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It's the circle of life: tech bros get millions to fund their harebrained startups, and people on Twitter, in turn, mock their goofy, expensive ideas.

Experts Mock Startup That Aims to Deliver Human Organs — and Pizza — from Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

It turns out that many lab-grown meat products actually contain a shocking amount of blood due to fetal bovine serum, or blood from unborn cow fetuses.

Oops! It Turns Out Lab-Grown Meat Often Contains Real Blood

By Tony Ho Tran

Everyone has their price — and for one former Tesla lawyer, that price was upwards of $30 million.

Revealed: Tesla Competitor Paid Top Tesla Lawyer $30 Million to Defect

By Noor Al-Sibai

A machine learning neural network generated a horrifying video of infinite nightmare clowns — and it's absolutely disturbing.

We Will Never Sleep Again After Seeing a Neural Network Generate Infinite Nightmare Clowns

By Tony Ho Tran

More NASA astronauts are piling on, openly mocking Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, for his inflammatory comments.

Another NASA Astronaut Just Brutally Roasted the Head of the Russian Space Program

By Victor Tangermann

A former NASA astronaut continues to feud with the Russia space agency head — and this time, he’s choosing to side with the Ukrainian president.

NASA Astronaut Who Tore Into Russian Space Boss Pledges Support for Ukraine President

By Tony Ho Tran

A Gen Z-founded startup wants to transport goods in capsules that travel faster than the speed of sound to space — and those goods include artificial organs.

Weird Startup Proposes Dropping Artificial Human Organs From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that there would be a “slight delay” in the launch of the company’s experimental spacecraft.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is So Busy With Ukraine That It’ll Delay Starship

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk might be memeing again, but if he is, he's taken a decidedly different tone.

A Brief Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Latest Extremely Emo Tweet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump is angry… again. This time, it’s because no one seems to be using his glitchy, lame Twitter wannabe app Truth Social.

Donald Trump Reportedly Furious That Nobody’s Using His Glitchy Twitter Clone

By Tony Ho Tran

After declaring "cyber war against the Russian government" last week, famed Guy Fawkes mask-themed hacker group Anonymous is hacking Russian TV services.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Entire Russian Television Channels Now

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has some fresh advice for the world’s nations: Invest in nuclear power plants — and do it as soon as possible.

Elon Musk Says We Need More Nuclear Energy After Russia Targets Power Plants

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia fired missiles a location containing a nuclear reactor in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has nuclear fuel cells.

Ukraine Says Russia Is Attacking Another Nuclear Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Map That Calculates Nuclear Blast Zones Spikes in Popularity

Map That Calculates Nuclear Blast Zones Spikes in Popularity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Publicly available photos show a medium-sized rock trapped in the wheel of NASA's Mars Rover, Perseverance. It was seen in February and March.

There’s a Rock Stuck in NASA’s Mars Rover’s Wheel

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After sending Starlink terminals to maintain internet during Russia's invasion, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said he'd spoken with Elon Musk.

The President of Ukraine Says He Just Talked to Elon Musk

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bizarre new video from Russian controlled media RIA Novosti showed the International Space Station breaking apart after cosmonauts departed.

Russia Releases Bizarre Video of Space Station Breaking Apart

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Green Hydrogen International announced plans for a 60GW H2 plant in Texas powered by wind and solar. It'll also produce clean rocket fuel for SpaceX.

World’s Largest Hydrogen Plant Says It’s Going to Power SpaceX Launches

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Coinbase and Binance won't shut down cryptocurrency exchanges for Russia unless forced to comply with US sanctions or laws.

Major Crypto Exchanges Say They Won’t Shut Down Russian Transactions Unless They’re Forced

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.

Marine Scientists Say Pulling Plastic Out of the Ocean Isn’t Even Worth It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia's internet regulator Roskomnazor has announced it is officially blocking Facebook outright in retaliation of the company blocking state media.

Russia Is Officially Blocking All Access to Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

One UK father is getting backlash online for tricking his family into thinking Russia launched a nuclear bomb attack with a prank BBC news segment.

Dad Criticized for “Pranking” Family Into Thinking They Were Going to Die in Nuclear War

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team at the University of Southern California managed to capture images of a memory form in laboratory zebra fish brains in real time.

Science & Energy

Scientists Watch Memories Form in Living Brain

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The NFT market is starting to cool down, Bloomberg reports. The average trading value of the nonfungible tokens has dropped precipitously lately.

Report: The NFT Bubble Could Be Starting to Burst

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA flight controller and safety engineer aboard the ISS said that geopolitical tensions haven't affected his relationship with his Russian coworkers.

International Space Station

NASA ISS Engineer Says Relationships With Russian Counterparts Still Cordial

By Tony Ho Tran

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.

Bumbling Russian Space Boss Forced to Slash Huge Raise He Gave Himself

By Victor Tangermann

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.

A Derelict Rocket Just Smashed Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

If a new state legislature bill becomes law, Oklahomans may soon have to go out of state to buy and service their Teslas.

Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill To Outlaw Tesla Sales and Service Centers

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning users in Ukraine who have received one of the company's Starlink dishes could be targeted by Russian actors.

Elon Musk Warns That Russia May Be Spying on Starlink Connections

By Victor Tangermann

A sex startup is creating a VR-enabled masturbation pod for companies that want to make their employees very uncomfortable, very quickly.

Company Installs VR-Enabled Masturbation Pod for Employees

By Tony Ho Tran

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many experts are beginning to sound the alarm on the risk fighting poses on the country’s nuclear power plants.

Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants at “Unprecedented” Risk Due to Russian Invasion

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s shipment of Starlink terminals to Ukraine is not just keeping the country connected — it might also be saving lives.

Ukraine Vice Minister Says SpaceX Starlink Is “Saving Lives”

By Tony Ho Tran

The billionaire said he wouldn't stop the United Auto Workers from holding a vote on whether employees should unionize at one of Tesla's factories.

Elon Musk Challenges Union to Let Tesla Workers Vote on Whether to Join

By Tony Ho Tran

Mining company Fortescue is looking to reduce its carbon footprint with an electric "Infinity Train" that can fully recharge by rolling down the mountain.

Science & Energy

Ingenious Electric Train Fully Charges Itself by Rolling Downhill With Heavy Load

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's first private sector space tourists has vowed not to irritate the actual astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Space Tourists Promise Not to Annoy Astronauts While on Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

The topic of people boning in space has remained a bit of a taboo ever since we, as a species, ventured into the great unknown for the first time.

Scientists Say We Really Have to Talk About Boning in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A decades-old metaverse is introducing sales tax for the first time since its inception nearly 20 years ago, setting a precedent for taxation in the many burgeoning metaverses.

Uh Oh: The Metaverse Is Already Being Slammed by Sales Tax

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of climate scientists are considering alternative options to sounding to alarm on global warming – including a mass walkout.

Scientists Plotting Mass Walkout to Protest Everyone Destroying the World

By Tony Ho Tran

Space experts say that if Moscow decides to pull out from the ISS, it would leave NASA and other agencies with little option but to destroy the station.

NASA Insiders Say If Russia Pulls Out of ISS, It May Need to Be Destroyed

By Tony Ho Tran

The billionaire claimed no one would be watching President Biden’s State of the Union address and harped at the commander-in-chief for his snubs of Tesla.

Elon Musk Furious That Biden Didn’t Praise Him During State of the Union

By Tony Ho Tran

A huge cargo ship full of Bentleys and Porches that's been burning for weeks in the Atlantic has finally succumbed to the depths of the deep blue sea.

Remember That Giant Burning Ship of Luxury Cars? It Just Sank

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jack Sweeney has created new Twitter accounts that track the movements of Russian oligarchs – including Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

Teen Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet Now Tracking Russian Oligarchs

By Tony Ho Tran

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's outspoken head of its space agency, denied recent reports that hackers had seized control of the nation's spy satellites.

Hackers Claim They’ve Seized Control of Russian Spy Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Good news, everyone: Mark Zuckerberg is not a robot after all.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg Take a CAPTCHA to Prove He’s Not a Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg has a newsflash for us all: the Metaverse is less of a place than a point in time.

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Galaxy-Brained Explanation of Metaverse’s Impending Singularity

By Noor Al-Sibai

An MIT spinoff has recently received millions to fund a potentially groundbreaking project: using fusion power tech to drill 12 miles into the Earth.

MIT Startup Drilling 12 Miles Into the Earth to Suck Out Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Rogozin has drawn the ire of space experts across the spectrum who have accused him of being a propaganda mouthpiece for the Russian military.

Head of Russian Space Program Criticized for Posting “Pure Propaganda”

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s much ballyhooed shipment of Starlink terminals to Ukraine has arrived — and under some suspiciously mysterious circumstances.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Terminals Already Arrived in Ukraine

By Tony Ho Tran

While the US supplies the outpost with both power and life support, Russia provides propulsion to keep the ISS in orbit using its Progress spacecraft.

NASA Investigating How to Keep Space Station Aloft Without Russian Boosters

By Victor Tangermann

Electric vehicle (EV) chargers on a Russian highway were shut down and programmed to display anti-Putin messages on its display screens on Monday

Advanced Transport

Ukrainian Company Shuts Down Russian EV Chargers, Spams Them with Anti-Putin Messages

By Tony Ho Tran

Imagine the worst aspects of both Pokémon and non-fungible tokens and you begin to get the gist of what happened with Pixelmon.

NFT Buyers Furious After Art They Spent $70 Million on Turned Out to Be Completely Hideous

By Noor Al-Sibai

The international space community has been distancing itself from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. But NASA astronaut Vande Hei will still ride a Soyuz.

Awkward! A NASA Astronaut Is Currently Scheduled to Fly Back to Earth in a Russian Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

In the rambling speech, Trump downplayed the impact of climate change while deriding President Joe Biden for his focus on environmental issues.

Donald Trump Says Global Warming Is Good Because It Means More “Seafront Property”

By Tony Ho Tran

Alphabet Inc decided to temporarily disable live traffic data on Google Maps in Ukraine due to the danger it posed on civilians and troops.

Google Disables Maps in Ukraine After It Revealed Troop Movements

By Tony Ho Tran

Driving a SpaceX Starlink delivery truck full of satellite internet equipment into Ukraine, an active warzone, is no easy feat.

There’s a Problem With Elon Musk’s Promise to Provide Starlink in Ukraine

By Victor Tangermann

Rogozin went on a bizarre Twitter rant last Thursday where he claimed the ISS "does not fly over Russia" when in fact it does.

The Head of the Russian Space Program Made an Absolutely Idiotic Mistake

By Tony Ho Tran

An anonymous genius behind the username "Bayneko" effectively turned an NFT into an infectious disease, causing it to land in almost 100,000 wallets.

COVID-Themed NFT Infects Your Wallet Whether You Like It or Not

By Victor Tangermann

The UN released a massive report on Monday that paints a dire portrait of the impacts climate change will have on the world’s ecosystems and humanity.

The UN Just Dropped Another Incredibly Bleak Climate Change Report

By Tony Ho Tran

The Canadian Space Agency tweeted a photo of the Cape Breton Highlands in Canada but most people saw a cat extending a paw toward the sky in a new meme.

People Delighted When Satellite Image Looks Like Adorable Kitty

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon.

2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent Starlink terminals to Ukraine and brought them online, providing internet service as the country fends off Russian attacks.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Sending Starlink Terminals to Ukraine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Antarctica is showing some worrying signs of pollution in the form of a black carbon layer blanketing the snow, caused by tourists burning fossil fuels.

Antarctica’s Pristine Snow Besmirched With Horrid Black Pollution, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

An asteroid called 2022 AE1 showed potential impact with Earth in July of 2023, but the threat has now been reduced to nearly zero and will not impact.

Good News: Killer Asteroid Not Going to Hit Earth, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood