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People close to the situation believe that Jeffrey Epstein tried to reveal his close ties to Bill Gates as a form of retaliation.

Bill Gates Associate Says He Fainted When Epstein Connection Was Revealed

By Dan Robitzski

The latest draft of the infrastructure bill includes a provision that would require every new car to be able to tell if the driver is too drunk.

Advanced Transport

New Law Would Make Every New Car Verify That You’re Sober

By Dan Robitzski

A new video making its round son social media shows how the devastating wildfires in southern Turkey have become.

Science & Energy

Videos of Turkish Wildfires Are Like a Vision of Hell

By Victor Tangermann

To make room for Russia's new International Space Station module Nauka, the old module Pirs was retired. Video shows it incinerate as it fell to Earth.

Haunting Video Shows Space Station Module Burning as It Falls

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian delegate to a UN conference argued that autonomous killer robots shouldn't be subject to any additional rules or regulations.

Russia: Our Killer Robots Don’t Need Any Pesky International Laws

By Dan Robitzski

The Bitcoin business called Bitcoin Embassy in the small libertarian town of Keene, New Hampshire, was raided by federal agents back in March

Feds Smashed Armored Vehicle Through Wall During Bitcoin Raid

By Victor Tangermann

Back when Tesla was designing the Model Y, engineers worked behind Elon Musk's back to amke sure the vehicle had a steering wheel.

Elon Musk Reportedly Wanted to Remove Steering Wheel from Model Y

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is getting closer and closer to launching its first massive Starship prototype into orbit.

SpaceX Just Rolled Out Its Skyscraper-Sized Super Heavy Starship Booster

By Victor Tangermann

A fireball meteor flew over Turkey last week, illuminating the night sky an eerie shade of bright green before it exploded.

Science & Energy

Videos Shows Meteor Explosion Turning Sky an Eerie Green

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state media ran an article on Tuesday calling video games opium for children, and the country's tech giants are already adding new restrictions.

Chinese State Media Compares Video Games to Addictive Drugs for Kids

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity rover has found something awesome on the surface of Mars: a small, naturally-formed stone arch in Gale Crater.

NASA Rover Finds Ancient Stone Arch on Martian Surface

By Jon Christian

NASA has now confirmed that Russia's Nauka module sent the International Space station spinning farther off course than it admitted at first.

The Space Station Incident Was Far Worse Than NASA Admitted

By Dan Robitzski

Remember last week, when a new book claimed that Elon Musk once demanded to be made the CEO of Apple? Now he says it never happened.

Elon Musk Denies Demanding That CEO of Apple Give Up His Job

By Jon Christian

A quantum physicist suggests that distant stars could serve as nodes of a galactic communication network that works by altering the light they emit.

Scientist Claims That Aliens May Be Communicating via Starlight

By Dan Robitzski

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Quantum Physics

Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean where oxygen levels have plummeted so low that everything in the area either fled or died.

Scientists Horrified by Growing “Dead Zone” in Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

The scandal-plagued stock broker app Robinhood had the worst-ever IPO in American history for a company of its size of Thursday.

Science & Energy

Scandal-Plagued Robinhood Suffers Worst IPO in History

By Dan Robitzski

A new study examined which places on Earth would be best prepared to deal with the collapse of global civilization. Did yours make the cut?

Science & Energy

Study: These Countries Are Most Likely to Survive Collapse of Civilization

By Jon Christian

According to explosive allegations in a new book, Elon Musk once demanded to be made CEO of software megacorporation Apple.

Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Be Made CEO of Apple

By Jon Christian

Nikola's now-infamous demo of a hydrogen truck prototype was even more of a sham than we thought, according to a new SEC court filing.

Advanced Transport

Nikola’s Fake Hydrogen Truck Was Actually Plugged In During Demo, According to Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

After a Russian module fired its thrusters and sent the International Space Station rotating off course, a cosmonaut says not to worry.

International Space Station

Russia Says Don’t Worry, It’s No Big Deal That We Threw the ISS Into a Tailspin

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla Megapack battery system erupted into flames shortly after being installed at a massive energy storage faciltiy in Australia.

Fire Breaks Out at Tesla Battery Power Station

By Dan Robitzski

US Congressman Mark Takano introduced legislation that would chop most Americans' work weeks down to four days instead of five.

Congressman Proposes Four-Day Work Week

By Dan Robitzski

A photo shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows SpaceX employees laying out the pipes for a 29 Raptor rocket engine configuration of its Super Heavy booster.

Elon Musk Shows Off Pic of Monstrous Super Heavy Booster Engine System

By Victor Tangermann

Space Station Astronauts Threw Their Own Zero-G Olympic Games

Space Station Astronauts Threw Their Own Zero-G Olympic Games

By Victor Tangermann

International Space Station

Crisis Briefly Spins International Space Station Out of Control

By Victor Tangermann

Our planet is in exceptionally bad shape, according to a panel of 14,000 scientists, and "untold suffering" is probably coming our way.

New Paper Warns That Environmental Collapse Will Lead to “Untold Suffering”

By Dan Robitzski

The Boring Company tells drivers in its Las Vegas loop to call Elon Musk "awesome," "inspiring," and a "great leader" if passengers ask.

Elon Musk Employees Are Instructed to Tell People He’s “Awesome” and “Inspiring”

By Dan Robitzski

Travis Milton, founder of the electric automaker Nikola, was charged with three counts of fraud after it became clear he lied about his electric trucks.

Founder of Tesla Wannabe Charged With Fraud for Lying About Hydrogen-Electric Truck

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time in history, renewables became the second-most prevalent electricity source in the US in 2020 after natural gas.

Renewables Overtook Coal and Nuclear Power Generation in the US Last Year

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted two space rocks in the asteroid belt that are teeming with organic matter, possibly the building blocks of life on Earth.

Scientists Surprised by Objects of “Complex Organic Matter” in Asteroid Belt

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists detected a series of bright X-ray flares coming from one of the least expected places: from behind a supermassive black hole.

Science & Energy

In a Bizarre Twist, Astronomers Detect Light Coming From Behind Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

The Indiana state government, Purdue University scientists, and a German startup are collaborating on new roads that automatically charge electric vehicles.

Electric Vehicles

Indiana Prepares To Test New Roads That Charge Electric Vehicles

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese government is digging a second field of an additional 110 silos for launching nuclear missiles, The New York Times reports.

China Is Building Even More Nuclear Missile Launchers

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the Earth's interior is recycling only about a third of the carbon being sucked below volcanic areas.

Renewable Energy

The Earth’s Interior Is Sucking Up Huge Amounts of Carbon, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared a Wall Street Journal report, which showed that US population growth rates are grinding to a halt.

Elon Musk: Population Collapse Is “Potentially the Greatest Risk to the Future of Civilization”

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams dedicated to rooting out scammers and unmasking them, fell victim to a tech support scammer.

YouTube Channel That Hunts Scammers Falls for Scam, Deletes Itself

By Victor Tangermann

A team of prominent scientists warns that we've already passed several ecological tipping points and are approaching even more.

Scientists Warn That the Earth Is Literally Dying

By Dan Robitzski

Legendary production company Lucasfilm has hired a YouTuber who impressed them with stunning, photorealistic deepfakes of "Stars Wars" franchise characters.

Lucasfilm Hires Random Guy Who Made Amazing Luke Skywalker Deepfake

By Victor Tangermann

A larger than usual meteor hurtled over Norway on Monday night, lighting up the sky over most of southern Scandinavia.

Video Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to new restrictions on the energy usage of personal electronics, powerful Alienware gaming computers are now banned in California.

New Gaming PC Consumes so Much Power That It’s Banned in California

By Dan Robitzski

Cassie, a robot that looks just like a disembodied pair of legs, just successfully ran an impressive 5K on outdoor terrain.

Robot Runs 5K Foot Race, Trips and Falls Repeatedly

By Dan Robitzski

Blue Origin has an ingenious plan to cut costs for its spaceflight program that's basically to copy whatever SpaceX does.

Advisers Reportedly Begged Jeff Bezos Not to Copy Elon Musk So Much

By Dan Robitzski

Another brutal heat wave is beginning, this time encapsulating much of the continential United States in a massive heat dome.

The US Is Getting Smashed by Another Brutal Heat Wave

By Dan Robitzski

Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists found the first ever evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor on One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla's Autopilot system got confused as it cruised down the highway and mistook the Moon for an endless string of yellow traffic lights.

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Moon for Yellow Traffic Light

By Dan Robitzski

New tech can convert plastic garbage into safe, edible protein, potentially giving us an answer to the mountains of trash choking the planet.

New Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Food

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla's solar energy subsidiary, Tesla Energy, reportedly asked its team of more than 20 employees to scan social media posts to find customer complaints.

Tesla Is Reportedly Trying to Make People Delete Mean Posts About Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

An Argentinian lagoon in the southern Patagonia region has turned a strikingly bright shade of pink, the result of chemical runoff from a nearby plant.

Pollution Runoff Causes Entire Lake to Turn Bright Pink

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this month, a sustainability researcher validated a 1972 prediction that civilization is on the verge of collapse. Now she explains what that means.

Researcher Stands by Prediction of 2040 Civilization Collapse

By Dan Robitzski

Bitcoin's value shot up above $39,000 for the first time in almost six weeks, a jump of almost 12 percent within the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk.

Bitcoin Price Suddenly Shoots Up

By Victor Tangermann

Rapper Lil Uzi Vert and Grimes say that Uzi is in the process of buying the exoplanet WAS-127b. Experts say that's total nonsense.

Science & Energy

Rapper Says He’s Buying an Entire Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Fox and Friends told its audience that a Russian jet was capable of doubling the speed of light. That, to be clear, is total nonsense.

The Geniuses at Fox News Said That a New Jet Flies at Twice the Speed of Light

By Dan Robitzski

"I think modern nuclear power plants are safe contrary to what people may think," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during a conference this week.

Elon Musk Says It’s Totally Possible to Build “Extremely Safe” Nuclear Plants

By Victor Tangermann

An Air Force Research Lab report predicts that missile defense force fields are coming soon, thanks to advances in laser technology.

Robots and Machines

Air Force Research Lab Says Force Fields Are “on the Horizon”

By Dan Robitzski

The irreverent weather app Carrot now includes a warning about wet bulb conditions that could make it hot enough to drop dead outside.

Weather App Now Warns You When It’s Hot Enough To Drop Dead

By Dan Robitzski

Despite confirming it would abandon the International Space Station eventually, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos had one last contribution to make.

Russia’s Space Station Module Launch Was Filled With Drama

By Victor Tangermann

Marking Herring, a 60-year-old grandfather from Tennessee, suffered a fatal heart attack after being swatted by a bunch of kids.

Grandfather Dies of Heart Attack After Minors SWAT His Home

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the spending habits of Swedish men lead to far more greenhouse gas emissions than do those of women.

Men Are Causing Way More Climate Change Than Women, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.

Scientists Discover Dozens of Ancient Viruses, Frozen in Ice

By Dan Robitzski

Not just Tesla is hoarding Bitcoin — SpaceX is amassing undisclosed amounts of the cryptocurrency as well, Elon Musk revealed during a conference.

Elon Says SpaceX is Also Hoarding Bitcoin, Not Just Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

A recently surfaced video shows a Tesla Model 3 wading through deep flood waters, spraying water everywhere in the process.

Video Shows Tesla Driving Through Deep Flood Waters

By Victor Tangermann

Dubai conjured up a much-needed rainstorm thanks to new drones that can fly around and create clouds on command through electrical shocks.

UAE Says Rainstorms Were Caused by Its Cloud Seeding Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin completed its first crewed mission. Meanwhile, experts debate why the rocket looks so "anthropomorphic."

Scientists Ponder Why Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Looks like a Giant Dong

By Dan Robitzski