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SpaceX's SN11 Starship explosion showed up as debris raining down from the skies in livestreams. Even a tree got chopped in half.

Watch Dirt Spray Up as Starship Debris Lands Next to Camera

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Georgia Tech have created a 3D printed antenna that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals.

New Device Uses Ambient 5G to Wirelessly Power Your Devices

By Victor Tangermann

The US military is developing an aircraft carrier loaded up with semi-autonomous drones that flies in the air instead of floating on water.

DARPA Is Working on a Gigantic, Flying Aircraft Carrier

By Dan Robitzski

An Indonesian oil refinery on the island of Java caught on fire early Monday, ballooning into a massive column of fire and smoke.

Science & Energy

Watch an Oil Refinery Explode After Possibly Getting Hit by Lightning

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in the US, a formerly-homeless person moved into a 3D-printed house that he says turned his life around.

Formerly Homeless Man Now Living in 3D Printed House

By Dan Robitzski

Robot creator Boston Dynamics has released its next dastardly take on God's creations: the "Stretch," forever destined to stack boxes in warehouses.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off New Warehouse Robot

By Victor Tangermann

After six days of being wedged in the banks of the Suez Canal, the "Ever Given" finally broke free on Monday afternoon local time.

Robots and Machines

Watch the Amazing Moment as the Giant Ship Finally Gets Unstuck

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber created an AI-powered computer that uses machine learning to shout compliments at dogs as they pass through his neighborhood.

New Machine Screams at Dogs About How Great They Are

By Tony Ho Tran

During a press conference, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin told reporters that the leak on board the space station was a "scratch" about two to three cm long.

NASA Offers $400 Million for Companies to Build New Space Stations

By Tony Ho Tran

South Korean President Moon Jae-in unveiled plans to develop and launch a lunar lander capable of reaching the Moon by 2030.

South Korean President Announces Plans To Land On The Moon By 2030

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk took some time on Friday evening to tweet out an image of a Transformers robot with an erection for... reasons.

Elon Musk Tweets Image of Robot With Genitals

By Tony Ho Tran

YouTube says that there is a "disturbing trend" of staged animal rescue videos. Now, they're putting policy in place to identify and ban the videos.

YouTube Banning Staged Animal Rescue Videos

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have discovered a distant space object that is emitting ultra-low radio frequencies in the shape of a jellyfish.

Science & Energy

Strange, Distant Space Object Is Sending Out Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Signals

By Tony Ho Tran

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.

Government Sources Say Military Is Holding Back Evidence of UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

In 2018, Elon Musk implied that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Now, the federal government decided that he broke the law.

Government Orders Elon Musk to Delete Anti-Union Tweet

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

In a now-deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed Tesla could become the "biggest company" and "probably within a few months."

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Claiming Tesla Could Become World’s Biggest Company in “Months”

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of underage teens in Daytona Beach, Florida, got caught driving a Tesla Model Y on the wrong side of the road. Their excuse: it was driving itself.

Underage Teens Caught Joyriding Tesla, Claim It Was Driving Itself

By Victor Tangermann

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.

Watch a SpaceX Rocket Stage Burn Up Spectacularly in the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

The SpaceX Crew Dragon dubbed Resilience currently docked on orbit to the International Space Station "annunciated false emergency messages" yesterday.

Emergency Alarm Reportedly Goes Off on SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docked to Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Celebrity humanoid robot Sophia just sold a digital artwork as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $688,888, as Reuters reports.

Humanoid Robot Sophia Sells 12 Second Video NFT for Almost $700,000

By Victor Tangermann

According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the company's long-awaited electric pickup will have "no handles."

Elon Musk: Tesla Cybertruck Will Have “No Handles”

By Victor Tangermann

A study suggests that the mysterious, giant blobs hidden in the Earth's mantle might be the remains of a protoplanet that crashed billions of years ago.

Science & Energy

There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Digital artist Beeple, otherwise known as Mike Winkelmann, decided to sell his share of $53 million in ether he got for selling an NFT.

The Guy Who Sold a $69 Million NFT Thinks NFTs Are Pretty Dumb

By Victor Tangermann

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Science & Energy

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet had its Gatling gun discharge a 25mm armor piercing high explosive round causing at least $2.5 million in damages.

A US Military Fighter Jet Accidentally Shot Itself With a Gatling Gun

By Victor Tangermann

According to the latest rumors, Apple's virtual reality headset will incredibly light, weighing in at less than 150 grams, less than an iPhone 12.

Virtual Reality

New Details Leak About Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Shenzhen, China, shut the country's first sex doll hotel, one of two establishments where men can pay $28 to spend an hour with sex dolls.

Police Shut Down China’s First Sex Doll Brothel

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Stallman, the former MIT scientist who defended Jeffrey Epstein and criticized age of consent laws, was just restored to a position of power.

Scientist Who Defended Epstein and Pedophilia Reinstated to Free Software Foundation Board

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla has officially started to accept Bitcoin as payment for its vehicles in the US, according to CEO Elon Musk.

You Can Now Officially Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

To celebrate the occasion, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is stashing a small piece of fabric from the famous Wright aircraft under its solar panel.

NASA Hid a Small Piece of the Wright Brothers’ Airplane in Its Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waded in to the world of UFO sightings, claiming his latest meme is the "strongest argument against aliens."

Elon Musk Has an Interesting Argument Against UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

A new satellite called ELSA-d will snare space junk and drag it to safety with a powerful magnet to help clean up low-Earth orbit.

Just-Launched Spacecraft Will Use Grappling Hook to Destroy Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

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Haunting Photos Show Missiles Milliseconds Before Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

By Victor Tangermann

The architecture firm ABIBOO released mockups for a futuristic Martian city that would become a sustainable, off-world home to 250,000 people.

Plans Unveiled for Grand Mars City

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers found new patterns of a fast radio burst on a microsecond scale, suggesting we could hone in on their location.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find New Patterns In Mysterious Radio Pulses From Distant Galaxies

By Victor Tangermann

Former US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe made some intriguing claims about the federal government's tracking of UFOs.

Former US Director of National Intelligence Says He’s Seriously Puzzled by UFOs

By Jon Christian

Terrifying video footage shows a Tesla Model Y, with its self-driving system engaged, start to drift into multiple lanes of oncoming traffic.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Mode Steer Toward Oncoming Highway Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

Janelle Shane trained the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write some incredible pickup lines. We think they have a shot at actually working.

Artificial Intelligence

You Should Definitely Try These Horrible Pickup Lines Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

The UK Army is drastically reducing the number of human soldiers in its ranks, partly to make room for new military robots.

Anticipating Robot Soldiers, Britain Is Downsizing Its Human Troops

By Dan Robitzski

Rancho Mirage, California will soon become home to the first neighborhood made entirely of 3D-printed houses in the United States.

An Entire 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Springing Up in a California Desert

By Dan Robitzski

An extremely rare daytime meteor fell over England on Saturday afternoon, causing a sonic boom loud enough to rattle windows and shake houses.

Science & Energy

Rare Daytime Meteor Fell Over England, Caused House-Shaking Boom

By Tony Ho Tran

A 50-year-old Japanese man used the FaceApp to create a large following on Twitter by transforming himself into a young female biker.

Young Female Twitter Star Turns Out to Be 50-Year-Old Man Using Deepfakes

By Tony Ho Tran

Mars Incorporated has developed an autonomous robot that will follow shoppers around a grocery store to tempt them with candy before they checkout.

The Maker of M&Ms Built a Robot to Chase You Around the Store With Candy

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a new report by Common Sense Media found that the average screen time for children in the U.S. is as high as its ever been.

Robots and Machines

This Company Wants To Pay You $2,400 To Avoid Screens for 24 Hours

By Tony Ho Tran

Adorable Video Shows Elon Musk’s Baby Playing a Synthesizer

Adorable Video Shows Elon Musk’s Baby Playing a Synthesizer

By Tony Ho Tran

A man from New York plead guilty to posessing seven sandbar sharks in his basement with intent to sell, this week. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

Science & Energy

New York Man Pleads Guilty to Keeping Sharks in Basement

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla recently unrolled its autopilot beta to more users and the results are... well, incredibly dangerous, life-threatening, and scary.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s “Fully Self Driving” Beta Would Fail A Driver’s License Test

By Tony Ho Tran

A creator on YouTube created a CGI version of himself using a powerful new app — and used it to prank his friends on a video call.

Virtual Reality

This Guy Made a CGI Version of Himself to Fool His Friends on Videochat

By Tony Ho Tran

An amateur astronomer discovered a new nova appearing in the Cassiopeia constellation last Thursday — and it's bright enough to see in your own backyard.

Science & Energy

A New Object Just Appeared In This Constellation

By Tony Ho Tran

A Russian man plead guilty in the US to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to shut down the car company's battery plant in Nevada using ransomware.

Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Sabotage Tesla Battery Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Other planets and asteroids might have volcanoes made of metal instead of rock. Scientists tried to model what an eruption actually looks like.

Science & Energy

Here’s What a Metal Volcano Would Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

China has barred all Tesla vehicles from its military complexes and housing compounds in light of privacy concerns, Bloomberg reports.

China’s Military Just Banned Teslas, Citing Security Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Space Launch System may well be the agency's last class of rocket that NASA will ever build, according to a new The New York Times essay.

The SLS Is Probably the Last Rocket NASA Will Ever Build

By Victor Tangermann

A professor at Canada's York University refused to reschedule an exam that a student in Myanmar was unable to take because of a military coup.

Professor Refuses to Reschedule Exam Because of Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has hit a new milestone. A picture uploaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows off his space company's "first Super Heavy booster."

Elon Musk Shows Off Photo of SpaceX’s First Starship Super Heavy Booster

By Victor Tangermann

Toilet paper maker Charmin decided to get in on the NFT trend and put up a series of uninspired JPGs and GIFs for sale.

Charmin Debuts Toilet Paper NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to a mountain of seismic data from NASA's InSight spacecraft, scientists finally took a precise measurement of the size of Mars' core.

Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Measure the Size of Mars’ Core

By Dan Robitzski

In recent years, China has exported hundreds of its heavily-armed "Pterodactyl" combat drones to countries around the world.

China Is Selling Deadly “Pterodactyl” Drones Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

According to anonymous sources, president Joe Biden is eying Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) for the role of NASA administrator, The Verge reports.

Science & Energy

Biden Reportedly Picks Former Astronaut as a New Head of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Contemporary artist Krista Kim sold her "Mars House," a virtual piece of real estate, for 288 ether, worth over half a million dollars, as an NFT.

Architect Sells Rendered 3D House as $500,000 NFT

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released recordings of its Perseverance rover driving on the surface of Mars. And it sounds rough.

Listen to the Sounds NASA’s Rover Makes As It Drives Around Mars

By Victor Tangermann