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A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.
Metaverse

"This was obviously created by someone who has never been to a rave."

From Quarks to Quasars

At this point, you really gotta wonder whether investing in cryptocurrencies is even worth it. 
Hacking

At which point will enough be enough?

The CIA has announced that Havana syndrome is, in fact, not due to Russian attacks.
Health & Medicine

Maybe the real Havana syndrome was the friends we made along the way.

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.
Science & Energy

"We don't think there's a positive ending; we think it's kind of a disaster."

Getting a closer look at interstellar rock 'Oumuamua could forever change the way we understand the universe around us, scientists argue.
Off-World

It would take around 26 years.

Jeff Bezos has backed anti-aging startup Alto Labs, which has recently hired former chief scientific officer of GlaxoSmithKline Hal Barron as its CEO.
Jeff Bezos

He'll help lead the company in its mission to "reverse disease."

There’s Something Weirdly Sexual About the Tom Cruise Space Station
Future Society

The vibrations are coming from inside the space station film studio.

Months after El Salvador announced that it would accept bitcoin as legal tender, the country has found itself on the verge of economic collapse yet again.
Bitcoin

Like Bitcoin itself, El Salvador isn’t doing so hot right now.

The Perseverance rover found evidence of this mysterious coloring on rocks at almost every site the craft has visited on Mars.
Mars

"I don’t really have a good answer for you."

Chinese researchers published a paper today in Science Robotics that revealed new data about the lunar surface gathered by the Yutu-2 rover.
Moon

It also found that there were a lot more holes on its backside, too.

A startup called Parallel Systems, founded by a team of former SpaceX engineers, wants to allow autonomous shipping containers to zip along railroads.
Advanced Transport

"The problem now is that you have the three-mile-long train. Where do you park a train that big?"

In the era of COVID-19, governments conducting their business over Zoom is par for the course — and, naturally, so is Zoom-bombing porn into them. 
Hacking

What's the Italian for "hentai"?

This just in: Elon Musk is going to build the world's first sentient robots.
Tesla

"Decentralized control of the robots will be critical."

A 45-year-old American man landed himself in the hospital after his partner accidentally injected his penis with insulation foam to cure his impotance.
Developments

He was trying to cure his erectile dysfunction.

A new supercut video demonstrates that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will drive themselves next year — every year since 2014.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Will 2022 really be the year?

It turns out that AI chatbots may be more like us than we care to think about. 
Artificial Intelligence

Just wait till you hear about where these bots were trained.

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.
Robotics

"It was much cheaper than crashing a rocket to gain insight into our machine."

The volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, the force of the explosion was more than 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Science & Energy

"We come up with a number that's around ten megatons of TNT equivalent."

Elon Musk tweeted that people stalking his location has become a “security issue” after a weekend of rumors that he would be visiting Tesla’s Gigafactory.
Elon Musk

“We want to keep Elon and his family safe."