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A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.
Robotics

Scientists Built a Robot With Jetpacks and a Creepy, Doll-Like Face

Well, that's straight out of a nightmare.

Congress is set to pass a new defense bill introduced on Tuesday that would allow funding to reverse engineer UFO technology.
Robots and Machines

New Law Would Fund Reverse Engineering of UFO Tech

The bill would allow funding requests to "replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance" of UFOs.

New Zealand to Completely Ban Tobacco for Anyone Born After 2008
Developments

New Zealand to Completely Ban Tobacco for Anyone Born After 2008

"We want to make sure young people never start smoking."

Famed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has truly outdone himself with his latest picture of the Sun, stitching together around 150,000 individual images.
Off-World

This Photo of the Sun Is so Absurdly Detailed That It Looks like a Living Organism

"Ordinarily, taking a telescope and pointing at the sun would be incredibly dangerous."

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg butted back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk's criticisms of the Build Back Better Act.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Now Feuding with *Checks Notes* Pete Buttigieg

"The government should just try to get out of the way and not impede progress."

Scientists have discovered a new planet — and it's really honkin' big! 
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Gigantic New World that Defies Previous Planetary Understanding

The big little planet that could.

The feds are looking intro cryptocurrencies and apparently have been since the Trump administration.
Cryptocurrency

The Head of the CIA Says It’s Been Doing Mysterious Cryptocurrency Work

Naturally, rumors are spreading about the origins of Bitcoin.

We now have yet another reason to despise Amazon after the company's Tuesday outage left tons of people with "smart homes" in the lurch.
Internet Of Things

Amazon Outage Shuts Down IoT Vacuums, Doorbells, Fridges, Even Home Locks

Talk about a single point of failure.

The US Space Force installed a high tech new radar system this week that it says will be able to detect objects the size of baseballs in orbit. 
Future Society

Space Force Installs Huge Radar System to Track Tiny Objects in Orbit

They say it'll be able to spot a *baseball* in orbit.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially sold off his last remaining home for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a small $50,000 prefab rental.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Sold His Final Home to Live in a Small Prefab Box

Looks like he's already packing his bags for Mars.

A team of researchers have discovered that a particle found in the blood of the young could be the secret to keeping older folks youthful.
Studies

Scientists: Stealing the Blood of the Young May Make You More Youthful

Maybe the vampires were right all along.

Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced on Twitter that Russia will send cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the ISS next year on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
SpaceX

Russia Mocked SpaceX. Now It’s Reserved a Seat for a Cosmonaut

SpaceX's Crew Dragon is too good of a deal to pass on.

A team of researchers in Kyoto, Japan have created a mask that glows under a UV light when exposed to the coronavirus.
Viruses

Scientists Invent New Mask That Glows When Exposed to Coronavirus

The masks use antibodies found in ostrich eggs to glow under UV light.

Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is now, officially, a bonafide astronaut.
International Space Station

Billionaire Playboy Boards International Space Station

Your tax dollars at work.

During an interview this week, Elon Musk warned that letting people live longer lives by coming up with new technologies may actually be a really bad idea.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says That Immortality Tech Would Be Very Dangerous

"It is important for us to die because most of the time people don't change their mind, they just die."

From right to left: Zozotown billionaire Yusaku Maezawa (R), Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (C), and Maezawa's assistant Yozo Hirano (L).
Off-World

Check Out How Stoked This Billionaire Is to Leave Our Dying Planet

Oh, to be a billionaire going to space.

An MIT geophsicist said that humans are on the brink of causing a sixth mass extinction event due to the amount of carbon pumped into the air and oceans.
Science & Energy

MIT Scientist Says We’re on the Brink of a Mass Extinction Event

He’s been talking about it for years now — but nobody’s listening.

China spotted a puzzling "mystery house" on the surface of the Moon, a cube-shaped object hiding in plain sight. The internet had a field day as a result.
Moon

People Have Some Wild Theories About the Cube China Found on the Moon

The internet had a field day.

Elon Musk apparently doesn't think drugs are cool anymore.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hates Drugs Now, Apparently

This is a strange reversal — he's been talking about drugs for years!

A woman was forced to give birth inside a luxury Tesla that was stuck in standstill New York City traffic.
Developments

Woman Gives Birth in Tesla While Stuck in NYC Traffic Hell

And it wasn't even the first time it happened this year.