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Billionaire Larry Connor, the pilot for the upcoming all-civilian mission to the International Space Station, wants the world to know he's a regular dude.
SpaceX

Billionaire Flying SpaceX to Space Station Says He’s Just an Average Guy

"Ohio man" Larry Connor is really downplaying his extreme wealth.

A man recently showed up to the hospital to have over two pounds of metal nails, screws, and other miscellanea removed from his stomach.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Alarmed by Man Who Quit Drinking and Started Swallowing Metal Nails and Screws

"We've never seen anything like it."

About 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of a pipeline near Orange County, California, causing damage to the environment that could last for months.
Environment

Huge Oil Spill Strikes Off Coast of California

126,000 gallons of crude oil leaked just off of Huntington Beach.

In 2018, Blue Origin hired consultants in an attemtp to imitate and then ultimately catch up to SpaceX, according to leaked notes.
Blue Origin

Leaked Documents Show That Blue Origin Was Obsessed With SpaceX

"Blue is kind of lazy compared to SpaceX," a Blue Origin exec said in 2018.

Facebook's internal communications tools were knocked out, leaving employees scrambling. Worse yet, some employees couldn't even physically get to work.
Future Society

Facebook Employees Have Reportedly Been Locked Out of Company Offices

They're not even getting work emails right now.

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.
Data Privacy

Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

Here's what happens to misinformation when the single largest source of misinformation goes down.

Tesla added to its lawsuit against rival automaker Rivian, accusing the company of poaching staff and stealing proprietary trade secrets.
Tesla

Tesla Says Electric Car Rival Rivian Keeps Stealing Secrets

Tesla is suing Rivian, but Rivian says Tesla won't even say what it stole.

Facebook has been down for several hours, indicating that this isn't your average outage for the company. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are also down.
Future Society

Something Very Strange Is Going on at Facebook

"Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform."

For one beautiful moment, the internet was blanketed in a serene silence.In case you haven't heard, Facebook is down. Like really, really down.
Future Society

Facebook Is Down. Like, REALLY Down

The internet is having a snow day.

Residents in Jacksonville, Florida, heard a loud boom on Thursday night — and it wasn't fireworks gone rogue or a massive fireball coming to finish us off.
SpaceX

Residents Heard a Loud Boom. Turns Out It Was SpaceX Coming Back to Earth

What the hell was that?

Finance

A Home Equity Investment Lets You Tap Your Home’s Value With No Monthly Payments

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

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

Man Dressed as Ninja Attacks Army Special Ops Soldiers With Katana Sword

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

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

Grimes Spotted Reading Karl Marx After Breaking Up With Elon Musk

That's a good autumn look!

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

Neuralink Co-Founder Predicts That Humanity Will Get “Wrecked”

Should we be concerned about the singularity?

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

Former Jeff Bezos Space Employee: “I Really Wished He Was the Person We All Thought He Was”

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

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

Melting Arctic Could Release Nuclear Waste and Deadly Pathogens, Scientists Say

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

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

Company Claims Pill Cuts Risk of Dying of COVID-19 in Half

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

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 Employees Say They Don’t Think Its Rocket Is Safe, Wouldn’t Ride In It

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

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

Blockchain Company Accidentally Gives Out $90 Million, Begs People to Give It Back

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

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

China’s Population Projected to Fall by Half Within 30 Years

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