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It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.

Remember the “Moon Cube”? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two professors say the first interstellar travel may transport tiny microscopic organisms known as tardigrades, or water bears, through space.

Scientists Propose Sending Small Creatures to Neighboring Star Systems

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Boring Company's tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center is starting to experience traffic jams all on its own during this year's CES.

Elon Musk’s Tunnel Mocked for Getting Its Own Traffic Jam

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin was hit by a precipitous price drop on Wednesday following a draconian Internet crackdown in Kazakhstan, the second-largest mining hub in the world.

Bitcoin Crashes as Major Crypto Country Shuts Down Entire Internet

By Tony Ho Tran

In Europe, tens of thousands of empty planes are being flown due to an air traffic rule — while needlessly polluting the skies.

In Disgusting Waste, Airlines Are Flying Thousands of Completely Empty Jetliners

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

By Tony Ho Tran

Infamous antivirus software Norton is being blasted for adding a cryptocurrency mining software called Norton Crypto to its Norton 360 suite.

Norton Antivirus Criticized for Automatically Installing Cryptomining Software

By Victor Tangermann

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved a 71-year-old Swedish man's life after he suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in December.

Defibrillator Drone Swoops In and Saves Man Having Heart Attack

By Tony Ho Tran

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak fusion reactor was able to sustain a plasma temperature of 120-million-degrees Celsius for 1,056 seconds.

China’s “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Just Smashed Its Old Record

By Tony Ho Tran

A startup installed a new battery in a Tesla Model S — which allowed the vehicle to cover an astonishing 752 miles on a single charge.

Tesla Drives 750 Miles With Upgraded Battery

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope launch into orbit means we'll never see photos of it again.

James Webb Space Telescope

This Might Be the Last We Ever See of the James Webb Space Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

The country of France passed a law in December that will require car companies to tell people not to drive in its commercials.

France Passes Law Requiring Car Ads to Tell People Not to Drive a Car

By Tony Ho Tran

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts made a big splash with a teaser video of its expressive humanoid robot. Now, it's back for an interview.

That Robot With the Super Creepy Facial Expressions Is Back, and Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

KFC has brought its plant-based chicken nuggets to restaurants nationwide, the latest in meat alternative products changing the face of the industry.

Science & Energy

KFC Will Now Start Selling Fake Chicken Nationwide

By Victor Tangermann

A meteor exploded over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day — causing a boom the equivalent of 30 tons of TNT.

Science & Energy

Pittsburgh Shaken by Exploding Meteor

By Tony Ho Tran

Mozilla is dipping its toes into cryptocurrency — much to the chagrin of two people who were instrumental in the erstwhile browser's creation.

Mozilla Founder Horrified by Browser’s Foray Into Cryptocurrency

By Noor Al-Sibai

In spite of years of repeated delays, the James Webb Space Telescope's progress seems to be chugging along in kind.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Telescope Just Rolled Out Its First Mirror

By Noor Al-Sibai

An increasing number of experts are suggesting the dream of terraforming Mars and making it at least a little bit more habitable for humans is still alive.

Former NASA Scientist Explains How We Could Terraform Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In yet another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel, Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.

NASA Is Installing Amazon Alexa on Its Next Moon Mission, for Some Cursed Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

Here's a video of an electric BMW that can literally change the color of its paint job with the press of a button. We still don't know how it works.

Advanced Transport

BMW Shows Off Car That Changes Color at the “Touch of a Button”

By Victor Tangermann

A small number of Pc gamers are noticing their Asus motherboards heating up and — in some rare cases — catching fire.

Robots and Machines

Expensive Motherboards Are Literally Bursting Into Flames

By Victor Tangermann

China's Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter has taken some incredible selfies with the massive surface of the Red Planet lurking ominously in the background.

China’s Mars Orbiter Shares Incredible New Selfies

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Israeli scientists have allowed a goldfish to navigate dry land — or, at least, remotely control a fish tank on wheels.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Robot Fish Tank That Lets Goldfish Drive Around on Land

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla under fire from Islamic activist groups after it announced on Friday that it would be opening a showroom in China’s Xinjiang region.

Tesla Accused of Supporting Muslim Genocide in China

By Tony Ho Tran

Long before sending off NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on its long journey into deep space last month, engineers took the opportunity to take an epic group selfie.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Workers Took an Epic Selfie in Reflection of James Webb’s Giant Gold Mirrors

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto.com is getting roasted for a new Matt Damon ad that likens investing in the blockchain to being a historical figure and pioneer. Twitter disagrees.

Crypto.com Is Getting Roasted for an Absurdly Self-Important Ad Starring Matt Damon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda wants the company to lead blockchain and decentralized video games, as well as NFTs, even if players aren't on board.

President of Games Company Says He Knows People Hate NFTs But He Thinks They’re Good

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk's Starlink internet dishes are attracting local cats on cold days, apparently to stay warm and take advantage of the heat it produces.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Rapper Eminem just purchased a Bored Ape NFT that looks just like him for nearly half a million dollars. He owns almost two dozen NFTs in total.

Eminem Just Bought a Bored Ape NFT for a Half Million Dollars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says humans may touch down on Mars in as little as ten years with his reusable Starship rocket.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Have Boots on Mars Within Ten Years

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla recalled about 475,000 cars because of rear camera and trunk issues. All of the recalls are Model 3 and involve rear camera and trunk safety problems.

Tesla Forced to Recall Almost Half a Million Cars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new "genome-edited" tomato variety is being sold to Japanese customers as a way to chill out and is a first made with CRISPR technology.

Science & Energy

Company Claims Gene-Edited Tomato Contains Neurotransmitter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla's mercurial, meme-loving CEO Elon Musk angered a ton of the automaker's fans when he tweeted an anti-vaxxer meme early Thursday morning.

Elon Musk Fans Furious That He Posted Antivax Meme

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently sat down with Lex Fridman and dished on who exactly he thought Satoshi Nakamoto really is — and he says it's not him.

Elon Musk Says He Thinks He Knows the Real Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

By Tony Ho Tran

A Russian rocket is now stranded in orbit after it suffered an engine failure — and it might come crashing back down to Earth.

A Russian Spacecraft Is Stranded in Low Earth Orbit

By Tony Ho Tran

China recently informed the United Nations that its space station performed two evasive maneuvers this past year to avoid colliding with Starlink satellites

China Furious With Elon Musk for Endangering Its Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA brought together 24 theologians for a year-long program to find out how exactly religious communities would react to alien life.

NASA Paid Priests to Figure Out How to Deal With Aliens

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in China created a machine that can file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy based on a description of a suspected criminal case.

Artificial Intelligence

China Created an AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People with Crimes

By Tony Ho Tran

Police in Israel may soon have autonomous drones that fly to locations where gunshots are detected, but Denver police can't prove the tech even works.

New Tech Will Send Police Drones to Sites Where Guns Went Off

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The more we learn about whether Elon Musk lives in either a shack or a palace, the more confusing the story becomes.

Mystery Deepens About Whether Elon Musk Actually Lives in Prefab Box

By Noor Al-Sibai

A rising number of burglary and homicide crime cases is causing celebrities to stockpile bulletproof cars and safe rooms for security.

The Wealthy Are Suddenly Hoarding Safe Rooms and Bulletproof Cars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bizarre invention dubbed "Taste the TV" (TTTV) allows you to taste whatever you're watching through a special hygienic film that covers a flat TV screen.

Science & Energy

Scientist Invents Screen That Creates Flavors When You Lick It

By Victor Tangermann

Without the assistance of gravity, giving somebody a haircut is a lot tougher than you might think. And the results may end up being a disappointment.

Astronaut Barber Means Well, Gives Terrible Haircut in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owner Tuomas Katainen hates his Model S so much he strapped on 60 pounds of dynamite. Watch him blow up the car and explain his experience.

Man Hates His Tesla So Much He Blows It Up With 60 Pounds of Dynamite

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study conducted by top scientists in China found a link between microplastics and IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease.

Health & Medicine

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Linked to Microplastics in Your Gut

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After an extremely sad online-only relaunch, RadioShack is gasping for relevancy by launching a cryptocurrency exchange for rich old people.

Boomers Rejoice: RadioShack is Making Crypto for Old People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is now officially under formal investigation for allowing its customers to play a number of games while actively driving the vehicle.

Tesla Under Formal Investigation for Allowing Drivers to Game While Driving

By Victor Tangermann

What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster?

Couple Gets Engaged at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitch has banned an official Amazon Prime account from streaming — even though Amazon owns Twitch.

Twitch, Which Is Owned by Amazon, Bans Amazon Channel From Streaming

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone has begun minting Olive Garden NFTs even though they admittedly do not have any affiliation with any actual brick-and-mortar Olive Gardens.

Someone Is Selling NFTs of Olive Garden Locations That They Do Not Own

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone who seems to really hate NFTs has made a modified version of the classic video game DOOM whose whole premise involves "killing" NFTs via screenshot.

Someone Made a “Doom” Mod Where Instead of Shooting Demons, You Take Screenshots of NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers are counting down the days until the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope — and anxiety surrounding the long-awaited launch is rising.

Science & Energy

Scientists Incredibly Anxious About Space Telescope Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Courtesy of YouTube channel "BPS Space," we get to watch a rocket-powered Christmas tree soar to an altitude of almost 300 feet.

Watch These Madmen Attach a Rocket Engine to a Christmas Tree and Launch It Like a Festive Missile

By Victor Tangermann

Comic book artist Liam Sharp decided to shut down his gallery on DeviantArt, because "people keep stealing my art and making NFTs."

Artist Shuts Down Because People Keep Stealing Their Work to Make NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Oh my god, y'all — the supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies like our Milky Way may have BFFs.

Astrophysicist Says That Supermassive Black Holes May Have “Friends”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Baby Maeve was born in the backseat of a Tesla driving on autopilot while parents Keating and Yiran raced to the local hospital.

Woman Gives Birth in Tesla While It’s Driving on Autopilot

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla CEO Elon Musk of tweeting in a way that hurts Tesla stock prices. His feud with Elizabeth Warren violates a 2019 agreement.

Tesla Sued Over Elon Musk’s Feud With Elizabeth Warren

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A professor wanted to give students a reward for reading the syllabus and hid a scavenger hunt clue inside, but no students claimed the free cash.

Professor Hides Location of Free Cash in Syllabus, Zero Students Find It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team is ready to open a Moon soil container from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases for testing.

Scientists Opening Sealed Container From Final Moon Landing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A huge cargo ship will use a large kite to drag itself across the ocean in a test run next month in an effort to reduce carbon emissions the shipping industry emits each year.

Cargo Ship Will Get Dragged Through Ocean by Giant Kite

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video on Twitter of the giant Starship and its steering engines, a sign production may be back on track.

Elon Musk Shares Video of Starship Steering Its Mighty Engines

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Minecraft builder has built an 8-bit processor inside the video game, a truly impressive demonstration and understanding of what makes them tick.

Genius Builds Computer Inside Minecraft That Can Run Its Own Games

By Victor Tangermann

The ousted CEO of a SpaceX copycat — and the man who gave Elon Musk his first rocketry books — is being sued for embezzlement.

Elon Musk’s Mentor Accused of “Brazen” Embezzlement

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of.

Science & Energy

Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play “Pong”

By Tony Ho Tran