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Uber announced a deal with Hertz to make 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to rent to Uber drivers by 2023, an ambitious plan to electrify its fleet.
Tesla

"We look forward to seeing more EVs on the road right away."

An interdisciplinary team of scientists have launched a project with the goal of decoding and potentially communicating with sperm whales.
Artificial Intelligence

The neural network could provide the key to communicating with whales.

A Texas startup wants to build a community of 100 3D printed homes — which would make it the largest such community in the US.
Future Society

The homes' walls can be printed in a week.

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.
Mars

Here’s how we can put a gas station on Mars.

Miso Robotics is moving on to the next step of its world robotics domination plan with the Flippy Wings, dubbed "Wingy," which can deep fry wings.
Robotics

It's best to stay on Wingy's good side.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to whine about a questionable plan by Democrats to tax billionaires, which would cut his wealth by $50 billion.
Elon Musk

"Eventually, they run out of other people's money and then they come for you."

Taiwan has announced it’s created a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that can allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects with ease.
Prosthetics and Devices

It’s a part of a project called the "Taiwan Ironman" program.

The UN dropped two reports this week that send a clear message: nations simply aren’t doing enough to stop climate disaster. 
Climate Change

"We’re just so far off track, it’s really discouraging."

Facebook has hired Mathew Rosengart, the lawyer who helped free Britney Spears, in a potential lawsuit against producers of a TV show about the company.
Future Society

He helped free Britney. Now he’s fighting for Zuckerberg.

Online pundits immediately flagged a rather obvious design flaw with Blue Origin's new commercial space station: there's too much empty space.
Off-World

Does the Orbital Reef have a glaring design flaw?

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian space corporation Roscosmos, said that he's planning to assign cosmonauts to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX

NASA and Russia are ready to mix and match.

SpaceX has announced a redesign of its space toilet's mechanics a month after the Inspiration4 crew encountered a problem with the commode.
Future Society

"Crew Dragon appears to be resilient to piss."

Using data collected by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Telescope, scientists may have found evidence for the existence of an exoplanet 28 million light-years away.
Science & Energy

The universe just got bigger — way bigger.

A journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked on any links.
Hacking

"It’s like being robbed by a ghost."

SpaceX has shared an exciting new 90-second montage dubbed "Gateway to Mars" of its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototypes being tested.
Mars

Starship can't go orbital soon enough.

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Future Society

In the immortal words of Rick James, we're bustin' out.

A Canadian aerospace company has chosen a very eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: Sexbomb.
Advanced Transport

"It is sexy, so it is a sexbomb."

Rental car company Hertz has ordered 100,000 Tesla Model 3s as part of a massive push to electrify its fleet — the largest purchase of electric vehicles.
Tesla

The deal caused Tesla's market valuation to hit the $1 trillion mark.

Fauci Accused of Funding Cruel Experiments on Puppies
Studies

The dogs were also allegedly locked in cages in the desert for "nine consecutive nights."

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has announced ambitious plans for a new commercial space station called Orbital Reef.
Blue Origin

It's a massively ambitious plan.