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New company will let you save your data in the metaverse and pay $50 per year to talk to avatars of dead loved ones after they die.
Future Society

Startup Says You Can Talk to Your Dead Relatives, for a Fee

"If I die people can come in and have a conversation with my avatar."

Elon Musk Offers to Buy the Entirety of Twitter
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Offers to Buy the Entirety of Twitter

This is his "best and final offer."

Things didn't quite go according to plan when Israeli crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi tried to sell an NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's inaugural tweet. 
NFTs

Guy Tries to Sell Twitter Founder’s First Tweet NFT for $48M, Gets Top Bid of Just $280

Ouch.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is raising money for Ukrainian relief by selling NFTs that actually aren't ugly.
NFTs

Celebrity NASA Astronaut Sells NFTs to Raise Money for Ukraine

"My story is not the typical astronaut story."

At least 16 were injuried in a subway shooting in Brooklyn, NYC. Public transit disruption meant Uber turned on surges, charing 10x as much for rides.
Future Society

Uber Criticized for Charging Surge Pricing for Riders Escaping Mass Shooting

"People are scared, let them get out safely."

Two of the co-founders of a Russian cryogenics company called KrioRus are fighting over the ownership of dozens of cryogenically frozen brains.
Developments

Two Rival Cryonics Firms Keep Stealing Each Others’ Frozen Human Brains

What the hell is going on here?

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

This software is so freakin' powerful!

During opening statements, Amber Heard's lawyer claimed that "Johnny Depp is obsessed with Elon Musk" — which drew a visible smirk out of the actor.
Elon Musk

Lawyer Accuses Johnny Depp of Being “Obsessed” With Elon Musk

This is already getting so messy.

Ever wanted to meet your robot doppelgänger? For an unspecified large sum of money, you can have one made — if you dare.
Robotics

YouTuber Meets His Creepy Robot Double and Freaks Out

You know what they say about meeting yourself.

Elon Musk may be planning a hostile Twitter takeover and one stakeholder is suing for lost profits on the stock market because of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Gets Sued Over Twitter Shenanigans

Is he planning Tesla 2.0?

The Facebook whistleblower is back — and this time, she's implicating the Metaverse.
Future Society

Facebook Whistleblower Warns That Zuckerberg Wants to Fill Your House With Microphones

"You don't really have a choice now on whether or not you want Facebook spying on you at home."

During a visit of the country's Vostochny Cosmodrome on Tuesday, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that "we will restore the moon program."
Moon

Putin Says Russia Is Landing on the Moon This Year

Good luck with that.

We Regret To Inform You That Elon Musk, Unfortunately, Knows About “Goblin Mode”
Elon Musk

We Regret To Inform You That Elon Musk, Unfortunately, Knows About “Goblin Mode”

And then he deleted the tweet!

Space Perspective just showed off its "Space Lounge" cabin, which is one day meant to ascend into the Earth's atmosphere, hanging from a massive balloon.
Off-World

High Altitude Balloon Startup Reveals Design of Luxurious “Space Lounge”

Talk about a view!

In totally relatable news: Amare, a 415-pound teenage gorilla at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, is totally obsessed with smartphone screens.
Future Society

Zookeepers Say Teen Gorilla Is Addicted to Cell Phones

Relateable.

No, this isn't the climax of "Succession" — Elon Musk really could maneuver his way into owning Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk May Be Plotting a Hostile Takeover of Twitter

Wait, what?

A team of MIT scientists behind the biotech firm Frequency Therapeutics has developed a new type of regenerative therapy that can reverse hearing loss.
Treatments

MIT Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Treatment That Reverses Hearing Loss

Reversing hearing loss could soon become "similar to Lasik surgery, where you’re in and out in an hour or two."

An AI artist who moonlights as a parody account of the uber-popular @dril account reminds us that online can still be fun.
Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to “Robot Hell”! Meet the Deranged Genius Who Created an AI Version of @Dril

"Sorry to anyone who’s about to have their heart broken..."

After hyping up the company's brand new factory in Texas, Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the latest prototype of the Cybertruck. And it looks really bad.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Prototype Mocked for Looking Extremely Janky

Why would they choose to show this off to the public?

After years, the US government has confirmed Harvard researchers' hypothesis that an interstellar object crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Off-World

US Government Confirms That Interstellar Object Crashed Into the Earth

"It was hiding in plain sight."