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Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk submitted a proposal to build a 6-mile long tunnel underneath part of Miami, Florida with his The Boring Company.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Venture Submits Paperwork to Dig Huge Tunnel System Under Miami

Seems kinda short...

Facebook, wants virtual AR content to interact with real world objects in mixed reality headsets and told ad agencies how ads can use the tech.
Future Society

Facebook Reveals Plan to Plaster AR Ads Over All of Reality

That just sounds awful.

Crypto miners in Montana revived a dying coal-powered plant in Montana last year and the resulting spike in emissions was staggering.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Miners Took Over an Entire Power Plant, Spiking CO2 Emissions

“I was horrified to see it all happen."

Bill Gates told reporters risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced,” but that a future pandemic is a near certainty.
Developments

Bill Gates Says Yet Another Pandemic Is Coming

"It will be a different pathogen next time."

A nightmarish mix of Big Tech overreach meets state authoritarianism resulted in algorithm to predict which low-income "future teens" in his province would be likely to get pregnant. 
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Created Creepy Algorithm to Predict Which Specific Teens Would Get Pregnant

Everything about this is a nightmare.

There are apparently some drug researchers who hate fun and think that microdosing is fake. 
Studies

Microdosing Acid Doesn’t Have Any Benefits, Say Scientists With No Sense of Fun

Hmmmmm.

We regret to inform you that the crypto bros are at it again — except this time, the "bro" in question is Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi.
Cryptocurrency

Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Posts Skin-Crawlingly Horrible Song About Crypto

Okay, these lyrics are something else.

Bald and golden eagles in the US are facing a new existential threat: lead poisoning caused by bullet fragments left behind by hunters.
Science & Energy

Eagles Have Chronic Lead Poisoning Because America Is So Full of Bullets, Scientists Warn

Will somebody please think of the eagles?

A giant cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars called the Felicity Ace is now adrift in the Pacific Ocean, burning, without its crew.
Pollution

Fire Engulfs Cargo Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars

That... can't be good.

NASA plans to bring down the ISS in the Pacific Ocean but doesn't plan to retrieve or display historical artifacts from the space station.
International Space Station

NASA Reportedly Plans to Destroy the Entire ISS Instead of Letting Museums Save Chunks

It should be in a museum!

A former executive of Meta has left the company after a video of him allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a minor went viral on Thursday.
Future Society

Facebook Exec Caught Allegedly Trying to Meet 13-Year-Old in Hotel Room

In light of the company's struggles to moderate its own platforms, this is a bad look.

China showed off a concept for a two-stage methane-liquid launch system that looks exactly like SpaceX's Starship spacecraft.
Starship

China’s New Rocket Concept Looks Suspiciously Like SpaceX’s Starship

Wait... that looks awfully familiar.

Charlie Munger's windowless dorms are a "mouse trap" but he defended their use during one of his annual business calls on Wednesday.
Future Society

98-Year-Old Billionaire Says It’s Fine to Pack Young People in Windowless Rooms Like Rats

"Like, how is this legal?"

The James Webb Space Telescope keeps trucking along splendidly — and it just hit another exciting milestone.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Locked Onto Its First Star

Locked on!

Flying taxi startup Joby reported that it was involved in an accident, which resulted in "substantial damage" to the aircraft, but fortunately no injuries.
Advanced Transport

An Experimental Flying Car Just Crashed During a Test

That's not good.

A French dad took some extreme measures to prevent his children from going online: by shutting down internet of his town with a signal jammer.
Future Society

Dad Tries to Make Kids Log Off, Accidentally Takes Down Town’s Entire Internet

He now faces up to six months of jail time.

At a space conference this week, SpaceX director of civil space development Nick Cummings teased future plans of a Moon base.
Moon

SpaceX Director Teases Moon Base Staffed by “Hundreds or Thousands”

"I can say 'Moon base,' right?"

It's illegal for any one nation to lay claim to property in outer space, but that's not stopping one economic think tank from pushing for lunar property sales.
Moon

Economist Mocked for Proposing That We Sell the Moon

"Economist brain is a devastating affliction."

It's "sad" enough that Melania Trump's NFT sales bombed — but now, it looks like she may have had to buy it herself to save face.
NFTs

Melania Trump Accused of Secretly Buying Her Own NFT to Avoid Disgrace

First lady, or first sock puppet?

Musk accused the SEC of attempting to “chill” his free speech during its investigation into his controversial tweet about taking Tesla private in 2018.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Accuses the SEC of Trying to Keep Him From Posting Dumb Tweets

He says it’s an attack on his right to free speech.