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During the days leading up to Halloween, the Sun's surface was roiling with activity, blasting powerful bursts of radiation towards the Earth.
Solar Power

The Sun Just Blasted the Earth With an Enormous Solar Flare

The footage is unreal.

By Victor Tangermann

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference
Climate Change

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

An estimated 400 private planes flew into Glasgow for the event.

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Elon Musk asked David Beasley, the director of the United Nation's World Food Program "exactly how $6B will solve world hunger."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s World Hunger Tweet Is Taking the UN Wildly Out of Context

That's not what he meant.

By Victor Tangermann

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr went on a Twitter rant this week about robodogs, citing apocalyptic science fiction movies and television
Robot Dogs

FCC Commissioner Says He’s Afraid of Robodogs and We Can’t Tell If He’s Joking

What in the world?

By Jon Christian

Several Musk's tweets appear to have crossed a line even for him — because, after an outcry, he deleted them, in a rare reversal for Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Sexist Tweets

"That’s a disgrace."

By Jon Christian

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.
Metaverse

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

"I just don't believe that one player — one company — winds up making all the right decisions for this."

By Jon Christian

After news came out that Facebook is considering changing its name, a former Facebook employee has a theory about what it might be.
Future Society

Is This Facebook’s New Name?

Could this be it?

By Jon Christian

Scammers are cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university’s website -- and the practice appears to be widespread.
Future Society

Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands

Welcome to Harvard — want some CBD, or hair loss treatment?

By Jon Christian

In a new viral video captioned "this man is living in 2030," a person can be seen zipping along a public road, riding on top of a high-powered drone.
Drones

Man Sighted Flying Through City on Giant Drone

It's like a real life Green Goblin.

By Victor Tangermann

A Boston doctor was fined for completely missing a surgery he was scheduled to perform after he ate lunch in his car and fell asleep.
Developments

Doctor Fined for Missing Surgery After He Ate Lunch in His Car, Fell Asleep

Oops.

By Tony Ho Tran

William Gibson, widely credited with coining the term "cyberspace" and imagining the internet, says he can't send emails due to a glitch.
Future Society

Man Who Coined the Term “Cyberspace” Says He Can’t Send Emails

Well, this is ironic.

By Jon Christian

Yuval Harari has a stark warning: we need to start regulating AI — otherwise big companies are going to be able to hack humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That Human Beings Are Going to Start Getting Hacked

He says that companies want to "increasingly manipulate you."

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the Stanford University say that they were able to treat depression in their patients by stimulating their brains with magnets.
Prosthetics and Devices

Stanford Scientists Say Brain Magnets Can Relieve Depression

"I feel much better. I’m sleeping; I’m no longer suicidal."

By Tony Ho Tran

In a tiring display of late-stage capitalism, the burger chain announced that it created McRib NFTs in celebration of the sandwich’s 40th anniversary.
NFTs

McDonald’s Created a McRib NFT Because We Live in Hell

This is the lamest dystopia ever.

By Tony Ho Tran

Musk took to Twitter to let the world know he was considering creating a school that might make your parents blush if you applied to it.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Start a University with a Dirty Name

You won’t believe what it’s called.

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts.
Pollution

Air Pollution May Be Lowering Sperm Counts, Scientists Say

The air we breathe could be hurting reproductive health.

By Tony Ho Tran

A New Zealand-based company wants to provide a "digital workforce" for the future metaverse complete with AI that can learn from interactions.
Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Creating Digital Human Servants to Work in the Metaverse

Also, they're creepy as hell.

By Tony Ho Tran

The researchers discovered that there was a positive correlation between the sale of alcohol with the number of patients on liver transplant waiting lists.
Developments

We Drank So Much During the Pandemic that Liver Transplants Spiked

The number of people on liver transplant waiting lists was 50 percent higher than predicted.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA scientist and software developer Casey Handmer argues NASA isn't ready for Starship has to offer and needs to make systematic changes to accomodate it.
Starship

NASA Employee Says SpaceX’s Starship Is About to Change Everything

"It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the 'Holy Grail' of rocketry."

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook hardware insiders told The New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac that "this is going to take a long time, i.e. breakthroughs in physics, etc."
Metaverse

Facebook Hardware Devs Reportedly Skeptical of Metaverse

New hardware could require "breakthroughs in physics" to realize.

By Victor Tangermann