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Astronomers have captured a object that's traveling so fast — one million miles per hour — that it's projected to leave the Milky Way Galaxy.

Amateur Astronomers Spot an Object Hurtling by at 1 Million MPH

By Sharon Adarlo

A green reporter at Wyoming newspaper the Cody Enterprise resigned this month, after a competitor noticed awkward language in his articles.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes

By Frank Landymore

When it comes to the profitability of mining Bitcoin, JPMorgan analysis suggests that it has never been more over.

It Has Never Been Less Profitable to Mine Bitcoin, JPMorgan Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

A gigantic, metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche in our solar system is chock full of precious rare metals and rust.

James Webb Space Telescope

Ultra Valuable Asteroid Appears to be Rusting, James Webb Images Reveal

By Sharon Adarlo

Space Station Astronaut Starts Mixing Cement for Future Moon Base

Space Station Astronaut Starts Mixing Cement for Future Moon Base

By Noor Al-Sibai

More robotaxis are coming to California after Chinese startup WeRide got the green light to test out its autonomous vehicles in the state.

Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Company Approved to Test Robotaxis in California

By Sharon Adarlo

To address its manpower shortage, Ukraine is planning to let lose packs of robot dogs against the invading Russian military.

Ukraine Is Getting Ready to Unleash a Swarm of Robot Dogs

By Sharon Adarlo

Google claims that its quietly rolled-out AI traffic signal project streamlines the process and reduces stoplight wait times.

Google’s AI Traffic Light Project May Have Been a Mistake

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's no more evidence than ever that Mimas, Saturn's "Death Star" moon, may be home to a giant underground ocean.

Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon Could be Hiding a Massive Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.

Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

By Frank Landymore

Companies and recruiters are getting flooded with AI-generated job applications and they are badly written.

Artificial Intelligence

Recruiters Are Getting Bombarded With Crappy, AI-Generated CVs

By Sharon Adarlo

A record 15 national heat records have been shattered since January, as this year looks on track to surpass the last as the hottest ever.

The Earth Just Can’t Stop Setting Heat Records

By Frank Landymore

Cisco posted $10.3 billion in profits last year but is still laying off 5,500 workers as part of an effort to invest more into AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Company Lays Off 5,500 Workers to Invest More in AI, Despite Making $10.3 Billion in Profit

By Sharon Adarlo

Mark Zuckerberg is under major fire from Congress after a recent report found that Meta has been profiting from ads for illegal drugs.

Congress Furious With Mark Zuckerberg for Making Money From Illegal Drug Ads

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese electronics company Realme recently demonstrated a 320 watt charger that fully charged a smartphone in four and a half minutes.

Robots and Machines

Company Claims It Can Charge a Smartphone In Less Than 5 Minutes

By Frank Landymore

As Twitter bleeds users and revenue, Tesla investors fear that Elon Musk will sell his shares in the automaker to salvage the website.

Elon Musk May Have to Sell Tesla Stock to Prop Up Dying Twitter

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

By Frank Landymore

Those tranded Boeing Starliner astronauts are apparently being forced to deal with some pretty undignified living standards.

Stranded Boeing Astronaut Forced to Slum It in a Sleeping Bag by Himself

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An altar stone that lies within the heart of Stonehenge in Southern England has turned out to be from the faraway hinterlands of Scotland.

Science & Energy

A “Jaw-Dropping” Study Just Revealed the True Origin of a Stonehenge Megalith

By Sharon Adarlo

Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his questionable claim that remote work is to blame for Google's AI failures.

Former CEO Blames Working From Home for Google’s AI Struggles, Regrets It Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Disney's forced arbitration clause buried in its streaming service agreement is front-and-center in this wrongful death suit.

Disney Says Wrongful Death Suit Should Be Dropped Because Plaintiff Was a Disney+ Subscriber

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cybertruck owners, beware of treating your Tesla truck like a truck. You might just bend the tailgate out of shape.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Tailgates Are Deforming After Doing Regular Truck Stuff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Texas agency has spanked Elon Musk's SpaceX for dumping toxic pollution into the water around its sprawling Starbase launch site in Texas.

SpaceX Violated Environmental Rules by Dumping Toxic Wastewater, Regulators Find

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA is still struggling to come to a decision on what to do with Boeing's Starliner, which is currently stuck at the ISS.

NASA Keeps Delaying Its Decision on What to Do With Boeing’s Broken Starliner

By Victor Tangermann

Using parts from a salvaged Toyota hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, Ukrainian fighters managed to build a tiny hydrogen bomb.

Ukraine Reportedly Turned a Hydrogen Car Into an Improvised Hydrogen Bomb

By Noor Al-Sibai

Footage shows a gaggle of Waymo robotaxis honking incessantly while trying to park in a tight parking lot in San Francisco.

Advanced Transport

Confused Robotaxis Gather in Droves to Honk at Each Other All Night

By Frank Landymore

A new version of Elon Musk's AI, Grok, comes with image generation capabilities with seemingly few guardrails.

Elon Musk’s New AI Already Being Used to Generate Images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Doing 9/11

By Frank Landymore

Later this year, four private space tourists are slated to become the first humans ever to fly over Earth's poles via SpaceX mission.

SpaceX Tourists Could Become the First Humans to Fly Over Earth’s Poles

By Noor Al-Sibai

A background check site may have been majorly breached, resulting in the potential exposure of literally everyone's Social Security numbers.

Hackers May Have Leaked Every American’s Social Security Information

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google got egg on its face Tuesday when the live demo of an AI mobile app would not work in front a large audience.

Google’s Demo of Its Latest AI Tech Was an Absolute Train Wreck

By Sharon Adarlo

The former VP of Twitter's European office is calling for Elon Musk to be arrested in the United Kingdom for inciting violence.

Elon Musk Should Be Arrested for Inciting Violence, Former Twitter Executive Argues

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump returned to Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter. Meanwhile, shares for Trump's media company, which owns Truth Social, crashed.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes After Chaotic Return to Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While NASA works on figuring out how to get the Boeing astronauts home, experts are concerned that it may crash into the Space Station.

Boeing’s Starliner Could Spin Out of Control and Crash Into the Space Station, Expert Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using seismic data, scientists say they've made the first ever detection of liquid water on Mars, trapped miles beneath the planet's surface.

Scientists Discover Massive Reservoir of Water Hiding on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's $160 million bid to convince voters to vote for Donald Trump has been a dumpster fire, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Elon Musk’s $160 Million Bid to Get People to Vote for Donald Trump Was a Complete Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA's Gaia mission has spotted hundreds of potential moons orbiting around more than 350 asteroids in the solar system.

Europe’s Gaia Telescope Spots Hundreds of Hidden, Lurking Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's chaotic chat with former president Donald Trump was delayed by more than 40 minutes due to technical difficulties.

Elon Musk Makes Up Cyber Attack After Donald Trump Interview Crashes and Burns

By Victor Tangermann

New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

Artificial Intelligence

New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former President Donald Trump wrongly accused the Harris campaign of using AI to generate fake images of large crowds of supporters.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Is So Mad About Harris’ Huge Crowds That He’s Lying That They’re AI-Generated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two leaked photos appear to show GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance dressed in drag while he was at Yale Law School.

JD Vance Drag Photos: Another Lesson In ‘Main Character’ Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump's campaign confirmed that it was hacked by Iranian operatives. Among the stolen materials is a 271-page dossier outlining JD Vance's "vulnerabilities."

Hackers Just Leaked Trump’s Secret ‘Reasons Why Vance Sucks’ List

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI found that its latest AI model GPT-4o can unexpectedly imitate users' voices without their permission.

ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Flight Attendants in Boeing Disaster Feared Passengers Had Been Sucked Out Hole in Plane

Flight Attendants in Boeing Disaster Feared Passengers Had Been Sucked Out Hole in Plane

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tiny wormholes could be punching holes through the fabric of space-time, driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Science & Energy

Small Wormholes Are Boring Through the Fabric of Space-Time, Physicists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists have uncovered a bone fragment belonging to Homo floresiensis, an archaic hominin that's nicknamed a "hobbit."

Science & Energy

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hobbit-Like Creatures on Remote Island

By Sharon Adarlo

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.

Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company that built the submersible that imploded last year while visiting the Titanic is facing a $50 million lawsuit.

Lawsuit Claims Titanic Tourists Knew They Were Going to Die Before Implosion

By Sharon Adarlo

ProRata claims its algorithm will accurately attribute the works used in AI outputs, and aims to license the tech to companies like OpenAI.

Artificial Intelligence

New Startup Analyzing AI Outputs to Find Out Where They’re Stolen From

By Frank Landymore

In a new study, scientists take on the SETI community, determining that they may have a crisis of imagination.

Paper Proposes New Way to Calculate Number of Alien Civilizations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, researchers have found that cats seem to experience grief when other pets they live with die.

Science & Energy

Research Finds That Cats Feel Grief When Their Fellow Pets Die… Even Dogs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have recovered the largest ever sample of the Earth's mantle, which may contain secrets about the processes that led to life.

Science & Energy

Scientists Drill Super Deep Into Weird Underwater Structures

By Frank Landymore

Facebook has been overrun with "slop," AI-generated images of dubious, nonsensical junk. The company is paying people who create this slop.

Artificial Intelligence

Investigation Finds Actual Source of All That AI Slop on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Copilot can be tricked into coughing up an organization's sensitive data, and can also be weaponized to quickly carry out huge phishing scams.

Artificial Intelligence

The Copilot AI Microsoft Built Into Windows Makes It Incredibly Hackable, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

This week, Alaska's Mendenhall glacier has flooded its accompanying river in Juneau, doing "unprecedented" damage to the local community.

Science & Energy

Capital of Alaska Flooded by Melting Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new survey Morgan Stanley interns has found that the "Tesla 'cool factor' is cooling" among Gen Zers in the US.

Zoomers Think Teslas Aren’t “Cool” Anymore, Survey Finds

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new study suggests that ancient builders used a hydraulic lift to build Egypt's oldest pyramid.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of Advanced Technology Used to Build Egyptian Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

Joe Rogan had supportive words for RFK Jr in his podcast, but clarified he isn't out-and-out endorsing the presidential candidate — yet.

Joe Rogan Supports Candidate Who Bragged About Brain Worm, Dumping Dead Bear in Central Park

By Frank Landymore

Chicago authorities found a dead woman who got tangled up in a baggage carousel's conveyor belt at the O'Hare International Airport.

Woman Gets Sucked Into Baggage Conveyer Belt at Airport, Dies

By Sharon Adarlo

The biggest iceberg on the planet has apparently been spinning in place for months — and that's very much not what it's supposed to do.

Science & Energy

The World’s Biggest Iceberg Has Started Spinning

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users are creating tons of AI girlfriends and boyfriends using Instagram's new AI studio, and they're about as embarrassing as you'd expect.

Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Already Loaded With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Frank Landymore

Florida residents and others are upset at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's plans to launch dozens of Starship rockets per year in Cape Canaveral.

Residents Furious at Elon Musk’s Plans to Launch Dozens of Noisy Starships in Their Backyard

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been shooting lasers at Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon to hit a tiny target.

NASA Spacecraft Shoots Japanese Moon Lander With Laser

By Victor Tangermann

In new testimony, workers for Boeing and one of its key suppliers described high workload, low morale, and a sense of worthlessness.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Contractors Say They Were Treated Like “Cockroaches”

By Noor Al-Sibai