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Uber drivers report that the company was charging rather than paying them for some trips, causing some to quit the platform altogether.
Advanced Transport

This seems backwards.

Investing platform Robinhood has agreed to pay a fine of nearly $70 million to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for misleading millions.
Investing

Robinhood's recent track record has been absolutely abysmal.

A Transformer-like car that can switch back and forth into a personal airplane just completed a brief test flight in Slovakia.
Advanced Transport

Is it a car or is it a plane? We're not sure.

Following Virgin Orbit's successful launch of seven satellites earlier this morning, CEO Richard Branson threw a jab at the competition.
Off-World

"When the engineers tell me I can go to space, I will go to space."

New York City really messed up its first attempt at ranked-choice voting when the Board of Elections erroneously counted 135,000 extra votes.
Future Society

The Board of Elections counted 135,000 test ballots in the ranked-choice Democratic primary.

The evacuated area around post-meltdown Fukushima in Japan is being overrun by "relatively" radioactive boar-pig hybrids.
Science & Energy

When pig farmers fled the area over ten years ago, their abandoned livestock started breeding with local wild boar.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to have aa chat with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at a Bitcoin event on July 21, according to a recent Twitter exchange.
Elon Musk

"Let's have THE talk."

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new op-ed that 'Oumuamua, UAP sightings, and alien scientists could all be connected.
Off-World

And the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might be tuning in.

Scientists have discovered an entire lake in East Antarctica has completely disappeared into the ocean — and it could be the result of climate change.
Science & Energy

Scientists have one solid theory as to what happened to it.

After news emerged that John McAfee died of a suspected suicide in his jail cell in Barcelona, Spain, his official Instagram account made a post.
Future Society

One final mystery.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's new house is a $50,000 prefabricated house that's only about 400 square feet, located at SpaceX's Boca Chica site.
Off-World

One of the richest men in the world is choosing to rent out a 400 square foot box.

A comet that flew past Earth in late 2018 was releasing a shockingly high amount of alcohol in its wake, according to a new study.
Science & Energy

Party on, comet!

In a light-hearted exchange on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to give rocket competitor, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a leg up.
Off-World

"I mean, just in case."

As the record-shattering heatwave continues, officials report dozens of sudden, heat-related deaths in Canada and the northwestern United States/
Climate Change

"I've never seen anything like this. I hope it never becomes like this ever again."

Satellite delivery company Virgin Orbit just flew a Boeing 747 to a lofty height before launching a space rocket strapped to the bottom of one of its wings.
Off-World

It's the first time the company launched a private payload into low-Earth orbit from its airliner.

Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, has been without a president for almost an entire quarter -- and it's unclear what's going on.
Elon Musk

There's drama inside Elon Musk's brain interface startup.

A new startup called Worldcoin plans to offer a crypto of the same name to everyone on Earth in exchange for scanning their eyeballs.
Cryptocurrency

Use Sam Altman's bizarre orb to scan your iris and you can walk away with some crypto.

After complaining that regulators are keeping his space company's ambitions back for years, Elon Musk had yet another setback to contend with.
SpaceX

Elon Musk is extremely angry at the FAA.

SpaceX head Elon Musk revealed today that he likes to go on social media to check in on the progress his company is making on Starship.
Starship

"Often when I want to know what the latest thing is, I just go on the internet."

A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.
Science & Energy

Down in front!