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Because nothing matters any more, a dog appears to have taken control of a Tesla vehicle, according to a groundbreaking investigate report.

Tesla Spotted Cruising Down Highway With Dog in Driver’s Seat

By Victor Tangermann

As many as 30 feral hogs invaded a Texas neighborhood last week, damaging garden beds and yards. How should we deal with them?

Video Shows Dozens of Feral Hogs Invading Neighborhood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Until now, a "true" millipede never existed, but a newly-discovered insect not only meets the proper criteria, but also looks like it came from Hades itself.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Hellish Bug With 1300 Creepy Little Legs

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars helicopter briefly lost connection last week, and it could be because of Apache Log4j flaw that allows hackers to attack with little effort.

NASA Says Its Mars Helicopter Does Not Have the Log4j Security Flaw

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In Red Bull-sponsored stunt news, a daredevil wingsuit pilot became the first person to fly in and back out of an active volcano.

Advanced Transport

Man With Wingsuit Flies Inside Mouth of Active Volcano

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted a meme mocking NFT lovers this week, just after saying he'd use Doge Coin and after a previous attack against DAO users.

Elon Musk Mocks NFTs as Sign of Mental Illness

By Lonnie Lee Hood

"I came to the US with no money and graduated with over $100k in debt, despite scholarships and working 2 jobs while at school," Musk wrote.

Elon Musk Moans About His Student Loan Debt

By Noor Al-Sibai

Record breaking, hurricane-force storms blew across the Midwest on Wednesday destroying homes and causing more than half a million power outages.

Hurricane-Like Storms That Raged in the Midwest Caused by Climate Change, FEMA Says

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA’s Probe Took a Video as It “Touched the Sun” and Wow

Science & Energy

NASA’s Probe Took a Video as It “Touched the Sun” and Wow

By Victor Tangermann

Cryptocurrency prices went completely nuts on several crypto exchanges on Tuesday, spiking to crazy new heights. The price of Bitcoin hit $789 billion.

Crypto Site Glitch Makes Some Users Temporary Quadrillionaires

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy has fired a laser weapon at a floating target in the Mideast, destroying it, the Associated Press reports.

Robots and Machines

US Navy Uses Laser Weapon to Destroy “Floating Target”

By Victor Tangermann

The Parker Solar Probe flew through the Sun’s atmosphere and dipped below the upper part of its atmosphere known as the corona.

NASA Brags That Its Probe Officially Touched the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk raged at Senator Elizabeth Warren after she posted a tweet calling on the billionaire to "actually pay taxes."

Furious at the Concept of Paying Taxes, Elon Musk Lashes Out at Elizabeth Warren

By Tony Ho Tran

The local police department in Fremont, California has reported a "suspicious death" that occurred on December 13 in the parking lot of Tesla's factory.

Worker Murdered at Tesla Factory

By Victor Tangermann

NASA delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday after its engineers discovered a communications glitch.

James Webb Space Telescope

Oops, NASA Delays James Webb Telescope Launch Due to Technical Glitch

By Tony Ho Tran

Dogecoin prices spiked on Tuesday after Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be accepting the crypto in their merch store.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Dogecoin for Merch, Crypto Prices Spikes

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is about to launch its James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers are absolutely mortified of a disaster if anything goes wrong.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Are “Terrified” of NASA’s James Webb Telescope Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have caught a black hole — or possibly a neutron star — in the act of being born.

Science & Energy

Astronomers May Have Spotted a Black Hole Being Born

By Victor Tangermann

A new study published in the journal Microbial Ecology found a growing number of bugs that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme.

Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Plastic Pollution, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

"SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel," CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday. Please join if interested."

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and Turning It Into Rocket Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado

By Tony Ho Tran

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Says She Was Constantly Sexually Harassed by Coworkers

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Says She Was Constantly Sexually Harassed by Coworkers

By Tony Ho Tran

An NFT enthusiast made a typo that ended up costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars when selling his "Bored Ape" NFT.

Guy Accidentally Sells $300,000 “Bored Ape” NFT for 1% of Its Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

Israeli company MeaTech 3D has successfully bioprinted a 3.67 ounce steak that's composed out of layers of lab-grown fat and muscle cells.

Science & Energy

Scientists Sucessfully Bioprint World’s Largest Lab-Grown Steak

By Victor Tangermann

A new report from the Harvard Kennedy School found that China’s rapidly gaining steam in the realms of AI, 5G, quantum computing, biotechnology, and more.

Harvard Warns That Chinese Tech Is Rapidly Overtaking American Capabilities

By Tony Ho Tran

As Reuters and other outlets reported, a woman who worked on the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont, California factory said she suffered "sexual harassment on a near-daily basis" from her manager.

New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Alleges Disgusting Behavior at Tesla Factory

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is having a blast on board the International Space Station. In a recent video, he can be seen "playing around in zero gravity."

Billionaire Playboy Shares Video of Himself Frolicking in Outer Space

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021 for his "dreams of Mars as he brestrides Earth."

Elon Musk Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021

By Tony Ho Tran

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht sold an NFT collection for $6 million from prison. A DAO dedicated to releasing him from jail fundraised the purchase.

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Sells $6 Million NFT From Prison

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Is AI inherently good, or inherently bad? Students at Oxford Business debate the Megatron AI about its ethic. "AI will never be ethical," it said.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Asked an Advanced AI Whether AI Could Ever Be Ethical, and It Said No

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Stanford professor Dr. Garry Nolan says he's studying brains of people who had UFO encounters and metal materials that don't "play by the rules" of Earth.

Robots and Machines

Stanford Professor Says He’s Been Testing Materials Recovered From UFO Crashes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Before "The Matrix Resurrections" his theaters, fans can play a surprise open-world game called “The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience.”

Keanu Reeves Says He’d Be Cool With Fans Having Sex With Him in VR

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the International Space Station, where he'll give away money to the public and share videos on YouTube.

Billionaire Playboy on Space Vacation Says He’s Giving Away Money to Mere Earthlings, From Orbit

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Eleven sailors stuck aboard an abandoned, damaged ship sent a frantic email for help. The crew were running out of food and began fishing to survive.

Science & Energy

Leaking Ship, Full of Hazardous Cargo, Sends Email With “SOS” in Subject Line

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hackers targeted one of the largest cream cheese manufacturers in the United States and the results have been a schmear nightmare.

Hackers Are The Reason There’s Not Enough Cream Cheese Right Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla has had to make a rather awkward compromise when it comes to its upcoming and much-hyped Cybertruck — one giant windshield wiper.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Will Have a Single Absolutely Enormous Windshield Wiper

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have created a sleeping bag that sucks on the legs and feet of astronauts to keep them healthy long term.

Scientists Invent Tube That Sucks on Astronauts Like Giant Popsicles

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of grinding through rock with a massive grinder, a startup called Petra is hoping to dig tunnels using super heated gas.

Robots and Machines

Startup Says It Can Dig Tunnels Really Fast by Melting Through Rock

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists say that the Amazon Rainforest is on the brink of collapse — and could transform into a dry savannah in just five years.

Amazon Rainforest on the Verge of Becoming a Dry Savannah, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Vice President Kamala Harris came under a little fire this week for the outrageous decision to not use Bluetooth headphones — but experts say she's right.

Kamala Harris Is Actually Right About the Bluetooth Headphones, You Nitwits

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO and meme thief Elon Musk tweeted last night that he was considering quitting his jobs to become a full-time influencer.

Elon Musk Says He’s Thinking of Quitting SpaceX and Tesla to Become an “Influencer”

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Even when temperatures drop to 75 degrees Celsius below zero (-103 Fahrenheit), massive "zombie fires" continue to burn below parts of Siberia.

Underground “Zombie Fires” Continue to Burn Even at 74 Degrees Below Zero

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners were shocked to find that they were able to play elaborate video games while driving their vehicle. Now the NHTSA is looking into it.

The Feds Are Investigating Tesla for Allowing Drivers to Game While Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.

Scientists Built a Robot With Jetpacks and a Creepy, Doll-Like Face

By Victor Tangermann

Congress is set to pass a new defense bill introduced on Tuesday that would allow funding to reverse engineer UFO technology.

Robots and Machines

New Law Would Fund Reverse Engineering of UFO Tech

By Tony Ho Tran

Famed astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has truly outdone himself with his latest picture of the Sun, stitching together around 150,000 individual images.

This Photo of the Sun Is so Absurdly Detailed That It Looks like a Living Organism

By Victor Tangermann

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg butted back at Tesla CEO Elon Musk's criticisms of the Build Back Better Act.

Elon Musk Now Feuding with Checks Notes Pete Buttigieg

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially sold off his last remaining home for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a small $50,000 prefab rental.

Elon Musk Just Sold His Final Home to Live in a Small Prefab Box

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is now, officially, a bonafide astronaut.

International Space Station

Billionaire Playboy Boards International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

An MIT geophsicist said that humans are on the brink of causing a sixth mass extinction event due to the amount of carbon pumped into the air and oceans.

Science & Energy

MIT Scientist Says We’re on the Brink of a Mass Extinction Event

By Tony Ho Tran

China spotted a puzzling "mystery house" on the surface of the Moon, a cube-shaped object hiding in plain sight. The internet had a field day as a result.

People Have Some Wild Theories About the Cube China Found on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk apparently doesn't think drugs are cool anymore.

Elon Musk Hates Drugs Now, Apparently

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's finally some good news: NASA's legendary Hubble Space Telescope is back to full science operations, according to a recent update.

Finally Some Good News: Hubble Space Telescope Back at Full Health

By Victor Tangermann

A group of ardent anti-vaccine morons have created a new cryptocurrency based on the idea that vaccines lower your sperm count.

Anti-Vax Group Creates “Unvaxxed Sperm” Crypto Because God Is Dead and We Have Killed Him

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla is allowing drivers to play video games on its vehicles' massive touchscreens — while driving.

Tesla Is Now Letting Drivers Play Video Games While the Car Is Moving

By Victor Tangermann

The US Space Force installed a high tech new radar system this week that it says will be able to detect objects the size of baseballs in orbit.

Space Force Installs Huge Radar System to Track Tiny Objects in Orbit

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seems to have admitted that he's not positive his company's forthcoming Starship is going to work.

Elon Musk Admits That He’s Not Sure Starship Will Even Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA announced on Monday that the controversial spacecraft has been loaded with a propellant it’ll use for its thrusters to move around while in orbit.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Space Telescope Is All Fueled Up for Launch

By Tony Ho Tran

Nineteen Tesla engineers publicized concerns that Tesla's Autopilot features aren't safe, and that CEO Elon Musk has been overpromising the cars' abilities.

Tesla Engineers Say Elon Musk Misled the Public About Autopilot’s Safety

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A key climate researcher published an op-ed this week declaring hydrogen-powered cars a bad idea that won't do anything to solve the climate crisis.

Advanced Transport

Professor Says Hydrogen Cars Are an Amazingly Bad Idea

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Non-fungible tokens meets artificial insemination in one piece of art that's for sale at Art Basel this week.

Artist Promises to Sell One of Her Eggs to Whoever Buys Her NFT

By Noor Al-Sibai

A game designer says someone hacked into her Google Pixel 5a after sending it off to Google for a repair. They looked for nudes and deleted security alerts.

Woman Says Hackers Searched Her Phone for Nudes After Sending to Google for Repair

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The SEC opened an investigation into Tesla over the company failing to notify shareholders of solar panel defects that could lead to fires.

Whistleblower: Tesla Didn’t Tell Buyers Its Solar Panels Might Catch Fire

By Victor Tangermann