the digest (Page 130)

Latest in the digest

Eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, the Associated Press reports, the first known case amount such primates in the US.

Great Apes Have Become the First Non-Humans to be Vaccinated for COVID

By Tony Ho Tran

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a call for military jetpack, wingsuits, parafoils, and glider designs. for use in combat.

DARPA Is Officially Studying Combat Jetpacks for the Military

By Tony Ho Tran

Astrophysicists just uncovered why some dying stars' supernovae appear to lack high-energy gamma ray bursts. A protective cocoon has been blocking them.

Science & Energy

New Paper: Space Is Full of Naturally Occurring Atomic Bombs

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA announced Friday that the touchdown site of the Perseverance Rover will be named after sci-fi writer and pioneer Octavia Butler.

NASA Names Mars Landing Site After Sci-Fi Pioneer Octavia Butler

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla is hiring a "customer support specialist" that is meant to "escalate complaints [...] and address social media escalations directed at the CEO."

Contradicting Rumors of His Death, Elon Musk Appears to Be Alive

By Tony Ho Tran

A massive 164-foot asteroid called 2006 QV89 has a one in 7,000 chance of bashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, according to the ESA.

NASA: This Asteroid Will Get So Close It Could Smash Into Earth’s Satellites

By Tony Ho Tran

Courtesy of YouTube account Cosmic Perspective, we can relive the event of SpaceX's Starship prototype SN10 exploding in incredible slow-motion.

The Starship Landing Looks Absolutely Incredible in Slow Motion

By Victor Tangermann

Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.

Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Deepfake Tom Cruise Fools People on TikTok

By Victor Tangermann

Saharan dust carrying radioactive isotopes from France's nuclear bomb tests in the 1960s is now blowing back into France.

France Tested Nuclear Weapons in Africa. Now Radioactive Dust Is Drifting Back Into France.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is officially on the move.Recently uploaded images show the six-wheeled robot's tracks imprinted in the dust around it.

NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Officially on the Move

By Victor Tangermann

Trolls on Twitter started flooding the social media network with made-up screenshots using the hashtag #RIPElon.

Trolls Are Spreading a Rumor That Elon Musk Is Dead

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre photograph of a ship seemingly hovering above the sea off the coast of Cornwall, UK, made its rounds late Thursday.

Science & Energy

Optical Illusion Photo Shows Huge Oil Tanker Hovering Over the Sea

By Victor Tangermann

The China National Space Administration released several new high-definition images captured by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe currently in the planet's orbit.

China Releases Stunning Images From Mars Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists took a closer look at the comet-like tail that our Moon often grows and figured out that it comes from sporadic meteor impacts.

Science & Energy

The Moon Has a Huge, Invisible, Comet-Like Tail

By Dan Robitzski

In a rare instance of reflection, Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised fellow American carmarker Ford to not "have gone bankrupt out of thousands of car startups."

Elon Musk Praises Tesla Nemesis, Ford, In Rare Reversal

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has spent the last week getting ready for work and stretching its seven foot robotic arm.

NASA’s Mars Rover “Percy” Stretches Its Arm for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Boston Dynamics robodog named "Zeus" was spotted sniffing around the site of the recent Starship SN10 test and explosion.

There’s a Robodog Walking Around the Site of the SpaceX Starship Explosion

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

Russian cosmonauts currently stationed on board the ISS have started drilling holes near the infamous crack that formed in the station's Zvezda module.

Russian Cosmonauts Are Drilling Holes in the Walls of the ISS

By Victor Tangermann

"Wolverine," a top-secret project by the Alphabet-owned moonshot company X, is building devices that grant superhuman hearing.

Prosthetics and Devices

Secret Alphabet Project “Wolverine” Aims to Give People Superhuman Hearing

By Dan Robitzski

Space Tango, a Kentucky-based space startup, is planning to launch its own tiny orbital research platform in a matter of just two years.

Kentucky Startup Plans to Launch Teeny Tiny Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The Wednesday explosion of SpaceX's Starship SN10 prototype was so intense, it showed up on local weather radar.

Starship Explosion Was So Huge It Was Picked Up by Weather Radar

By Victor Tangermann

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chimed in on Tesla's new "yoke" steering wheel in its refreshed Model S.

US Regulators Not Sure If Tesla’s Funky New Steering Wheel Breaks Rules

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Ample has launched an electric car charging network that can provide a car with a full charge in less than ten minutes, as Business Insider reports.

Advanced Transport

Startup Says It Can “Charge” an Electric Car In Under Ten Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk and SpaceX want to rename Boca Chica Village, the community near its Starship launch site, to "Starbase, Texas."

Elon Musk Wants to Rename a Texas Town “Starbase”

By Dan Robitzski

An Indian official announced that a major power outage initially dismissed as a technical failure seems to have been caused by Chinese hackers.

Science & Energy

Indian Official Claims Huge Blackout May Have Been a Hack

By Dan Robitzski

China seems to be nearing completion on Sharp Eyes, which is its plan to surveil every public area in the country with spy cameras,

China Is Blanketing Every Public Space in Spy Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the Earth's inner core has yet another core hidden inside of it with a different structure of iron.

Science & Energy

Scientists: There’s Something Lurking in the Center of Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is inviting eight members of the public to fly with him around the Moon inside a SpaceX Starship in 2023.

Billionaire Says He’ll Fly Eight People Around the Moon for Free

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest putting a fish farm on the Moon after discovering that seabass and meagre eggs could survive the rough journey.

Scientists Suggest Farming Fish on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is ramping up to launch its third full-scale Starship rocket some time later this week — but this time, the rocket will attempt something new.

There’s Something Very Different About Tomorrow’s Starship Test

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is preparing for a grounded voltage test of its all-electric X-57 Maxwell airplane, which will prepare the team for actual test flights.

Advanced Transport

NASA Is Testing an All-Electric Airplane

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in New Zealand have discovered how three species of sharks can glow in the dark well below the surface of the ocean.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is getting ready to send the next batch of astronauts to the International Space Station on April 20 as part of its Crew-2 mission.

SpaceX Preparing Third Launch of Astronauts to Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a gigantic 1,000 kilometer-across hurricane swirling hundreds of kilometers above the North Pole.

Scientists Observe Eight-Hour “Space Plasma Hurricane”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are calling on NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope due to Webb's extended legacy and questionable human rights record.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him?

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space

Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space

By Victor Tangermann

The British military is running drills and combat exercises in virtual reality, using simulations that run on the Unreal Engine.

Virtual Reality

British Soldiers Training for Combat in Virtual Reality

By Dan Robitzski

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

Semi-retired WWE star Triple H publicly challenged scrawny billionaire Elon Musk to a fight on Mars.

Pro Wrestler Challenges Elon Musk to Fight

By Victor Tangermann

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.

Three Words: Supersonic. Combat. Drones.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA embedded a secret code on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover to help inspire others. Here's exactly what it says.

All the Easter Eggs NASA Engineers Left on the Mars Rover

By Tony Ho Tran

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)

By Tony Ho Tran

The genealogy platform MyHeritage has introduced a new tool called Deep Nostalgia that allows you to animate old photos of dead relatives.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Tool “Deep Nostalgia” Lets You Reanimate Your Dead Relatives

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning photo of Venus during its flyby en route to the Sun—but there's something in it that has scientists excited.

This Photo of Venus Shocked Scientists. Here’s Why.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning high-resolution panorama of the Martian surface taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera. It spotted a strangely shaped rock.

NASA Scientists Spot Strangely Shaped Rock in Latest Mars Panorama

By Victor Tangermann

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.

Robotics Executives: Here’s How to Keep Our Creations in Line

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool

Science & Energy

New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.

Science & Energy

Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.

Elon Musk Invites SEC Into Battle Over Dogecoin, Because ??!??!?!??!

By Victor Tangermann

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.

Robots and Machines

Look At This Horrifying Aircraft That Flaps Its Wings Like a Dragonfly

By Dan Robitzski

Sergey Brin's airship startup is planning to develop a 1.5 megawatt hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for its humanitarian aid airship.

Advanced Transport

Sergey Brin’s Mega-Airship to Run Off Record-Breaking Hydrogen Fuel Cell

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.

Bill Gates: You Should Probably Not Follow Elon Musk ‘To The Moon’ On BTC

By Dan Robitzski

A compact electric vehicle that costs just $4,500 is vastly outselling Tesla's vehicles in China, the BBC reports.

This $4,500 EV Is Now Outselling Tesla in China

By Victor Tangermann

Philippines-based PDAX, Southeast Asia's largest crypto exchange, just accidentally sold bitcoin at an incredible 88 percent discount, for just $6,000.

Whoops: Crypto Exchange Accidentally Sells Bitcoin at 88% Discount

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to post a meme about the alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin, sending it soaring by 25 percent.

Single-Word Elon Musk Tweet Sends Crypto Dogecoin Soaring

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the company's floating platforms could be "in limited operation by end of year."

Elon Musk: Starship Floating Launchpad to Start Operation by “End of Year”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth.

US Military Tests Satellite for Beaming Power Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The European Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050, so scientists are building a simulation of the entire planet to help it get there.

Scientists Start Work on Simulation of Entire Earth

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.

Science & Energy

Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted something rather strange on the Martian surface below: a deep pit, appearing in the form of a black spot.

NASA Spots Deep, Strange Hole on Mars

By Victor Tangermann