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A group of Tesla enthusiasts took their Cybertrucks well past the Arctic Circle and to the shores of the Arctic Ocean without a generator.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Arctic Expedition Succeeds Without Packing a Single Generator

By Victor Tangermann

A record number of advertisers plan to cut their spending on Elon Musk's Twitter next year, according to new research from Kantar.

Elon Musk in Deep Trouble as Even More Advertisers Are Planning to Leave Twitter’s Toxic Cesspool

By Frank Landymore

Amid the ongoing Starliner breakdown fiasco, NASA has admitted that there's been a bit of "tension" with Boeing.

NASA Admits “Tension in the Room” as It Told Boeing Starliner Couldn’t Return Astronauts to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ongoing Starliner situation isn't the only crisis at aerospace giant Boeing. The company is facing a massive 32,000-worker strike.

Boeing’s Starliner Troubles Are Just the Beginning as Huge Strike Looms

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk seems to have had second thoughts about platforming Holocaust denial on his own X-formerly-Twitter account.

Elon Musk Deletes Nazi Apologist Tweet After Near-Universal Backlash

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chipmaker Nvidia wiped out a massive $279 off its value on Tuesday, a massive drop of 9.5 percent in share price.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Should Be Printing Money Right Now by Selling AI Hardware. Instead, Its Stock Is Falling

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

The Cybertruck subreddit, a Reddit forum dedicated owners and enthusiasts of the Tesla pick-up, has officially closed its doors too outsiders.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Subreddit Goes Private After Relentless Mockery

By Frank Landymore

The AI supercomputer, which Elon Musk calls "Colossus," is powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips.

Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

By Frank Landymore

A Space Force guardian is going on a mission none has ever attempted before — actually flying to space as a Space Force official.

A Space Force Guardian Is Bringing Stranded Boeing Astronauts Home

By Noor Al-Sibai

Animal rights groups are confident that "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvaldimir was shot. Officials are still investigating.

Science & Energy

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Was Reportedly Shot Multiple Times

By Victor Tangermann

The viral "glitch" that allowed people to withdraw "unlimited" money from Chase ATMs is simply a form of fraud, the bank said.

People Who Used “Glitch” to Get Free Money From Chase ATMs Are Now in Huge Trouble

By Frank Landymore

An elderly woman in Romania was using a seven-pound rock as a doorstop for decades — which turned out to be a $1 million amber nugget.

Science & Energy

Elderly Woman Never Realized Her Doorstop Was Worth More Than a Million Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

A series of new studies showed that taking Ozempic reduced death rates from all causes, which may be a sign that it combats aging.

Ozempic Actually Delays Aging, Scientist Claims

By Frank Landymore

The share price of former president Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock has plummeted to a new low.

Truth Social Hits All-Time Low as CEO Sells His Crashing Stock

By Victor Tangermann

A large piece of the Titanic has, per new footage from a recent robotic expedition, fallen off as the more than 110-year-old ship decays.

Science & Energy

A Large Piece Is Missing From the Titanic, Sub Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

A series of blind assessments found that human-written summaries scored significantly better than summaries generated by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is doubling down on his bizarre bigotry by appearing to co-sign a theory that suggests women shouldn't be in power.

Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone

By Noor Al-Sibai

On Saturday, "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvaldimir was found dead — and animal activists are seemingly in disagreement about how he died.

Science & Energy

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

By Victor Tangermann

Electric discharges underground cause gold atoms to accumulate, which eventually forms gold nuggets, the researchers suggest.

Science & Energy

Gold Nuggets Can Be Formed With Electricity, Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

NaNoWriMo, a nonprofit writing organization that hosts an annual novel write-a-thon, has released a strange new platform on AI.

NaNoWriMo Slammed for Saying That Opposition to AI-Generated Books Is Ableist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Police officers are scanning for Teslas that may have recorded nearby crimes on their external cameras.

Police Searching for Teslas Near Crimes to Seize Their Camera Footage

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, stranded NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore encountered strange sounds coming out of Boeing's much-maligned Starliner.

Astronauts Hear Strange Sounds Coming From Boeing’s Cursed Starliner

By Victor Tangermann

More consumers are buying sausages rather than more expensive cuts of meat, a sign that people are feeling the pinch from runaway prices

Economists Alarmed by Growing Demand for Sausage

By Sharon Adarlo

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

By Noor Al-Sibai

After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power.

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

By Sharon Adarlo

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Accuses Journalist of Escaping Psych Ward, Abusing Children and Widows

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before, from an ancient Tibetan glacier.

Scientists Discover Ancient Viruses Frozen in Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

A slew of major news publishers and top social media websites are blocking Apple from scraping their websites for AI training purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

No One Wants Apple To Scrape Their Websites for AI Training

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Arizona bank employee was found dead in her cubicle days after her death after clocking in on a Friday and never clocking back out.

Employee Found Dead in Cubicle After Apparently Dying There Days Earlier

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's Cybertruck may have a rough winter ahead, due to everything from corrosion to getting stuck in the snow.

Advanced Transport

If You Think Cybertrucks Are a Mess Now, Wait Until Winter Hits

By Sharon Adarlo

A group of scientists in Switzerland may have cracked the code in how to recycle plastic without degrading its quality.

Scientists Say New System Can Recycle Plastic Indefinitely Without Degrading Its Quality

By Sharon Adarlo

Tom Hanks is warning his fans not to fall for fraudulent deepfakes that depict him hawking "miracle cures" and other products.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Warns That Deepfake Scams Are Stealing His Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Viral footage shows what appear to be humanoid robots posing at a conference in Beijing. They're actually human cosplayers.

Chinese Company Busted Showing Off Humanoid Robots That Actually Have Humans Inside

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo is planning to expand its robotaxi service in California, such as the East Bay, San Jose and highways around San Francisco Bay.

Artificial Intelligence

Waymo Plans Huge Expansion After Its Robotaxis Caught Gathering and Honking Late at Night

By Sharon Adarlo

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.

Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Engineering researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with mushrooms.

Scientists Grew a Mushroom Into This Robot to Act as Its Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla engineer has suggested adding instructions to the Cybertruck on how to get unstuck from mud and snow.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck May Start Offering “Help Mode” for When It Gets Stuck, Engineer Says

By Sharon Adarlo

The age of AI music is upon us — and already, hucksters seem to be gaming Spotify to profit from their crappy wares.

Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Is Filling Up With AI-Generated Music to Scam Revenue From Real Bands

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DNA computer can play a pared down version of chess and can potentially store data for thousands of years.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Computer From DNA That Can Solve Chess Problems

By Frank Landymore

An environmentalist decided to put a GPS tracker in with her recycle to see where it ended up — and the results were absolutely shocking.

Science & Energy

Woman Disgusted When She Uses Tracker to See Where Her Plastic Recycling Really Ends Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has voted by mail at least twice in California, records show, which are the only two times he ever voted in the state.

Hypocrite Elon Musk Attacks Voting by Mail, But Records Show He’s Done It Himself

By Frank Landymore

A former Vine star has used Grimes' AI to diss her famous ex and highlight the pitfalls of the burgeoning technology.

AI-Generated Grimes Song Dissing Elon Musk Fools Newsweek

By Noor Al-Sibai

Under investigation are an engineer and a sailor who was serving as lookout of the sunken yacht owned by billionaire Mike Lynch.

Authorities Investigating Crew Members of Sunken Yacht, Captain for Manslaughter

By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists say they've discovered a weak, planet-wide electric field wrapping the Earth.

NASA Discovers Invisible Field Around Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A unique startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror.

Startup Says It’ll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has announced that its flawed and historically inaccurate Gemini AI image-generator will come back online.

Google Re-Activating AI Feature That Generated Images of Racially Diverse Nazis

By Victor Tangermann

A single male bottlenosed dolphin, who may just be trying to be friendly, is believed to be behind a string of attacks on beachgoers.

Science & Energy

Dolphin Who Keeps Attacking Swimmers May Be Motivated by Sex, Experts Say

By Frank Landymore

Shares of AI chip maker Nvidia plunged almost five percent on Thursday — despite technically beating estimates.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Stock Falls as Earnings Show AI Isn’t Growing Revenue Like It Hoped

By Victor Tangermann

A daring team of three Tesla enthusiasts is taking the EV maker's Cybertruck hundreds of miles into the remote Canadian wilderness.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Arctic Expedition Already Struggling With Charging Before Getting to the Starting Line

By Victor Tangermann

The launch of the Polaris Dawn mission is potentially facing additional delays after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed while landing.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Tourist Launch in Trouble After Rocket Crash Lands

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is in trouble with Memphis locals because his AI datacenter has been accused of polluting the air with gas-burning turbines.

Elon Musk Accused of Choking Community With Smog From Gas-Powered AI Datacenter

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA is planning to decommission the orbital outpost in 2030. Will Boeing's Starliner still make it there in time?

Boeing Might Not Get Starliner Working Before the Space Station Is Destroyed

By Victor Tangermann

A Texas handyman strapped a working laundry dryer to the back of his Cybertruck and drove it around. Obviously, we had some questions.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted With Built-In Laundry Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Debris from an asteroid NASA deliberately smashed may be headed back to Earth in the first ever man-made meteor shower.

Debris From When NASA Smashed Asteroid Appears to Be Headed Back Toward Earth

By Sharon Adarlo

A Tesla Cybertruck burst into flames after crashing into a fire hydrant outside of a Bass Pro Shop in Harlingen, Texas — and getting doused.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Catches Fire After Running Into Fire Hydrant and Getting Wet

By Victor Tangermann

The orcas are back at it again off the coast of Spain, and this time, there's a new theory about their mysterious motivations.

Science & Energy

Orcas Strike Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers say they've calculated the underlying cosmological parameters of the universe using an AI model.

Scientists Calculate “Settings” of the Universe Using AI

By Frank Landymore

The SpaceX booster crashed Wednesday after successfully completing its mission to deliver Starlink satellites to orbit.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Crashes While Landing

By Frank Landymore

A forthcoming book about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter includes a telling anecdote about his first thoughts upon encountering the site.

When Elon Musk First Saw His Wife Using Twitter, He Thought It Was a Waste of Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social shares have plummeted to a record low as executives are starting to abandon ship.

Trump’s Meme Stock Nosedives to Record Low As Execs Abandon Ship

By Victor Tangermann

The tire belonged to a Boeing 757 jet operated by Delta Airlines, which was undergoing maintenance when it exploded.

Advanced Transport

Tire Explodes on Boeing Jet, Killing Two Employees

By Frank Landymore

Tesla has quietly pulled its 2006 "Secret Master Plan" climate manifesto from its website, as first spotted by Forbes.

Tesla Deletes Elon Musk’s “Master Plan”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's The Boring Company still hasn't figured out how to have its vehicles autonomously drive through a single-lane tunnel.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Still Doesn’t Even Work in a Single Lane Tunnel

By Victor Tangermann