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A man in Wisconsin was reportedly seen sleeping behind the wheel of his Tesla, which had Autopilot turned on, while gunning down a highway at 82 mph.
Sleep

The driver got away with a citation for "inattentive driving."

China has banned any financial institutions and payment companies from doing any business related to cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies are "seriously infringing on the safety of people’s property and disrupting the normal economic and financial order."

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg appears to care far more about his company's bottom line.

During the week since Musk's announcement, almost every mainstream cryptocurrency has plummeted in value, from Bitcoin to Dogecoin.
Elon Musk

Sorry, folks.

Tesla chief Elon Musk is now officially the company's "Technoking," according to an official filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Elon Musk

An astonishing reversal.

A team of researchers fired tardigrades, also known as water bears, out of a gun to see if they could survive in extreme conditions like outer space.
Off-World

Turns out it takes a lot of effort to kill a tardigrade.

A team of researchers from Northwestern University have created a high-resolution 3D simulation of the moment a star is formed.
Space

"This new simulation will help us directly address fundamental questions we could not definitively answer before."

Skateboard legend Tony Hawk has collaborated with Mercedes Benz for a new ad featuring the brand's new EQT Concept — and a futuristic, electric skateboard.
Advanced Transport

"Hey Tony, why did you switch to electric?"

A paralyzed man with a brain implant has challenged the rhesus monkey from Neuralink to a game of Pong using only their minds.
Brain

“We are preparing and training already.”

Ford has patented a piece of technology that could prove to be a major headache for its customers — that is, if it ever makes it into the company's cars.
Advanced Transport

Let's hope this feature never materializes.

blockfi
Bitcoin

Experts warn it could be a sign of a bubble.

China has shared the first pictures taken by its Zhurong Mars rover after touching down on the Red Planet's surface over the weekend.
Mars

"It's another important milestone for China's space exploration."

Even a Tiny Bit of Drinking Damages Your Brain, Scientists Say
Brain

You hate to see it.

Scientists are worried that spending prolonged periods of time in the microgravity of space could have negative effects on the spines of astronauts.
NASA

That's not good.

A cache of horrifying emails show that during the height of the opioid crisis, pharmaceutical execs were hard at work mocking rural Americans.
Developments

Horrifying emails show the pharaceutical industry's contempt for rural American "pillbillies."

President Joe Biden raced a still unreleased and fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning through an empty parking lot near the company's headquarters Michigan.
Advanced Transport

"This sucker's quick."

If you didn’t get in on a Cybertruck pre-order, there’s a new way for you to get in on the action: A rad, new Hot Wheels remote control version — only $100.
Advanced Transport

Smol car, big fun

Barack Obama sat down for a "Late Late Show" interview. When Reggie Watts asked Obama about any UFO theories, he had a surprising answer.
Future Society

"I was like, ‘Is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and space ships?'"

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
Viruses

This new technique tricks a tumor into eliminating itself from the inside out.

A 2015 Tesla Model S crashed into a parked Washington state deputy's patrol vehicle over the weekend with its Autopilot feature turned on.
Tesla

The cop car sustained "significant damage."