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It's 2022, so really, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to buy a black diamond from space in crypto, right?
Off-World

Sure, why the hell not.

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.
Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover is still discovering "tantalizingly interesting" things on Mars.

Prosecutors have charged a Tesla driver with vehicular manslaughter after his Autopilot-enabled car crashed into another vehicle killing two people in 2019
Tesla

It’s the first time someone received a felony charge from an Autopilot accident.

SpaceX blew up a test tank filled with liquid nitrogen on Wednesday. It’s unclear whether or not the explosion was intentional.
Starship

It blew up in a massive cloud of nitrogen.

Think your town is bad? At least you don't have such a bad crow problem that officials are planning to use lasers to get rid of them.
Science & Energy

Invasion of the garbage-snatchers.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning that there may not be enough people to populate Mars if global birth rates keep dropping.
Mars

If birth rates keep dropping, "there definitely won’t be enough" people to establish a city on Mars.

US airlines are warning that cutting-edge C-Band 5G technologies could force the industry to its knees, The Guardian reports.
Advanced Transport

"To be blunt, the nation’s commerce will grind to a halt."

An options trader-turned-economic philosopher is slamming Bitcoin as a contagion — and as a former backer of the cryptocurrency, he should know.
Bitcoin

"Few assets in financial history have been more fragile than Bitcoin."

A group of more than 60 scientists and policy experts have signed an open letter calling on governments to ban solar geoengineering.
Climate Change

They’re worried it could disproportionately impact the global poor.

Users behind pet-focused Instagram accounts have begun cloning their pets so they can continue making content after the original one has died.
Future Society

"People say I have zombie dogs, or they call me a crazy rich girl."

A new study found that chemical pollution driven by plastics has gotten so bad that it might upend global ecosystems that support humanity.
Pollution

Researchers found that chemical pollution has crossed the "planetary boundary."

The first gorilla suit Mark Kelly sent his twin in space exploded in 2015 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was lost in a massive fireball.
Off-World

"Of course people liked it. How can you not like space gorilla?"

According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than we originally anticipated.
Science & Energy

Our planet is turning into a rocky planet like Mercury or Mars much "faster than expected."

Analysts for investment bank UBS warned that crypto markets might be entering another “crypto winter” as prices steadily fall for the asset.
Bitcoin

They warn we might be entering a "crypto winter."

A grisly trend has emerged: users who create AI partners, act abusive toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.
Artificial Intelligence

"I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to."

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed
Climate Change

Satellite imagery shows absolute devastation.

During a recent interview with ABC broadcaster Josh Szeps on Rogan's show, Szeps corrected Rogan about the likelihood of getting myocarditis due to COVID.
Developments

Have you learned anything, Joe?

A COVID-19 testing sites chain called The Center for COVID Control has reportedly told every customer they are negative. Now they're shutting down.
Developments

The evidence is seriously damning.

Elon Musk wants to fire a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who'd previously interviewed him during a 2018 Tesla investigation.
Elon Musk

Oh, he's mad.

After fifty years of continuous burning, Turkmenistan officials are finally trying to close up a 230-feet wide fiery sinkhole in the Karakum Desert.
Climate Change

Good luck with that!