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"SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel," CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. Please join if interested."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and Turning It Into Rocket Fuel

"Will also be important for Mars."

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado
Future Society

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado

"Amazon won’t let us leave."

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Says She Was Constantly Sexually Harassed by Coworkers
Future Society

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Says She Was Constantly Sexually Harassed by Coworkers

She claims that her attempts to report the issues to HR fell on deaf ears.

An NFT enthusiast made a typo that ended up costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars when selling his "Bored Ape" NFT.
Cryptocurrency

Guy Accidentally Sells $300,000 “Bored Ape” NFT for 1% of Its Value

We live in the worst timeline.

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death
RX and Medicine

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

The pharma cofounder urge to defy death itself.

Israeli company MeaTech 3D has successfully bioprinted a 3.67 ounce steak that's composed out of layers of lab-grown fat and muscle cells.
Science & Energy

Scientists Sucessfully Bioprint World’s Largest Lab-Grown Steak

Okay, that's pretty cool.

Billionaire and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong has launched a new "epigenetic reprogramming" company with the goal of extending the human health span.
Gene Editing

Billionaire Launches Startup to Reprogram Human Gene Expression

Could reprogramming genes allow us to extend the human lifespan?

Amazon is under fire for its controversial workplace cell phone ban in the wake of a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois during Friday night's tornado.
Future Society

Amazon Under Fire for Workplace Cell Phone Ban After Deadly Warehouse Collapse

"After these deaths, there is no way in hell I am relying on Amazon to keep me safe."

A new report from the Harvard Kennedy School found that China’s rapidly gaining steam in the realms of AI, 5G, quantum computing, biotechnology, and more.
Future Society

Harvard Warns That Chinese Tech Is Rapidly Overtaking American Capabilities

They're warning that "it will overtake the US within the next decade." 

Researchers have discovered that humans experience a “creative sweet spot” in the moments right before we fall asleep that can help solve tough problems.
Neuroscience and Brain

Human Brains Can Solve Hard Problems Moments Before Falling Asleep, Study Finds

Here's how you can try to create your own "eureka" moments.

As Reuters and other outlets reported, a woman who worked on the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont, California factory said she suffered "sexual harassment on a near-daily basis" from her manager.
Tesla

New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Alleges Disgusting Behavior at Tesla Factory

Is Tesla's Fremont factory a "frat house"?

Former Feinstein Institutes neuroengineer Viktor Tóth taught three rats to play "Doom II" using a virtual reality set up. Here's how he did it.
Future Society

Scientist Who Trained Rats to Play “Doom II” Says He May Start Twitch Channel

Here's why — and how — he did it.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021 for his "dreams of Mars as he brestrides Earth."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021

"Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops."

Elon Musk likes to envision a highly automated world in which everybody can go about their way and do as they please.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says That Politically, He’s a “Utopian Anarchist”

"I don’t mean to suggest chaos, but rather that you’re not under anyone’s thumb."

Cheap, lightweight killer robots are just around the corner — and major military powers, including the US, are doing very little to stop them.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Professor Warns That Cartels Could Use “Slaughterbots” to Evade Justice

This military tech may soon be available to the public.

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is having a blast on board the International Space Station. In a recent video, he can be seen "playing around in zero gravity."
Off-World

Billionaire Playboy Shares Video of Himself Frolicking in Outer Space

This is what actual space tourism looks like.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht sold an NFT collection for $6 million from prison. A DAO dedicated to releasing him from jail fundraised the purchase.
NFTs

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sells $6 Million NFT From Prison

"This is just the beginning."

Is AI inherently good, or inherently bad? Students at Oxford Business debate the Megatron AI about its ethic. "AI will never be ethical," it said.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Asked an Advanced AI Whether AI Could Ever Be Ethical, and It Said No

AI is what you make it.

A new report including multiple scientists and researchers says that tornados like the one that killed dozens in Kentucky may be caused by climate change.
Climate Change

Tornadoes Like Kentucky’s May Be Getting Stronger Due to Climate Change, Scientists Say

The Perfect Storm — part two, three, four...

Stanford professor Dr. Garry Nolan says he's studying brains of people who had UFO encounters and metal materials that don't "play by the rules" of Earth.
Robots and Machines

Stanford Professor Says He’s Been Testing Materials Recovered From UFO Crashes

He's not kidding, is he?