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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson isn't worried about Elon Musk's erratic behavior, because someone else is actually running SpaceX.

Advanced Transport

Head of NASA Says Musk’s Instability Is Okay Because He Doesn’t Really Run SpaceX

By Frank Landymore

Authorities are reporting an uptick in "sextortion" scams — but you probably don't have to worry about your browser history being leaked.

Here’s What to Do If Hackers Threaten to Release Your Porn History

By Noor Al-Sibai

The head of stock research at Goldman Sachs, Jim Covello, believes that the burgeoning AI industry could be in for a rude awakening.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Goldman Sachs Stock Researcher Warns AI Bubble May Be About to Explode

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has encountered a zebra-striped rock on the surface of Mars and it's unlike anything seen on the planet.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Finds Rock With Stripes

By Sharon Adarlo

During his testimony at the public hearings into last year's Titanic sub disaster, a previous passenger recalled hearing "unnerving" sounds.

Doomed Titanic Sub’s Hull Made Terrible Sound During Previous Dive

By Victor Tangermann

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

North Carolina's lieutenant governor Mark Robinson has more explaining to do now that he's been credibly linked to more porn and sex sites.

Close Trump Ally Mark Robinson Linked to More Sex Websites

By Noor Al-Sibai

Whether or not he's actually funny, Elon Musk needs his sense of humor to be validated, Twitter employees quickly had to learn.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Employees Feel Forced to Laugh at His Appalling “Jokes”

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waxed prolific about the future of artificial intelligence and chose some strange units of measurement to describe.

Sam Altman Invents Bizarre New Unit of Time for Measuring When His Promises Will Come True

By Noor Al-Sibai

An amateur astronomer has spotted and taken images of a secretive Pentagon spacecraft whose purpose is unknown.

Man Spots Secret US Military Spacecraft With Amateur Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

A slew of companies are now offering AI assistants to restaurants that will handle reservations and other inquiries over the phone.

Artificial Intelligence

Restaurants Are Hiring AI to Pick Up the Phone When You Call

By Frank Landymore

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence is throwing major shade on Elon Musk's years of broken promises about self-driving Teslas.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Godfather of AI Says Elon Musk Is Lying About Self-Driving Teslas

By Noor Al-Sibai

A vertical flight test of Chinese startup Deep Blue Aerospace's Nebula-1 rocket ends explosively — all captured spectacularly for the camera.

Advanced Transport

This Might Be the Most Amazing Video of a Rocket Explosion We’ve Ever Seen

By Frank Landymore

There's drama at Elon Musk's America PAC, which the billionaire is funding to get Donald Trump back in the White House.

Elon Musk’s Pro-Trump PAC May Have Seriously Screwed Up

By Victor Tangermann

OceanGate intended to develop a whole fleet of four to five deepsea submersibles, each capable of taking up to five passengers.

Before the Titanic Sub Imploded, Its Creator Was Working to Create a Whole Fleet of Them

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Former OceanGate contractor Antonella Wilby revealed that the imploded submersible relied on handwritten coordinates and Excel spreadsheets.

When You Hear How the Doomed Titanic Sub’s Sonar System Worked, You May Die of Secondhand Embarrassment

By Victor Tangermann

In a new analysis, scientists have found evidence of water existing basically all over the Moon, though more in some areas than others.

Scientists Find Evidence of Water All Over the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Standup comedian John Mulaney was invited to do a set at a San Francisco event put on by AI company Dreamforce. He roasted them brutally.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

By Victor Tangermann

Axiom Space, the company NASA picked to develop a private space station, is in damage control after Forbes reported that it's in big trouble.

The Company Building NASA’s Next Space Station Says Things Are Actually Going Great Even Though It’s Firing 100 Employees and Can’t Pay Its Bills

By Victor Tangermann

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Russian warlord who rules the Chechen Republic, claimed that Elon Musk "remotely disabled" his Cybertruck.

Warlord Straight Out of “Mad Max” Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck

By Frank Landymore

New footage released by the US Coast Guard shows the remains of the OceanGate Titan submersible's pressure hull.

Advanced Transport

New Footage Shows Imploded Crew Compartment of Doomed Titanic Sub

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

During an international summit, some of the world's foremost AI experts came together to write a definitive dispatch on its dangers.

Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Scientists Warn AI Could Escape Control at Any Moment

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Starship delivery robot, which are used on campuses across the US, suddenly changed direction and struck a woman crossing the sidewalk.

Woman Run Down by Delivery Robot on College Campus

By Frank Landymore

Chris Wilson bought a rusty cruise ship off Craigslist and spent years and lots of money trying to restore it, but now the ship is sinking.

Man Buys Cruise Ship on Craigslist, Disturbed When It Starts Sinking

By Sharon Adarlo

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Two advanced mannequins flew aboard the Artemis I mission to record data on radiation exposure inside the spacecraft.

NASA Analyzes Synthetic Human Bodies It Sent on Lunar Journey

By Frank Landymore

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

By Frank Landymore

As the tech industry sees more and more layoffs, one desperate tech worker resorted to putting up flyers outside of Google.

Desperate Tech Worker Hangs Up Hundreds of Flyers Looking for Job Outside Facebook and Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is vowing to sue the Federal Aviation Administration after they slapped him with violating certain arcane regulations.

Elon Musk, Who Brutally Mocked Jeff Bezos’ Space Company for Suing the Government, Is Now Suing the Government With His Own Space Company

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Mark Robinson, a GOP governor candidate in NC, seems to have made some pretty disgusting comments on a dirty forum.

Close Trump Ally Appears to Have Made Vile Posts on Porn Forum

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite losing most of its value, the stock price for Donald Trump's free-falling Truth Social platform may still be overblown.

As Truth Social Collapse Continues, Finance Professor Says Its Stock Is Still 1,000 Percent Overvalued

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe has spotted a habitable planet astonishingly close to us.

Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Lionsgate announced a major partnership with Runway, which will develop a custom AI model for the movie studio using its library of movies.

Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s AI Deal Sounds a Lot Like It Wants to Replace the Jobs of Storyboard and VFX Artists

By Frank Landymore

An astronomer is suggesting that Mars once had a large moon that exerted enough force to create a large bulge on its surface.

Mars Appears to Be Missing a Moon, Astronomer Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

Ex-astronaut Mark Kelly insists that the US government should do more to investigate credible claims about UFOs.

Retired NASA Astronaut Urges Government to Investigate “Compelling” UFO Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

A data scientist who correctly predicted the 2020 election is betting Kamala Harris will win big over Donald Trump.

Data Scientist Predicts Kamala Harris Will Win By a “Landslide” in November

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's Starlink satellites aren't just physically junking up Earth's orbit, but are actually interfering with radio telescopes.

Astronomers Say Elon Musk’s Vast Network of Satellites Is Blocking More and More of the Night Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg recently bragged about dashing his seven-year-old daughter's dreams of being like Taylor Swift as some sort of parable.

Zuckerberg Told His 7-Year-Old Daughter She Would Never Be Like Taylor Swift

By Noor Al-Sibai

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.

Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk shared a meme last year that was part of an orchestrated and Kremlin-backed propaganda influence campaign.

Gullible Elon Musk Got Fooled Into Sharing Putin-Backed Propaganda Meme

By Victor Tangermann

California passed new laws that protect actors from being replicated by an AI without their explicit permission.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

EA Shows Off AI System That Lets You Dream Up an Entire Videogame From Scratch

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk decided, for some reason, to write a pithy six-stanza poem about wokeness that would have been better if a kid had written it.

Elon Musk Posts Bizarre, Child-Like Poem

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI experts are calling for submissions for the "hardest and broadest set of questions ever" to try to stump AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Preparing “Humanity’s Last Exam” to Test Powerful AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Twitter data scientist who was all set to resign reportedly told off CEO Elon Musk as revealed in a new book about Musk and Twitter.

A Data Scientist Resigned From Twitter and Blasted Elon Musk Directly to His Face

By Sharon Adarlo

Truth Social is in dire financial straits and Donald Trump could soon sell off his shares.

As Its Stock Nosedives, Truth Social Sounds Like an Absolute Wreck Behind the Scenes

By Victor Tangermann

The astronauts currently stranded due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner space capsule plan to cast their vote in November.

Stranded Astronauts Say They’ll Vote From Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Axiom Space, the space company NASA picked to develop a private successor to the International Space Station, is in big trouble.

The Company NASA’s Hired to Build the Next Space Station Seems to Be in Big Trouble, Firing 100 Employees and Unable to Pay Bills

By Victor Tangermann

The US Coast Guard has released the first public footage of the wreck of OceanGate's Titan submersible, which imploded in June of last year.

Ghostly Footage Shows Imploded Sub Resting in Freezing Darkness of Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump's ailing Truth Social is once again crashing to an all-time low — and the timing does not seem coincidental.

Truth Social Stock Crashes After Trump Reveals His Scammy New Crypto Venture

By Noor Al-Sibai

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump Seems Completely Baffled by His Own Crypto Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

The final messages from the Titan submersible that imploded last year on its way to the Titanic wreck have been revealed.

Advanced Transport

The Doomed Sub’s Final Messages Before Imploding Are Pretty Grim

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese researchers claim that by using the radiation emitted by SpaceX's Starlink constellation, they can detect enemy stealth fighter jets.

Chinese Researchers Say They Can Detect Stealth Aircraft Using Starlink Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

New Photo Shows Wrecked Titanic Sub on Ocean Floor

New Photo Shows Wrecked Titanic Sub on Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.

Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

As pokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that the RFK Jr. is indeed the of a probe.

Science & Energy

Trump’s Top Pick for Health Secretary Being Investigating for Mutilating Dead Animal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thousands of union members rejected Boeing's offer by an overwhelming majority compounding a growing crisis.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Freezes Hiring as Crisis Deepens

By Victor Tangermann