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Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.
Pollution

Marine Scientists Say Pulling Plastic Out of the Ocean Isn’t Even Worth It

What ARE we supposed to do, then?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has had enough of sanctions. He's cutting the US off from Russian-made rocket engines.
Off-World

Russia Mocked for Cutting US Off From Its Outdated Rocket Engines

"Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect children born with edited genomes — and propose building a facility to study them.
Gene Editing

Scientists Call for Special Facility to Care for Genetically Modified Children

The kids would be regularly checked for “abnormalities."

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia's internet regulator Roskomnazor has announced it is officially blocking Facebook outright in retaliation of the company blocking state media.
Future Society

Russia Is Officially Blocking All Access to Facebook

"Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information."

By Victor Tangermann

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

"The internet would be completely unrecognizable."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One UK father is getting backlash online for tricking his family into thinking Russia launched a nuclear bomb attack with a prank BBC news segment.
Future Society

Dad Criticized for “Pranking” Family Into Thinking They Were Going to Die in Nuclear War

That's seriously messed up.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team at the University of Southern California managed to capture images of a memory form in laboratory zebra fish brains in real time.
Science & Energy

Scientists Watch Memories Form in Living Brain

Oh, so that's what a memory looks like.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The NFT market is starting to cool down, Bloomberg reports. The average trading value of the nonfungible tokens has dropped precipitously lately.
NFTs

Report: The NFT Bubble Could Be Starting to Burst

It's not quite that simple.

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA flight controller and safety engineer aboard the ISS said that geopolitical tensions haven't affected his relationship with his Russian coworkers.
International Space Station

NASA ISS Engineer Says Relationships With Russian Counterparts Still Cordial

"We have the same goal… to ensure the crew and vehicle are safe."

By Tony Ho Tran

It looks like McDonald's ice cream machines are gonna stay broken for the foreseeable future. 
Internet Of Things

McDonald’s Sued by Ice Cream Hackers for $900 Million

"They've tarnished our name."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Food

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

"It surprises people that these things can turn up on their pet’s plate.”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.
Off-World

Bumbling Russian Space Boss Forced to Slash Huge Raise He Gave Himself

He's reaping what he sowed.

By Victor Tangermann

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.
Moon

A Derelict Rocket Just Smashed Into the Moon, Experts Say

Your destination has arrived.

By Tony Ho Tran

As if invading a sovereign nation wasn't provocation enough, Russian troops opened fire at Europe's largest nuclear power station early Friday morning.
Future Society

Authorities Furious That Russia Attacked Nuclear Plant

"It just raises the level of potential catastrophe to a level that nobody wants to see."

By Victor Tangermann

The US military is looking to have spy satellites patrol the orbit around the Moon according to a recently shared video, as spotted by Ars Technica.
Military

US Military Announces Plans for Satellite Orbiting the Moon

"Now we need to accelerate our plan because things are happening much faster than we expected."

By Victor Tangermann

If a new state legislature bill becomes law, Oklahomans may soon have to go out of state to buy and service their Teslas. 
Tesla

Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill To Outlaw Tesla Sales and Service Centers

That doesn't seem like a great idea.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russians are still able to use cryptocurrency exchanges to circumvent newly imposed sanctions — and former First Lady Hillary Clinton is absolutely furious.
Bitcoin

Hillary Clinton Calls Out Crypto Exchanges for Letting Russia Bypass Sanctions

"I would hope somebody at the Treasury Department is trying to figure out how to rein in the leaky valves in the crypto market."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning users in Ukraine who have received one of the company's Starlink dishes could be targeted by Russian actors.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Warns That Russia May Be Spying on Starlink Connections

"Please use with caution."

By Victor Tangermann

A sex startup is creating a VR-enabled masturbation pod for companies that want to make their employees very uncomfortable, very quickly.
Future Society

Company Installs VR-Enabled Masturbation Pod for Employees

Sounds like a... sticky situation.

By Tony Ho Tran

Jeffrey Epstein's legacy has extended far beyond his mysterious jailhouse death in 2019 — and it very much includes the breakup of Bill Gates' marriage. 
Future Society

Melinda Gates Slams Ex-Husband for Friendship With “Abhorrent” Jeffrey Epstein

"He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards."

By Noor Al-Sibai