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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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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?

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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..."

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Dan Robitzski

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Dan Robitzski

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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."

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.
Google

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

A senior scientist at Google says there's a "serious problem of censorship" at the company.

By Dan Robitzski

In a Medium post, NASA engineer Evan Hilgemann explores what its actually like to drive a Mars rover. It's simpler than one might think.
Mars

A Guy Who Drives NASA’s Mars Rover Is Dishing About the Experience

Here's how to drive a Mars rover.

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.
RX and Medicine

TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

ByteDance is building a team to enter the world of pharmaceuticals.

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has rolled out its next full-scale Starship prototype called SN9 onto the launchpad, setting the stage for yet another high-altitude test flight.
Starship

SpaceX Moves Next Starship Prototype to Launch Pad

Next one's ready to go.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists caught octopuses occasionally punching nearby fish on film. Sometimes its to keep them in line during a hunt, other times it just seems spiteful.
Biology

Scientists Say That “Spiteful” Octopuses Punch Fish When They’re Angry

Ever get so mad you just punch a fish?

By Dan Robitzski

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is effective after just two weeks following a single dose, according to FDA data.
Developments

US Government Orders 100 Million COVID-19 Vaccines

It's a Pfizer Christmas miracle.

By Victor Tangermann