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The Department of Homeland Security is deploying robodogs to patrol the country’s southern border and report any immigrants attempting to cross.

Company That Put Rifle on Robodog Deploying Anti-Immigrant Bots to Mexico Border

By Tony Ho Tran

An oil production and storage ship exploded off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday morning. The condition of the ten crew members on board is still unclear.

Science & Energy

Huge Oil Tanker Explodes Off Coast of Africa

By Victor Tangermann

People are actually debating how to pronounce the moniker "NFTs." The Verge thinks it should be "neft." We disagree.

Debate Rages Over How to Pronounce “NFT”

By Victor Tangermann

Stock prices for Meta took a swan dive on Wednesday after the company posted a profit decline — resulting in a $195 billion stock plunge.

Facebook Stock Crashes After User Base Starts Shrinking

By Tony Ho Tran

According to MarketWatch, John McAfee's body is the subject of a dramatic legal conflict involving his daughter, his ex-wife, and Barcelona investigators.

Various People Are Fighting Over John McAfee’s Body, Which Is Stuck in a Spanish Morgue

By Jon Christian

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

An American white hat hacker managed to disrupt the internet connection of North Korea — while wearing pajamas, eating chips, and watching "Alien."

Hacker Wearing Pajama Pants Brings Down North Korea’s Entire Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Climate researchers are warning extreme heat present in the Earth's oceans passed the point of return turn — eight years ago.

Environmental Catastrophe Passed “Point of No Return” Eight Years Ago, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Members of the US Space Force are frustrated by the fact that large swaths of the population know nothing about the new military branch.

Space Force Members Annoyed That Nobody Takes Them Seriously

By Tony Ho Tran

An iconic bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam will soon be partly demolished so that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' super yacht can pass through.

Jeff Bezos Demands That Historic Bridge Be Taken Apart So That His Superyacht Can Pass Through

By Victor Tangermann

A number of thieves on the OpenSea platform have made more than $1 million by exploiting a loophole in the NFT trading platform.

Thieves Just Stole Even More Bored Ape NFTs

By Tony Ho Tran

An Israeli AI company claims it can create a model of a face using DNA that can then be fed into a facial recognition system, a highly dubious claim.

Startup Slammed for Saying It Can Reconstruct Faces From DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Radian Aerospace announced that it secured $27.5 million in funding to develop the first "horizontal takeoff and landing" space plane.

New Spacecraft Would Take Off on a Runway and Fly Directly to Space

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is finally making moves to boot up its James Webb Space Telescope, according to a NASA statement — a historic moment.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s Booting Up the Mighty James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Hip-hop star and fashion designer Kanye West took to Instagram to let the world know that he wants people to stop asking him about NFTs.

Kanye West Slams NFTs, Saying He Creates “Real Products” Instead

By Tony Ho Tran

JetPack Aviation is in talks to create a category of air racing specifically for jetpacks, New Atlas reports — what could possibly go wrong?

Advanced Transport

New Race Would Force Jetpack Pilots to Careen Through Obstacle Course

By Noor Al-Sibai

North Korea has reportedly test-fired several big missiles, sending back photos from space taken by a camera installed on one of the missile's warheads.

North Korea Launches Missile Into Space, Releases Photo of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according Fortune.

Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss

By Victor Tangermann

Texas governor Greg Abbott begged crypto miners to halt operations in the event the Texas grid shuts down completely like in February 2021.

Texas Governor Begs Crypto Miners to Shut Down If the Power Grid Is About to Fail

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA astronaut Victor Glover sat down for a chat with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise to prepare him for what it's really like to spend time on board the ISS.

Astronaut Warns Tom Cruise About Appalling Smell on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX was forced to scrub a launch after a cruise ship from Port Canaveral, Florida wandered into the launch exclusion zone on Sunday evening.

SpaceX Mission Scrubbed After Big Dumb Cruise Ship Wanders into Launch Zone

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Swedish musician and AI enthusiast Supercomposite used the Looking Glass AI to create hundreds of creepy tarot cards and has been sharing them on Twitter.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Generates Haunting New Tarot Cards

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.

Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk says he took his kids to watch people panic buy toilet paper during the COVID pandemic, revealed during Tesla's Q4 earnings call.

Elon Musk Says He Took His Children to Watch the Common Folk Hoard Supplies in Panic

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Paul Krugman declares the current crypto crisis and tanking currency values to be really similar to the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s.

Nobel Prize Winner Says Crypto Reminds Him of the Disastrous Mortgage Crisis

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.

Photo of Mars Crater Looks Amazingly Like a Giant Tree Stump

By Lonnie Lee Hood

OpenSea announced this week that a solid 80 percent of the NFTs minted through its free NFT creation tool are spam or fraud.

NFT Marketplace Admits That 80 Percent of NFTs Are Spam, Scams and Fraud

By Lonnie Lee Hood

US officials have confirmed that leaked social media photos are indeed the $100 million stealth jet that crashed into the South China Sea.

Photo Shows US Navy Crashing $100 Million Jet Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet — for the second time.

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Flies Through Tail of Comet

By Victor Tangermann

DARE, the drug education program started in the 80s, told TMZ this week that Euphoria is glamorizing drugs and wants to collab with HBO on its message.

DARE, Which Apparently Still Exists, Is Furious at a TV Show for Dumb Reasons

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook-now-known-as-Meta is attempting to sell off its ill-fated cryptocurrency project the Diem Initiative, according to Bloomberg.

Facebook Is Reportedly Trying to Sell Off Its Botched Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Melania Trump launched an NFT auction that ended with the image going for $80,000 less than the starting bid due to crashing crypto markets.

Melania Trump NFT Completely Bombs During Auction

By Tony Ho Tran

Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, what they're dubbing the "quantum apocalypse."

Experts Warn of “Quantum Apocalypse”

By Victor Tangermann

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover did a little shimmy to loosen yet another pair of pebbles blocking its sample collection instrument.

Mars Rover Does “Twist on One Foot” to Shake Off More Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

A remotely-controlled telescope has taken one of first images of the Webb in orbit — showing it as a tiny dot amongst a sea the stars and galaxies.

James Webb Space Telescope

Awesome Photo Shows James Webb Space Telescope in Deep Space Home

By Tony Ho Tran

Analysts expect 2022 to be a financial boon for Tesla — and that means its CEO Elon Musk could net billions of dollars in stock awards.

Bad News, Your 401K Is Tanking, Good News, Elon Musk Is About to Make Bank

By Victor Tangermann

A recently leaked video shows a full walkaround of an early prototype of Tesla's Cybertruck including its absurdly gigantic windshield wiper.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Mocked for Excessively Enormous Windshield Wiper in Leaked Video

By Victor Tangermann

The three monkeys were recaptured on Saturday evening before being euthanized. The CDC didn't clarify why they were put down.

Science & Energy

Scientists Recapture Escaped Lab Monkeys and Kill Them for Some Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

Musk tweeted that he’s willing to eat a whole McDonald’s meal on television so long as the restaurant giant begins accepting Dogecoin.

Elon Musk Has an Idea to Make McDonald’s Accept Dogecoin

By Tony Ho Tran

An old SpaceX rocket is about to reach its final destination after a roughly six year journey — and crash on the Moon in spectacular fashion.

A Derelict SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

This just in: the Trumps are mad that people are using their name to make money off of unwitting rubes.

Trump Family Aghast That Grifters Made a “TrumpCoin” Cryptocurrency

By Noor Al-Sibai

The United Arab Emirates has announced a total ban on flying consumer drones anywhere within the country after last week's deadly attacks in Abu Dhabi.

UAE Bans Drones After Drone Used in Attack on Oil Facility

By Victor Tangermann

As the Russian military are gathering forces near the Ukrainian border, a hacktivist group claims they hacked a Belarusian railway system.

Hackers Trying to Prevent War by Disrupting Railway Used by Russian Military

By Tony Ho Tran

Ernesto Lujan, a biologist and founder of medical startup dNovo, says his company has successfully transplanted human hair stem cells onto a mouse.

Scientists Are Growing Human Hair on Mice to Transplant to Bald People

By Tony Ho Tran

A group of disgruntled Starlink customers recently to aired out their frustrations with SpaceX, the company behind the service, for their terrible service.

Starlink Customers Say SpaceX Has Absolutely Appalling Customer Service

By Tony Ho Tran

Swedish eVTOL startup Jetson is hoping to bring a $92,000 personal flying vehicle dubbed the Jetson ONE to market, a drone you can literally sit inside of.

Advanced Transport

This Personal Hover Bike Looks Pretty Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn posted an incredible photo of the ISS taken through a window from the new Russian module on Sunday.

International Space Station

New Window on ISS Offers Incredible View of Space Station Exterior

By Tony Ho Tran

China claims to have built the "world's largest quadruped bionic robot," a gigantic "mechanical yak" that can carry over 350 pounds at a shambling 6.2 mph.

China Builds Giant Walking Military Robot

By Victor Tangermann

It’s finally happening: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will soon reach its forever home — but it needs to clear one last hurdle first.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope Is Reaching Its Final Destination Today

By Tony Ho Tran

Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner created mechanical trees to soak up carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.

Scientists Propose Creating Mechanical Trees to Suck Up Evil Carbon Dioxide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Australian inventor David Mayman has flown his jetpack all over the world but sales are a failure becase of its practicality, weight and risk.

Advanced Transport

Jetpack Builder Complains That Jetpacks Just Aren’t Getting Attention

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Hubble Space Telescope found a star formation in a dwarf starburst galaxy. The black hole in the center may have actually created the star formation.

Scientists Discover Black Hole That’s Creating Stars Instead of Devouring Them

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The aggregate crypto market has lost more than $1 trillion in a crash since late last year, and some experts argue regulation is the solution.

The Crypto Crash Has Destroyed a Trillion Dollars in Wealth

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ozzy Osbourne and his NFT project CryptoBatz posted a tweet that led to people beign scammed out of thousands of dollars with little recourse.

Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT Company Got a Bunch of His Followers Scammed Out of Their Money

By Lonnie Lee Hood

At least one monkey destined for a laboratory was still on the loose in Pennsylvania on Saturday morning after it escaped from a wrecked truck.

Science & Energy

Lab Monkeys Escape After Traffic Accident in Pennsylvania

By Lonnie Lee Hood

When he's right, he's right, folks.

Elon Musk Absolutely Hates Twitter’s Hexagon-Shaped NFT Profile Pics

By Noor Al-Sibai

New data published this week about demographics in China show the country's population may level off and then begin to shrink as families have less babies.

Data Shows That China’s Population Is About to Start Actively Shrinking

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully ejected several pebbles obstructing its sample collection system since taking its sixth sample in December.

NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Shakes Off Obstructing Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin continues to tumble down, down, down.

Bitcoin Is Down Really, Really Bad

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla factory worker has died on the assembly line at the electric carmakers' Fremont assembly line.

Tesla Employee Dies After Collapsing on Assembly Line

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new interview with researcher David Holland reveals just how quickly the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" is melting.

Science & Energy

The “Doomsday Glacier” Is Irreversibly Melting, Researchers Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered the people of Tonga Starlink internet access after the island nation was ravaged by a volcano blast.

Elon Musk Offers Starlink Internet at Volcano Disaster Site, Then Hesitates

By Victor Tangermann