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Avatars of sex workers inside the game are giving other users lap dances in bondage outfits, the BBC reports. One avatar was even spotted wearing a Nazi uniform.
Future Society

Experts Alarmed by Sex, Nazism in Children’s Game Roblox

Well, that's not great.

Facebook's lowest-paid workers make only $1.50 an hour to moderate violent and disturbing content in an outsourced facility in Kenya.
Future Society

Facebook Criticized for Running Giant “Sweatshop” in Africa

"The work that we do is a kind of mental torture."

San Francisco cops are accused of entering the DNA of sexual assault victims into a database to help identify criminals — resulting in at least one arrest.
Future Society

Cops Allegedly Used a Sexual Assault Survivor’s DNA to Arrest Her for Property Crime

"This is legally and ethically wrong."

The Indian Space Research Organization is testing out a vehicle that bears a striking resemblance to NASA's now-retired space shuttles.
NASA

India Is Testing a Spacecraft That Looks Like a Tiny NASA Space Shuttle

It's adorable!

The DeLorean Motor Company is bringing back the iconic car from "Back to the Future" — and this time, it's luxuriously electric.
Advanced Transport

DeLoreans Are Apparently Coming Back as Electric Cars

Literally back to the future.

Despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk's recent tweet, he and his companies have done their fair share of political lobbying and campaign contributions.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Tesla Doesn’t Make Political Contributions Even Though It Absolutely Does

Don’t let Elon fool you. Tesla has done its fair share of lobbying.

In her new book "The Genesis Machine," futurist Amy Webb warns that terrorists could create viruses in a lab and use them for nefarious purposes.
Gene Editing

Scientists Warn That Terrorists Could Release a Horrifying Virus

"The last thing we need right now is a biological arms race."

The American West's "megadrought" has made the region the driest it's been in more than a millennium. 
Climate Change

The American West’s “Megadrought” Is The Worst It’s Been in 1,200 Years

"The worst-case scenario keeps getting worse."

YouTuber and professional boxer Logan Paul is starting his own NFT marketplace because we live in the absolute worst possible timeline.
NFTs

Notorious Scoundrel Logan Paul Files Paperwork to Start NFT Marketplace

Could hell be any worse?

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

Bionic Eyes Give Sheep Sight, Heading to Humans Next

Do bionic sheep dream of ultra sharp vision?

Prominent NFT Marketplace Shuts Down Almost All Sales for Fraud
Cryptocurrency

Prominent NFT Marketplace Shuts Down Almost All Sales for Fraud

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

Billionaire Space Tourist Buys Three More SpaceX Launches in Shocking Display of Wealth

"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

Elon Musk Furious at Gov for Shutting Down Tesla Feature That Farts at Pedestrians

"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

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

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

Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

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

Neuralink Says 21 Percent of Its Monkeys Died Because of Brain Implant Issues

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

Astronauts Announce First Ever Spacewalk From SpaceX Spaceship

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

A Derelict SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the 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

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

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

Guy With Huge Telescope Spots Tumbling SpaceX Rocket About to Crash Into Moon

Look out below!