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Lyft and the autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI plan to launch a small fleet of self-driving cars in Miami later this year.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Lyft Says It’ll Deploy Self-Driving Cars by the End of the Year

By Dan Robitzski

China has built a maglev bullet train that reach a blistering 373 miles per hour, the world's fastest train in the world.

Advanced Transport

China Builds World’s Fastest Train, But No Tracks for It to Travel on

By Victor Tangermann

A top Catholic official resigned on Thursday after hackers revealed that he frequented gay bars and used Grindr, raising questions about digital privacy.

Science & Energy

Top Catholic Bishop Resigns After Hackers Expose That He Was on Grindr

By Dan Robitzski

Bitcoin has dipped below the $30,000 mark for a second time in months as Wall Street is starting to grow anxious of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.

Bitcoin Crashes Below $30,000. Again.

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that feral hogs release huge amounts of carbon dioxide by diggig up soil as they invade and wreak havoc in new areas.

Feral Hogs Are Contributing Hugely to Climate Change, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

The largest wildfire of this year's wildfire season in the US so far is so massive, it's causing absolute mayhem with the weather.

Science & Energy

A Forest Fire in Oregon Is So Huge That It’s Generating Freak Lightning Storms

By Victor Tangermann

Warehouse robots in London started a fire and disrupted thousands of grocery orders when they crashed into each other on the job.

Worker Robots Start Fire in Warehouse

By Dan Robitzski

Amateur astronomer Kai Ly pored over years of data to find and confirm a previously-undiscovered moon that's orbiting around Jupiter.

Jupiter Officially Has Yet Another Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian vehicle and scooter company Daymak has designed an autonomous car that can mine cryptocurrencies when it's parked.

Upcoming Electric Car Designed to Mine Crypto While Charging

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists argue that the universe may be folded in on itself, looping together like a giant cosmic donut rathan than expanding in all directions.

Science & Energy

Physicists Say the Universe Wraps Around Itself Like a Giant Donut

By Dan Robitzski

Retired pilot instructor Wally Funk just made it to the edge of space on board Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft RSS First Step.

82-Year-Old Woman Becomes Oldest Person in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger seems to have turned on his own creation, saying that the site can't be relied on to be truthful.

Guy Who Started Wikipedia Says Wikipedia Is Untrustworthy

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla is now offering its Full Self-Driving subscription, a semi-autnomous driving feature, for a cool $199 a month, a substantial amount of money.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Costs as Much Per Month as Leasing an Entire Car

By Victor Tangermann

The extreme heat in Oregon and California is so bad that baby birds are trying to escape and plumetting from their nests before they can fly.

Baby Birds Are Leaping From Their Nests and Dying Because of Extreme Heat

By Dan Robitzski

The burgeoning space tourism industry comes with a considerable environmental cost that shouldn't be forgotten.

Rocket Launches Are Shockingly Bad for the Environment

By Victor Tangermann

The Indian state Uttar Pradesh just implemented new population control policies that include cash incentives for voluntary sterilization.

To Fight Overpopulation, India May Pay People to Get Sterilized

By Dan Robitzski

Rumors spread online that cardboard beds provided to Olympic athletes in Tokyo were designed as a way to discourage sex. Officials are calling it fake news.

Olympic Organizers: Actually Those Cardboard Beds Can Withstand Vigorous Sex

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered a new DNA structure they call the "Borg" that assimilates genes from other microorganisms in its surroundings.

Scientists Discover Extremely Long “Borg” DNA

By Tony Ho Tran

President Joe Biden said that social media sites like Facebook are “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinformation to run rampant.

Biden: Misinformation on Facebook Is “Killing People”

By Tony Ho Tran

Law enforcement officials in Malaysia seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs before crushing them all with a big steamroller last week.

Watch Police Crush 1,069 Bitcoin Mining Rigs With a Huge Steamroller

By Tony Ho Tran

A Scottish conservation group claims Google Maps has been suggesting “potentially fatal” routes up mountains — and even directly over cliffs.

Google Maps Is Telling People to Walk Off a Cliff, Critics Say

By Tony Ho Tran

MAGA “Freedom Phone” Is Actually a Cheap Chinese Phone With a Huge Markup

MAGA “Freedom Phone” Is Actually a Cheap Chinese Phone With a Huge Markup

By Tony Ho Tran

Ford has launched a new petrol-scented fragrance called "Mach-Eau," designed to appease nostalgic owners of the upcoming Mach-E GT.

Advanced Transport

Ford Announces Petrol Fragrance to Appease Nostalgic EV Owners

By Victor Tangermann

It wouldn't surprise Tesla CEO Elon Musk if his company's latest offering, the Cybertruck, will flop.

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Might Flop But He Doesn’t Care

By Victor Tangermann

Sandwich chain Subway is in full damage control mode after a New York Times investigation found last month that there is no trace of tuna DNA in its tuna.

Science & Energy

Subway CEO Says Sandwiches Definitely Contain Tuna, Regardless of What That DNA Test Said

By Victor Tangermann

An unnamed millionaire gave away his $28 million ticket to go to space on board Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft. An 18-year-old will take his place.

Gazillionaire Gives Away $28 Million Ticket to Space Because of “Scheduling Conflict”

By Victor Tangermann

After a month-long saga, NASA says that the iconic Hubble Space Telescope is back online after it switched to a backup computer system.

Good News: NASA Says It Managed to Fix the Hubble Space Telescope

By Jon Christian

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.

Artificial Intelligence

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook announced that is is abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset capable of turning brain signals into spoken words.

Facebook Abandons Plans for Mind-Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX constructed a Starship launch tower before completing an environemtnal assessment, so the Federal Aviation Administration might say to take it down.

The FAA May Force SpaceX to Tear Down Its Starship Launch Tower

By Dan Robitzski

The world's first satellite primarily made out of wood is set to launch later this year, and it's bringing a selfie stick to mark the occasion.

Scientists Are Officially Launching a Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Regions of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they can absorb.

Renewable Energy

The Amazon Rainforest Is Starting to Emit More Carbon Than It Absorbs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has made its next big discovery: a patch of rock that "is probably exposed bedrock," according to an update.

NASA Mars Rover Found Bedrock That Looks Like Flagstones

By Victor Tangermann

The 82-foot zero emissions escort tug called "eWolf" could be a game changer in reducing carbon emissions in the maritime industry.

Science & Energy

This Fully Electric Tugboat Will Have Absolutely Massive Battery Packs

By Victor Tangermann

After over a month of troubleshooting, NASA engineers have finally isolated the cause of a computer glitch that shut down the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA Says It’s Figured Out What’s Wrong With the Hubble

By Victor Tangermann

New research validates MIT scientists' 1972 prediction that civilization is on track to utterly collapse within the next two decades.

MIT Prediction of Civilization Collapse Appears to Be on Track

By Dan Robitzski

In order to meet the industry's incredible energy demands, crypto miners are buying and setting up shop inside existing power plants.

Crypto Miners Are Buying Up Entire Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

50-year-old Wendell Goney from Mount Dora, Florida, shot down a police drone, the property of the local Lake County Sherriff's Office, with a rifle.

Florida Man Shoots Down Police Drone Because It Was “Harassing” Him

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Lucy spacecraft was just outfitted with a message for any future civilizations that happen to discover it in the distant future.

New NASA Spacecraft Will Carry Time Capsule for the Descendants of Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Over $21 million worth of Bitcoin were just moved out of a ten-year-old wallet that has been dormant since 2012. Was Satoshi Nakamoto behind it?

A Cache of Ancient Bitcoin, Possibly Mined by Satoshi, Just Awakened

By Victor Tangermann

The Marines recently tested a small drone that can carry a live grenade across a battlefield, targeting and detonating precise targets.

Marines Are Testing Tiny Drones That Carry Explosive Grenades

By Dan Robitzski

The leasee of a Tesla Model 3 reached out to YouTuber Rich Benoit after being quoted $16,000 for replacing a damaged battery pack.

Independent Garage Fixes Tesla for $700 When Tesla Would Have Charged $16,000

By Victor Tangermann

Roscosmos chief Dmitriy Rogozin congratulated Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson after his successful flight to 50 miles on Sunday.

Head of Russian Space Program Criticizes “Billionaire Oligarchs”

By Victor Tangermann

A gun shop in Utah started to sell a kit that covers real handguns in Lego bricks, making the weapons look like a colorful child's toy.

Company in Hot Water for Making Real Guns Look Like Lego Toys

By Dan Robitzski

A massive lawsuit alleges that the extensive use of the pesticide chlrpyrifos caused neurological damage in developing embryos and young children.

Lawsuit Claims That Common Pesticide Causes Brain Damage in Children

By Dan Robitzski

Footage taken from the International Space Station's live feeds and widely shared on Reddit showed some unusual groupings of mysterious lights.

Video Appears to Show UFO Drifting Behind Space Station, But It’s Actually Something Hilariously Boring

By Victor Tangermann

In algorithmic moderation gone awry, Tik Tok users found themselves unable to post phrases like "Black lives matter" or "supporting black success."

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok Censored the Words “Black Lives Matter” But Not “White Supremacy”

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's court proceedings ground to a screeching halt when things took an unexpected turn in court today. Somebody threw up in court.

Man Vomits During Elon Musk Court Appearance, Which Is Honestly Understandable

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers are already dreaming up bigger and better ideas for Mars helicopters based on the surprising success of Ingenuity.

NASA Is Already Working on a Bigger, Better Mars Helicopter

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine gas in the Venusian atmosphere is a sign of explosive volcanic activity, not life.

Researchers: Signs of Life on Venus Actually Explosive Volcanoes

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say we could deflect a killer asteroid by bombarding it with telecom satellites that are already in orbit instead of bombs.

Scientists: We Could Smash Existing Satellites Into a Killer Asteroid to Knock It Off Course

By Dan Robitzski

In international team of researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that our global plastic pollution problem may be nearing a point of no return.

Scientists Say World Is Approaching Non-Reversible “Tipping Point” in Plastic Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

A subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is proposing to send a nuclear power station to Mars to power a future Russian base.

Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is rolling out the "Full Self-Driving" v9 beta update. Elon Musk is warning drivers not to put too much faith in it and to "be paranoid."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Warns Drivers Not To Trust New “Full Self-Driving” Update

By Dan Robitzski

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musks' Boring Company has been hard at work tunneling away under Hawthorne, California. But they never informed the community that they would do so.

Experts Say Elon Musk’s Florida Tunnel Might Be a Soggy Mess

By Tony Ho Tran

Law enforcement agencies across the globe are working together to take down dark web marketplaces facilitating illegal activity.

Man Arrested for Selling Insider Trading Info on Dark Web

By Tony Ho Tran

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.

Another Heatwave Is Coming for the West Coast

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers dumped 60 brown trout in a water tank that contained low levels of methamphetamine to see if they would get addicted.

Recent Heatwaves Have Killed More Than 1 Billion Sea Creatures

By Tony Ho Tran

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at her fellow lawmakers as well as the fossil fuel industry in a tweet blaming them for the recent NYC floods.

AOC Blames Subway Flooding on Politicians Taking “Orders From Fossil Fuel Execs”

By Tony Ho Tran

A new car created by award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick is said to be able to clean the air of pollution while you drive it.

New Car Sucks Up Pollution While It Drives

By Tony Ho Tran