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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous and unfinished inside of the space company's gargantuan Starship prototype.

Elon Musk Releases Video Showing Interior of Starship Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers displayed porn on an electronic billboard in Michigan the day before others did the same thing using TV screens in New Zealand.

Internet Of Things

Hackers Keep Playing Porn on Electronic Billboards, Public TVs

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX has published a new page on its website dedicated its Starship rocket, as well the Super Heavy, Starship's booster.

SpaceX Releases Beautiful Diagrams of Starship, Super Heavy

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees that Elizabeth Warren and her plan to break up tech corporations is an exisential threat.

Leaked Audio: Mark Zuckerberg Is Terrified of Elizabeth Warren

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Tesla and Elon Musk violated labor laws in their efforts to discourage employees from forming a union.

Judge Forces Elon Musk to Hire Back Fired Tesla Union Organizer

By Dan Robitzski

Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can read through news stories and generate comments that resemble those written by actual human readers.

Artificial Intelligence

Evil Research Generates Fake Comments on News Stories

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla owners are already putting Telsa's new "Smart Summon" feature to the test. And in some really stupid ways.

Idiots Are Trying to Run Themselves Over With Their Own Teslas

By Victor Tangermann

At a conference at the Vatican last week, Pope Francis warned that in the wrong hands, AI could have some devastating consequences on humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Says AI Could Lead Humanity to “Barbarism”

By Victor Tangermann

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.

Science & Energy

SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes that were mere years away from finding life on Mars thanks to the next generation of future Mars rovers.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Chief Scientist is Oddly Terrified By Finding Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers spotted what's believed to be the oldest collection of galaxies in the known universe.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found the Oldest Galaxies in the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented new details about the company's gigantic Starship rocket prototype at SpaceX's test site in Boca Chica, Texas on Saturday.

SpaceX Unveils Massive Starship Prototype Design

By Victor Tangermann

The video uploaded by the Russia Defense Ministry shows the unusual combat drone aircraft take off next to a Russian S-57 advanced combat jet.

Watch Russia’s Combat Drone Fly Next to a Fighter Jet

By Victor Tangermann

TechCrunch reports that its new and improved review unit of the Samsung Galaxy Fold phone has already started acting up after a single day of use.

Robots and Machines

Despite Fix, Samsung Folding Phone Still Breaks Almost Immediately

By Victor Tangermann

This Site Is Selling Decorative AirPods That Don’t Play Sound

This Site Is Selling Decorative AirPods That Don’t Play Sound

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA scientists have caught three supermassive black holes in the act of merging together a measly one billion light-years away from Earth.

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are About to Collide

By Victor Tangermann

Watch SpaceX Complete Its Starship Prototype Live on YouTube

Watch SpaceX Complete Its Starship Prototype Live on YouTube

By Victor Tangermann

Autoblow is taking pre-orders for its "Autoblow AI," which promises to harness the power of AI to provide users with the perfect oral sex experience.

This AI-Powered Oral Sex Robot Puts the “Deep” in Deep Learning

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

Science & Energy

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say new observational equipment could help spot hundreds more interstellar visitors, like 'Oumuamua, every year.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say We’ll Soon Discover More Interstellar Visitors

By Jon Christian

For the first time in history, a startup called Momentus is testing a new in-orbit water plasma propulsion system to maneuver satellites.

Startup Tests Water Plasma Propulsion in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent Q&A with the New York Times, a UFO and alien research group may have gotten its hands on some "exotic material samples from UFOs."

Robots and Machines

UFO Research Group Implies It Has Obtained Alien Artifacts

By Victor Tangermann

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

$Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.$

Science & Energy

Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.

Science & Energy

TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Japan Airlines has a new tool that will allow you to get as far away as possible from a crying baby on your next trip by airplane.

Advanced Transport

Airline Tells You Where Crying Babies Are so You Can Avoid Them

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.

Science & Energy

Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

By Jon Christian

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.

Facial recognition

Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.

Artificial Intelligence

Yes, There’s a “Pee Tape” — and It’s Unclear If It’s a Deepfake

By Dan Robitzski

A Fremont police officer had to cut a high-speed highway pursuit short after his modified Tesla Model S cop car's batteries ran down.

Tesla Police Car Runs Out of Battery During High Speed Chase

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.

Elon Musk: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

By Victor Tangermann

Oxford researchers found that at least 70 countries have sponsored campaigns that spread favorable propaganda across the internet.

Dozens of Countries Are Deploying Propaganda on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

Science & Energy

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Wally Conron, the first person to breed a labradoodle, regrets his experiment and says he opened Pandora's box by creating the crossbreed dog.

Labradoodle Creator Says Dog Breed Is Insane, Diseased

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government has a startling level of control over TikTok, according to leaked documents that reveal how the government censors political posts.

TikTok Mods Censor App for China, Scrubbing Tiananmen Square

By Dan Robitzski

MegaRobots' gigantic battle bot Eagle Prime is going for a chill $51,500 on Ebay at the time of writing after going on sale for a single dollar.

Robots and Machines

Someone’s Selling a Functional 15-Ton Battle Mech on eBay

By Victor Tangermann

A new website called M-Journal will turn Wikipedia articles into fake academic articles so that students can cite it in their homework.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Turns Wikipedia Pages Into Fake Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

After three years of tests, China is opening up its gigantic 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to astronomers from all over the world.

Science & Energy

China Opens Up Ginormous Alien-Hunting Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.

Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

By Dan Robitzski

German carmaker BMW released — and promptly deleted — an ad called "New Moments of Joy" about a future where people can have sex inside self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

BMW Posts, Deletes Ad About Sex Inside Self-Driving Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Workers near SpaceX's Boca Chica test site in Texas have spotted the space company installing Tesla battery packs into one of Starship MK1's header tanks.

SpaceX Is Installing Tesla Batteries In Starship Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

A visit to the seafloor at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed a nightmarish landscape populated by gruesome, tumor-filled sea life.

The Deepwater Horizon Spill Created Horrific Mutant Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

To feed colonists on Mars, we'll need to find a way to produce food there — and a team of researchers thinkgs it knows the best wait to go about it.

Here’s How We Could Feed a Million People on Mars

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military might use injections of nanoparticles to give soliders night vision capabilities without the need for bulky goggles, says scientist.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientist: US Soldiers Could Receive Night Vision Eye Injections

By Kristin Houser

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.

Quantum Physics

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

Facebook Just Bought a Brain-Computer Interface Startup

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers used to think quasars took thousands of years to form. Then they caught six galaxies transitioning into quasars in a matter of months.

Science & Energy

Six Galaxies Just Suddenly Ignited Into Voracious Quasars

By Kristin Houser

After complaints of a car show that blocked an entire town's Tesla Superchargers made their way across the web, its organizers say they'll do better.

Car Show Organizer Begged Gas Guzzlers Not to ICE Tesla Chargers

By Dan Robitzski

A new video uploaded by Boston Dynamics shows off the robotics company's humanoid robot called Atlas perform an impressive gymnastics routine.

Boston Dynamics

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Nail a Tricky Gymnastics Routine

By Victor Tangermann

Tinder is about to launch a weekly apocalypse-themed event called Swipe Night that matches people based on how they play a choose-your-own-adventure game.

Tinder Wants to Pair People Based on Their Apocalypse Strategy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers created an autonomous roofing drone by strapping a nail gun to an octocopter and using cameras and markers to teach it where to place nails.

Researchers Strapped a Nail Gun to an Autonomous Drone

By Kristin Houser

Nerf’s New DRM’d Ultra Blaster Won’t Fire Knockoff Darts

Robots and Machines

Nerf’s New DRM’d Ultra Blaster Won’t Fire Knockoff Darts

By Victor Tangermann

The Android app TwinFACE promises to give you "the opportunity to create an anime picture based on a real selfie." But it does a terrible job.

Artificial Intelligence

Finally, an App That Turns Your Selfie into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers have created a handheld sonic gun designed to help the nation's military and law enforcement agencies disperse crowds.

China’s New Weapon: A Sonic Gun That Vibrates Your Brain

By Kristin Houser

A gigantic pro-Trump propaganda Facebook page called "I Love America" with 1.1 million fans is being managed by a small group of people based in Ukraine.

Ukraine-Run Pro-Trump Facebook Page Has Over 1.1 Million Followers

By Victor Tangermann

The US military PR unit took to Twitter to "joke" that it would attack anyone who tried to storm Area 51 with a stealth bomber.

US Military Threatened to Bomb “Millennials” Storming Area 51

By Kristin Houser

The head of Russia's space agency says it know what caused a mysterious Space Station hole — but NASA's head claims it hasn't shared the info with him.

Russia: We Know Cause of Space Station Leak but Haven’t Told NASA

By Kristin Houser

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Mars Lander Detects Mysterious Magnetic Pulses

By Victor Tangermann

On Sunday, every Tesla Supercharger within 15 miles of Yorktown Heights, NY got ICEd, leaving Tesla drivers unable to charge up.

Gasoline Fiends Blocked Every Single Tesla Charger in This Town

By Dan Robitzski

Arctic sea ice caps are influencing weather elsewhere.

Report: MIT Violated Law By Dumping Dangerous Chemicals

By Victor Tangermann

China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back images of a strange new substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon.

Science & Energy

Here Are New Pics of That Weird Substance China Found on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Recreating the feeling of a psychedelic trip using virtual reality technology isn't easy, but that isn't stopping several artists from trying.

Virtual Reality

These Technologists Are Trying to Recreate Psychedelic Trips in VR

By Kristin Houser

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.

Australia Is Running out of Drinking Water

By Dan Robitzski