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Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is now, officially, a bonafide astronaut.
International Space Station

Your tax dollars at work.

During an interview this week, Elon Musk warned that letting people live longer lives by coming up with new technologies may actually be a really bad idea.
Elon Musk

"It is important for us to die because most of the time people don't change their mind, they just die."

From right to left: Zozotown billionaire Yusaku Maezawa (R), Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (C), and Maezawa's assistant Yozo Hirano (L).
Off-World

Oh, to be a billionaire going to space.

An MIT geophsicist said that humans are on the brink of causing a sixth mass extinction event due to the amount of carbon pumped into the air and oceans.
Science & Energy

He’s been talking about it for years now — but nobody’s listening.

China spotted a puzzling "mystery house" on the surface of the Moon, a cube-shaped object hiding in plain sight. The internet had a field day as a result.
Moon

The internet had a field day.

Elon Musk apparently doesn't think drugs are cool anymore.
Elon Musk

This is a strange reversal — he's been talking about drugs for years!

A woman was forced to give birth inside a luxury Tesla that was stuck in standstill New York City traffic.
Developments

And it wasn't even the first time it happened this year.

There's finally some good news: NASA's legendary Hubble Space Telescope is back to full science operations, according to a recent update.
Off-World

Hallelujah.

A group of ardent anti-vaccine morons have created a new cryptocurrency based on the idea that vaccines lower your sperm count.
Bitcoin

What on Earth?

Tesla is allowing drivers to play video games on its vehicles' massive touchscreens — while driving.
Tesla

"I’m astonished. To me, it just seems inherently dangerous."

When Elon Musk is not warning us of an imminent nuclear Armageddon, he has often brought up another favorite talking point: declining birth rates.
Elon Musk

"Please look at the numbers — if people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seems to have admitted that he's not positive his company's forthcoming Starship is going to work.
Starship

Starships are meant to die?

NASA announced on Monday that the controversial spacecraft has been loaded with a propellant it’ll use for its thrusters to move around while in orbit.
James Webb Space Telescope

It took 10 whole days to fuel it up due to how dangerous the propellant is.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that he co-founded, plans to put brain chips in humans next year. 
Neuroscience and Brain

"We hope to have this in our first humans — which will be people that have severe spinal cord injuries like tetraplegics, quadriplegics — next year."

Hackers have stolen almost $200 million from the BitMart cryptocurrency exchange, the latest in a long line of heists, headaches, and heartbreak for those who invest and trade in crypto. 
Hacking

More than $1 billion in crypto has been stolen since August alone.

Nineteen Tesla engineers publicized concerns that Tesla's Autopilot features aren't safe, and that CEO Elon Musk has been overpromising the cars' abilities.
Elon Musk

Would you trust Autopilot?

A key climate researcher published an op-ed this week declaring hydrogen-powered cars a bad idea that won't do anything to solve the climate crisis.
Advanced Transport

It's almost like there's an industry benefitting from preventing electrification...

Non-fungible tokens meets artificial insemination in one piece of art that's for sale at Art Basel this week.
NFTs

Everything was normal and nothing was a grift.

A game designer says someone hacked into her Google Pixel 5a after sending it off to Google for a repair. They looked for nudes and deleted security alerts.
Google

Big yikes.

Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen is now selling his prison badge as an NFT.
NFTs

Literally nothing matters anymore.