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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?

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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."

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

Check Out This Awesome Drone Footage From Inside a Hurricane

Hurricane Sam isn't messing around.

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

El Salvador Officially Starts Mining Bitcoin Using Power From an Actual Volcano

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

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

Hackers Attacked a Hospital and Allegedly Killed a Newborn Baby

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

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

NASA Refuses to Rename Giant Homophobic Telescope

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