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Starship

Here’s How Many Shipping Containers You Could Fit Inside SpaceX’s Starship

Getting this much cargo into space at a time could be "truly revolutionary."

Elon Musk

Kanye West Is Hanging Out With Elon Musk, For Some Reason

Elon Musk: "Kanye’s belief in himself and his incredible tenacity — he performed his first single with his jaw wired shut — got him to where he is today."

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

An MIT team says they "sincerely apologize" for an AI training database that labeled Black people with the N-word.

Solar Power

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

It could help us make vastly better gravitational wave recordings.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Want to Figure Out What the Hell Planet Nine Is Once and For All

Is it a gigantic planet five times the size of Earth — or an apple-sized black hole?

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Deep-Space “Structure,” 1.4 Billion Light Years Across

That's roughly 8,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Ring-Shaped Objects in Deep Space

They're unlike anything astronomers have ever observed before.

Starship

SpaceX Is Planning Starship’s First Test Flight for Next Week

SpaceX is eager to get its rocket monstrosity off the ground.

Science & Energy

NASA Pumps Funding Into Startup That Says It Can Harvest Oxygen From Lunar Regolith

Pioneer Astronautics has a plan to generate oxygen from the Moon's dusty surface.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving

"I'm extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Announces Tunnel-Digging Contest

How fast can you dig a hole?

Mars

Crap: NASA’s Mars “Mole” Finally Started Digging, Then Hit Another Obstacle

Who knew that digging into Mars was this difficult?

Future Society

To Fight COVID, Japanese Theme Parks Forbid Screaming on Roller Coasters

"Please scream inside your heart."

Future Society

Watch a Tech CEO Melt Down in a Racist Tirade

He apologized, but the family he screamed at isn't buying it.

Science & Energy

US Investigating “Breach” at Nuclear Weapons Facility

More than a dozen workers were potentially exposed to plutonium.

Boeing

Official Report: Boeing’s Spaceship Still Really, Really Sucks

Can't Boeing just, you know, be more like SpaceX?

Moon

China Finally Figured Out What That Weird “Gel-Like” Substance from the Far Side of the Moon Was

Drum roll please!

Future Society

Hong Kong Is Already Being Censored by China’s “Great Firewall”

And China is probably about to censor Google, Twitter and Facebook.

Moon

Congress Budget Denies NASA Full Funding for Moon Missions

Did Congress just kill NASA's ambitions to return humans to the Moon by 2024?

Nuclear Fusion

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

Waiting out a nuclear winter sounds like a lot more fun with access to a waterslide and bar.