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A U.S. police force has tested the capabilities of a robot dog for the first time, but it's keeping mum on the exact details of the bot's use.
Boston Dynamics

It’s Official: Police Are Testing Out Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog

"All too often, the deployment of these technologies happens faster than our social, political, or legal systems react."

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

"Around black holes, there might exist planetary systems of astonishing scale."

Tesla's Cybertruck turned a lot of heads for its unapologetically brutalist design, and now the internet has given the bizarre truck a radical new makeover.
Tesla

Here Are The Most Brilliant Cybertruck Photoshops We Could Find

The internet had a field day.

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.
Future Society

Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

"This is classic union busting dressed up in tech industry jargon."

Tesla patented a system that would replace good old fashioned windshield wipers with actual laser beams that zap away debris.
Tesla

Tesla Wants to Replace Windshield Wipers With Lasers

Yes, really.

A new investigation reveals just how dangerous Amazon warehouses are for workers. Injuries are dangerously high, and people's jobs are always on the line.
Future Society

Report: Amazon Warehouses Are “Permanently Maiming” Workers

"For Amazon, all they care about is getting the job done and getting it out fast and not realizing how it's affecting us and our own bodies."

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.
Physics

Astronomers Catch Three Black Holes “Cooking” Their Galaxies

This may explain how black holes transfer heat throughout their galaxies.

Sunny Madra, VP of Ford X, challenged Elon Musk to conduct a real "apples to apples" test between the Cybertruck and the Ford F-150.
Tesla

Ford VP Calls Out Tesla for Unfair Cybertruck vs. F-150 Battle

Elon Musk fired back: "Bring it on."

Porn stars and sex workers are having troubling stopping Instagram from deleting their accounts — even when their posts don't violate the site's rules.
Future Society

Porn Stars: Instagram Keeps Deleting Our Accounts for No Reason

"They discriminate against us because they don’t like what we do for a living."

New deepfake-creating AI can make someone look and sound like Joe Rogan. While it's not perfect, it paints a troubling picture of the future.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Makes You Look and Sound Exactly Like Joe Rogan

It's disturbingly realistic.

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot First Galaxy With Three Supermassive Black Holes

It turns out the galaxy's twin black holes are actually triplets.

A startup is developing a system that could allow spacecraft and satellites to launch after being dropped from a massive hot-air balloon at 60,000 feet.
Space

This Startup Wants to Launch Satellites from Balloons

The autonomous balloon platform is designed to launch 33-foot rockets into orbit.

Scientists discovered fossils left behind in an ancient meteorite that reveal how ice was distributed throughout the early, still-forming solar system.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find “Ice Fossils” in Ancient Meteorite

This is the "starting material from which all the planets, including Earth, came from."

The booster from a Chinese rocket landed on populated settlement on Saturday — and China could have prevented the whole situation from unfolding.
Off-World

Chinese Rocket Launch Covers Village in Toxic Debris. Again.

The rocket's booster landed on a building, causing fires to break out.

Once again, London is trying to get rid of Uber over passenger safety concerns. And once again, Uber is confident that it's not going anywhere,
Future Society

Uber Just Got Kicked Out of London

City officials blame a "pattern of failures" by Uber.

Conspiracy theories are circulating, claiming that Elon Musk had the Cybertruck's windows smash on purpose to get free publicity.
Tesla

Conspiracy Theory: Tesla Smashed Cybertruck Window on Purpose

Let's be honest: If it was a PR stunt, it's been a resounding success.

During the latest episode of animated series "Rick and Morty," the titular characters meet Elon Tusk, an alternate reality version of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Made a Cameo on “Rick and Morty”

Hear that? That’s the sound of millions of fans' heads exploding.

While the idea of building a space colony or terraforming a new planet for humanity to colonize sounds intriguing, it's not a sustainable goal.
Off-World

Professor: Terraforming a New Home Planet Would Be Dangerous

Escaping Earth for a new world simply isn't a realistic plan.

In a video uploaded to Twitter on Sunday by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a Cybertruck effortlessly pulls a Ford F-150 pickup going the other way — and uphill.
Advanced Transport

Watch a Cybertruck Pull a Helpless Ford F-150 Up a Hill

The tires on the F-150 spins out almost immediately, succumbing to the Tesla's raw power.

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

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

Oops.