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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.

Two professors say the first interstellar travel may transport tiny microscopic organisms known as tardigrades, or water bears, through space.
Off-World

Scientists Propose Sending Small Creatures to Neighboring Star Systems

Is that really ethical?

The Boring Company's tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center is starting to experience traffic jams all on its own during this year's CES.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Tunnel Mocked for Getting Its Own Traffic Jam

Weren't the tunnels supposed to solve this problem?

Bitcoin was hit by a precipitous price drop on Wednesday following a draconian Internet crackdown in Kazakhstan, the second-largest mining hub in the world.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Crashes as Major Crypto Country Shuts Down Entire Internet

Prices are now down 40 percent from November's high.

The International Space Station's about to get that much cooler now that NASA has approved a venture that will bring an art gallery/museum aboard. 
International Space Station

Startup Will Store Precious Artifacts in Vault Aboard the International Space Station

Yes, there's an NFT component — but it's not as wacky as you'd think.

In Europe, tens of thousands of empty planes are being flown due to an air traffic rule — while needlessly polluting the skies.
Climate Change

In Disgusting Waste, Airlines Are Flying Thousands of Completely Empty Jetliners

The situation is as terrible as it is avoidable.

It's not just you — everyone is having less sex, and fears about unwanted sex acts may be to blame.
Studies

Scientists Blame Assault Fears for Downturn in Human Sexual Activity

People may be avoiding sex entirely out of fears of sexual assault.

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector
NFTs

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

"I have been hacked. All my apes are gone."