capitalizing on data collected from people experiencing true trauma and depression.
Health & Medicine

Uh — what the actual heck!?