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Apple has announced that it is delaying the rollout of its controversial plans to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), The Verge reports.
Future Society

Apple Is Delaying Plans to Scan Phones for Child Abuse Material

The company is actually listening for once.

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.
Mars

NASA Claims Rover Collected Mars Rock, But We Wanna See Proof

Perseverance reportedly triumphed, but NASA has wrongfully declared success before.

Rocket startup Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket experienced a bit of an anomaly during its launch on Thursday — an unfortunate end to its first launch.
Off-World

Rocket Explodes Spectacularly During Launch

That's one massive explosion.

SpaceX has added a glass dome to its Crew Dragon spacecraft that will carry the first all-civilian astronaut crew around the Earth later this month.
SpaceX

SpaceX Shows Off Beautiful Dome for Next Month’s Space Tourists

The views are going to be incredible.

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."
Tesla

Elon Musk: Tesla Making a Robot Because “Robots Are Coming Anyway”

"I will not be able to ensure that robots made by other companies are safe, but I can try my best to do so at Tesla."

A growing number of girls and young women are developing Tourette's-like tics just from watching videos of them on TikTok.
Developments

Doctors Say Social Media May Be Giving Young People Strange Tics

"It's an epidemic within the pandemic."

The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Virgin Galactic until further notice, following a troubling report about Richard Branson's maiden voyage.
Off-World

FAA Grounds Virgin Galactic Indefinitely Following Reports of Chaotic Flight

The FAA wants to approve the "final mishap investigation report" first before letting SpaceShipTwo fly again.

Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan has tested positive for the coronavirus and is "throwing the kitchen sink" at the virus to treat the disease.
Developments

Joe Rogan’s Fans Are Shredding Him for Being a Moron About COVID

Easier yet, he could just get vaccinated.

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.
Climate Change

Last Night’s Hurricane Devastation Shows That Climate Change Is Here

No more abstractions.

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.
Moon

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

The new lunar Space Race is on!

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.
Off-World

Head of Russian Space Program Tells Absurd Lie About Abandoning ISS

Rogozin is either suffering from severe memory loss — or, much more likely, he's trolling NASA once again.

As laid out by reporter Nicholas Schmidle in a revealing piece for The New Yorker, the crew on board Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft veered way off course.
Off-World

Richard Branson’s Rocket Went Way Off Course During Spaceflight

The pilots reportedly chose to ignore a red light that lit up in the console.

A team of researchers from Israel have come up with a novel way of making photorealistic changes to photos using AI. And gave Elon Musk a bunch of haircuts.
Elon Musk

Neural Network Gives Elon Musk Incredible Makeovers

Straight nightmare fuel.

Federal regulators investigating Tesla Autopilot's habit of ramming emergency vehicles gave the company an ultimatum: Share your data or pay a huge fine.
Tesla

Feds Demand Data on Teslas Crashing Into Emergency Responders

Regulators want to know why Autopilot seems to have it out for emergency vehicles.

China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has shown off a prototype for a "Mars cruise drone" that looks extremely familiar.
Mars

China Appears to Be Working on a Clone of NASA’s Mars Helicopter

Well, this thing sure looks familiar.

Tesla seems to have bought itself a new Liebherr crawler crane for use in Texas, according to a picture of the machinery being shipped in Europe.
SpaceX

Huge SpaceX-Branded Tank Treads Spotted in Europe

SpaceX seems to have ordered a new toy.

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.
Off-World

Russian Official: Space Station Damage May Be “Irreparable”

"Literally a day after the [in-flight] systems are fully exhausted, irreparable failures may begin."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting real tired of the constant litigation being thrown at him by Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.
Off-World

Elon Musk Suggests Zapping Jeff Bezos “With Our Space Lasers”

He's had enough.

A 24-year-old woman from Illinois was busted for faking the vaccination card she used to enter the state of Hawaii on August 23 — after misspelling Moderna.
Developments

Idiot Anti-Vaxxer Misspells “Moderna” on Falsified Vaccine Card

Leave it to the anti-vaxxers to be this careless.

The crew of the Inspiration4, the first-ever all-civilian human spaceflight mission, have agreed to collect and test drops of blood during their journey.
SpaceX

Blood Will Be Collected From SpaceX Space Tourists Next Month

The crew of the first all-civilian spaceflight mission have a lot of homework to do.