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Even the food being served at this year's COP26, an event put on by the United Nations, had its own substantial carbon footprint.

Climate Conference Menu Mocked for Absurdly High Carbon Footprint

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicists are excited about the prospect of launching the next groundbreaking space telescope to take pictures of potentially habitable worlds.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Are Pushing for a Massive Alien-Hunting Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Watch Two Flying Race Cars Compete in a Drag Race

Advanced Transport

Watch Two Flying Race Cars Compete in a Drag Race

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is warning that climate change could start affecting the production of maize and wheat as soon as 2030.

NASA Warns That Climate Change Is About to Start Slashing Crop Yields

By Victor Tangermann

Chemicals manufacturer Honeywell International has announced that it has come up with a new way to turn low-grade plastic waste into high quality oil.

Science & Energy

New Technique Turns Plastic Waste Back Into Refinery-Quality Oil

By Victor Tangermann

Environmentalist and futurist James Lovelock has long believed that the Earth self-regulates just like a living organism as part of his Gaia theory.

Famed Scientist Warns That Earth May Rise Up and Kill Humanity

By Victor Tangermann

Humanoid-shaped balloons may have been behind several mysterious "jetpack guy" sightings made by pilots near the Los Angeles international airport.

Jetpack Sighting May Have Been Something Very Stupid, Cops Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts on board the International Space Station were treated to a very special meal: space tacos made with the first peppers ever grown in space.

NASA Astronauts Harvest Space Peppers, Make Zero-G Tacos

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla shares are surging yet again — and that has Tesla CEO Elon Musk's net worth blasting past the competition, leaving Warren Buffet in the dust.

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Is Now Three Times That of Warren Buffett’s

By Victor Tangermann

The orbital observatory has been put into safe mode yet again, according to a NASA update, and halting all science operations.

Oops: NASA Admits That the Hubble Space Telescope Is Busted Again

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA official said that astronauts headed to the ISS on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon will have to rely on their "undergarments" due to a leaky toilet.

NASA: SpaceX Toilet Still Broken, Astronauts Will Have to Pee Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

From rockets to space telescopes, space enthusiasts showed up in full force this year for their Halloween costumes.

Here Are the Coolest Space-Themed Halloween Costumes We Could Find

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's fourth crewed launch to the International Space Station on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft had to be delayed yet again due to a medical issue.

NASA Delays SpaceX Launch Due to “Medical Issue”

By Victor Tangermann

During the days leading up to Halloween, the Sun's surface was roiling with activity, blasting powerful bursts of radiation towards the Earth.

The Sun Just Blasted the Earth With an Enormous Solar Flare

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is kicking off a new pilot allowing ten of its Supercharger locations in the Netherlands to charge non-Tesla EVs, a noteworthy move.

Tesla Just Started Opening Up Its Supercharging Stations to Non-Tesla EVs

By Victor Tangermann

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

By Victor Tangermann

Several Musk's tweets appear to have crossed a line even for him — because, after an outcry, he deleted them, in a rare reversal for Musk.

Elon Musk Deletes Sexist Tweets

By Jon Christian

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

By Jon Christian

William Gibson, widely credited with coining the term "cyberspace" and imagining the internet, says he can't send emails due to a glitch.

Man Who Coined the Term “Cyberspace” Says He Can’t Send Emails

By Jon Christian

Yuval Harari has a stark warning: we need to start regulating AI — otherwise big companies are going to be able to hack humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That Human Beings Are Going to Start Getting Hacked

By Tony Ho Tran

In a tiring display of late-stage capitalism, the burger chain announced that it created McRib NFTs in celebration of the sandwich’s 40th anniversary.

McDonald’s Created a McRib NFT Because We Live in Hell

By Tony Ho Tran

Musk took to Twitter to let the world know he was considering creating a school that might make your parents blush if you applied to it.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Start a University with a Dirty Name

By Tony Ho Tran

A New Zealand-based company wants to provide a "digital workforce" for the future metaverse complete with AI that can learn from interactions.

Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Creating Digital Human Servants to Work in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has flexed the "Chopsticks" arm of its massive Starship-catching tower for the first time earlier this morning at the company's Texas facilities.

SpaceX Flexes Giant Starship-Catching “Chopsticks” for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy still has no idea what the hell its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month. Officials have yet to find out what it was.

The Navy Can’t Figure Out What Damaged Its Nuclear Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

McDonald's is partnering with IBM to implement artificial intelligence tech to take orders at its drive-thru lanes.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life

NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has fortunately managed to plug its leaky space toilet with mere days left before its next Crew Dragon spacecraft launch this Sunday.

Space Toilet No Longer Oozes Human Pee, SpaceX Proclaims

By Victor Tangermann

National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy told CNBC that Tesla isn't doing enough to keep its Full Self-Driving software safe.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Gov Official Tears Apart Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Feature

By Victor Tangermann

China might have cemented its supercomputing supremacy with not one, but two exascale supercomputing systems.

China May Have Secretly Built Two Exascale Supercomputers

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is turning to the private industry to keep the doomed and Moon-bound Space Launch System alive — and for the next 30 year or so.

NASA Begs Companies to Clone Its Super-Expensive Moon Rocket for Cheap

By Victor Tangermann

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwartzman believes that shortages in the gas and oil industry will lead to a social crisis in nations throughout the world.

Billionaire Warns That Energy Shortages Will Lead to Social Unrest

By Tony Ho Tran

Uber announced a deal with Hertz to make 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to rent to Uber drivers by 2023, an ambitious plan to electrify its fleet.

Uber Announces It Will Roll Out 50,000 Teslas to Its Drivers

By Victor Tangermann

An interdisciplinary team of scientists have launched a project with the goal of decoding and potentially communicating with sperm whales.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Working on an AI to Let Us Talk to Whales

By Tony Ho Tran

A Texas startup wants to build a community of 100 3D printed homes — which would make it the largest such community in the US.

Texas Startup Building Largest 3D Printed Home Community in US

By Tony Ho Tran

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.

Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

Miso Robotics is moving on to the next step of its world robotics domination plan with the Flippy Wings, dubbed "Wingy," which can deep fry wings.

Buffalo Wild Wings Is Allowing Robots to Take Over the Deep Fryer

By Victor Tangermann

Taiwan has announced it’s created a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that can allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects with ease.

Prosthetics and Devices

Taiwan Builds Exoskeleton to Give Soldiers Super Strength

By Tony Ho Tran

The UN dropped two reports this week that send a clear message: nations simply aren’t doing enough to stop climate disaster.

United Nations Warns of “Endless Suffering” Due to Climate Disaster

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook has hired Mathew Rosengart, the lawyer who helped free Britney Spears, in a potential lawsuit against producers of a TV show about the company.

Embattled Facebook Hires Britney Spears’ Lawyer

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has announced a redesign of its space toilet's mechanics a month after the Inspiration4 crew encountered a problem with the commode.

SpaceX Redesigned Capsule Toilet After It Broke, Sprayed Piss

By Tony Ho Tran

Using data collected by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Telescope, scientists may have found evidence for the existence of an exoplanet 28 million light-years away.

Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Discover First Planet in Galaxy Beyond Milky Way

By Victor Tangermann

A journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked on any links.

iPhones Can Apparently Now Be Hacked Just By Texting Them

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has shared an exciting new 90-second montage dubbed "Gateway to Mars" of its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototypes being tested.

SpaceX Shares Spicy Video of Its Mars Rocket Being Tested

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian aerospace company has chosen a very eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: Sexbomb.

Advanced Transport

New Hypersonic Space Plane Is Called the “Sexbomb” for Some Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

Rental car company Hertz has ordered 100,000 Tesla Model 3s as part of a massive push to electrify its fleet — the largest purchase of electric vehicles.

Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas for Rental Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Fauci Accused of Funding Cruel Experiments on Puppies

Fauci Accused of Funding Cruel Experiments on Puppies

By Tony Ho Tran

Twelve people with physical disabilities had the opportunity to experience zero gravity during a flight by AstroAccess last Sunday.

Wheelchair Users Float in Zero G, Blown Away by Experience

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk's net worth grew past a quarter trillion dollars, or over $252 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Elon Musk Is Now Worth Over a Quarter Trillion Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

By Tony Ho Tran

A newly leaked showroom video shows a Tesla Cybertruck with rear wheel steering and rear view mirrors tear it up on some dirt roads.

Advanced Transport

Leaked Video Shows Cybertruck Tearing It Up Offroad

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By Jon Christian

The most established space tourism company says it had to cancel its upcoming launch with SpaceX because it couldn't find any passengers for the journey.

Space Tourism Company Cancels Launch Because It Couldn’t Find any Passengers

By Jon Christian

A container ship encountered rough seas in Canadian waters on Friday, dropping several containers of "spontaneous combustibles."

Science & Energy

Shipping Containers of “Spontaneous Combustibles” Fall Overboard

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists in China have created a device that uses explosives to destroy enemy satellites.

New Weapon From China Reportedly Causes Satellites to Explode

By Tony Ho Tran

The agency fully assembled the Space-Launch System (SLS) rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday night.

NASA Completes Assembly of Rocket for Upcoming Moon Mission

By Tony Ho Tran

US defense officials admitted that it failed a test of its hypersonic missile mere days after China successfully tested its own.

US Embarrassingly Fails Hypersonic Test Days After Chinese Success

By Tony Ho Tran

After much anticipation, SpaceX has finally installed its "robot chopsticks" on the Mechazilla launch tower to catch its Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX Finally Installs “Robot Chopsticks” to Catch Super Heavy Booster

By Tony Ho Tran

A Japanese man might have gotten the selfie of a lifetime when he allegedly snapped a picture of himself as a volcano was erupting behind him.

Science & Energy

Man Takes Selfie Right as Volcano Explodes Behind Him

By Tony Ho Tran

MIT engineers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the "mini cheetah," that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain.

Oh Great, MIT Has Taught Its Robotic Cheetah to Leap

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA officials say that the US needs to invest in nuclear-powered spacecraft if it wants to beat its geopolitical rivals to Mars.

NASA Says It Needs Nuclear Rockets to Put People on Mars Before China

By Tony Ho Tran

Donald Trump Beaten to @DonaldTrump on His Own Social Media Site

By Tony Ho Tran

Boeing announced on Tuesday that they believe that humidity might have caused the two errant valves from Starliner to corrode.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Says Oops, Its Multibillion Dollar Spacecraft Can’t Handle Humidity

By Tony Ho Tran

Sergio’s Restaurant, a restaurant chain in Florida, began using a Servi robot that uses cameras and laser sensors to bring food to the customers’ tables.

A Florida Restaurant Got a Robot Waiter and Tips Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran