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Autonomous Taxi Goes Rogue, Escapes From Rescue Crew
Self-Driving Vehicles

"Oh no. Now it’s blocking the entire road."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Elon Musk

He also said his SNL episode was “cringe.”

Chinese Mars Rover Reportedly Touches Down on Surface of Mars
Mars

China's rover has reportedly touched down.

Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter urging the Defense Department to come clean about the various ways it secretly spies on Americans.
Future Society

Senator Ron Ryden is urging the military to release classified information on domestic surveillance.

More and more pilots are coming out to publicly talk about what they saw in the time leading up to a report by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
Robots and Machines

"I am worried, frankly."

Oxitec, the biotech company behind the gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, is now planning to release genetically engineered fall armyworms.
Genetics

Oxitec's next focus seems to be the fall armyworm.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lost a considerable amount of his wealth, more than $20 billion, since he made his appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Elon Musk

Investors aren't impressed by Elon's flip-flopping.

A new cryptocurrency called Chia, founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, is promising to make mining cryptocurrencies at home a whole lot easier.
Bitcoin

This promising new token has an Achilles heel.

The gene-hacked mosquitoes released in the Florida Keys by the biotech company Oxitec are finally old enough to fly and reproduce.
Genetics

The controversial experiment has begun.

Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who for nine of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, called out Bill Gates for not sharing evidence on Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell.
Science & Energy

"Why are you taking business meetings with a person like that?"

Bitcoin won't magically become environmentally friendly over night. In fact, making Bitcoin sustainable would be incredibly difficult.
Bitcoin

"Change means a loss of billions."

A startup called Veritone is launching a platform that will let celebrities deepfake their own voice to record ads and endorsements.
Artificial Intelligence

Why bother recording a commercial or cameo when a deepfake can do it for you?

"Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency," Musk tweeted, referring to Dogecoin. Its value soared as a result.
Bitcoin

"Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency."

SpaceX has released glorious new footage of its fifth high-altitude test flight of its Mars-bound rocket Starship on May 5.
Starship

It looks like CGI.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Elon Musk

"Potentially promising."

Somehow, no one was hurt after two planes crashed into each other in mid-air and made emergency landings just outside of Denver.
Advanced Transport

One pilot landed without realizing his plane was almost ripped in half.

In a document filed with the FCC, SpaceX has outlined its plans for the first orbital test flight of its Starship platform.
Starship

The goal is to take take off from Texas — and land off the coast of Hawaii.

The Navy is testing autonomous drones that find and kill bird nests near air fields in order to prevent bird strikes from grounding planes.
Drones

Autonomous drones will seek and destroy bird nests near airfields.

Plutonium landed in the Pacific Ocean millions of years ago after traveling to Earth from some distant star. Now scientists want to know where it's from.
Science & Energy

An astronomer says it's "freshly-made from exploding stars."

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has announced he's going to visit the ISS before traveling around the Moon on board a SpaceX Starship.
International Space Station

It's not with SpaceX.