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The topic of women's reproductive rights seems to be of very little concern to Musk, who "would prefer to stay out of politics."
Elon Musk

Musk would rather "stay out of politics."

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has announced that it is delaying the rollout of its controversial plans to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), The Verge reports.
Future Society

The company is actually listening for once.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.
Mars

Perseverance reportedly triumphed, but NASA has wrongfully declared success before.

By Dan Robitzski

Rocket startup Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket experienced a bit of an anomaly during its launch on Thursday — an unfortunate end to its first launch.
Off-World

That's one massive explosion.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has added a glass dome to its Crew Dragon spacecraft that will carry the first all-civilian astronaut crew around the Earth later this month.
SpaceX

The views are going to be incredible.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."
Tesla

"I will not be able to ensure that robots made by other companies are safe, but I can try my best to do so at Tesla."

By Victor Tangermann

A growing number of girls and young women are developing Tourette's-like tics just from watching videos of them on TikTok.
Developments

"It's an epidemic within the pandemic."

By Dan Robitzski

The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Virgin Galactic until further notice, following a troubling report about Richard Branson's maiden voyage.
Off-World

The FAA wants to approve the "final mishap investigation report" first before letting SpaceShipTwo fly again.

By Victor Tangermann

Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan has tested positive for the coronavirus and is "throwing the kitchen sink" at the virus to treat the disease.
Developments

Easier yet, he could just get vaccinated.

By Victor Tangermann

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.
Climate Change

No more abstractions.

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.
Moon

The new lunar Space Race is on!

By Dan Robitzski

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.
Off-World

Rogozin is either suffering from severe memory loss — or, much more likely, he's trolling NASA once again.

By Dan Robitzski

As laid out by reporter Nicholas Schmidle in a revealing piece for The New Yorker, the crew on board Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft veered way off course.
Off-World

The pilots reportedly chose to ignore a red light that lit up in the console.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Israel have come up with a novel way of making photorealistic changes to photos using AI. And gave Elon Musk a bunch of haircuts.
Elon Musk

Straight nightmare fuel.

By Victor Tangermann

Federal regulators investigating Tesla Autopilot's habit of ramming emergency vehicles gave the company an ultimatum: Share your data or pay a huge fine.
Tesla

Regulators want to know why Autopilot seems to have it out for emergency vehicles.

By Dan Robitzski

China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has shown off a prototype for a "Mars cruise drone" that looks extremely familiar.
Mars

Well, this thing sure looks familiar.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla seems to have bought itself a new Liebherr crawler crane for use in Texas, according to a picture of the machinery being shipped in Europe.
SpaceX

SpaceX seems to have ordered a new toy.

By Dan Robitzski

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.
Off-World

"Literally a day after the [in-flight] systems are fully exhausted, irreparable failures may begin."

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting real tired of the constant litigation being thrown at him by Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.
Off-World

He's had enough.

By Victor Tangermann

A 24-year-old woman from Illinois was busted for faking the vaccination card she used to enter the state of Hawaii on August 23 — after misspelling Moderna.
Developments

Leave it to the anti-vaxxers to be this careless.

By Victor Tangermann