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Physician Ali Vaziri accidentally "butt-dialed" himself into a $4,2080 "Enhanced Autopilot" upgrade for his Tesla Model 3, CNBC reports.
Tesla

A Tesla Driver Accidentally “Butt-Dialed” a $4,200 Upgrade to His Car

"The customer service is horrendous."

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Hyperloop One has announced it is planning to build a certification center in West Virginia with construction of a test loop starting in 2022.
Hyperloop

Richard Branson Is Building a Hyperloop Testing Center in West Virginia

Hyperloop's not dead.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.
Science & Energy

Black Holes “Chirp” Repeatedly When They Merge

"We discovered that these signals are far more rich and complex than commonly thought…"

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.
Science & Energy

Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

A Stephen Hawking collaborator who just won a Nobel Prize says that the "Big Bang was not the beginning."

By Dan Robitzski

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.
Science & Energy

Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

I mean, same.

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.
Science & Energy

The Moon Might Be Littered With Ancient Shrapnel From Venus

"The Moon offers safe keeping for these ancient rocks."

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says it successfully tested its Zircon, a hypersonic nuclear missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound, on Tuesday.
Military

Russia Says It Successfully Tested a Hypersonic Nuke

Get ready for nuclear missiles that fly too quickly to block.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid robot that can propel itself through water just like the real thing.
Robotics

This Swimming Squid Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

"Essentially, we recreated all the key features that squids use for high-speed swimming."

By Victor Tangermann

In an email, a Tesla executive warned workers that an anonymous employee "maliciously sabotaged" part of a factory last month.
Tesla

Leaked Tesla Memo: Angry Employee Sabotaged Part of Factory

The employee was fired on the spot.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.
RX and Medicine

MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

One shot would protect you against every strain of the flu.

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.
Wind

UK Pledges to Get 100% of Residential Power From Wind Turbines

The goal is to power every home with wind by 2030.

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's space corporation just unveiled plans for its "Amur rocket" — a design that has some striking similarities with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
Off-World

Elon Musk Just Dissed Russia’s New Reusable Rocket Design

To be fair, it does look like a bit of a ripoff.

By Victor Tangermann

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

They say the gel can propagate neural signals where nerves are injured.

By Dan Robitzski

In a New York Times Opinion interview, Elon Musk raveled that he's not planning on getting a COVID vaccine once one becomes available.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: I Refuse to Get a COVID Vaccine

"I’m not at risk for COVID, nor are my kids."

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will give an update on its Starship spacecraft in about three weeks.
Starship

Elon Musk: “Starship Update Coming in 3 Weeks”

"The design has coalesced."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Monash University in Melbourne is preparing to implant a bionic eye as part of the world's first human clinical trials.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Are Preparing to Implant the World’s First Human Bionic Eye

The same implants could potentially treat paralysis as well.

By Victor Tangermann

A photo of the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont factory shows what appears to be another, freshly-assembled Cybertruck prototype.
Tesla

Photo Shows Cybertruck on Tesla Assembly Line

The image likely shows a new prototype.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.
Energy

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

Is fusion energy finally no longer "decades away?"

By Victor Tangermann

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.
Energy

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

A 12-year-old just became the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out what happened to Cassiopeia A, a star that had its outer layers blown away before it ultimately exploded in a supernova.
Science & Energy

Something Peeled an Entire Layer Off This Star Like a Giant Orange

The universe is a dangerous place.

By Dan Robitzski