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According to its official career page, Tesla has just three job listings in the United States, as layoffs continue.

Amid Crisis, Tesla Has Removed Almost Every Single US Job Listing

By Frank Landymore

A new iPad ad shows a hydraulic press crushing beloved creative objects — and, perhaps, our dreams along with them.

Apple’s New Ad Showing Machines Crushing Human Creativity Is a Bit on the Nose

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ex-intelligence officer Rabih Alenezi told the BBC that Saudi forces were given green light to use lethal force to clear land for The Line.

Whistleblower Says Saudi Arabia Told Operatives It’s Okay to Kill Villagers to Build 105-Mile Skyscraper

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA contractor is urging the agency to suspend the upcoming Boeing Starliner launch over major safety concerns.

NASA Contractor Warns That Boeing Launch Must Be Stopped “Before Something Catastrophic Happens”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has trained a massive new generative AI model — which is entirely disconnected from the internet.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Deploys Powerful New AI Completely Disconnected From the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI, the maker of DALL-E and ChatGPT, is leaving the door open for its AI models to be used to produce NSFW content.

OpenAI Exploring How to Make AI-Generated Porn

By Jon Christian

A new video of an intense emergency landing in Istanbul shows a Boeing cargo plane failing to deploy some of its landing gears.

Boeing Plane Fails to Deploy Nose Landing Gear, Skids to a Halt on Runway

By Noor Al-Sibai

The NHTSA has found Tesla didn't adequately address the issue of driver attention when it comes to self-driving tech.

Government Says Tesla Autopilot Crashes Have Continued After Patch That Was Supposed to Fix Them

By Victor Tangermann

Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade drink, the highly caffeinated drink linked to at least two deaths, is being discontinued.

Panera Taking Caffeinated Lemonade Off Menu After Several Deaths

By Sharon Adarlo

Justice Department is widening its probe into Tesla as it seeks to figure out whether it made fraudulent claims about self-driving.

Justice Department Investigating Tesla for Wire Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

Images show what appear to be a small rover attached to China's Chang'e-6 sample return mission on the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Moon Lander Appears to Be Carrying Secret Lunar Rover

By Victor Tangermann

Falling into the event horizon of a black hole may mean certain death, but it sure as hell makes for a cool view.

NASA Releases Video of What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

A Tesla driver had a close call with an oncoming cop car while driving with his car's "Full Self-Driving" mode turned on.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Tesla Almost Crashes Head-on Into Police Car

By Victor Tangermann

The AI bubble isn't bursting just yet, but one insightful Nvidia investor is starting to see the forest for the trees.

Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Cuts Investment in Nvidia, Says AI May Be Overhyped

By Noor Al-Sibai

The service Character.AI is used by millions of young people to interact with AI versions of their favorite characters.

Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Teens Are Making “Friends” With AIs

By Frank Landymore

Neom and its enormous skyscraper, the Line, is set to cost trillions more than anticipated and is already mired in construction setbacks.

Saudi Arabia Discovers It’s Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper

By Frank Landymore

Blobs left behind from a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object may have led to plate tectonics and eventually earthquakes.

Science & Energy

Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Katy Perry was in the studio the night of the Met Gala — but if you were fooled by AI photos of her there, you're not alone.

Artificial Intelligence

Even Katy Perry’s Mom Was Fooled by that AI Pic of Her at the Met Gala

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX is planning to make history by enabling the first entirely commercial spacewalk this summer, featuring its new EVA suit.

Space Tourists Announce Plan to Climb Out of SpaceX Spacecraft and Ghostride the Whip

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has shown off a sleek new extravehicular activity (EVA) spacesuit — and it's decked out in the latest cutting-edge tech.

SpaceX Reveals Spacesuit With Heads-Up Display Inside Helmet

By Victor Tangermann

The long-awaited crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner space capsule had to be delayed yet again — but this time, it wasn't Boeing's fault.

Boeing Forced to Scrub First Astronaut Launch After Strange Buzzing Detected

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is said to be building an OpenAI competitor despite its multi-billion-dollar partnership with the firm.

Microsoft Reportedly Building a GPT-4 Competitor Despite $10 Billion OpenAI Partnership

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA director Bill Nelson has a checkered record when it comes to SpaceX owner Elon Musk, but he trusts SpaceX because, well, he isn't CEO.

Head of NASA Says He Trusts SpaceX Because Someone Other Than Elon Musk Is Running It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing is set to launch two astronauts to the ISS on board its Starliner space capsule later tonight — and the stakes are high.

Boeing Desperately Hoping Nothing Bad Happens When It Launches Astronauts Tonight

By Victor Tangermann

Warren Buffett, one of American finance's biggest moguls, saw an AI deepfake of himself that seems to have freaked him out.

Artificial Intelligence

Warren Buffett Saw An AI That Scared Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk still isn't done making cuts to the EV maker's workforce. The company sent out further layoff notices over the weekend.

Elon Musk Just Fired Yet Another Round of Tesla Workers

By Victor Tangermann

The AI of the future won't just be a chatbot — it will be, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the world's most knowledgeable assistant.

Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who “Knows Absolutely Everything” About Your Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla Cybertruck is wreaking havoc on Nantucket, a tiny isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Advanced Transport

Quaint Island Village Disgusted When Cybertruck Visits, Parks Blocking Entire Crosswalk, Then Gets Stuck on Beach

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is sensitive enough to tell the weather on an exoplanet from 280 light-years away.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Detects Weather on Exoplanet From 280 Light Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered what a "cosmic glitch" in gravity, which could potentially help explain the universe's strange behavior.

Physicists Say They May Have Found a Powerful Glitch in the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts, who are flying Boeing's Starliner next week, recall having to avoid "black zones" onboard the space shuttle.

Astronaut Recalls Spacecrafts Flying Through Deadly “Black Zones”

By Victor Tangermann

Laid off Tesla Supercharger workers are warning that the quality of the EV charging network could fall into disrepair.

Advanced Transport

Fired Supercharger Maintenance Workers Say Network Will Fall Into Disrepair

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of scientists has discovered the deepest blue hole or underwater cave on Earth, so deep that we have yet to reach its bottom.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Underwater Cave So Deep They Can’t Find the Bottom

By Victor Tangermann

As the AI bubble continues inflating at lightning speed, the people doing the industry's grunt work are feeling the churn.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Engineers Say They’re Burning Out as Bosses Whiplash From One Desperate Idea to Another

By Noor Al-Sibai

After getting a "lemon" Cybertruck, a self-described "EV enthusiast" YouTube is demanding a replacement — and says the law is on his side.

Advanced Transport

YouTuber Demands a Replacement Cybertruck For His Completely Broken Down “Lemon”

By Noor Al-Sibai

China launched a probe for the Moon's mysterious dark side and hopes to collect rocks and samples to bring back to Earth.

China Launches Spacecraft to Collect First-Ever Samples From Moon’s Dark Side

By Sharon Adarlo

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.

NASA Prepares to Unfurl Large Solar Sail From Spacecraft in Orbit

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla enthusiasts are finding that the Cybertruck still has a tendency to chew up fingers, even though the company issued an update.

Advanced Transport

Videos Show Cybertruck Owners Crushing Fingers in Frunk Door

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year.

Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have come up with a surprising new way for astronauts to stay in shape on the surface of the Moon: a "lunar Wall of Death."

Scientists Propose Building “Wall of Death” on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Economist J. Bradford DeLong slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk for turning the EV maker's stock into a meme stock.

Economist Slams Elon Musk for Making Tesla a “Tech-Bubble” Meme Stock

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that's riddled with manganese, a potential sign of ancient life.

Mars Loaded With Mineral Closely Associated With Life, NASA Rover Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is rescinding summer internship offers just weeks before they start, just after Tesla recently laid off about 14,000 people.

Tesla Tells Excited Young Interns That Their Internships Have Been Canceled

By Sharon Adarlo

Lindsey Graham might have been tricked by hackers who convinced him he was talking to his colleague Chuck Schumer.

Lindsey Graham Says His Phone Was Hacked By Someone Impersonating Chuck Schumer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has decided to gut 200 members of its "core" team and start replacing their jobs in cheaper labor markets.

Google Lays Off 200 Workers to Replace Them With Cheaper International Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shockingly, another person who had testified about Boeing's safety protocols has died after developing multiple infections.

Another Boeing Whistleblower Just Died

By Noor Al-Sibai

Top human resources executive Allie Arebalo, who reported directly to CEO Elon Musk, was let go this week, according to Bloomberg's sources.

As Tesla Crisis Deepens, Head of Human Resources Leaves Company

By Victor Tangermann

The Kent Police in England released a shoddy computer-generated police sketch that is drawing humorous comparisons to old video games.

We’re Losing Our Minds at This “Computer Generated” Sketch of a Police Suspect

By Frank Landymore

Android Authority discovered that the Rabbit R1 AI pin's entire operating system is a simple Android smartphone app.

Artificial Intelligence

Pricey AI “Device” Turns Out to Just Be an Android App With Extra Steps

By Victor Tangermann

As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Tesla received millions of dollars to beef up its Supercharger network.

Tesla Sucked Up Federal Funding for Supercharger Network Before Firing Whole Department

By Frank Landymore

In an outrageous coincidence, a lawyer suing Boeing found a piece from a Boeing jet in the beach by his house.

Lawyer Suing Boeing Surprised to Find Large Piece That Fell Off Boeing Plane Outside His House

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the Sun reaches solar maximum, NASA scientists hope to see just how much havoc a massive solar storm will wreak on the surface of Mars.

NASA Watching as Sun Blasts Mars to See Effect on Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

A large language model called "gpt2-chatbot" caused a stir among the AI community for its impressive capabilities that seem to rival GPT-4.

Artificial Intelligence

Mystery Deepens as Super Powerful AI Appears, Then Disappears

By Frank Landymore

China has shown off a CGI video of its vision of an international lunar base, which features a NASA Space Shuttle for some reason.

China Releases CGI Video of Moon Base and It Contains Something Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has reportedly backed out of four Supercharger location leases across the New York City area that were meant to address overcrowding.

Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Entire Supercharger Team

By Victor Tangermann

Google has become the latest target in the fight to protect copyright from AI, and this time, the artists suing the company have receipts.

Artists Sue Google Over Its AI Image Generator

By Noor Al-Sibai

In one Thai town, monkeys have become a fiery political issue — and the monkeys themselves are fighting back with a vengeance.

Science & Energy

Furious Monkeys Tear Down Anti-Monkey Posters

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a video of its Spot Mini robot dog dressed up in a bedazzled suit of fur.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off Robodog With Fur

By Victor Tangermann

The Zephyr face mask sold by Razer claimed to offer N-95 protection despite never being certified, according to the FTC.

Government Forcing Razer to Pay $1.1 Million to People Who Bought Its Bizarre RGB Mask

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is reportedly laying off hundreds more staffers, including senior executives after already letting go ten percent of its workforce.

Elon Musk Slams Tesla With Fresh Round of Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who's been working on NASA's Voyager mission for more than half a century says that the probes are straight-up catching strays.

Scientist Warns That NASA’s Voyager Probes Are “Dodging Bullets Out There”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A particularly head-strong alligator had a hell of a time climbing a fence, as seen in a video making its rounds on Reddit.

Science & Energy

You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Seen This Alligator Clumsily Try to Climb Over a Fence

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in the United Kingdom discovered a porous material that has the potential capacity to store large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Scientists Say New Material Can Suck Carbon Out of Atmosphere Faster Than Trees

By Sharon Adarlo