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A cache of horrifying emails show that during the height of the opioid crisis, pharmaceutical execs were hard at work mocking rural Americans.
Developments

Pharma Execs Mocked Rural Opioid Addiction in Newly-Released Emails

Horrifying emails show the pharaceutical industry's contempt for rural American "pillbillies."

By Jon Christian

President Joe Biden raced a still unreleased and fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning through an empty parking lot near the company's headquarters Michigan.
Advanced Transport

Joe Biden Takes All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning for a Joyride

"This sucker's quick."

By Victor Tangermann

If you didn’t get in on a Cybertruck pre-order, there’s a new way for you to get in on the action: A rad, new Hot Wheels remote control version — only $100.
Advanced Transport

The Hot Wheels Remote Control Cybertruck: Admittedly Pretty Cool

Smol car, big fun

By Foster Kamer

Barack Obama sat down for a "Late Late Show" interview. When Reggie Watts asked Obama about any UFO theories, he had a surprising answer.
Future Society

Barack Obama: “When It Comes to Aliens, There Are Things I Just Can’t Tell You on Air”

"I was like, ‘Is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and space ships?'"

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.
Viruses

Doctors Hack Virus to Make Tumors Kill Themselves

This new technique tricks a tumor into eliminating itself from the inside out.

By Victor Tangermann

A 2015 Tesla Model S crashed into a parked Washington state deputy's patrol vehicle over the weekend with its Autopilot feature turned on.
Tesla

Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Into Police Car

The cop car sustained "significant damage."

By Victor Tangermann

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object
Nuclear Fusion

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object

"This quasicrystal is magnificent in its complexity — but nobody can yet tell us why it was formed in this way."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers believes it has found ample evidence of a variety of fungus-like creatures on Mars by looking at NASA rover and orbiter images.
Science & Energy

Extremely Dubious Research Claims to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars

"Fungi thrive in radiation intense environments."

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent televised interview with CNN, Retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill expanded on a strange sighting he made in 2004.
Military

Former US Military Official: Unidentified Objects “a Hundred to a Thousand Years” Ahead of Our Tech

"They are very capable and in some cases more capable than anything in our own inventory."

By Victor Tangermann

Not everybody is enthused about SpaceX absorbing the area surrounding its testing facilities in South Texas to build out its "Starbase."
Off-World

Residents Furious at Elon Musk for Turning Rural Town Into Growing Spaceport

"I don’t like what they do, but you don’t want to start a fight with them."

By Victor Tangermann

Terrifying UFC Fighter Screams at Elon Musk, Who Meekly Acquiesces
Elon Musk

Terrifying UFC Fighter Screams at Elon Musk, Who Meekly Acquiesces

"ELON MUSK! WHERE’S MY WIFE’S CAR, BRO?"

By Foster Kamer

Tesla's Plaid Model S prototype was sporting an "adjustable wing built into the trunk" while doing laps at Laguna Seca in California.
Tesla

New Tesla Prototype Has Retractable Spoiler

The "quickest accelerating car in production today" may come with an adjustable wing.

By Victor Tangermann

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.
Hacking

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.

Cryptocurrencies are far from hack-proof.

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates' resignation from Microsoft came as the board was investigating him for an "inappropriate" relationship with a female Microsoft employee.
Future Society

Bill Gates Reportedly Left Microsoft Board Amid Sex Allegations

This is getting messier and messier.

By Jon Christian

The largest union of registered nurses in the US have condemned the CDC for ditching all mask recommendations for those who have been fully vaccinated.
Developments

The Country’s Largest Nurses Union Says the CDC’s New Mask Rules Are Terrible

"This is a huge blow to our efforts at confronting this virus and the pandemic."

By Victor Tangermann

The world's biggest jeweler Pandora has announced it will cease to sell all mined diamonds and will switch exclusively to lab-made diamonds.
Science & Energy

World’s Biggest Jeweler Will Only Sell Lab-Grown Diamonds

"It's the right thing to do."

By Victor Tangermann

Officials just found that buried uranium at Chernobyl is triggering new nuclear reactions, raising the possibility of another dangerous accident.
Energy

Scientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site

"It's like embers in a barbecue pit."

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to "see" and recognize individual shapes — without using their eyes.
Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Co-Founder Leaves Company For Unknown Reasons

Max Hodak is out.

By Jon Christian

The Canadian province of New Brunswick is tracking 48 cases of a mysterious new brain disease that has neurobiologists stumped, the BBC reports.
Neuroscience and Brain

A Mysterious Brain Disease Is Spreading in Canada

The symptoms can be devastating.

By Victor Tangermann

"To clarify speculation, Tesla has not sold any Bitcoin," Musk corrected himself in a early Monday morning tweet. But Bitcoin dropped in value anyways.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Implies Tesla Is Selling Its Bitcoin, Causing Huge Price Drop, Then Says Actually It’s Not

Musk implied that Tesla had sold its holdings — but then changed course.

By Victor Tangermann