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A tiny and adorable pygmy hippo called Moo Deng has been melting hearts across social media. We must protect her at all costs.

Science & Energy

We’re Willing to Die for This Baby Hippo Called Moo Deng

By Victor Tangermann

The man alleged to be Donald Trump's second would-be assassin once asked Elon Musk if he could buy a rocket off of him.

The Latest Failed Trump Assassin Tried to Buy a Used Rocket From Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hidden Mars structures are mysterious because they appear to be significantly denser than their surroundings.

Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.

It Turns Out ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Can Scream, and It’s an Upsetting Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have few regrets about ditching Starliner, according to a recent livestream.

Stranded Astronaut Says He Just Wasn’t “Comfortable” Getting “Back in the Starliner” After Safety Issues

By Victor Tangermann

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

Science & Energy

Cleanup Group Says It’s on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This bizarre looking, two-door car spotted in L.A. might be a Tesla robotaxi, though there's more than meets the eye.

Photo of Strange Yellow Vehicle May Be Tesla’s Secret New Project

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk gave the name he discussed with Grimes to a baby he had with a woman who worked at one of his companies, Neuralink.

Elon Musk Agreed to a Baby Name With Grimes, Then Gave It to Another Baby With Another Woman

By Frank Landymore

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.

A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes

By Frank Landymore

There's a chance that the 1,100 foot long asteroid Apophis could hit our planet after all, if it gets nudged by another asteroid.

Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They’ll Know for Sure by 2027

By Frank Landymore

Those self-driving, supposedly fully-autonomous robotaxis aren't all what they appear to be. Humans, it turns out, are still in the loop.

Self-Driving Vehicles

“Self-Driving” Cars Have a Dirty Secret

By Frank Landymore

A group of experts from the public and private sectors are warning that NASA's Earth-bound facilities are not at all up to snuff.

NASA Facilities Are Falling Apart, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a tiny space rock just 33 feet long, which will orbit the Earth once, making it a "mini-moon."

Earth Gaining a Temporary New Moon, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The mega-tsunami created seismic vibrations in the Earth that were felt globally for over a week straight.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Detection of 650-Foot Mega-Tsunami

By Frank Landymore

As his infamy grows, Elon Musk has apparently resorted to employing a massive security team to fend off would-be attackers.

Paranoid Elon Musk Now Constantly Surrounded by 20 Armed Bodyguards and a Medic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate.

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have observed land surrounding a "unique" volcano in Tanzania bulging, a possible sign of an impending eruption.

Science & Energy

Giant Volcano Is Bulging, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

In 1996, Carl Sagan made a prescient prediction about a populist "charlatan" that seems to have come true some decades after his death.

In His Final Interview, Carl Sagan Warned That Someone Just Like Trump Could Take Over America

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tens of thousands of gallons of water were used to put out the Tesla Semi after its battery ignited and caught fire in a crash last month.

The Tesla Semi Fire Closed a Freeway for 15 Hours and Took 50,000 Gallons of Water to Put Out

By Frank Landymore

For a few hundred thousand dollars, you can buy the machines you need to start producing lab-grown diamonds.

You Can Officially Buy a Diamond-Generating Machine on Alibaba

By Frank Landymore

Adam "WeWork Guy" Neumann's crypto company has been discreetly refunding investors after years of failing to do anything said it would do.

You’ll Be Shocked to Hear That the WeWork Guy’s Crypto Startup Is Shriveling Up and Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter's moon Europa.

NASA Preparing to Launch Mission to World That “May Be Habitable Today”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a different set of thrusters.

NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing executives have been eerily quiet since its plagued Starliner limped back to Earth over the weekend.

Boeing Execs Have Been Suspiciously Quiet Ever Since Starliner Limped Back to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk built a massive, fume-emitting data center for xAI in South Memphis. Locals reportedly had little to no input.

Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite little evidence suggesting it works, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use AI to decide who gets unemployment benefits.

Artificial Intelligence

The Geniuses in Nevada’s Government Are Letting a Half-Baked AI Decide Whether People Should Get Unemployment Benefits

By Noor Al-Sibai

Captured by the James Webb, the Little Red Dots indicate galaxies we've never seen before, and what's inside them is unclear.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Puzzled by Hundreds of Little Red Dots in James Webb Images of Distant Universe

By Frank Landymore

A few years before his passing, the late, great James Earl Jones teamed up with an AI voice startup to immortalize his iconic baritone.

Artificial Intelligence

Before He Died, James Earl Jones Signed Paperwork to Voice Darth Vader Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string.

Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She’s Never Responded a Single Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX space tourists have become the first private civilians to go on a spacewalk. The first-person footage is amazing.

First-Person Footage Shows What Astronaut Saw as He Climbed Outside SpaceX Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Drains Air From Spacecraft While Astronauts Are Inside

SpaceX Drains Air From Spacecraft While Astronauts Are Inside

By Victor Tangermann

Among the recovered 3D-printed gun parts was a Glock switch, a device that converts a handgun into a fully automatic weapon.

14-Year-Old Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Sell Guns He 3D Printed

By Frank Landymore

A group of aerospace experts have declared that NASA is at a turning point — and the agency's death could be imminent.

Experts Find NASA Is in Major Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's estranged daughter has decided to trash her dad's disgusting display of misogyny towards Taylor Swift.

Elon Musk’s Daughter Disgusted by His Revolting “Incel” Tweet About Taylor Swift

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump's abysmal performance at the presidential debate against vice president Kamala Harris has rattled Truth Social investors.

Truth Social Stock Crashes to All-Time Low After Trump’s Train Wreck Debate Performance

By Victor Tangermann

In her statement endorsing Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift trashed AI deepfakes used to make her seem like she was supporting Donald Trump.

Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Swift Slams Republican Use of AI to Deepfake Her Into Endorsing Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission has taken the crew farther from our planet than any other humans since NASA's Apollo missions.

SpaceX Astronauts Now Farther From Earth Than Any Other Human Since Apollo Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

In a grotesque tweet, X owner Elon Musk appeared to threaten Taylor Swift with sexual violence, suggesting he'd impregnate her.

Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift

By Victor Tangermann

When buying Twitter, Elon Musk's team sent a bunch of people the wrong finance spreadsheet — and then made them delete it.

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Accidentally Sent an Incredibly Sensitive Email to the Wrong People, Then Demanded They Delete It

By Noor Al-Sibai

After digitally recreating the late actor Peter Cushing's likeness for 2016's "Star Wars: Rogue One," Disney is being sued for doing so.

Disney Sued for Bringing Actor Back From the Dead for “Star Wars” Movie

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Uber drivers are anxiously awaiting a future in which robotaxis could make their jobs obsolete, as The Register reports.

Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Say They’re Doomed in the Face of Robotaxis

By Victor Tangermann

Samples returned by China's Chang'e 5 mission suggest the Moon could still be volcanically active today, a tantalizing finding.

Chinese Lander Finds Evidence of Active Volcanos on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China has moved up the date for its Mars sample return mission while the US slashes its own trip to collect rocks from the Red Planet.

As NASA’s Mars Sample Return Stumbles, China Is Looking to Beat Them to the Punch

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams' empty spacesuits were sent back down inside Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft.

When Boeing Starliner Returned to Earth, It Had Two Empty Spacesuits Inside

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has launched four civilians into orbit as part of its long-awaited Polaris Dawn mission, and they're headed for the radiation belt.

Billionaire Adventurer Rides SpaceX Spaceship Straight Into Earth’s Radiation Belt

By Victor Tangermann

A worker tasked with training Tesla Autopilot data said they were often advised by their superiors to ignore road signs.

Workers Training Tesla’s Autopilot Say They Were Told to Ignore Road Signs to Avoid Making Cars Drive Like a “Robot”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The value of Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock has wiped out $4 billion in value of Trump's enormous 114.75 million share stake.

Trump Loses $4 Billion as Truth Social Stock Crashes

By Victor Tangermann

Nuclear researchers and energy startups are now melting down weapons-grade uranium from unexploded warheads to power next-generation SMRs.

America Now Disassembling Old Nuclear Warheads to Power Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher has posted an obvious subtweet about her famous ex Elon Musk while sitting atop a Porsche.

Spurned By Elon Musk, Grimes Pledges to Now Worship the Combustion Engine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk predicted that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket would start making regular trips to Mars in a matter of just two years.

Elon Musk Says Starship, Which Has Never Launched Into Orbit and Then Landed on Earth Without Crashing, Will Be Landing on Mars by 2026

By Victor Tangermann

One of Tesla's unfortunate Autopilot workers has learned the hard way that the problematic assisted driving feature comes with a human toll.

Tesla Autopilot Worker Horrified by What Job Actually Entails

By Noor Al-Sibai

Late Friday night, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. A new thruster failed.

Starliner Suffers New Problems While Coming Back to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

"Automated decision-making" is being heralded as the next big thing — but the people on the other side of it are not on board.

Artificial Intelligence

Americans Absolutely Detest AI That Makes Decisions for Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

For about $20 per hour, an army of Tesla Autopilot annotators review troves of video taken by drivers while dealing with some weird rules.

The Tesla Workers Dealing With Autopilot Data Are Treated So Strangely You Won’t Believe It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists discovered a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core, which could be influencing its magnetic field.

Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Mysterious Torus-Shaped Structure in Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.

Science & Energy

Scientists Alarmed as Shark Tracker Suddenly Shows Up Inside Larger Creature

By Frank Landymore

With billions of dollars in expenditures, Waymo is still not profitable, despite giving its impressive tally of paid rides per week.

Advanced Transport

Waymo Giving 100,000 Robotaxi Rides Per Week But Not Making Any Money

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be Touching Another Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The explosions during the second orbital Starship test flight created a hole in the ionosphere, according to new research.

Scientists Say SpaceX Starship Explosion Tore a Hole in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Crew members on board the US Navy's combat ship USS Manchester got caught secretly bolting a Starlink terminal to the ship's weather deck.

Military Leaders in Huge Trouble After Bolting a Starlink Terminal to a Warship for Unrestricted WiFi

By Victor Tangermann