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The DeLorean Motor Company is bringing back the iconic car from "Back to the Future" — and this time, it's luxuriously electric.

Advanced Transport

DeLoreans Are Apparently Coming Back as Electric Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk's recent tweet, he and his companies have done their fair share of political lobbying and campaign contributions.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Doesn’t Make Political Contributions Even Though It Absolutely Does

By Tony Ho Tran

YouTuber and professional boxer Logan Paul is starting his own NFT marketplace because we live in the absolute worst possible timeline.

Notorious Scoundrel Logan Paul Files Paperwork to Start NFT Marketplace

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire Jared Isaacman has purchased three flights with the company as a part of their upcoming “Polaris” missions to take humans into high Earth orbit.

Billionaire Space Tourist Buys Three More SpaceX Launches in Shocking Display of Wealth

By Tony Ho Tran

The latest recall forced Tesla to call back a software update that allowed drivers to use the outside pointing speakers as a "Boombox" and fart machine.

Elon Musk Furious at Gov for Shutting Down Tesla Feature That Farts at Pedestrians

By Victor Tangermann

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

By Victor Tangermann

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.

Virtual Reality

Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX is planning the first-ever commercial extravehicular activity in space, involving astronauts venturing outside of its Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Astronauts Announce First Ever Spacewalk From SpaceX Spaceship

By Victor Tangermann

Whoops. It turns out that reports of a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon were greatly exaggerated -- and it belongs to someone else entirely.

Fake News! The Rocket Crashing Into the Moon Is NOT SpaceX’s

By Tony Ho Tran

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter.

NASA Spots High Energy X-Rays Coming from Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

We've finally gotten our first peek at the James Webb Space Telescope's photos and, naturally, one of them is a "selfie."

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Released Its First Image

By Noor Al-Sibai

MoviePass is coming back and it wants to track your eyes. Watch ads to earn credits in-app and trade with other users. But they pause if you look away.

Cursed App Says You’ll Earn Crypto If You Stare at Ads With Your Eyes Open Like in “A Clockwork Orange”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A robot travelled to the most-damaged Fukushima reactor and photographed mounds of melted fuel that sank following the tsunami that destroyed the facility.

Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive Sludge

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Biden administration has unveiled a massively ambitious plan to install roughly 400,000 EV chargers between now and 2030.

Advanced Transport

White House to Install Hundreds of Thousands of EV Chargers on US Highways

By Victor Tangermann

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is investing $200 million into Forbes so that the website can become publicly traded.

The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Is Investing $200 Million in Forbes, a Site Where Anyone Can Shill Crypto

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists from Harvard and Emory University created 500 "biohybrid" fish that had their tail fins lined with human heart cells.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Create Flapping “Biohybrid” Fish From Human Heart Cells

By Victor Tangermann

A geomagnetic storm earlier this month caused 40 of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites to fall out of orbit shortly after launch.

Dramatic Video Shows SpaceX Starlink Satellites Burning Up in the Sky

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's chief scientist has admitted what we all fear — that artificial intelligence may be gaining consciousness.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has successfully stacked its orbital-class Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20 on top of its Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX Stacks Orbital-Class Starship on Booster, Hoists It With Mechazilla

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla cut corners to deal with the rampant supply chain issues — putting yet another hurdle in the way to level three full-self driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Accused of Cutting Corner That Makes Level 3 Self-Driving Impossible

By Tony Ho Tran

Threats of Russian invasion have led the Ukrainian military to a bizarre training location — the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Great, Ukraine is Doing Military Combat Drills in Chernobyl Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A camera mounted inside the JET fusion reactor recorded an amazing video of glowing plasma swirling during this week's record experiment.

Amazing Video Shows Inside Fusion Reactor During Record Breaking Test

By Victor Tangermann

The team from McGill University designed a rocket system that uses a 10-meter wide laser array on Earth to power up an orbiting spacecraft.

Advanced Transport

Scientists Propose Mission to Mars Powered by Giant Laser on Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has hooked up the pair of massive "chopsticks" of its 460-foot "Mechazilla" tower to its latest Starship prototype dubbed Ship 20.

SpaceX Grabs Starship With Giant Robot Arms

By Victor Tangermann

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it.

Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot

By Tony Ho Tran

A gaggle of troublesome turkeys have laid siege to NASA's Ames Center in Mountain View, California.

Furious Turkeys Lay Siege to NASA Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

A solar storm killed 40 of 49 Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX last week after atmospheric drag doomed them to deorbit.

Geomagnetic Storm Kills 40 of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

By Tony Ho Tran

Investors are buying exclusive rights to simple strings of emojis called "Yats" by early adopters — for some reason we can't figure out.

Because the World Has Lost Its Mind, You Can Now Buy NFTs of Strings of Emojis

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have used the Murchison Widefield Array, a massive network of over 4,000 antennas in the Australian desert, to look for aliens.

Scientists Fail to Spot Aliens After Scanning Skies for Seven Whole Hours

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO and Terrible Boss Elon Musk thinks there’s just too much bad news out there these days — and it’s the hateful media’s fault.

Elon Musk, Who Constantly Posts About Stuff He Hates, Complains About the Media’s “Relentless Hatestream”

By Tony Ho Tran

An aging SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon — and one space enthusiast has captured it on video.

Guy With Huge Telescope Spots Tumbling SpaceX Rocket About to Crash Into Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Villain Slices All Cables Off Brand New Tesla Charging Station

By Victor Tangermann

Shoot magic energy lasers out of your fingers with augmented reality experiment that game enthusiast and HoloForge Interactive CTO Olivier Goguel created.

Artificial Intelligence

Awesome AR Demo Lets You Shoot Magic With Your Fingers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Union Pacific purchased 20 battery-powered locomotives for use in rail yards while other battery-powered train cars are getting to work.

Advanced Transport

Major Railroad Buys 20 Battery Powered Locomotives for Its Trains

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After accruing even more dust during a recent storm, NASA scientists believe that the InSight Mars lander may finally be on its last legs.

NASA’s Mars Lander Believed to Be Dying After Furious Dust Storm

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak has announced that he has personally invested in Synchron, a rival brain-computer interface startup.

Neuralink Cofounder Invests in Rival That’s Beaten Elon Musk to Human Trials

By Tony Ho Tran

People in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico got a lightshow of a lifetime over the weekend when a spectacular fireball streaked across the sky as it fell to Earth.

Video Appears to Show SpaceX Rocket Disintegrating in Epic Fireball

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just approved a SpaceX project to launch its first fully-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

NASA Officially Approves First SpaceX Tourists to Visit Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

The 27 most expensive recorded NFT sales in January amounted to $1.3 billion — but it came from just two crypto wallets trading with each other.

Evidence Is Piling Up That a Huge Number of NFT Sales Are Fake

By Tony Ho Tran

Pam Harght of Boston noticed and essentially rescued a sinking boat named Bing Bing during a work Zoom meeting last week.

Woman Notices Sinking Boat During Zoom Call, Saves Crew

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Renowned public speaker and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway ripped Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in an interview after stock prices fell drastically.

Famous Marketing Professor Calls Facebook’s Metaverse a “Flaming Bag of S**t”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Avi Loeb wants to capture a high-res image of a UFO in two years with the Galileo Project, using telescopes on the Harvard observatory roof.

Harvard Astronomer Says He’s Building Device to Capture “High Resolution Image” of UFO

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The identities of the creators of the wildly successful NFT project known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club have seemingly been revealed.

Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed

By Jon Christian

NASA says that as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its alignment process the team saw the first photons of starlight it has detected.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Detected Its First Signal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NFT creators are using wash trading to falsely inflate the prices on their JPGs every day according to crypto market transparency publication Chainanalysis.

NFT Scammers Are Using a Sneaky Trick to Make Their JPGs Seem Like They’re Worth a Fortune

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Joe Rogan actually used to want people to get the vaccine as evidenced by a resurfaced clip with guest Dr. Michael Osterholm, member of Biden’s COVID board.

RX and Medicine

Video Shows Joe Rogan Mocking Vaccine Skeptics Back in 2020

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A robot bartender named Cecilia is Miami's hottest new mixologist.

AI Bartender Slams Out 120 Drinks Per Hour While Cracking Stupid Jokes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company that sells "lasso guns" to cops is working on ways to get its firearm into schools and medical institutions.

Prosthetics and Devices

Startup Trying to Sell Lasso Gun to Capture Unruly Kids In Schools

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ex-investment banker Colborn Bell, who owns millions of dollars worth of NFTs, warns the market for the tokens is about to crash, Fortune reports.

Huge NFT Collector Warns of “Cataclysmic Market Crash”

By Victor Tangermann

Divers at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory set the stage for Artemis I training by simulating the Moon's lighting conditions in a cold, dark pool.

Haunting Photo Shows NASA Astronauts Submerged in Deep, Dark Water

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The village of Fairbourne in Gwynedd, in North Wales, is going to be below sea level by 2054, but that isn't soaring housing and vacation rental prices.

House Prices Surge in Neighborhood Predicted to Be Swallowed by the Sea

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A black woman who used to work at Tesla's plant in California sued the carmaker after suffering "painful abuses reminiscent of the Jim Crow era."

Woman Sues Tesla for “Rampant” Racism

By Victor Tangermann

The tree-stump-sized gold cube worth a reported $11.7 million that graced Central Park's frozen lake is apparently promoting a cryptocurrency and NFTs.

The Central Park Gold Cube Is an NFT Publicity Stunt, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 24-year-old man from Bethesda, Maryland decided to take some extreme measures to get his hands on the $400,000 worth of cryptocurrencies owned by his father.

Man Drugs His Father’s Tea to Steal $400,000 in Crypto

By Victor Tangermann

During a pivotal meeting, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a very bizarre reason for looking like he was about to cry on camera.

Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Had Red Eyes and a Weird Excuse at Company-Wide Meeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of chemical engineers at MIT have created a new material that they claim to be stronger than steel — but still as light as plastic.

Science & Energy

MIT Creates Material Stronger Than Steel But as Light as Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have modified a Supra that can perform sick drifts around a racetrack — without a driver.

Self-Driving Vehicles

The Fast and the Autonomous: Self-Driving Cars Can Drift Now

By Victor Tangermann

At the end of January, Oklahomans were stunned by both an earthquake and an unidentified flying object that meteorologists believe to be a SpaceX rocket.

Oklahomans Saw a Spiral-Shaped UFO, But It Turned Out to Be SpaceX

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bunch of animals are going extinct, but don't worry, you can buy NFTs of them!

Environmentalists Sell NFTs of Endangered Animals, Because We’re Condemned to Suffer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Steve Jurczyk, former NASA administrator, has co-founded a commercial space infrastructure company to build robotic outposts near the Moon.

Former NASA Head Creates Startup to Build Robot Outpost Near Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

One Florida teen is converting Elon Musk's anger at him into his very own 15 minutes of fame.

Elon Musk’s Teen Stalker Yeets Himself Into 15 Minutes of Fame

By Noor Al-Sibai