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The Starlink "Better Than Nothing Beta" is giving some rural participants better internet connectivity than the vast majority of the U.S.
Space

Users in rural Montana hit 160 Mbps.

By Dan Robitzski

A "Fire Fauci" chant broke out at a recent Trump rally. "Don’t tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election," the president replied.
Developments

"Don’t tell anybody, but..."

By Victor Tangermann

The hologram strat up PORTL Hologram made a doorway-sized device that can transmit holograms as new, immersive form of video calls.
Virtual Reality

Get ready to beam a hologram version of yourself into a friend's home — or vice versa!

By Dan Robitzski

Upon digging through Starlink's terms of service, eagle-eyed beta testers discovered they were signing up for a lot more than they might have thought.
Mars

"Accordingly, Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement."

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-powered camera decided to follow the bald head of a linesman at a Scottish soccer game instead of the ball.
Artificial Intelligence

The hilarious shortcomings of artificial intelligence.

By Victor Tangermann

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.
Science & Energy

"We don't need to mine the earth to have diamonds, we can mine the sky."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Disney researchers have built a terrifying animatronic robot bust to literally replicate the "gaze" of a human in order to appear more lifelike.
Robotics

The teeth! Why!

By Victor Tangermann

A self-driving race car had a terrible start during the first-ever live broadcast of Roborace, an autonomous race car competition.
Self-Driving Vehicles

It didn't even get to the starting line.

By Victor Tangermann

According to researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, our planet will be hit with more prolonged "mega-droughts" thanks to cliamte change.
Climate Change

Thanks, climate change.

By Victor Tangermann

For her birthday, Kanye West bought Kim Kardashian a hologram of her dead dad that says he's proud of her and calls Kanye a genius.
Virtual Reality

Probably healthy, right?

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter just spotted something unusual on the surface of the Red Planet: a "triplet" crater.
Mars

Yo dawg, I heard you like craters.

By Victor Tangermann

A new brain-computer interface doesn't actually touch the brain or require open-skull surgery. Rather, it snakes through the jugular vein and listens in.
Neuroscience and Brain

So what if it needs a little hole in the jugular?

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX had to delay the upcoming Crew Dragon astronaut launch because of a tiny lacquer issue with two of the Falcon 9 rocket engines.
SpaceX

Better safe than sorry.

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop has made the reasonable decision to learn what 600 MPH travel does to the brain before transporting passengers at 600 MPH.
Brain

This seems like an important detail.

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers pilfered $2.3 million from Trumps re-election campaign by sending it fake invoices supposedly from vendors the Wisconsin GOP worked with.
Science & Energy

They created fake invoices from companies the campaign worked with.

By Dan Robitzski

We just got our first look at an upcoming movie called "Songbird," produced by the one and only Michael Bay — and it's a doozy.
Viruses

Too soon?

By Victor Tangermann

A series of visualizations show how the dangers of indoor COVID-19 transmission can be mitigated but not eliminated with masks and ventilation.
Viruses

Indoor spaces are dangerous, but masks and ventilation can help.

By Dan Robitzski

A man from China called Liu Dongsheng has built a working jetpack suit over two years, for just over $100,000 total, according to state news.
Elon Musk

Hear us out.

By Victor Tangermann

Images taken from satellites reveal that a massive amount of electricity is being wasted just to illuminate cities overnight.
Energy

"We waste tremendous resources on light that goes out into space and doesn't do anyone any good."

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.
Physics

This could explain a lot about our galaxy.

By Dan Robitzski