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For the first time ever, a company in China has manufactured a car battery that can be charged completely in just five minutes, The Guardian reports.
Advanced Transport

Fill 'er up!

By Victor Tangermann

Australian company Lavo has decided to take on Tesla's Powerwall by developing a home battery storage solution that uses hydrogen.
Science & Energy

It can store three times as much energy as Tesla's Powerwall 2.

By Victor Tangermann

Las Vegas real estate mogul Robert Bigelow is offering up $1 million in prizes for the best evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.
Future Society

He's looking for evidence of "the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death."

By Victor Tangermann

Yet another study suggests there's a strong condition between COVID-19 and a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions.
Health & Medicine

A shocking percentage of coronavirus patients end up diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk is joining Reddit's plot to mess with GameStop stock short sellers just as the situation is getting out of control.
Elon Musk

What the hell is happening with GameStop's stock price?

By Victor Tangermann

According to astronomers, the mysterious radio signal picked up back in December is extremely unlikely to have come from another advanced civilization.
Science & Energy

It's a one in a one hundred million chance.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a neural implant they can both control and recharge remotely, cutting down on the need for battery-changing surgeries.
Prosthetics and Devices

Next they want to use the same tech in humans.

By Dan Robitzski

A promo video shows gamers running around their city, taking cover behind real cars and buildings, while playing an augmented reality first-person shooter.
Future Society

It turns your everyday surroundings into a "world-scale" first person shooter.

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.
Solar Power

"Just the fact that it exists blows my mind," a NASA scientist said.

By Dan Robitzski

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who once said religious amulets in his wallet would block the coronavirus, tested positive for COVID-19.
Developments

When asked about COVID, he pulled out an amulet and said "Get thee behind me, Satan."

By Dan Robitzski

Out of 128,600 Israelis who had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, only 20 people had been infected by the virus.
Viruses

The vaccine is extraordinarily effective, according to the first wave of real-world data.

By Victor Tangermann

Axiom Space, the company planning to launch the first entirely-private mission into orbit, just announced its four-person crew.
Off-World

Meet the first private customers SpaceX will launch into space.

By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian millionaire couple chose to skip the line and fly out to a remote Indigenous community to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Developments

"I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass."

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden committed on Monday to replace the entire federal fleet of vehicles, including cars, trucks and SUVs, with electric ones made in the US.
Advanced Transport

That's hundreds of thousands of vehicles at the Post Office alone.

By Victor Tangermann

The Iranian government is shutting down some 1,6000 cryptocurrency mining operations after several major power outages sweeped the country.
Bitcoin

"Bitcoin was an easy victim here."

By Victor Tangermann

After a study found that an iPhone can shut down an implantable defibrillator by being near it, Apple is recommending to keep it at least 6 inches away.
Prosthetics and Devices

"As a precaution, we advise patients implanted with cardiac devices to maintain a distance of six inches between all cell phones and their implanted devices."

By Victor Tangermann

Chemicals like phthalates seem to reduce the quantity and quality of men's sperm, and the problem is compounding over generations.
Developments

Chemicals in plastics and food are affecting humanity's ability to reproduce.

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.
Medical

They trained a new AI differently — and it outperformed human doctors.

By Dan Robitzski

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says his company is working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) headset that can make video games more immersive than ever.
Brain

"Where it gets weird is when who you are becomes editable through a BCI."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is set to conduct its second ever high altitude test flight of its gigantic Starship spacecraft some time today. Here's how to watch it live.
Starship

Are you ready for this?

By Victor Tangermann