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A maritime tragedy! Sadly, the nearly-completed mega cruise ship Global Dream II will never take to the high seas, and instead will be scrapped.
Advanced Transport

World’s Largest Cruise Ship Headed Straight From Shipyard to Junkyard

A tragedy on the high seas!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon publicly announced last week that it would launch drone-delivery Prime Air in Lockeford, California — news to many of the rural town's residents.
Drones

Local Residents Threaten to Shoot Amazon Drones Out of the Sky

"I think they’re going to wreck everything for us."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canada has announced it is banning "harmful single-use plastics" to "keep them out of the environment," becoming the latest jurisdiction to do so.
Science & Energy

Canada Bans Single-Use Plastics, Including Bags and Straws

"We promised to ban harmful single-use plastics, and we’re keeping that promise."

By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug Administration is getting ready to boot the popular e-cigarette company out of the US market, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Developments

The FDA Is Reportedly About to Shut Down JUUL

Game over.

By Victor Tangermann

During a crucial Artemis 1 take-off test, the NASA's seemingly doomed Space Launch System sprung a leak in a hydrogen fuel valve.
Moon

NASA’s Super Expensive Mega Moon Rocket Starts Leaking During Test

Will this thing ever make it off the ground?!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with a new way to cause objects to levitate using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Are Getting Better and Better at Levitating Objects With Sound Waves

"No eye-wear or tricks required, simply 3D shapes sharing the very space in which we live."

By Victor Tangermann

Reporter Kevin Collier had a bizarre encounter at this year's NFT NYC conference — not with rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr, he says, but a lookalike.
NFTs

NFT Conference Allegedly Hires Snoop Dogg Impersonator to “Drum Up Excitement”

"The guy said actually that's an impersonator, legally can't say it's him..."

By Victor Tangermann

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."
Virtual Reality

Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

"I don’t think it’s going to be that long until we can create scenes with basically perfect fidelity."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed. 
Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

What IS that thing???

By Noor Al-Sibai

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.
Gene Editing

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

This is really promising.

By Victor Tangermann

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.
Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

"There’s a tiny but calculable likelihood that our quantum wave will tunnel its way through space-time and wind up [on Mars]."

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.
Mars

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

Watch out, NASA.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's daughter has filed to change her name and gender identity marker because she doesn't want to be associated with her famous father. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Daughter Comes Out as Trans, Cuts Ties With Father

"I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.
Moon

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

Are we ever going to make it back to the Moon?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've figured out at least part of North America's invasive, imported fire ant problem by turning a virus that kills them into a weapon.
Viruses

Scientists Suggest Killing Ants With Viruses

It's because they're murderers and vandals.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

Virtual trees might make our brains happy.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

"We’re changing Starlink’s default wifi name to Stinky," Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted yesterday. Will he really call the Starlink wifi Stinky?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Starlink’s Default WiFi Name Will Be “Stinky”

Whoever smelled it dealt it.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The clock is ticking for Voyager 1 and 2. NASA says the Voyager vehicles will run out of power by 2025, ending a decades-long mission launched in 1977.
NASA

Tragedy! NASA Says the Voyager Space Probes are Powering Down

An era closes.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.
Google

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

"Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Videos a TikTok account literally named "Unreal Margot," are posting are deepfakes, not real clips of actress Margot Robbie, the "Suicide Squad" star.
Future Society

Amazing Deepfakes of Margot Robbie Are Almost Indistinguishable From Reality

It's literally called "Unreal Margot."

By Lonnie Lee Hood