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President Donald Trump spent $45 million to throw himself a huge parade — and now, he's mad at everyone for not making it more fabulous.

Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure has gone viral.

Science & Energy

Sailor Snaps Photo of Black Iceberg With Dark Veins

By Noor Al-Sibai

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system to sort packages.

Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something

By Victor Tangermann

A flurry of activity at pizza delivery outlets near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, is a surprisingly accurate predictor of war.

You Can Tell When War Is Breaking Out Because the Pentagon’s Pizza Orders Spike Drastically

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as "extreme-right" symbols.

Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into “Extreme” Right-Wing Symbols

By Victor Tangermann

Natalie Reynolds, a TikTok influencer, was so upset that she got banned from TikTok that she was filmed crying at a TikTok office.

Influencer Sobs in Front of TikTok Headquarters After Getting Banned

By Sharon Adarlo

United Airlines has shut down Starlink internet systems on some of its jets after they were creating communications issues.

United Airlines Shuts Down Starlink WiFi Service on Its Planes After the Antennae Caused Problems With Its Jets’ Equipment

By Sharon Adarlo

Waymo shut down service to parts of Los Angeles after people, protesting immigration crackdowns, vandalized the vehicles.

Advanced Transport

Waymo Halts Service in LA as Vandals Keep Setting Its Robotaxis on Fire

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is now claiming that Donald Trump had a closer relationship to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein than previously known.

Elon Musk Melts Down, Claims Trump Is In The “Epstein Files” and That’s the Reason They Haven’t Been Released

By Noor Al-Sibai

Many Republicans are breathing a massive sigh of relief now that billionaire Elon Musk has broken up with president Donald Trump.

Republicans Admit They Have Zero Respect for Musk, Were Just Using Him for Money and Clout

By Victor Tangermann

Inventor Builds Actual Laser Gun That Literally Sets Stuff on Fire When You Pull the Trigger

Robots and Machines

Inventor Builds Actual Laser Gun That Literally Sets Stuff on Fire When You Pull the Trigger

By Victor Tangermann

This Smartphone Smuggled Out of North Korea Is Absolutely Wild

This Smartphone Smuggled Out of North Korea Is Absolutely Wild

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla's Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around.

Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is seriously struggling to find enough room for all of its unsold Cybertrucks. A suburban Detroit parking lot is filling up.

Tesla Can’t Find Legal Places to Store All Its Unsold Cybertrucks

By Victor Tangermann

Starlink satellites are being assaulted by ferocious solar storms, caused by the Sun pelting our atmosphere with energized particles.

Something Surprising Is Destroying Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away.

Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away

By Victor Tangermann

Two humanoid robots entered the ring to trade punches and kicks at an event in Hangzhou, China, over the weekend.

Wild Video Shows Robots Fighting in Kickboxing Match

By Victor Tangermann

Imagine not only spending your money on Donald Trump's meme coin, but also being threatened with a barely-edible meal at his golf course.

The Dinner People Got for Spending Tons of Money On Trump’s Meme Coin is Unintentionally Hilarious

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first of its satellites were just sent up into orbit.

China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is teaming up with a famous Apple designer to make wearables that can see your whole life.

Sam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users’ Lives

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over 100 organizations have signed a letter pushing back against a sweeping bill that would ban all AI regulation for the next ten years.

Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of Organizations Push Back Against Bill That Would Ban All AI Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has long been preparing for AGI — and he discussed with coworkers doomsday prep plans.

OpenAI’s Top Scientist Wanted to “Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about replacing workers with AI, is now in deep trouble.

CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Human Workers With AI Realizes He Made a Terrible Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The paper on AI and scientific discovery has now become a black eye on MIT's reputation.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Disavowed a Viral Paper Claiming That AI Leads to More Scientific Discoveries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A wealth manager who used to count himself as one of Elon Musk's biggest fans has entirely lost confidence in Tesla.

A Longtime Tesla Bull Dumped His Stock, Predicting a Total Collapse

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Tesla prepares the slated June launch of its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, there's a pretty big elephant in the room.

Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Is Already an Enormous Mess

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 98-year-old World War II veteran, who served in the British Army, absolutely destroyed a Tesla vehicle with the license plate "FASCIM."

Watch a 98-Year-Old World War II Vet Absolutely Demolish a Tesla With a Tank

By Victor Tangermann

World leaders being shown baby versions of themselves at a global summit.

Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Shown AI Baby Versions of Themselves at European Summit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bovine beauty pageants help determine the most desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing meat farming for good.

Science & Energy

Brazilian “Supercows” Reportedly Close to Achieving World Domination

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advanced Transport

General Motors Unveils Their “Groundbreaking” New EV Battery

According to a recent campaign, more than half of recent job applicants said they had used AI tools to write their resumes.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and motor-actuated limbs to control weeds.

This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military

By Victor Tangermann

An OnlyFans model was shocked to find that a scammer had stolen her content — and used it to flood Reddit with AI deepfakes.

Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Twitter advertisers singled out by Elon Musk in a lawsuit are ready to hit back and are asking a judge to dismiss the suit.

Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They’ve Had Enough of His Tantrums

By Victor Tangermann

A video captured during the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface-level fault rupture.

Science & Energy

Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers using CERN's Large Hadron Collider found that experiments with lead nuclei caused the element to briefly transmute into gold.

Scientists Accidentally Turned Lead Into Gold

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump's eponymous meme coin is all but worthless now — but that's not stopping his kids from launching their next crypto scheme.

Trump’s Memecoin Tanked, But His Family Has a New Crypto Hustle

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man is embarrassed after being laughed at for his Cybertruck

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice

By Noor Al-Sibai

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former SpaceX employee with Crohn's disease says he was carefully timed when visiting the bathroom — and fired after he took too long.

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.

Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk looking smug

Elon Musk’s Plan for Americans’ Sensitive Data Has Security Experts Terrified

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has poached the CEO of Instacart for a fancy new job — but there's something weird going on with her job description.

Lazy Sam Altman Hires New OpenAI “CEO” to Do All the Work for Him Without Having to Resign

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cardinal Robert Prevost shocked the world, succeeding Pope Francis to become the first American Pope. Polymarket bettors were surprised, too.

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Was Utterly Wrong About the New Pope

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the third time in six months, an uber-expensive military fighter jet has fallen into the sea from the same Navy warship.

Advanced Transport

Ludicrously Expensive Fighter Jets Keep Mysteriously Tumbling Off of an Aircraft Carrier

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump's administration is so committed to deregulation that it is ending program that has saved Americans half a trillion dollars.

You’ll Start Spiralling When You Learn What the Trump Administration Just Did

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thanks in part to erstwhile cofounder Elon Musk's lawsuit, OpenAI won't be going entirely for-profit anytime soon.

OpenAI Forced to Abandon Plans to Become For-Profit

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Hawk Tuah" girl is on a redemption tour in the wake of her disastrous crypto project that lost hundreds of millions in minutes.

Hawk Tuah Girl Says She’s Horrified by What Happened With Her Crypto Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Poland-based startup Volonaut has released a flashy new video of its Airbike, a terrifying-looking, jet-powered hoverbike.

Advanced Transport

This Real-Life Speeder Bike Looks Like a Terrifyingly Fun Death Trap

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers in Japan recently stuck a choir of cicadas full of electrodes to make them sing in a horrifying chorus.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”

Researchers have found evidence that a giant "lid" made of magma could be stopping the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk failed miserably at his goal to cut $2 trillion in federal spending — but he did get to have sleepovers with Donald Trump.

Elon Musk Admits He Failed to Cut $2 Trillion in Federal Fat, But Says at Least He Enjoyed His Trump Sleepovers With Ice Cream

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Was Weirded Out by His Strange Gift to Her

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Was Weirded Out by His Strange Gift to Her

Folks who shelled out millions of dollars for NFTs got a taste in digital ephemera when tens of thousands went dark earlier this month.

Reality Hits for “Art” Collectors as Million-Dollar Nike NFTs Vanish From Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Duolingo language app is completing its "AI-first" pivot — and replacing all its human contractors along the way.

Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo Announces Plans to Replace as Many Human Workers as Possible With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Russian satellite, which US officials have linked to the country's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program, is spinning out of control.

Russian Nuclear Military Satellite Spinning Out of Control

By Victor Tangermann

Leaked EPA emails reveal an intention to cancel thousands of grants for environmental research in rural areas.

Science & Energy

Trump Admin Cancels Programs to Protect Children From Toxic Chemicals

Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still quite bad at giving financial advice.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

A federal judge has accused Mike Lindell and his lawyers of turning in a legal document filled with AI hallucinations.

Artificial Intelligence

The MyPillow Guy’s Lawyers Used AI in Court and You’ll Never Guess How That Turned Out

The Trump administration is slapping giant tariffs on solar panels — and the figures are so high, you will straight up gasp.

Trump Just Set a Tariff on Solar Panels So High That Your Eyebrows May Raise Involuntarily

By Noor Al-Sibai