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Another Oculus Quest 2 user had an intense allergic reaction to the VR headset's facial foam interface over the holiday, resulting in a hospital trip after Christmas for 13-year-old Lewis Gray.
Virtual Reality

Christmas Present VR Headset Sends Boy to the Hospital

That sounds really painful!

Rapper Eminem just purchased a Bored Ape NFT that looks just like him for nearly half a million dollars. He owns almost two dozen NFTs in total.
NFTs

Eminem Just Bought a Bored Ape NFT for a Half Million Dollars

The Real Slim... Ape-y?

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says humans may touch down on Mars in as little as ten years with his reusable Starship rocket.
Mars

Elon Musk Says He’ll Have Boots on Mars Within Ten Years

Possible? Sure. Probable? ... Eh.

The massive sunshield protecting the James Webb Space Telescope from the Sun's heat is four days into unfurling, with several left to go until completion.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Officially Unfurling Its Mighty Sunshield

That's pretty cold!

Tesla recalled about 475,000 cars because of rear camera and trunk issues. All of the recalls are Model 3 and involve rear camera and trunk safety problems.
Tesla

Tesla Forced to Recall Almost Half a Million Cars

That's almost as many cars as it delivered in 2020!

Tesla's mercurial, meme-loving CEO Elon Musk angered a ton of the automaker's fans when he tweeted an anti-vaxxer meme early Thursday morning.
Developments

Elon Musk Fans Furious That He Posted Antivax Meme

Not really something to joke about.

Experts now say that future space colonists are likely going to face food troubles — and that might just turn them into cannibals.
Off-World

Space Colonists Will Likely Resort to Cannibalism, Scientist Says

"They are going to eat each other if there is no other way to survive."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently sat down with Lex Fridman and dished on who exactly he thought Satoshi Nakamoto really is — and he says it's not him.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Thinks He Knows the Real Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

He also says that’s it’s most definitely, absolutely not at all him.

Cases of the COVID-19 are surging across the globe as the highly transmissible Omicron variant becomes the most dominant strain of the virus.
Developments

Omicron Continues to Wreak Havoc on Flights, Hospitals, and Worst of All, BTS

Things are starting to look a lot like 2020 again.

The CDC updated its COVID-19 guidelines, shortening the isolation timeline for those who contract the virus to just five days.
Developments

Health Experts Slam CDC After It Shortened COVID Isolation Guidelines

"It is a clear case of prioritizing corporate profit over public health."

A Russian rocket is now stranded in orbit after it suffered an engine failure — and it might come crashing back down to Earth.
Off-World

A Russian Spacecraft Is Stranded in Low Earth Orbit

It’s probably going to come crashing back down to Earth.

China recently informed the United Nations that its space station performed two evasive maneuvers this past year to avoid colliding with Starlink satellites
Off-World

China Furious With Elon Musk for Endangering Its Space Station

"The risks of Starlink are being gradually exposed, the whole human race will pay for their business activities."

NASA brought together 24 theologians for a year-long program to find out how exactly religious communities would react to alien life.
Future Society

NASA Paid Priests to Figure Out How to Deal With Aliens

A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a NASA-funded program...

Researchers in China created a machine that can file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy based on a description of a suspected criminal case.
Artificial Intelligence

China Created an AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People with Crimes

It's been trained to identify Shanghai's eight most common crimes.

Police in Israel may soon have autonomous drones that fly to locations where gunshots are detected, but Denver police can't prove the tech even works.
Drones

New Tech Will Send Police Drones to Sites Where Guns Went Off

That's actually pretty scary.

Former President Donald Trump took far-right personality Candace Owens to task for questioning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines because, clearly, 2021 still has a few surprises left for us yet.
Developments

Donald Trump Touts Vaccine Safety, Humiliates Right-Winger

Literally what the hell is happening.

The world's newest space telescope that's been decades in the making is supposedly going to take off on Christmas Day and you best believe the internet has something to say about it.
James Webb Space Telescope

Memers Rejoice and Troll as James Webb Space Telescope Allegedly Prepares For Liftoff

Whether or not the telescope launches this year, it sure has been fun waiting around.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed today why he supports alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin and isn't a huge fan of Bitcoin.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Explains Why He is “Pro Doge,” Not Bitcoin

"Bitcoin just gives power to new rich people."

The more we learn about whether Elon Musk lives in either a shack or a palace, the more confusing the story becomes.
Elon Musk

Mystery Deepens About Whether Elon Musk Actually Lives in Prefab Box

Even by Elon's standards, this is getting dramatic.

A rising number of burglary and homicide crime cases is causing celebrities to stockpile bulletproof cars and safe rooms for security.
Future Society

The Wealthy Are Suddenly Hoarding Safe Rooms and Bulletproof Cars

Sounds like a nightmare.