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Members of the US Space Force are frustrated by the fact that large swaths of the population know nothing about the new military branch.
Future Society

Space Force Members Annoyed That Nobody Takes Them Seriously

"Space Force? Is that real?"

By Tony Ho Tran

An iconic bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam will soon be partly demolished so that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' super yacht can pass through.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Demands That Historic Bridge Be Taken Apart So That His Superyacht Can Pass Through

"It's the only route to the sea."

By Victor Tangermann

A number of thieves on the OpenSea platform have made more than $1 million by exploiting a loophole in the NFT trading platform.
NFTs

Thieves Just Stole Even More Bored Ape NFTs

"OpenSea drowned us and we’ve lost everything."

By Tony Ho Tran

Amateur Rocket Builders Planning to Launch Astronaut Into Space
Future Society

Amateur Rocket Builders Planning to Launch Astronaut Into Space

Space travel isn’t just for billionaires anymore.

By Tony Ho Tran

After years of exploring options, NASA has finally decided on how it wants to retire the International Space Station.
International Space Station

NASA Announces Plans to Destroy the International Space Station

So this is how it ends.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in Norway have discovered evidence of microplastic in newborn babies. They believe it's impossible to stop kids from ingesting plastic.
Developments

Researchers Find Microplastics Inside Newborn Babies

"This is concerning."

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA astronaut Victor Glover sat down for a chat with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise to prepare him for what it's really like to spend time on board the ISS.
Off-World

Astronaut Warns Tom Cruise About Appalling Smell on Space Station

"When you go into the module that has the lifting, the strength training equipment, that's also where the bathroom is."

By Victor Tangermann

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before. 
Prosthetics and Devices

Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

One man even broke his neck.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla has agreed to recall almost 54,000 of its cars because a recent "Full Self-Driving" software update allowed them to perform a "rolling stop."
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Says It’s Updating Self-Driving Cars to No Longer Break the Law

 "They keep pushing the bounds of safety to see what they can get away with, and they’ve really been pushing a lot."

By Victor Tangermann

An NYPD cop is under investigation for potentially taking part in a fake vaccine card scheme that netted him and his spouse more than a million dollars.
Developments

NYPD Cop Investigated for $1.5 Million Scheme to Sell Fake Vaccine Cards

His wife allegedly sold them for $220 per card.

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in Suzhou, China claim to have created an AI system that can monitor and care for embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb.
Developments

Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb

The AI nanny would help monitor and care for the embryos.

By Tony Ho Tran

An Israeli AI company claims it can create a model of a face using DNA that can then be fed into a facial recognition system, a highly dubious claim.
Future Society

Startup Slammed for Saying It Can Reconstruct Faces From DNA

"That is pseudoscience."

By Victor Tangermann

Frogs have regrown limbs from an experimental drug cocktail — and in the near-ish future, humans may be able to do so, too. 
Medical

Scientist Predicts Humans Will Be Able to Regrow Limbs “Within Our Lifetime”

This could be huge.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Startup Radian Aerospace announced that it secured $27.5 million in funding to develop the first "horizontal takeoff and landing" space plane.
Off-World

New Spacecraft Would Take Off on a Runway and Fly Directly to Space

Whoa.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is finally making moves to boot up its James Webb Space Telescope, according to a NASA statement — a historic moment.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s Booting Up the Mighty James Webb Space Telescope

It's finally time.

By Victor Tangermann

Hip-hop star and fashion designer Kanye West took to Instagram to let the world know that he wants people to stop asking him about NFTs.
NFTs

Kanye West Slams NFTs, Saying He Creates “Real Products” Instead

"Do not ask me to do a fucking NFT." 

By Tony Ho Tran

JetPack Aviation is in talks to create a category of air racing specifically for jetpacks, New Atlas reports — what could possibly go wrong?
Advanced Transport

New Race Would Force Jetpack Pilots to Careen Through Obstacle Course

We were promised jetpack racing.

By Noor Al-Sibai

North Korea has reportedly test-fired several big missiles, sending back photos from space taken by a camera installed on one of the missile's warheads.
Off-World

North Korea Launches Missile Into Space, Releases Photo of Earth

Well, that's low key terrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according Fortune.
Elon Musk

Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss

He barely kept in touch with the company.

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, what they're dubbing the "quantum apocalypse."
Future Society

Experts Warn of “Quantum Apocalypse”

"It's a threat to our way of life."

By Victor Tangermann