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NASA researcher Ann Marie Cody spoke to Vice about how exactly the agency and the SETI Institute is trying to find alien megastructures.
Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Describes Hunt for Alien Megastructures

"[It’s] essentially any artificial structure built by an intelligent civilization perhaps for energy harvesting purposes."

One futurist believes that “a large proportion of people will be in the metaverse in some way” and will live most of their lives "jacked in" by 2030
Metaverse

Expert Says People Will Soon Live Entire Lives in Metaverse

One expert claims "a large proportion of people will be in the metaverse in some way" by 2030.

EV Solar Kits is aiming to make electric vehicles run on renewable energy instead of electricity created by fossil fuel power plants by using solar panels.
Tesla

Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day

"There’s so many pain points that EV owners have."

SpaceX has tested out its massive "chopstick" tower, a structure designed to guide its Starship and Super Heavy booster during launches and landings.
Starship

SpaceX Tests Giant “Chopsticks” For Catching Starship as It Lands

This thing is absolutely massive.

Siraj Raval has been using his 2018 Tesla Model 3 as a power source to mine ethereum and bitcoin, and has made up to $800 while doing so.
Cryptocurrency

Tesla Owner Says He’s Making $800 Per Month Using His Car to Mine Crypto

Warning: Doing this might void your Tesla’s warranty.

This week Kosovo announced a total crypto ban after spending the last 60 days in a government state of emergency over an ongoing energy crisis.
Cryptocurrency

Another Entire Country Just Banned Crypto Mining

Cops are seizing mining rigs.

One of NASA's top scientists finally shaved his "James Webb Beard" yesterday to celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's successful deployment.
Future Society

NASA Scientist Shaves Off “James Webb Beard” After Successful Deployment

Lookin' good!

A new AMD graphics card was designed to be less desirable for crypto miners to reduce issues with the GPU shortage and scalpers.
Cryptocurrency

New Graphics Card Is Bad at Cryptomining on Purpose, Maker Says

Take that, scalpers!

A global team of scientists says they've detected water on the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided.
Moon

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the Moon

Hydration station!

Data scientists who have already been tracking political violence around the world are retooling their efforts to predict American insurrection using AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Data Scientists Say They’ve Developed Algorithms to Predict the Next Coup Attempt

Can computers predict flashpoints for political violence? The jury's still out.

The Open Source Afro Hair Library was designed to improve the way digital artists and video game developers portray 3D models of Black hairstyles.
Future Society

3D Artists Create Better Models of Black Hairstyles for Video Games

"All of us can be caretakers, all of us can be stewards."

A farmer in Turkey has purchased special VR headsets for his cows so they'll produce more milk and be less anxious. It seems to be working.
Virtual Reality

Farmer Puts VR Headsets on Cows to Simulate Green Pastures

Shouldn't cows always be in green pastures?

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.
Nuclear Fusion

Fire Reported at Crumbling Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

What is wrong with Michigan's nuclear plants?

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.
Future Society

Guy Testing Life-Extending Gene Therapy on Himself Admits That Environmental Catastrophe May Pose Problem

He makes the future sound pretty bleak.

China has developed a laser that could be mounted on a satellite to enable high-speed communication, tracking, and identifying targets, South China Morning Post reports.
Off-World

Chinese Researcher Says New Space Laser Is Definitely Not a Weapon

"But a bigger version can be."

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.
Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

We're not in Kansas anymore...

IBM is putting up Watson Health for sale once again. The buyer could potentially affect millions of patients and government healthcare strategies.
Prosthetics and Devices

Remember IBM’s Amazing Watson AI? Now It’s Desperately Trying to Sell It Off

It better not fall into the wrong hands...

To no one's surprise, a new study has found that many purported hangover "cures" are pretty much worthless.
RX and Medicine

Hangover “Cures” Are Total Nonsense, According to Science

"The surest way of preventing hangover symptoms is to abstain from alcohol."

Tesla's stock yo-yoing made CEO Elon Musk even richer — until it then made him $30 billion poorer.
Elon Musk

Oops, Elon Musk Just Lost $30 Billion

Don't get too excited — this is just another blip in the bizarreness of Elon's wealth.

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.
Moon

Remember the “Moon Cube”? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh

This is what we get for getting our hopes up.