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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is hooking Ukrainians up with Starlink terminals, giving them a reliable and off-the-grid way to connect to the internet.
SpaceX

SpaceX Sends More Starlink Terminals to Ukraine, Along With Equipment to Run Them Off Grid

"You’re welcome."

Dmitiry Rogozin, the head of the country’s space program Roscosmos, has allegedly forbidden agency employees from being able to travel abroad.
Future Society

Russian Space Program Is Apparently Forbidding Employees From Traveling Abroad, Fearing They’ll Flee

“He prohibited his employees to go abroad, correctly understanding they might not return.”

Alt-pop musician Grimes and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a second child with the help of a surrogate in December, according to an unhinged Vanity Fair interview.
Elon Musk

A Reporter Heard an Infant Screaming and It Turned Out Elon Musk Had a Secret Baby with Grimes

"I'm not at liberty to speak on these things."

Ukraine's foremost climate scientist believes that fossil fuels are not only the greatest threat to humanity, but a driving factor in Russia's invasion of her country as well.
Climate Change

Top Ukrainian Scientist Calls Russian Invasion a “Fossil Fuel War”

"It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization."

Has Elon Musk figured out the source of the "Satoshi Nakamoto" pseudonym given to Bitcoin's mysterious creator?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Shares Galaxy-Brain Theory About Bitcoin Creator

Wait a second... is he onto something?

President Joe Biden has issued a first-of-its-kind executive order to regulate cryptocurrencies. But it’s unclear what exactly will change.
Cryptocurrency

Biden Issues Executive Order to Finally Regulate Cryptocurrency

The order also encourages the Fed to research a potential US-backed crypto.

According to the University of Georgia, giant spiders the size of your palm are set to parachute from the sky all over the country this summer.
Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That a Giant Spider Is Spreading Across the United States

Arachnophobes beware!

Former Pentagon Officials Say Family of UFO Investigator Reported Creature Peering into Their House
Future Society

Former Pentagon Officials Say Family of UFO Investigator Reported Creature Peering into Their House

Your tax dollars at work.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, the second-largest NFT collection out there right now, announced this week that it donated $1 million in Ethereum to Ukraine.
Cryptocurrency

Bored Ape Yacht Club Donates $1 Million in Crypto to Ukraine

"I can't tell, because it's an ongoing war, exactly what we bought."

The wreck of Endurance, the famed historic ship that sank in the Antarctic during an expedition by explorer Ernest Shackleton 106 years ago, has been found.
Drones

Scientists Just Found One of the World’s Most Elusive Shipwrecks Using an Undersea Drone

Incredible.

David Bennet Sr. passed away at the University of Maryland Medical Center after he received an experimental pig heart transplant in January.
Developments

Man Who Received Experimental Pig Heart Transplant Dies

Why exactly did he die?

The Chernobyl nuclear power station was hit by a blackout due to damage caused by Russian forces, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Science & Energy

Chernobyl Meltdown Site Loses Power After Russian Invasion

Okay, that's not great.

Dimitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has accused NASA astronaut Scott Kelly of getting dementia from stressful space flights.
Future Society

Russian Space Head Furiously Accuses NASA Astronaut of Having Dementia

This is getting ridiculous.

Just when you thought crypto nerds had outdone themselves, they do something wild — like trying to work around copyright law in the most outlandish fashion.
Cryptocurrency

The Dune NFT Project Is Back With an Inscrutable New Scheme

Wait... what?

It's the circle of life: tech bros get millions to fund their harebrained startups, and people on Twitter, in turn, mock their goofy, expensive ideas.
Off-World

Experts Mock Startup That Aims to Deliver Human Organs — and Pizza — from Orbit

"Please stop polluting the universe with your dumb ideas."

A number of US government agencies have been collecting detailed money transfer records of Americans without a warrant, according to a shocking new report by The Wall Street Journal.
Future Society

Senator Says There’s a Secret Program Spying on Americans’ Money Transfers

Privacy advocates are stunned that the program "was allowed to run for even a single day."

It turns out that many lab-grown meat products actually contain a shocking amount of blood due to fetal bovine serum, or blood from unborn cow fetuses.
Climate Change

Oops! It Turns Out Lab-Grown Meat Often Contains Real Blood

A dirty detail.

Larry Dvoskin, an NFT entrepreneur, recently paid at least $2,000 to publish an article about how great NFTs are in The Rolling Stone.
NFTs

NFT Guy Pays Rolling Stone to Run Article About How Great NFTs Are

That's kinda gross.

Everyone has their price — and for one former Tesla lawyer, that price was upwards of $30 million.
Tesla

Revealed: Tesla Competitor Paid Top Tesla Lawyer $30 Million to Defect

Everyone has a price!

A machine learning neural network generated a horrifying video of infinite nightmare clowns — and it's absolutely disturbing.
Sleep

We Will Never Sleep Again After Seeing a Neural Network Generate Infinite Nightmare Clowns

Argh, get it away from me!