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A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for planning to blow up a fake government building built in Minecraft. One was sentenced to prison.
Future Society

Teen Sentenced to Prison for Plotting Terror Attack in Minecraft

The building wasn't even real!?

MoviePass is coming back and it wants to track your eyes. Watch ads to earn credits in-app and trade with other users. But they pause if you look away.
Cryptocurrency

Cursed App Says You’ll Earn Crypto If You Stare at Ads With Your Eyes Open Like in “A Clockwork Orange”

"I might just get off the internet entirely."

The rapping CEO who got arrested for alleged crypto laundering isn't a flight risk because, her lawyer says, she wants to stay close to her frozen eggs.
Bitcoin

Lawyer for Crypto Laundering Rapper Says She Won’t Flee Because of Her Frozen Embryos

This case truly has everything.

A robot travelled to the most-damaged Fukushima reactor and photographed mounds of melted fuel that sank following the tsunami that destroyed the facility.
Environment

Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive Sludge

That's gotta be expired, right?

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is investing $200 million into Forbes so that the website can become publicly traded. 
Cryptocurrency

The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Is Investing $200 Million in Forbes, a Site Where Anyone Can Shill Crypto

Okay, this is messy.

While we anxiously await the first orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship, CEO Elon Musk tried to keep our — and investors' — spirits up.
Starship

Elon Musk: Each Starship Launch Could Cost Just $1 Million

"These are crazy low numbers by space standards."

The Biden administration has unveiled a massively ambitious plan to install roughly 400,000 EV chargers between now and 2030.
Advanced Transport

White House to Install Hundreds of Thousands of EV Chargers on US Highways

"America must lead the electric vehicle revolution."

A team of scientists from Harvard and Emory University created 500 "biohybrid" fish that had their tail fins lined with human heart cells.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Create Flapping “Biohybrid” Fish From Human Heart Cells

"When we opened the incubator, all of the fish were kind of swimming by themselves."

Researchers have discovered that nearly 33 percent of all Americans have detectable amounts of a weed-killing chemical in their bodies. 
Developments

Weed-Killing Chemical Used in Deadly Agent Orange Toxin Found in 1 in 3 Americans

This is grim.

A geomagnetic storm earlier this month caused 40 of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites to fall out of orbit shortly after launch.
SpaceX

Dramatic Video Shows SpaceX Starlink Satellites Burning Up in the Sky

Fortunately, they "pose zero collision risk with other satellites."

Dr. Phil Accused of Withholding Guest’s Medication to Make Her Seem “Crazy”
Health & Medicine

Dr. Phil Accused of Withholding Guest’s Medication to Make Her Seem “Crazy”

"Make sure she doesn’t take her medication before she goes onstage."

SpaceX has successfully stacked its orbital-class Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20 on top of its Super Heavy booster.
Starship

SpaceX Stacks Orbital-Class Starship on Booster, Hoists It With Mechazilla

What a sight.

Seattle-area Mazda drivers found themselves in NPR hell after their cars refused to tune into anything else due to a glitch.
Advanced Transport

NPR Station Traps Mazda Smart Radios So They Can Only Listen To It

A terrible fate!

A team of astronomers have discovered evidence for yet another exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our closest neighboring star.
Exoplanets

Scientists Find Life-Friendly Exoplanet They Say Is Close Enough to Visit

"The discovery shows that our closest stellar neighbor seems to be packed with interesting new worlds, within reach of further study and future exploration."

An animal rights advocacy group accuses Neuralink and Elon Musk specifically of facilitating and funding the torture and mutilation of monkeys. 
Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Accused of Abusing Brain-Hacked Monkeys

"The documents reveal that monkeys had their brains mutilated in shoddy experiments and were left to suffer and die."

The agency conducted a report in response to a recent request by SpaceX to launch the second generation of Starlink satellites into orbit.
NASA

NASA Warns That SpaceX Satellite Swarm Could Kill Astronauts

NASA also says the swarm could threaten the whole Earth.

Aa team of researchers from the University of Reading in the UK found that it's possible to encourage rain by supercharging clouds with electricity.
Science & Energy

Scientists Propose Electrocuting Clouds to Make it Rain

Real life wizardry.

Avi Loeb wants to capture a high-res image of a UFO in two years with the Galileo Project, using telescopes on the Harvard observatory roof.
Exobiology

Harvard Astronomer Says He’s Building Device to Capture “High Resolution Image” of UFO

Can he pull it off?

Planetary scientists believe they've unlocked two mysteries about Saturn while studying its atmospheric currents.
Off-World

Scientists Unlock Decades-Old Mystery Behind Glow on Saturn

This unlikely pair of findings answers decades-old questions about the ringed planet.

Tesla cut corners to deal with the rampant supply chain issues — putting yet another hurdle in the way to level three full-self driving cars. 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Accused of Cutting Corner That Makes Level 3 Self-Driving Impossible

Another bump in the road for Elon’s full self-driving promise.