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Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an AI video that disrespects China President Xi Jinping on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.

Elon Musk, With Tesla Factories in China, Tweets AI Video of Chinese President Xi Jinping Wearing Pooh Clothes

By Sharon Adarlo

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has for years now been quietly giving folks a universal basic income to see if it works.

Universal Basic Income

Sam Altman Has Been Quietly Giving Out Money for Basic Income

By Noor Al-Sibai

Venture capitalist Matthew Ball retitled his 2022 book on the metaverse after the concept fizzled in the tech world.

The Author of “The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything” Is Changing the Title After It Was Published

By Sharon Adarlo

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

By Frank Landymore

An $800-million-dollar space telescope has been damaged by a tiny piece of space debris that's said to be smaller than a grain of sand.

Expensive Space Telescope Damaged by Small Space Rock

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers suggest that invisible masses may be passing in front of pulsars, temporarily blocking their light pulses.

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

A woman has been arrested for allegedly smashing the windows of a Cybertruck out of which someone ran an ice cream stand.

Advanced Transport

Woman Arrested for Smashing Windows of Cybertruck Ice Cream Truck

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will no longer go to the Moon, and will most likely be scrapped for parts.

NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It

By Frank Landymore

As OpenAI releases yet another new GPT model, CEO Sam Altman has finally admitted that it might be time for a new name.

Sam Altman Admits Its Letters-and-Numbers Salad Product Names Like “GPT-4o Mini” Are Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral AI-generated clip of celebrities hugging their younger selves has really squicked out people online.

Artificial Intelligence

Everyone Hates That “Hideous” AI Video Of Celebs Hugging Their Younger Selves

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sales in California, one of Tesla's key markets, have dropped for the third quarter in a row, according to a new analysis.

Data Suggests Elon Musk Has Deeply Alienated Tesla’s Core Market

By Frank Landymore

The Sarco suicide pod induces a supposedly peaceful death by hypoxia, and its first test is expected to take place "soon" in Switzerland.

Doctors Prepare to Test “Suicide Pod”

By Frank Landymore

Contents of JD Vance's Venmo account have been revealed, showing his deep connections with the rich and powerful of the United States.

JD Vance Left His Venmo Public and There’s Some Wild Stuff in There

By Sharon Adarlo

Crowdstrike CEO and cofounder George Kurtz seemed nearly as stumped as the rest of us when trying to explain today's glitch.

Crowdstrike CEO Visibly Agitated On Camera After Massive Outage

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

X-formerly-Twitter added unremovable Trump 2024 hashtags on top of the trending list, campaign ads on the Explore tab, and cascading flags.

Elon Musk Modifies Twitter Code to Fawningly Support Donald Trump

By Victor Tangermann

As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by an antivirus update, Microsoft recommends rebooting up to 15 times.

Microsoft Recommends Rebooting Your Computer 15 Times as Blue Screen of Death Strikes Worldwide

By Victor Tangermann

Staff at airports from Singapore to Northern Ireland had been forced to scribble flight times on whiteboards due to a global IT outage.

Airlines Scribbling Flight Times on Whiteboards After Catastrophic Glitch Bricks Computers Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo

Boeing is still desperately trying to figure out what went wrong with its Starliner spacecraft, which is stuck at the ISS.

Boeing Desperately Trying to Figure Out Thruster Issue That’s Stranded Astronauts in Space All Summer

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover crushed a rock while exploring — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla managers have had to order a ludicrous number of coffee mugs at the company's plant in Berlin as people keep stealing them.

Tesla Employees Are Apparently Stealing a Bizarre Number of Mugs

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.

Artificial Intelligence

New Camera Inside Cars Detects If You’ve Been Drinking

By Sharon Adarlo

After claiming to be the Bitcoin creator for over a decade, a UK High Court firmly ruled that Craig Wright is not, in fact, Satoshi Nakomoto.

That Guy Who Kept Insisting He Was Satoshi Nakamoto Just Admitted He Was Lying

By Frank Landymore

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.

Beaches Covered in Shards and Debris as Giant Wind Turbine Shatters

By Victor Tangermann

After an inquiry from the FTC, HeHealth has shut down its Calmara app that supposedly could detect STDs from dick pics using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

AI App That Claimed to Detect STDs From Dick Pics Shuts Down After It Turns Out It Doesn’t Work at All

By Frank Landymore

George Santos has a word of advice for all the men using the popular gay hookup app Grindr while attending the RNC in Milwaukee this week.

Former Congressman Says the RNC Is the “Grindr Super Bowl”

By Noor Al-Sibai

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.

One Million Russians Lose Power When Alarm Goes Off at Nuclear Plant

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fascinating new exhibit in the form of a mysteriously green dinosaur.

Scientists Intrigued by Dinosaur With Green Bones

By Victor Tangermann

It'll take 18 months for SpaceX's deorbit vehicle to fully drag the International Space Station into Earth's atmosphere.

Space Station May Fall for 18 Months Before Finally Being Torn Apart, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

Despite their feud from just a few years ago, Elon Musk is all-in for Donald Trump and showing his support with cold, hard cash.

Elon Musk Is Giving $180 Million to Trump Even After Trump Publicly Humiliated Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

By Sharon Adarlo

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.

Trump’s Allies Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Weather Reports

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is deeply unhappy about the $27 million mansion he bought on San Francisco's iconic Lombard Street.

Sam Altman Is Suing the People Who Built His Mansion

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a new way to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated by using the same techniques astronomers use to analyze stars.

Something Fascinating Is Wrong With the Eyes in Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Loud booms and shakes earlier this week were the result of a meteor burning up over New York City's Statue of Liberty, NASA says.

NASA Says a Meteor Burnt Up Over the Statue of Liberty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.

Science & Energy

Uncontacted Tribe Emerges From Rainforest

By Victor Tangermann

A 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport recently challenged a Tesla Cybertruck in a race around the Colorado National Speedway.

Advanced Transport

You’ll Never Guess Who Wins in a Race Between a Cybertruck and a 1996 Corvette

By Victor Tangermann

A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has been used to train AI without the permission of the creators whose work was scraped.

YouTubers Furious After Apple and Anthropic Steal Their Data to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has sent a hip-hop song to space for the very first time and chosen the ineffable Missy Elliott to do the honors.

NASA Sends Missy Elliott Song to Her Favorite Planet, Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Says SpaceX HQ Will Move to Texas Due to His Terror of Trans People

Elon Musk Says SpaceX HQ Will Move to Texas Due to His Terror of Trans People

By Victor Tangermann

A window on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Boston suddenly shattered due to the heat as temperatures soared to 95 degrees.

Science & Energy

Skyscraper Window Shatters From Heat, Rains Shards Onto Sidewalk

By Frank Landymore

Amazon wrecked a married couple's washable swim diaper business because the tech giant resold and shipped a dirty nappy to a customer.

Couple Says Amazon Destroyed Their Small Business by Reselling a Dirty Diaper

By Sharon Adarlo

It took a few days, but the FBI has finally cracked the phone of the now-deceased 20-year-old man who shot at Donald Trump.

FBI Cracks Phone of Man Who Shot Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.

Science & Energy

Museum Stunned When Someone Anonymously Mails in Two Ancient Artifacts

By Frank Landymore

Last week, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded mid-flight. The 20 Starlink satellites it was carrying have since crashed.

Twenty SpaceX Satellites Fall From Space After Falcon 9 Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

With his incessant need to post random junk on the social network he's owned for nearly two years, Elon Musk may have overdrawn his hand.

Elon Musk Posts Garbled AI-Generated Image of Cybertruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have come up with the "first direct evidence of an accessible lava tube under the surface of the Moon."

Scientists Detect Huge Caverns Under Surface of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

To save himself from would-be assassins, Elon Musk is now proposing a new type of "Iron Man"-inspired security.

Elon Musk Says People Have Tried to Kill Him, Muses About Building “Flying Metal Suit of Armor” as Defense

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers want to dump thousands of gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean in an effort to slow climate change.

Scientists Seeking Permit to Dump Chemical Into Ocean in Experiment to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly unlucky owner of a Tesla Cybertruck had an unfortunate incident with some raccoons while camping.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck No Match for the Fury of Hungry Raccoons

By Victor Tangermann

All of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rockets have been grounded by the FAA, pending an investigation into an explosion.

All SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rockets Grounded After One of Them Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

By Frank Landymore

Dark comets, which are cross between an asteroid and comet, can make up as much as 60 percent of near-Earth objects.

Earth Surrounded by Dark Comets, Astronomers Claim

By Sharon Adarlo

Tony Robbins invested $200 million into breakthrough clean energy tech. Per the Wall Street Journal, proof that it works remains elusive.

Tony Robbins May Have Been Conned by a Mad Scientist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers are urging tech companies and regulators to come up with new rules to protect children from AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Call for “Child-Safe AI” After Alexa Tells Little Girl to Stick Penny in Wall Socket

By Victor Tangermann

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.

AI’s Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think

By Frank Landymore

At least 28 people died from the heat wave based on reports from west coast states, with the actual figure expected to be higher.

Dozens of Americans Die in Brutal Heat Wave

By Frank Landymore

Astronaut Photographs Glowing Orbs Far Below Space Station

Astronaut Photographs Glowing Orbs Far Below Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey shows that over half of customers would consider switching to a competitor if they found out a company was using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Ordinary People Are Absolutely Repulsed by AI-Powered Customer Service

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's grand plan for Mars colonization includes, apparently, a long-term dream to create new species on the Red Planet.

Elon Musk Planning to Bioengineer New Species to Live on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

An adventurous rower, who has taken it upon himself to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a small rowing boat, was followed by over 1,000 whales.

Science & Energy

Man Rowing Across Ocean Suddenly Realizes He’s Surrounded by Over 1,000 Whales

By Victor Tangermann

Did Kim Kardashian really cut off the tip of her finger on her Cybertruck? The rumor mill is in full swing.

Advanced Transport

Rumors Fly That Part of Kim Kardashian’s Finger Got Cut Off by Her Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann