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Several counties in Florida are scheduling coronavirus vaccinations through Eventbrite, raising multiple issues with the system.
Viruses

Florida Is Doling out Coronavirus Vaccines Over Eventbrite

It's going about as well as you'd expect.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company will try to catch a Super Heavy booster rocket with a launch tower so it doesn't need to rely entirely on its legs.
Starship

SpaceX Wants to Catch Starship Booster With Its Own Launch Tower

"We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load."

A San Jose hospital staff member dressed in a self-inflating Christmas tree costume likely caused a COVID-19 outbreak, that infected 43 and killed one.
Developments

Deadly COVID Outbreak Linked to Inflatable Christmas Tree Costume

This hospital employee spread more than just Christmas cheer.

Vybe Together, an app that coordinated secret parties during the pandemic, just got removed from the Apple app store after an onslaught of criticism.
Developments

Apple Takes Down App That Coordinated Maskless Parties

It encouraged users to attend parties — despite the pandemic.

Patently Apple spotted a fascinating new patent by Apple: a system that would add a tiny screen to every single key on a device's keyboard.
Robots and Machines

Apple Patents Tech to Put Tiny Screen on Every Keyboard Key

QWERTY never looked this good.

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile
Drones

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile

The palm-sized robots can even weather 50 MPH winds.

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.
Energy

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

It's sucking gas out of the ground and turning it into cryptocurrency.

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.
RX and Medicine

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

They're wired directly into his brain.

As patients in Los Angeles get the coronavirus vaccine, they can also get digital proof of their inoculation that could work like an "immunity passport."
Viruses

LA Plans to Issue Digital “Passports” With Coronavirus Vaccines

Your smartphone would prove you'd been inoculated.

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.
Facial recognition

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

Should cops arrest a suspect based only on a facial recognition match?

A new Tesla update allows drivers to change their vehicle's horn sound to basically anything they'd possibly want — including fart noises.
Tesla

Tesla Owners Can Now Set Their Horn to Fart, Meme Sounds

Thanks, Elon.

German carmaker Volkswagen has unveiled a working prototype of a robot that can autonomously charge electric cars.
Advanced Transport

VW Shows Off Futuristic Car Charging Robot Prototype

It's like an R2-D2 for your electric car.

In a recent interview with Autoblog, Ford VP Darren Palmer threw some serious shade at other electric car makers' quality control — likely including Tesla.
Tesla

Ford VP Throws Serious Shade at Tesla’s Lack of Quality Control

"The doors fit properly, the plastics and other materials color-match, the bumpers don’t fall off..."

A space tourist smuggled remains of James Doohan, known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, into space.
Off-World

Astronaut Secretly Smuggled Human Remains to Space Station

"It was completely clandestine."

MIT artist-in-residence Deimut Strebe mirrored COVID-19's spread across the U.S. with an unsettling slime mold experiment. Here, she explains why.
Science & Energy

An MIT Artist Used Slime Mold to Simulate COVID Spread

"Slime mold is a single-celled organism, but it forms cooperatives. It's very interesting to see its behavior, which you could describe as 'intelligent' in human terms."

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued Santa Claus and his sleigh special commercial flight permissions to visit the International Space Station.
Off-World

FAA Issues Santa Claus Commercial License for Launch to Space Station

Santa Claus will reportedly be using his "StarSleigh-1 space capsule powered by the Rudolph Rocket."

Yet another new strain of the coronavirus called 501.V2 has surfaced in South Africa, prompting several countries to implement travel restrictions.
Developments

There’s Yet Another COVID Strain Spreading

"We are seeing a much earlier and much sharper rise in the second wave or resurgence than we anticipated."

A German court ordered Tesla to stop clearing the forest where it wants to build its Gigafactory because a protected lizard species is hibernating there.
Tesla

Hibernating Lizards Are Blocking Tesla’s Plans for a Berlin Gigafactory

A German court ruled that Tesla can't clear a forest where protected lizards live.

SpaceX has laid out its governmental laws for its future colonies on Mars. But lawyers have their doubts if those rules will be enforceable.
Off-World

Elon Musk Will Run Into Trouble Setting up a Martian Government, Lawyers Say

"He could be trying to lay some groundwork for offering up an independent constitution."

TikTokers have been picking up Simulation Theory over the last few weeks, posting "glitches in the Matrix" to demonstrate that our world isn't real.
Future Society

Kids on TikTok Are Convinced We’re Living in a Simulation

"Basically we are living inside a video game."