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Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.
Elon Musk

Repeat after me: Elon Musk is a mega-billionaire; we are not the same.

By Dan Robitzski

A compact electric vehicle that costs just $4,500 is vastly outselling Tesla's vehicles in China, the BBC reports.
Tesla

Move aside, Tesla.

By Victor Tangermann

Moderna has announced it has created the first batch its new COVID-19 vaccine that protects people against a deadly new variant from South Africa.
Developments

Round two in the fight against the coronavirus has officially begun.

By Victor Tangermann

Philippines-based PDAX, Southeast Asia's largest crypto exchange, just accidentally sold bitcoin at an incredible 88 percent discount, for just $6,000.
Bitcoin

They want their bitcoin back, please.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
Artificial Intelligence

And you don’t even have to pay it in weed and Adderall.

By Dan Robitzski

Mounting a paintball gun to the back of Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog is taking the technology to its logical conclusion. The company thinks otherwise.
Future Society

It's a gross double standard.

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the company's floating platforms could be "in limited operation by end of year."
Starship

SpaceX plans to fly its Starship prototypes out to floating platforms at sea.

By Victor Tangermann

As if launching a 165-foot rocket wasn't complicated enough, SpaceX now has to contend itself with extreme winter weather hitting its Texas facilities.
Starship

Freak weather in Texas is wreaking havoc with SpaceX's operations.

By Victor Tangermann

New NASA research suggests that Mars' dust storms make the planet give off gravitational waves that push its already-scarce atmosphere out into space.
Mars

Mars is beautiful, sure — and unimaginably brutal.

By Dan Robitzski

Since they peaked in the middle of January, the number of new daily coronavirus infections deaths has been in consistent decline.
Developments

Knock on wood, but it looks like the third wave is finally coming to an end.

By Dan Robitzski

The heart failure drug ivabradine seems to treat the long-hauler symptoms that can last for months after a coronavirus infection.
Viruses

Options are starting to emerge for long-term coronavirus care.

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates is coming down hard in favor of fake meats — and even recommending that every single "rich country" move away from real beef as soon as possible.
Future Society

"I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef."

By Jon Christian

Stray dogs with strangely bright blue fur have been spotted roaming the streets near an abandoned chemical plant in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk.
Science & Energy

Well, that's not right.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth.
Military

"You can send power to Chicago and a fraction of a second later, if you needed, send it instead to London or Brasilia."

By Victor Tangermann

When scientists took a closer look at a baby with COVID-19, they found that the kid caught a previously-undiscovered variant and had a massive viral load.
Viruses

An ominous case study.

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050, so scientists are building a simulation of the entire planet to help it get there.
Climate Change

Get ready for a "digital twin" of the entire planet.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.
Science & Energy

Mars is looking more and more hospitable to life.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted something rather strange on the Martian surface below: a deep pit, appearing in the form of a black spot.
Mars

What's down there?

By Victor Tangermann

In a bizarre encounter, a commercial airline pilot spotted a "long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile" flying overhead.
Robots and Machines

"We just had something go right over the top of us — I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing."

By Victor Tangermann

According to the FDA, the single-dose coronavirus vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson provides strong protection against severe cases of COVID-19.
Viruses

One shot of this new vaccine provides quite a bit of protection.

By Victor Tangermann