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Finance

Hometap: no loans, no monthly payments, no kidding.

By Futurism Creative

Last month, a man dressed in "full ninja garb" decided to attack a member of the US Army special operations unit in the middle of the California desert.
Future Society

Here's what happens when you bring a katana to a gun fight.

By Victor Tangermann

In Los Angeles shots published by Page Six, in fact, Grimes can be seen leafing through Marx's influential volume "The Communist Manifesto."
Elon Musk

That's a good autumn look!

By Jon Christian

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak has a pretty grim view on the fate of humanity: the robot uprising is inevitable and they will leave humans in the dust.
Future Society

Should we be concerned about the singularity?

By Victor Tangermann

Former Blue Origin employee Alexandra Abrams has accused the company's senior leadership of rampant sexism, descrimination, and disregarding safety issues.
Off-World

"You cannot create a culture of safety and a culture of fear at the same time."

By Dan Robitzski

As Arctic ice melts away, it could unleash dangerous, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, nuclear waste, and toxic chemicals that had been sealed away.
Pathogens

"It has long been a deep-freezer for a range of harmful things, not just greenhouse gases."

By Dan Robitzski

Pharmaceutical company Merck claims its new COVID-19 pill called molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalization and even death by half.
Viruses

The only problem? It's more than ten times as expensive as two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

By Victor Tangermann

Current and former Blue Origin employees wrote an op-ed in which they say they don't trust that the company's New Shepard rocket is safe.
Blue Origin

"Blue Origin has been lucky that nothing has happened so far."

By Dan Robitzski

Millions of dollars worth of COMP tokens, rewards for crypto mining, were mistakenly given out by a decentralized crypto market Wednesday night.
Blockchain

"Keep 10 percent as a white-hat. Otherwise, it’s being reported as income to the IRS, and most of you are doxxed."

By Victor Tangermann

A new study projects that China's population could drop by half in just 30 years unless urgent measures are taken to make raising kids more affordable.
Future Society

"People dare not to have children due to increasing economic pressure."

By Dan Robitzski

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released dramatic footage from inside a hurricane recorded by a "Saildrone."
Drones

Hurricane Sam isn't messing around.

By Victor Tangermann

El Salvador has officially begun to mine Bitcoin using the power harnessed from a volcano — and has made 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269.
Bitcoin

The country has made 0.00599179 bitcoin, or about $269 so far.

By Victor Tangermann

A woman's newborn baby died nine months after preventable complications at birth that hospital staff missed due to a ransomware hack.
Developments

The mother is suing over what seems to be the first death caused by ransomware.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has decided to keep the name for the James Webb Space Telescope as -is despite criticism over the former Administrator's homophobic past.
Science & Energy

Bill Nelson says there's "no evidence" to justify renaming the James Webb Space Telescope.

By Dan Robitzski

Grimes has had a rough time after breaking up with Elon Musk, writing a song about "all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment."
Elon Musk

Her new song is "in response to all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment by paparazzis."

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Florida just returned a Moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission. It vanished without a trace until he bought it at a garage sale.
Science & Energy

"I can't even tell you how long I owned it for."

By Dan Robitzski

An essay signed by 21 current and former employees paints a bleak picture of what it is like to work at Blue Origin, a company that is "rife with sexism."
Blue Origin

"I’ve gotten far enough away from it that I’m not afraid enough to let them silence me anymore."

By Victor Tangermann

The icy "glue" that holds Antarctica's ice shelf together and fills in any cracks is melting away, leaving the entire shelf in a dire situation.
Climate Change

That's bad news.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Meteor Watch made sightings of at least five fireballs soaring through the sky over the US last Friday night at 32,000 mph.
Science & Energy

One of them soared through the upper atmosphere at 32,000 mph.

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA and the Air Force successfully flight tested a hypersonic missile that "breathes" the air around it to propel itself faster.
DARPA

The military sees hypersonic weapons as a major weapon of the future.

By Dan Robitzski