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Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.

Science & Energy

A Mass Extinction Has Already Started, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Getting a closer look at interstellar rock 'Oumuamua could forever change the way we understand the universe around us, scientists argue.

Scientists Propose Mission to Catch Up With Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos has backed anti-aging startup Alto Labs, which has recently hired former chief scientific officer of GlaxoSmithKline Hal Barron as its CEO.

Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death

By Tony Ho Tran

There’s Something Weirdly Sexual About the Tom Cruise Space Station

There’s Something Weirdly Sexual About the Tom Cruise Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Perseverance rover found evidence of this mysterious coloring on rocks at almost every site the craft has visited on Mars.

Scientists Puzzled by Purple Coating on Mars Rocks

By Tony Ho Tran

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.

Metaverse “Rave” Shows People Standing Perfectly Still With Zero Energy

By Victor Tangermann

At this point, you really gotta wonder whether investing in cryptocurrencies is even worth it.

Wildly Overconfident Crypto.com Bros Admit That Hackers Stole $30 Million of Its Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese researchers published a paper today in Science Robotics that revealed new data about the lunar surface gathered by the Yutu-2 rover.

The Moon’s Backside Is Surprisingly Sticky, China’s Rover Finds

By Tony Ho Tran

A startup called Parallel Systems, founded by a team of former SpaceX engineers, wants to allow autonomous shipping containers to zip along railroads.

Advanced Transport

Former SpaceX Engineers Build Electric Train Car That Doesn’t Need a Locomotive

By Victor Tangermann

In the era of COVID-19, governments conducting their business over Zoom is par for the course — and, naturally, so is Zoom-bombing porn into them.

Hackers Force Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to Watching Hentai

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.

Guy Quits SpaceX, Creates Pizza Making Robot That “Dumped Melted Cheese Everywhere”

By Victor Tangermann

The volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, the force of the explosion was more than 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Science & Energy

Tonga Eruption Was 500 Times Stronger Than an Atomic Bomb

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted that people stalking his location has become a “security issue” after a weekend of rumors that he would be visiting Tesla’s Gigafactory.

Elon Musk Says People Stalking His Location Have Become a “Security Issue”

By Tony Ho Tran

Prosecutors have charged a Tesla driver with vehicular manslaughter after his Autopilot-enabled car crashed into another vehicle killing two people in 2019

Tesla Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX blew up a test tank filled with liquid nitrogen on Wednesday. It’s unclear whether or not the explosion was intentional.

Tank Explodes at SpaceX’s Starship Testing Facility

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning that there may not be enough people to populate Mars if global birth rates keep dropping.

Elon Musk Warns There Soon Won’t Be Enough People Left to Populate Mars

By Victor Tangermann

US airlines are warning that cutting-edge C-Band 5G technologies could force the industry to its knees, The Guardian reports.

Advanced Transport

Airlines Warn That New 5G Tech Could Mess Up Planes’ Ability to Fly Safely

By Victor Tangermann

A new study found that chemical pollution driven by plastics has gotten so bad that it might upend global ecosystems that support humanity.

Chemical Pollution Has Crossed a “Planetary Boundary” That Threatens Humanity, Study Says

By Tony Ho Tran

The first gorilla suit Mark Kelly sent his twin in space exploded in 2015 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was lost in a massive fireball.

Astronaut Says First Gorilla Suit He Tried to Smuggle Into Space Blew Up in Fiery Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than we originally anticipated.

Science & Energy

The Earth’s Core Is Cooling Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

After fifty years of continuous burning, Turkmenistan officials are finally trying to close up a 230-feet wide fiery sinkhole in the Karakum Desert.

Authorities Attempting to Close Fiery “Gates of Hell”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk wants to fire a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who'd previously interviewed him during a 2018 Tesla investigation.

Elon Musk Demands Lawyer Be Fired for Being Mean to Tesla That One Time

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

FedEx asked the US Federal Aviation Administration if it could install anti-missile lasers on cargo jets, according to a request filed earlier this month.

Advanced Transport

FedEx Asks Permission to Install Anti-Missile Lasers on Its Cargo Jet

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twenty elephants have died during the last eight years from eating plastic trash in the Pallakkadu village, with two more found dead this weekend.

Congratulations, Earth: Hungry Elephants Are Devouring Trash and Dying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

What happens when you cross "Black Mirror" level sci-fi, the uncanny valley, and good ole catfishing?

Robots and Machines

Model Says Company Started Selling Sex Doll of Her Without Her Knowledge

By Noor Al-Sibai

We're about to have a close call with a huge asteroid — but don't worry, it's not gonna turn out like "Don't Look Up."

A Giant Asteroid Is Careening So Close That You’ll Be Able to See It From Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

One tour company owner in Lapland, the northernmost region in Finland, went viral after posting her reindeer-powered sled to avoid high gas prices.

Gas Prices So High in Finland One Woman Gets Around With Reindeer

By Lonnie Lee Hood

To the surprise of literally no one, Tesla is delaying the release of its Cybertruck until at least 2023.

Tesla Is Apparently Delaying the Disastrous Cybertruck Another Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just over a month after an MIT professor warned of "slaughterbots" being used by civilians, Vice is now reporting that cartels are using them to drop bombs.

Video Appears to Show Drug Cartel Using Drone to Bomb Enemies

By Victor Tangermann

The metaverse has already proven to be cash cows for investors looking to make millions off of literally nothing.

In Further Evidence of Deranged Financial Bubble, Investors Are Paying Millions for Virtual Real Estate

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Department of Defense has helped develop technology that allows a single person to control 130 drones for military operations.

New Military Tech Lets One Person Fly Swarm of 130 Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

Autonomous driving startup Nuro has come up with a delivery vehicle that has a giant external-facing airbag in case it ever hits a cyclist or pedestrian.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Has Giant Airbag for When It Accidentally Plows Into Pedestrians

By Victor Tangermann

A new report released by the agency’s Office of Investigator General revealed that the astronaut corp is the lowest it’s ever been since the 1970s.

NASA Says It’s Running Out of Astronauts

By Tony Ho Tran

Beanie Babies collectors are still going nuts over the little animals, but this time, some of them hoping to turn them into NFTs — what else?

In Proof That Irony Is Dead, People are Trying to Make Beanie Babies NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Wordle, a popular word-guessing game that skyrocketed in popularity this month, was immediately ripped off by a different developer called Zach Shakked.

Guy Who Shamelessly Ripped Off Beloved Word Game Issues Apology

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China are developing an "artificial Moon: facility that can simulate the gravity of the lunar surface with the help of magnets.

Science & Energy

China Building “Artificial Moon” Facility That Simulates Low Gravity With Magnets

By Tony Ho Tran

David Colombo, a 19-year-old IT specialist, claims to have uncovered a software vulnerability that allows him to take control of 25 Teslas around the world.

Hacker Claims to Have Seized Control of Teslas Around the World

By Victor Tangermann

Kim Kardashian was sued for promoting a cryptocurrency that allegedly made its creators very wealthy at the expense of its investors.

Kim Kardashian Sued for Promoting “Pump and Dump” Crypto Scam

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk has been repeatedly paraphrasing the great author TS Eliot's famous poem "The Hollow Men" -- and not giving credit.

Elon Musk Conveniently Forgets to Mention He Didn’t Write a Famous TS Eliot Poem

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a recent study, the globe's oceans experienced another record year in 2021 — "the hottest ever recorded by humans."

The Oceans Are Now Hotter Than at Any Point in Recorded History, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

The latest cringe Tesla accessory is here, and boy is it a doozy.

Elon Musk Skewered for Wretched Tesla Cowboy Belt Buckle

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eagle-eyed viewers watching Katy Perry's latest music video for her single “When I’m Gone” might have noticed an interesting cameo: SpaceX’s Starship.

New Katy Perry Music Video Features SpaceX Starships

By Tony Ho Tran

The European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered a planet shaped like a rugby ball due to the enormous tidal forces of its host star.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Discovered a Planet That’s Not a Sphere

By Tony Ho Tran

Some parents are growing concerned of the impact of VR gaming might have on their children as VR headsets become more and more popular.

Virtual Reality

Parents Alarmed by Children Slicing Off Enemies’ Limbs in VR

By Tony Ho Tran

Two LAPD police officers were fired after they were caught playing Pokemon Go instead of responding to a call for backup during a robbery.

Police Fired for Playing “Pokémon Go” Instead of Responding to Robbery

By Tony Ho Tran

If you ever find yourself in the pile-up from hell, you'd be well-equipped if you were in a Tesla.

Tesla Easily Keeps Passengers Warm for Entire 18 Hour Traffic Jam

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Perseverance rover has run into a bit of trouble: small pieces of Mars rock are now obstructing the rover's sample collection system.

NASA’s Mars Rover Has Run Into Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

NASA researcher Ann Marie Cody spoke to Vice about how exactly the agency and the SETI Institute is trying to find alien megastructures.

Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Describes Hunt for Alien Megastructures

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is officially fully deployed, but it's not out of the woods just yet, because of space junk.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Space Debris Will Definitely Slam Into the James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

One futurist believes that “a large proportion of people will be in the metaverse in some way” and will live most of their lives "jacked in" by 2030

Expert Says People Will Soon Live Entire Lives in Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has tested out its massive "chopstick" tower, a structure designed to guide its Starship and Super Heavy booster during launches and landings.

SpaceX Tests Giant “Chopsticks” For Catching Starship as It Lands

By Victor Tangermann

Siraj Raval has been using his 2018 Tesla Model 3 as a power source to mine ethereum and bitcoin, and has made up to $800 while doing so.

Tesla Owner Says He’s Making $800 Per Month Using His Car to Mine Crypto

By Tony Ho Tran

One of NASA's top scientists finally shaved his "James Webb Beard" yesterday to celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's successful deployment.

NASA Scientist Shaves Off “James Webb Beard” After Successful Deployment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new AMD graphics card was designed to be less desirable for crypto miners to reduce issues with the GPU shortage and scalpers.

New Graphics Card Is Bad at Cryptomining on Purpose, Maker Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A global team of scientists says they've detected water on the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided.

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Open Source Afro Hair Library was designed to improve the way digital artists and video game developers portray 3D models of Black hairstyles.

3D Artists Create Better Models of Black Hairstyles for Video Games

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope's golden primary mirror wings, or side panels, deployed and latched successfully.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope Has Officially Started Unfolding Its Huge Golden Mirror

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.

Fire Reported at Crumbling Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.

Guy Testing Life-Extending Gene Therapy on Himself Admits That Environmental Catastrophe May Pose Problem

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China has developed a laser that could be mounted on a satellite to enable high-speed communication, tracking, and identifying targets, South China Morning Post reports.

Chinese Researcher Says New Space Laser Is Definitely Not a Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.

Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In an animation, the James Webb Space Telescope is doing a seemingly chaotic loop-de-loop across the solar system. But there's method to the madness.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Orbit Is Gonna Be Absolutely Deranged

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's stock yo-yoing made CEO Elon Musk even richer — until it then made him $30 billion poorer.

Oops, Elon Musk Just Lost $30 Billion

By Noor Al-Sibai