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A pilot readying to land a plane at the giant, uber busy Los Angeles International Airport spotted someone flying a jetpack just 15 miles away from LAX.
Advanced Transport

Pilot Spots Jetpack While Landing at LAX

Not the smartest move.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.
Blockchain

Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash

"As far as buying food and all that, maybe not."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.
Future Society

NASA Demands Return of Moon Dust Pooped Out by Cockroaches

"No person has permission to keep them."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.
Nuclear Fusion

We’re in Awe of this Absolutely Deranged “Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel”

"I bet I still end up next to someone else's screaming three year old for the entire trip."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.
Pollution

Stranded Oil Tanker That Could Start Leaking Any Time Now, Experts Warn

Time's running out.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of Cambridge scientists say dyslexia encourages creativity and innovation and could lead to humanity's success as we evolve.
Studies

Dyslexia Actually Grants Special Powers, Researchers Say

"The deficit-centered view of dyslexia isn’t telling the whole story."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.
Energy

Startup Says It’s Honing in on Simple Solution for Practical Fusion Power

Critics say it's "propaganda," too good to be true. Who do we believe?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla brought back its Enhanced Autopilot feature this week for $6,000. Full Self Driving mode now only includes one additional feature and costs $12,000.
Future Society

Tesla Brings Back Enhanced Autopilot, in Clever Scheme to Extract Even More Money From Drivers

"I’m not convinced $6k is worth it."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon
Moon

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

One more crater!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time, SpaceX has managed to lift and place its Super Heavy rocket booster onto its launch pad using its "chopsticks"-wielding launch tower.
SpaceX

SpaceX Finally Lifts Super Heavy Booster Using Giant Robot Arms

It finally did the thing!

By Victor Tangermann

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

Talk about an invasion of privacy!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

18-year-old Ricky da Luz, for instance, figured out people go absolutely hog wild over physical representations of their Bored Ape NFTs.
Blockchain

Teen Makes $700,000 Selling Action Figures of Bored Apes to Adult Children

This 18-year-old is putting the fun in non-fungible.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lamented that global supply chain issues and EV battery woes are causing the company's new Gigafactories to bleed cash — fast.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says New Tesla Factories Are Wasting “Billions of Dollars”

"It should be like a giant roaring sound which is the sound of money on fire."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that will have devastating effects for roughly 40 million women and girls.
Developments

Supreme Court Strikes Down Right to Abortion, in Horrifying Public Health Disaster

Unconscionable.

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."
Google

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

"It’s a person. Any person has the ability to escape the control of other people."

By Victor Tangermann

A vegan subscription service has a lot of explaining to do after a number of people reported intense stomach issues and even organ failure.
Developments

Vegan Snack Linked to Organ Failure

You might wanna check your freezer.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian President Vladimir Putin happily announced the country's so-called "Satan-2" rocket is ready for deployment this year.
Nuclear Fusion

Putin Brags That “Satan II” Nuclear Missile Almost Ready for Launch

It could hit the US in two hours from launch.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Space weather experts are monitoring a growing sunspot that's pointing straight towards Earth, USA Today reports — but there's "no need to panic."
Space

Scientists Say “No Need to Panic” as Sunspot Pointed at Earth Doubles in Size Again

"This is what sunspots do."

By Victor Tangermann

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.
NASA

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

"Are you out of your minds? Not just no, but hell no."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In her new book," former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver has some juicy details about the early days of Elon Musk's rocket venture SpaceX.
SpaceX

Elon Musk Reportedly Started SpaceX After Russian Engineer Spat on Him

And the rest is history.

By Victor Tangermann