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Hacker and IT security analyst Truman Kain has created a surveillance tool that can tell you in real-time if you're being followed while driving your Tesla.
Tesla

This Tesla Surveillance Hack Can Tell You if You’re Being Followed

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't following you.

The Atlantic: It’s Possible Dinosaurs Had a Whole Civilization
Science & Energy

The Atlantic: It’s Possible Dinosaurs Had a Whole Civilization

Here's a wild idea: Technologically advanced dinosaurs might have tried asteroid mining — and accidentally crashed a big one into the Earth, driving themselves extinct in the process.

The first trial of a chlamydia vaccine in humans delivered promising results, with researchers already looking forward to the next steps.
RX and Medicine

New Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise In First Human Trial

"The research is still in its early days, but we're very happy."

SpaceX has scheduled the next test flight of its Starship prototype Starhopper — possibly up to an altitude of 650 feet — for this weekend.
SpaceX

SpaceX “Starhopper” Will Attempt Longest Flight Yet This Weekend

"Just spoke with FAA, so hopefully yes."

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.
Meta

Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations

And the company paid outside contractors to do it.

Starting in 2023, the United State's nuclear stockpile will be managed by El Capitan, a supercomputer with a peak performance of 1.5 exaflops.
Computers

This $600 Million Supercomputer Will Manage the US’s Nukes

It'll be more powerful than today's top 100 supercomputers combined.

A new survey reveals that teens tend to trust social media and YouTube personalities more than they do established news outlets.
Future Society

Teens Now Trust YouTubers More Than Journalists

A survey shows that teens go to YouTube despite knowing it's less reliable.

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.
Pollution

Rain Clouds Are Dropping Microplastic on the Rocky Mountains

"It's a part of our environment now."

With just tiny implant, a security researcher was able to rig an Apple charging cable to give himself access to any user's devices.
Computers

This Evil Charging Cable Will Infect Your Computer With a Virus

And anyone can buy it for $200.

Russia is sending a semi-autonomous, gun-savvy robot to the International Space Station next Thursday. They hope the Russian bot will help build Moon bases.
Robotics

Russia’s Gun-Shooting Robot Is Heading to the Space Station

The Russian robo-astronaut looks brutal as heck.

The day after the feral hogs meme was born, these researchers published a study about the very real problem the animals pose for farmers.
Science & Energy

Assault Rifles Won’t Solve Your Feral Hog Problem, Say Scientists

The timing of this new feral hog study really couldn’t be any better.

During an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Bernie Sanders promised he'd tell the public about alien life if he was elected president.
Science & Energy

Bernie Sanders Tells Joe Rogan He’d Declassify Aliens as President

"My wife would demand that I let you know."

A new deepfake on YouTube brought some signature cartoony design elements back to Disney's new live-action "The Lion King" remake.
Artificial Intelligence

This Genius Used Deepfakes to “Fix” the New “The Lion King”

The end result is a bizarre hybrid of new and old.

A new deepfake puts Tom Cruise's face onto Christian Bale's body from "American Psycho." It's a bizarre gray area in the realm of deepfake nudity.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Deepfaked Tom Cruise Into The “American Psycho” Sex Scene

The video is uncomfortable. And extremely NSFW.

#globalwarning videos on Tik Tok show people slowly melting in the heat as global climate change gets worse and worse around them.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Officially a TikTok Meme

#Globalwarning shows a memeified glimpse into our future.

The person behind the Storm Area 51 event is now promoting Alienstock, a music festival set to take place in the Nevada desert the same weekend.
Off-World

Storm Area 51 Creator Announces Alienstock Music Festival

The event promises to provide "an experience that celebrates Aliens and the Unknown."

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley got to test out their hot new spacesuits for launch day of the long-awaited SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight.
Crew Dragon

NASA Astronauts Test SpaceX Spacesuits for Crew Dragon Launch

Will SpaceX be able to launch its Crew Dragon capsule in November?

Now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein told a New York Times reporter he advised Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk in August 2018.
Elon Musk

NYT Writer: Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Advised Tesla, Elon Musk

Can you guess what Tesla has to say about that claim?

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk estimates the cost of building a self-sustaining city on Mars to be anywhere "between $100 billion and $100 trillion."
Mars

Elon Musk: Mars City Could Cost Up to $10 Trillion

For perspective, that's about triple the United States' total tax revenue.

Snap, Inc is about to release the third iteration of its AR glasses, Spectacles 3. It's extremely unclear who they're for.
Robots and Machines

Gadzooks! Snap Inc. Is Making a New Pair of Doomed AR Glasses

Twice the cameras, twice the cost.