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Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos is reportedly pouring millions into a mysterious anti-aging startup, and Elon Musk is mocking him for it.
Off-World

"And if it doesn’t work, he’s gonna sue death!"

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.
Viruses

"We never knew that they were running experiments on us, giving us ivermectin."

China's Chang'e-5 orbiter, the spacecraft that helped ferry Moon rocks back to Earth last year before heading to deep space, just started a return journey.
Moon

This might be Chang'e-5's final move.

Officials from a local Swiss skiing resort are now trying to slow the melting by throwing giant fleece blankets over the glacier
Science & Energy

It's a desperate situation.

Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.
Viruses

That's just what we need.

Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio signal coming from close to the center of the galaxy.
Science & Energy

We have no idea what it is.

Two autonomous police robots are roaming the streets of Singapore looking for signs of trouble during a brief trial period.
Robotics

A small robot named Xavier is nudging people to wear a mask.

Dmitry Rogozin, the director-general of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, is keen on spending some quality time space billionaires like Elon Musk.
Off-World

"I already set the teakettle on heat."

The SpaceX rocket destined to launch the first all-private crew into orbit has officially been rolled out onto the launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX

SpaceX is about to make private spaceflight history.

Altos Labs, a biological reprogramming tech company, is allegedly attracting big name investors such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Future Society

Jeff Bezos is reportedly one of its top investors.

Sales of NFTs on OpenSea, an NFT buying and selling platform, hit a record high of $3.4 billion in August and is on track to do well in September.
NFTs

The whiplash continues.

A massive oil spill was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday likely caused by Hurricane Ida.
Future Society

The companies got busted by satellite imagery.

Kaku implored scientists to "keep an open mind" at the possibilities that UFOs are evidence of advanced lifeforms visiting Earth.
Future Society

“Imagine if the aliens are millions of years more advanced than us."

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."
Artificial Intelligence

It's another example of racist AI in action.

The UN scientist who helped pen the dire report on climate change said that the impact of man made climate change is already being felt in ways unimagined.
Climate Change

"The climate we’ve been living in, is not going to be the climate we are living in right now."

The Dead Internet Theory states that the Internet as we know it actually died sometime between 2016 and 2017 — and is now filled with mostly bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Not only that, but everything online is generated by bots.

Lyft’s CEO Logan Green announced on Friday via Twitter that the company would “cover 100% of legal fees” if their drivers are sued under Texas’ SB 8 law.
Future Society

"This is an attack on women’s access to healthcare and on their right to choose."

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova. 
Science & Energy

It might be evidence of a rare type of supernova.

Elon Musk Reportedly Planning $25,000 Tesla with No Steering Wheel
Elon Musk

The car would be fully autonomous (in theory).

A new molecule-sized "camera" helps scientists watch individual chemical reactions in real-time, and they say it could lead to better solar panels.
Chemistry

The nanoscale device revealed never-before seen compounds.