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Luxurious Submarine for Rich People Looks Just as Cool as a Space Vacation
Advanced Transport

Luxurious Submarine for Rich People Looks Just as Cool as a Space Vacation

Okay, wow.

It's official: Twitter has agreed to allow a takeover by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the richest person in the world.
Elon Musk

Twitter Agrees to Elon Musk Takeover

His plan: "making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans."

A giant squid washed ashore in Japan, representing perhaps the first time a live specimen of the creature has been taken into captivity.
Science & Energy

Scientists Capture Living Giant Squid

Incredible!

Machine learning researchers are teaching neural networks how to superficially judge humans — and the results are pretty brutal.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create “Deliberately” Biased AI That Judges You as Brutally as Your Mother-in-Law

"We need to be careful about how this technology is used."

Japanese exoskeleton company Skeletonics has created a suit that can turn its wearer into a fighting exoskeleton ready fort the boxing ring of the future.
Robots and Machines

Japanese Company Creates Suit That Turns You Into a Towering Mecha

No power required.

Twitter is getting ready to accept Elon Musk's offer, The New York Times reports, a sign that the Tesla CEO may soon add the social media network to his already lengthy list of businesses. According to NYT, negotiations went on into the early morning hours of Monday.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly in Final Stages of Deal to Buy Twitter

Negotiations reportedly went on into the early morning hours.

Florida's governor wants to dissolve Disney World's tiny self government and special tax status over anti-LGBTQ bills he wants to pass.
Future Society

In Inadvertently Cyberpunk News, Florida Is Dissolving Disney’s Private Government

There's trouble in Magic Kingdom.

A Booster was damaged in part of a SpaceX test and photos leaked online. CEO Elon Musk hasn't said anything on Twitter while trying to buy the platform.
Advanced Transport

Leaked Photo Shows SpaceX’s New Prototype Damaged

"It's pretty much curtains."

COVID cases in parts of China, including locked down Shanghai, continue to rise, as do deaths, despite strick pandemic quarantine rules.
Developments

COVID Cases Keep Rising in China in Spite of Huge Crackdown

And people are starving.

A Boulder, Colorado man who set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court to protest climate change died on Saturday.
Climate Change

Man Who Set Himself on Fire to Protest Climate Change Has Died

Just awful.

A CBS reporter broke the news that the International Space Station had to swerve to miss debris from a satellite blow up by Russia.
Off-World

The Space Station Has to Swerve to Avoid Debris from Satellite Russia Blew Up

Russia is menacing Earth and the ISS.

A new Reddit clip shows a Tesla using the Smart Summon feature at a Cirrus event but crashes into a small private jet worth millions. Autopilot didn't work.
Tesla

Tesla on Autopilot Crashes Into $3 Million Jet

"There’s still plenty of idiots to go around."

Russian tanks are getting stuck in mud in Ukraine as it's the country's muddy or rainy season. President Vladmir Putin didn't plan his invasion properly.
Military

Russia’s Military Is Getting Defeated by Ukrainian Mud

"[The mud] has literally been a problem for 300 years.”

Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, confirmed leaked text messages with Microsoft's Bill Gates are real. Musk discussed Gates' stock position.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Tells Bill Gates to Get Lost in Leaked Text Messages

Billionaire tea sure is sweet.

Head of NASA Completely Bemused by Question from “Angry Astronaut”
Future Society

Head of NASA Completely Bemused by Question from “Angry Astronaut”

Awkward.

A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos.
Metaverse

Facebook Employees Say Mark Zuckerberg Is Weirdly Obsessed With the Metaverse

"[It's] the only thing Mark wants to talk about."

Two former gas industry barons, Russian oligarchs worth millions, turned up dead alongside their families as Putin continues to assault Ukraine.
Future Society

Two Russian Oligarchs Die Suddenly Under Mysterious Circumstances

It's like something from a horror movie.

NASA captured video this week of Phobos, one of two Martian moons, and it completes a slow death spiral and will eventually crash into Mars' surface.
Mars

NASA Says One of Mars’ Moons Is Going to Crash Into Its Surface

"Phobos is doomed."

Ever wanted to travel by both air and sea in a yacht attached to a zeppelin? If you're of the "superyacht" class, you may soon get the chance.
Advanced Transport

This Flying Luxury Yacht Attached to a Zeppelin Looks Downright Amazing

Do we get to seize these once the revolution starts?

Science doesn't know exactly how depression works — and, as it turns out, we might not really know whether antidepressants really work, either. 
Health & Medicine

New Study Claims That Antidepressants Don’t Lead to Better Quality of Life

Provocative new research.