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Researchers in Norway have discovered evidence of microplastic in newborn babies. They believe it's impossible to stop kids from ingesting plastic.
Developments

Researchers Find Microplastics Inside Newborn Babies

"This is concerning."

NASA astronaut Victor Glover sat down for a chat with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise to prepare him for what it's really like to spend time on board the ISS.
Off-World

Astronaut Warns Tom Cruise About Appalling Smell on Space Station

"When you go into the module that has the lifting, the strength training equipment, that's also where the bathroom is."

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before. 
Prosthetics and Devices

Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

One man even broke his neck.

Tesla has agreed to recall almost 54,000 of its cars because a recent "Full Self-Driving" software update allowed them to perform a "rolling stop."
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Says It’s Updating Self-Driving Cars to No Longer Break the Law

 "They keep pushing the bounds of safety to see what they can get away with, and they’ve really been pushing a lot."

An NYPD cop is under investigation for potentially taking part in a fake vaccine card scheme that netted him and his spouse more than a million dollars.
Developments

NYPD Cop Investigated for $1.5 Million Scheme to Sell Fake Vaccine Cards

His wife allegedly sold them for $220 per card.

Researchers in Suzhou, China claim to have created an AI system that can monitor and care for embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb.
Developments

Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb

The AI nanny would help monitor and care for the embryos.

An Israeli AI company claims it can create a model of a face using DNA that can then be fed into a facial recognition system, a highly dubious claim.
Future Society

Startup Slammed for Saying It Can Reconstruct Faces From DNA

"That is pseudoscience."

Frogs have regrown limbs from an experimental drug cocktail — and in the near-ish future, humans may be able to do so, too. 
Medical

Scientist Predicts Humans Will Be Able to Regrow Limbs “Within Our Lifetime”

This could be huge.

Startup Radian Aerospace announced that it secured $27.5 million in funding to develop the first "horizontal takeoff and landing" space plane.
Off-World

New Spacecraft Would Take Off on a Runway and Fly Directly to Space

Whoa.

NASA is finally making moves to boot up its James Webb Space Telescope, according to a NASA statement — a historic moment.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s Booting Up the Mighty James Webb Space Telescope

It's finally time.

Hip-hop star and fashion designer Kanye West took to Instagram to let the world know that he wants people to stop asking him about NFTs.
NFTs

Kanye West Slams NFTs, Saying He Creates “Real Products” Instead

"Do not ask me to do a fucking NFT." 

JetPack Aviation is in talks to create a category of air racing specifically for jetpacks, New Atlas reports — what could possibly go wrong?
Advanced Transport

New Race Would Force Jetpack Pilots to Careen Through Obstacle Course

We were promised jetpack racing.

North Korea has reportedly test-fired several big missiles, sending back photos from space taken by a camera installed on one of the missile's warheads.
Off-World

North Korea Launches Missile Into Space, Releases Photo of Earth

Well, that's low key terrifying.

Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according Fortune.
Elon Musk

Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss

He barely kept in touch with the company.

Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, what they're dubbing the "quantum apocalypse."
Future Society

Experts Warn of “Quantum Apocalypse”

"It's a threat to our way of life."

Texas governor Greg Abbott begged crypto miners to halt operations in the event the Texas grid shuts down completely like in February 2021.
Cryptocurrency

Texas Governor Begs Crypto Miners to Shut Down If the Power Grid Is About to Fail

"Help me get through the winter."

How does one hold the Winter Olympics when "winter" as we knew it is changing for the worse?
Climate Change

The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They’re Being Ruined by Climate Change

Beijing is shipping in snow because it's just not cold enough.

He posted a video on his Instagram on Sunday wherein he addressed recent criticism that his show has spread COVID misinformation.
Developments

Joe Rogan Issues Absolutely Terrible Apology for COVID Misinfo

His podcast episodes have caused several major artists to pull their music off the platform.

SpaceX was forced to scrub a launch after a cruise ship from Port Canaveral, Florida wandered into the launch exclusion zone on Sunday evening.
Future Society

SpaceX Mission Scrubbed After Big Dumb Cruise Ship Wanders into Launch Zone

It might have put the company at greater risk for bankruptcy, too.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say

"Everyone in that whole empire is just driven by fear."