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Here’s Elon Musk’s Excuse For Smashing Cybertruck Window
Elon Musk

Oops.

By Victor Tangermann

CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla will offer the Cyberquad — an electric all-terrain vehicle — as an add-on option to Cybertruck buyers.
Elon Musk

But only if you also buy a Cybertruck.

By Kristin Houser

A new report found that whales are incredibly adept at absorbing carbon dioxide, meaning their preservation should be a top climate priority.
Climate Change

"When it comes to saving the planet, one whale is worth thousands of trees."

By Kristin Houser

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.
Google

But a spokesperson still defended the project.

By Dan Robitzski

Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.
Elon Musk

"Adding fold out solar wings would generate 30 to 40 miles per day."

By Victor Tangermann

When a robot talked trash against its opponents, it hurt their feelings and they performed worse at a game researchers use to study human rationality.
Artificial Intelligence

This bot's no Muhammad Ali, but its insults still stung.

By Kristin Houser

Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Killer Deal and Nobody Is Talking About It
Tesla

It's an abomination — but with a really compelling price tag.

By Victor Tangermann

The reactions are coming in for Tesla's cybertruck. Mostly in the form of ridicule on Twitter.
Advanced Transport

"It's a Hummer in low poly mode with none of the carbon footprint."

By Victor Tangermann

A demonstration of Tesla's new Cybertruck on stage seemingly backfired after the company's head of design smashed a window with a metal ball.
Tesla

Elon Musk: "Oh my fucking God."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla’s “Blade Runner” Cybertruck Is an Absolute Monstrosity
Tesla

The only question: is that a good thing or a bad thing?

By Victor Tangermann

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.
Science & Energy

It turns out, nearly extreme black holes do have "hair."

By Kristin Houser

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.
Science & Energy

A video shows the speech Nixon would have given if Apollo 11 failed.

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

This is weird. Very weird.

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.
Artificial Intelligence

Physicist Arthur Miller predicts creative machines, sentient AI, and the future of art.

By Dan Robitzski

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft has left its hangar and is now attached to the Atlas V rocket that will launch it into space for the first time.
Boeing

Starliner is just weeks away from its first trip into space.

By Kristin Houser

A new AI system called SchNOrb can probe the quantum mechanics of compounds to help scientists design new molecules from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

A new algorithm can predict the quantum behavior of molecules.

By Dan Robitzski

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.
Off-World

But the organization promises not to deploy any weapons.

By Kristin Houser

The staff at a French hospital refused to meet the ransom demand of hackers, instead responding to a cyberattack by handwriting all documents.
Future Society

When hackers attacked, hospital staff picked up their pencils.

By Kristin Houser

This scientist from Oregon State University believes the professor who claims to have evidence of insects on Mars was just an example of pareidolia.
Exobiology

Was he just seeing things?

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed a drone (SQUID) that can be shot high up into the sky using a special cannon.
Drones

The researchers want to take their idea to Mars and Titan.

By Victor Tangermann