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Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio signal coming from close to the center of the galaxy.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Radio Wave Source Inside Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Two autonomous police robots are roaming the streets of Singapore looking for signs of trouble during a brief trial period.

Singapore Deploys Multiple Robot Cops to Police Public Areas

By Dan Robitzski

Dmitry Rogozin, the director-general of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, is keen on spending some quality time space billionaires like Elon Musk.

Russian Space Chief Invites Elon Musk to His House

By Victor Tangermann

The SpaceX rocket destined to launch the first all-private crew into orbit has officially been rolled out onto the launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX Rocket for First All-Tourist Spaceflight Rolls to Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

Altos Labs, a biological reprogramming tech company, is allegedly attracting big name investors such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Super Wealthy Fund Mysterious Lab to Unlock Immortality

By Tony Ho Tran

Sales of NFTs on OpenSea, an NFT buying and selling platform, hit a record high of $3.4 billion in August and is on track to do well in September.

After Cratering, NFT Prices Are Spiking Again

By Tony Ho Tran

A massive oil spill was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday likely caused by Hurricane Ida.

Oil Company Forgets to Mention Large Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

By Tony Ho Tran

Kaku implored scientists to "keep an open mind" at the possibilities that UFOs are evidence of advanced lifeforms visiting Earth.

Michio Kaku Wants Fellow Scientists to “Keep an Open Mind” About UFOs

By Tony Ho Tran

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”

By Tony Ho Tran

The UN scientist who helped pen the dire report on climate change said that the impact of man made climate change is already being felt in ways unimagined.

UN Scientist Warns That Climate Destruction Is Entering “Uncharted Territory”

By Tony Ho Tran

The Dead Internet Theory states that the Internet as we know it actually died sometime between 2016 and 2017 — and is now filled with mostly bots.

Artificial Intelligence

Creepy Conspiracy Theory Claims the Internet “Died” Years Ago

By Tony Ho Tran

Lyft’s CEO Logan Green announced on Friday via Twitter that the company would “cover 100% of legal fees” if their drivers are sued under Texas’ SB 8 law.

Lyft and Uber Vow to Fight Texas Abortion Ban

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova.

Science & Energy

Parasite Black Hole Eats Gigantic Star from Inside Out

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk Reportedly Planning $25,000 Tesla with No Steering Wheel

Elon Musk Reportedly Planning $25,000 Tesla with No Steering Wheel

By Tony Ho Tran

A new molecule-sized "camera" helps scientists watch individual chemical reactions in real-time, and they say it could lead to better solar panels.

Scientists Build Molecule-Sized “Camera” To Watch Chemical Reactions in Real-Time

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Thrilled at Important Step Toward Practical Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A pseudonymous hacker named MG is selling a USB cable that contains a tiny computer to capture and transmit every single key you type.

New USB Cable Contains Tiny Computer That Spies on Everything You Type

By Dan Robitzski

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.

NASA Claims Rover Collected Mars Rock, But We Wanna See Proof

By Dan Robitzski

Rocket startup Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket experienced a bit of an anomaly during its launch on Thursday — an unfortunate end to its first launch.

Rocket Explodes Spectacularly During Launch

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has added a glass dome to its Crew Dragon spacecraft that will carry the first all-civilian astronaut crew around the Earth later this month.

SpaceX Shows Off Beautiful Dome for Next Month’s Space Tourists

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."

Elon Musk: Tesla Making a Robot Because “Robots Are Coming Anyway”

By Victor Tangermann

The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Virgin Galactic until further notice, following a troubling report about Richard Branson's maiden voyage.

FAA Grounds Virgin Galactic Indefinitely Following Reports of Chaotic Flight

By Victor Tangermann

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.

Last Night’s Hurricane Devastation Shows That Climate Change Is Here

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

By Dan Robitzski

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.

Head of Russian Space Program Tells Absurd Lie About Abandoning ISS

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Israel have come up with a novel way of making photorealistic changes to photos using AI. And gave Elon Musk a bunch of haircuts.

Neural Network Gives Elon Musk Incredible Makeovers

By Victor Tangermann

Federal regulators investigating Tesla Autopilot's habit of ramming emergency vehicles gave the company an ultimatum: Share your data or pay a huge fine.

Feds Demand Data on Teslas Crashing Into Emergency Responders

By Dan Robitzski

China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has shown off a prototype for a "Mars cruise drone" that looks extremely familiar.

China Appears to Be Working on a Clone of NASA’s Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla seems to have bought itself a new Liebherr crawler crane for use in Texas, according to a picture of the machinery being shipped in Europe.

Huge SpaceX-Branded Tank Treads Spotted in Europe

By Dan Robitzski

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.

Russian Official: Space Station Damage May Be “Irreparable”

By Dan Robitzski

"Fboy Island" contestant and self-proclaimed crypto investor Garrett Morosky successfully conned one of the show's stars then tried to keep the money.

Crypto Investor Tricks Woman Into Falling in Love, Betrays Her for $100,000

By Dan Robitzski

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Extremely Strange Deep Space Object

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is officially starting to flight test an all-electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft built by California-based Joby Aviation.

Advanced Transport

NASA Begins Flight Testing an Electric Flying Taxi

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts stationed on board the International Space Station threw their own zero-gravity pizza party, as seen in a clip by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

Picky Astronauts Refuse to Put Pineapple on Space Pizza

By Victor Tangermann

Burning Man has moved entirely online for 2021 over COVID concerns, allowing festival goers to roam the the space from the comfort of their own home.

Virtual Reality

Burning Man Is Completely in Virtual Reality This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued GM may be having trouble keeping up with Tesla in EV market share because of recent fires involving the Chevy Bolt.

Elon Musk Ridicules GM Over Electric Cars That Keep Catching Fire

By Victor Tangermann

The Airlander 10, a gigantic airship that looks an awful lot like a butt, could start ferrying passengers to and from the North Pole soon.

Advanced Transport

World’s Largest Aircraft Mocked for Looking Like Giant Butt

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists determined that a high percentage of stars consume what could have been habitable exoplanets, and they figured out how to tell if it happened.

Science & Energy

Ravenous Stars Keep Devouring Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

To celebrate 100 days on Mars, China's national space agency released a number of photos showing the path its Mars rover took.

China Releases Beautiful New Photos from the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's SLS rocket and Orion are still undergoing tests that were supposed to finish earlier this Summer. Now the agency is blaming the pandemic.

NASA Source: No Way Artemis Moon Mission Is Launching This Year

By Dan Robitzski

An intruder has managed to drive their vehicle into The Boring Company's Loop system in Las Vegas, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch.

Intruder Drives Vehicle Into Elon Musk’s Weird Tunnel

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government is forcing gaming companies to limit online gaming availability to just three hours a week to children in the country.

China Says Minors Can Only Play Three Hours of Online Games Per Week

By Victor Tangermann

For many climate scientists, the great ferocity of hurricane Ida came to no surprise as the world is starting to really feel the results of climate change.

Today’s Killer Hurricane Is Linked to Climate Change, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Russian cosmonauts stationed on board the ISS have discovered several new cracks in the wall of the aging outpost, warning that they could eventually widen.

Russia Says It’s Found Even More Cracks in the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company will attempt something very different to recover its massive Super Heavy booster.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Catch Starship Booster With Giant “Robot Chopsticks”

By Victor Tangermann

Astra Space's LV0006 rocket began launching on Saturday afternoon — only to powerslide precariously off the launch pad after an engine failed to fire.

Watch the Astra Rocket Suddenly Powerslide Off the Launch Pad During a Test

By Tony Ho Tran

Energy Vault, a Switzerland- and California-based company, has secured $100 million in series C funding for their bold vision.

Startup Raises $100 Million to Store Energy in Giant Hanging Bricks

By Tony Ho Tran

Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Wants to Make Deepfake Advertising Clones of Your Face

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.

Man Sues Parents of Kids Who Stole His Bitcoin

By Tony Ho Tran

The Department of Defense (DOD) has released a document of talking points for how government officials should respond to questions about UFOs.

Pentagon Document Tells How to Answer Questions About “Extraterrestrial Technology”

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists have been able to replicate the atmosphere of one of the solar system’s most enigmatic moons right here on Earth.

Researchers Recreate Titan’s Atmosphere on Earth in Glass Vials

By Tony Ho Tran

The files from Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA are causing the computers at the Department of Justice to crash due its enormous size.

Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So Huge It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer System

By Tony Ho Tran

A huge "blob" of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has been made worse by climate change and led to a ten-year drought in Chile.

Scientist Warns of Megadroughts That Could Collapse Entire Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Federal scientists are tracking down and investigating nuclear cubes that Nazi scientists hoped to turn into bombs to test out new forensic techniques.

Science & Energy

Scientists Searching for Lost Nuclear Nazi Cubes

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon-owned satellite company Kuiper Systems filed a complaint about SpaceX's plans for Starlink, and Elon Musk called Jeff Bezos out for being a troll.

Elon Musk: Jeff Bezos Retired for “Full-time Job Filing Lawsuits Against SpaceX”

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving bus crashed into a visually-impaired paralympian at the athlete's village in Tokyo, but it may not have been the autonomous vehicle's fault.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Bus Hits Pedestrian at Tokyo Olympic Village

By Dan Robitzski

Zoom fatigue, or feeling exhausted from having your camera on at work, is a real phenomenon that should be taken seriously, according to new research.

Watch Lunatics Fire 3D Printed Assault Rifles and Handguns

By Victor Tangermann

A new class of potentially habitable exoplanets called Hycean worlds considerably broaden scientists' options in the search for alien life.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Life May Thrive on Ocean Worlds Far Larger Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, just reached out to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter in the most cryptic and ominous way possible.

Russian Space Chief Issues Cryptic Invitation to Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists watching octopuses interact with each other found that they "throw" shells and dirt at each other, including a female rejecting an amorous male.

Scientists: Octopuses Love to Fling Objects at Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

In an incredible new Wired video, tech journalist Brent Rose had an incredible time testing out a powered exoskeleton built by Roam Robotics.

Prosthetics and Devices

Watch a Guy With Bad Knees Get Superpowers With a Powered Exoskeleton

By Victor Tangermann

12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed has made nearly $400,000 after programming and selling a series of NFTs of pixelated doodles called "Weird Whales."

Science & Energy

12-Year-Old Earns $400,000 Selling NFTs to Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

The first images of Blue Origin's rocket test tank surfaced recently, bearing a close resemblance to SpaceX's Super Heavy. Elon Musk was amused.

Elon Musk Ridicules Jeff Bezos for “Copy Your Homework” Approach to Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Model rocket maker Estes has released a 1/66 scale model of Blue Origin's dick-shaped New Shepard rocket — and it is not in fact an operable sex toy.

No, the Scale Model of Blue Origin’s Rocket Is Not an Operable Dildo

By Victor Tangermann