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Tesla CEO Elon Musk testified today in a lawsuit over his car company's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, a publicly traded solar energy company.
Elon Musk

"We plan to spend a lot of time with you. It's going to be a grind."

Scientists say we could deflect a killer asteroid by bombarding it with telecom satellites that are already in orbit instead of bombs.
Off-World

What if our asteroid shields were already in orbit?

In international team of researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that our global plastic pollution problem may be nearing a point of no return.
Pollution

"As consumers, we believe that when we properly separate our plastic trash, all of it will magically be recycled."

A subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is proposing to send a nuclear power station to Mars to power a future Russian base.
Mars

Nations are racing ahead to be the first to establish a base on Mars.

Tesla is rolling out the "Full Self-Driving" v9 beta update. Elon Musk is warning drivers not to put too much faith in it and to "be paranoid."
Self-Driving Vehicles

"Please be paranoid."

BREAKING: Richard Branson Successfully Flies to Space on Virgin Rocket
Off-World

The billionaire reached an altitude of 50 miles above Earth.

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire
Future Society

The team believes the ice can help detect air pollution.

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons
Off-World

"They’re on the march."

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.
Elon Musk

The proposed tunnel's at risk of extreme flooding from rising sea levels.

Law enforcement agencies across the globe are working together to take down dark web marketplaces facilitating illegal activity.
Future Society

He faces up to 25 years in jail for securities fraud.

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.
Climate Change

Cities like Las Vegas are expected to break all-time heat records.

Researchers dumped 60 brown trout in a water tank that contained low levels of methamphetamine to see if they would get addicted.
Climate Change

“It just feels like one of those postapocalyptic movies.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at her fellow lawmakers as well as the fossil fuel industry in a tweet blaming them for the recent NYC floods.
Future Society

"I’m so glad the filibuster is here to fix this oh wait."

The United Launch Alliance is planning to use two of Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engines to build its Vulcan rocket. But the engine is years late.
Jeff Bezos

"There is great concern that Blue is not putting enough attention and priority on the engine."

A new car created by award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick is said to be able to clean the air of pollution while you drive it.
Pollution

The car can "collect a tennis ball worth” of pollution a year.

Scientists have developed a unique radar system that relies on microwaves and allows us to produce real-time images and videos of objects through walls.
Science & Energy

The system can also detect objects moving at hypersonic speeds.

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.
Robotics

The autonomous drone reportedly took down a target all the way back in 2010.

Richard Branson recently announced he would be traveling to space over a week before Jeff Bezos's own journey. Bezos is "seriously pissed off."
Blue Origin

"Jeff is seriously pissed off."

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.
Science & Energy

He says Dogecoin is better positioned to scale up.

According to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, cosmonauts are still trying to identify the source of a leak causing air to escape from the ISS.
Off-World

The leak was first detected in September 2019.