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People in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico got a lightshow of a lifetime over the weekend when a spectacular fireball streaked across the sky as it fell to Earth. 
Future Society

Video Appears to Show SpaceX Rocket Disintegrating in Epic Fireball

It's spectacular.

NASA just approved a SpaceX project to launch its first fully-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.  
NASA

NASA Officially Approves First SpaceX Tourists to Visit Space Station

It's happening!

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.
Climate Change

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

"We were frankly surprised and disappointed at the overall integrity of the companies’ claims."

The 27 most expensive recorded NFT sales in January amounted to $1.3 billion — but it came from just two crypto wallets trading with each other.
Cryptocurrency

Evidence Is Piling Up That a Huge Number of NFT Sales Are Fake

People keep buying their own NFTs — and driving up the price while doing so.

Pam Harght of Boston noticed and essentially rescued a sinking boat named Bing Bing during a work Zoom meeting last week.
Future Society

Woman Notices Sinking Boat During Zoom Call, Saves Crew

"They didn’t have much time left."

Renowned public speaker and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway ripped Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in an interview after stock prices fell drastically.
Metaverse

Famous Marketing Professor Calls Facebook’s Metaverse a “Flaming Bag of S**t”

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco.
Prosthetics and Devices

Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland

The chamber allows patients to kill themselves at the press of a button.

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Climate Change

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

Okay, that's pretty dark.

The identities of the creators of the wildly successful NFT project known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club have seemingly been revealed.
NFTs

Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed

Are they who you expected?

NFT creators are using wash trading to falsely inflate the prices on their JPGs every day according to crypto market transparency publication Chainanalysis.
Cryptocurrency

NFT Scammers Are Using a Sneaky Trick to Make Their JPGs Seem Like They’re Worth a Fortune

That's GOT to be illegal...

NASA says that as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its alignment process the team saw the first photons of starlight it has detected.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Detected Its First Signal

We're watching the future unfold in real time.

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.
Climate Change

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

We're gonna burn up if it isn't fixed.

Joe Rogan actually used to want people to get the vaccine as evidenced by a resurfaced clip with guest Dr. Michael Osterholm, member of Biden’s COVID board.
RX and Medicine

Video Shows Joe Rogan Mocking Vaccine Skeptics Back in 2020

What happened to you, Joe?

A robot bartender named Cecilia is Miami's hottest new mixologist.
3D Printing

AI Bartender Slams Out 120 Drinks Per Hour While Cracking Stupid Jokes

Just in time for the weekend.

A company that sells "lasso guns" to cops is working on ways to get its firearm into schools and medical institutions.
Prosthetics and Devices

Startup Trying to Sell Lasso Gun to Capture Unruly Kids In Schools

Wait, are they serious?

Ex-investment banker Colborn Bell, who owns millions of dollars worth of NFTs, warns the market for the tokens is about to crash, Fortune reports.
Cryptocurrency

Huge NFT Collector Warns of “Cataclysmic Market Crash”

"For me, this is when it gets very dangerous and is akin to a financial bubble."

Divers at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory set the stage for Artemis I training by simulating the Moon's lighting conditions in a cold, dark pool.
NASA

Haunting Photo Shows NASA Astronauts Submerged in Deep, Dark Water

Nightmare fuel.

A black woman who used to work at Tesla's plant in California sued the carmaker after suffering "painful abuses reminiscent of the Jim Crow era."
Tesla

Woman Sues Tesla for “Rampant” Racism

She says she suffered "painful abuses reminiscent of the Jim Crow era."

The tree-stump-sized gold cube worth a reported $11.7 million that graced Central Park's frozen lake is apparently promoting a cryptocurrency and NFTs.
NFTs

The Central Park Gold Cube Is an NFT Publicity Stunt, You Idiots

Sorry, folks.

A 24-year-old man from Bethesda, Maryland decided to take some extreme measures to get his hands on the $400,000 worth of cryptocurrencies owned by his father.
Cryptocurrency

Man Drugs His Father’s Tea to Steal $400,000 in Crypto

"It didn’t have to be like this!"