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Mint Butterfield, the missing teenage child of a pair of tech founders, has been found — and the adult man they were with has been arrested.

Man Arrested After Tech Billionaires’ Missing Teen Child Was Found in His Van

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla employee who slept inside his car and made microwave meals instead of going home got laid off last month from the car company.

Tesla Rewards Dedicated Worker Who Showered at Factory and Slept in His Car by Firing Him

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken down yet again, bringing scientific activities grinding to a halt.

The Hubble Has Broken Down Yet Again

By Victor Tangermann

A viral two-minute short titled "air head," created in part by using OpenAI's video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.

Artificial Intelligence

Turns Out That Extremely Impressive Sora Demo… Wasn’t Exactly Made With Sora

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Top Gear magazine editor-in-chief Jack Rix and head of car testing Ollie Marriage took the Cybertruck off a jump and it got amazing air.

Advanced Transport

Video Shows Cybertruck Getting Amazing Air

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube influencer is pissed off after his new Cybertruck has broken down twice in the last month since he bought the Tesla vehicle.

Advanced Transport

Man Furious After Cybertruck Breaks Down Repeatedly in First Month

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has turned its full attention towards the distant ocean-covered world called K2-18b last week.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Turns to Examine Planet Showing Potential Sign of Life

By Victor Tangermann

As the speculative bubble surrounding AI begins to burst, the people behind them — and their financiers — are starting to feel the burn.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bored Ape Yacht Club developer Yuga Labs is laying off an unspecified number of employees as the appetite for NFTs continues to evaporate.

Shockingly, Bored Apes Now Laying Off Employees as NFT Market Disintegrates

By Victor Tangermann

Abu Dhabi's Autonomous Racing League was off to a rough start, with one self-driving race car crashing into the wall.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Formula 1 Car Crashes Into Wall at First Autonomous Race Event

By Victor Tangermann

A video shared by Indian startup Swaayatt Robots shows an adventurous self-driving SUV navigating the hectic streets of Bhopal, India.

Self-Driving Vehicles

To Experience Pure Anxiety, Watch This Video of a Self-Driving Car Navigating India’s Chaotic Traffic

By Victor Tangermann

People who work at SpaceX facilities are injured on the job way more often than industry averages, a new review has found.

SpaceX Employees Getting Wounded at Incredible Rates

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Japanese spacecraft claims to have rendezvoused with a three-ton piece of rocket debris in a high-stakes flight, the BBC reports.

Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket

By Sharon Adarlo

Renders show off both Blue Origin's proposed cargo lunar lander as well as SpaceX's Starship slowly lowering a Moon rover to the surface.

NASA Releases New Render of SpaceX’s Starship Landed on the Moon’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann

An archaeologists has been able to find forgotten structures hidden in Ireland that were probably used as pathways for the dead.

Archeologists Say They’ve Found Ancient Underground “Pathways for the Dead”

By Sharon Adarlo

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the weather as climate change makes it worse.

Scientist Slams Politicians For Banning Geoengineering Experiments

By Noor Al-Sibai

At least one big Silicon Valley VC firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk's xAI startup and its chatbot, Grok.

Venture Capital Firms Are Actually Considering Giving Elon Musk $6 Billion For xAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

After being sent a guilt-inducing cease-and-desist, Drake has taken down his AI diss track that deepfaked the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg.

Artificial Intelligence

Drake Pulls Down AI-Generated Diss Track After Lawsuit Threat From Tupac’s Estate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Regulators released a report, finding that Tesla's driver assistance software was linked to hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.

Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, Many Fatal

By Victor Tangermann

A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school's principal into spewing bigotry for blackmail.

Artificial Intelligence

Gym Teacher Arrested for Using AI to Make Principal Say Racist Things

By Noor Al-Sibai

Longtime Tesla executive Drew Baglino, who joined Tesla in 2006, has sold $181.5 million worth of Tesla shares.

A Tesla Vice President Just Quit and Sold $181 Million of Its Stock

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly thin-skinned Cybertruck driver has had enough of being mocked for his questionable life choices.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Driver Goes Berserk With Road Rage After Mild Teasing

By Victor Tangermann

Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz claimed that Tesla was wrongly reporting its deferred revenue from Full Self-Driving.

Facebook Cofounder Says Tesla Has Committed “Consumer Fraud on a Massive Scale,” Will End in Jail

By Frank Landymore

Eyeball-scanning orbs are not a dime a dozen — and now, the Sam Altman-backed crypto startup Worldcoin is running out of them.

Sam Altman Is Running Out of Orbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twenty years ago, NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust — a perfect moment in mankind's interstellar history.

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to Tupac.

Artificial Intelligence

Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost ET experts believes that with the help of the Webb Telescope, we're closer to discovering alien life than ever.

SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

By Noor Al-Sibai

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently discovered that firing 17 percent of a company's workforce might have a big impact on said company.

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ben F Borgers, whose accountancy firm was hired by Trump Media in 2022, spelled his name 14 different ways in filings.

The “Auditor” of “Truth Social” Misspelled His Own Name 14 Different Ways in Filings

By Victor Tangermann

The debris strike, which damaged a solar array, left the Tiangong space station with a partial loss in power.

China Repairs Space Station Damaged by Debris Strike

By Frank Landymore

Former Tesla Engineer Alarmed as Large Piece Falls Off Cybertruck

Former Tesla Engineer Alarmed as Large Piece Falls Off Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region.

Orbiter Spots “Spiders” on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Recent NASA footage shows an eruption from our Sun breaking off the tail of a comet whizzing through the Solar System.

Sun Blasts Comet, Breaking Off Its Tail

By Sharon Adarlo

Over the course of less than two weeks, three of Tesla's top executives have resigned — and one announced his exit during an earnings call.

Three Top Tesla Execs Have Resigned Over the Past Few Weeks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's Threads has had more daily active users in the US than Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter since at least December, according to estimates.

Threads Now Has More Daily Users Than X

By Victor Tangermann

A bottlenose dolphin ended up dead and riddled with bullets on a beach in Louisiana, prompting a $20,000 bounty for the shooter.

Science & Energy

Dead Dolphin Found Riddled With Bullets

By Sharon Adarlo

After a piece of the International Space Station crashed into his houise, one man has had to call his insurance agency to assess the damage.

Man’s Attorney Contacts NASA After Space Station Debris Smashes Through His House

By Noor Al-Sibai

Athens' blue skies and famous landmarks like the Acropolis were bathed in an ominous red, yellow and orange glow, all due to a dust storm.

Science & Energy

Sky in Athens Turns Red

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan's SLIM Moon lander has sent back yet another image three months after it landed upside down on the lunar surface.

Japan’s Moon Lander Keeps Waking Up After It Was Supposed to Die

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

NASA Releases Incredible Video of Reflective Lava Lake on Jupiter’s Hellish Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The TV app is another step towards achieving Elon Musk's vision of turning Twitter into an "everything app."

Elon Musk Is Launching App to Watch X Videos On Your TV

By Frank Landymore

A dentist was in for a huge shock when he looked down at his parents' new tile floor and saw what appeared to be the fossil of a human jaw.

Science & Energy

Dentist Alarmed to Spot Human Jawbone in Parents’ Tile Floor

By Noor Al-Sibai

The flamethrower on the "Thermonator" has a fire breathing range of up to 30 feet, for those willing to shell out nearly $10,000.

What Could Go Wrong? Company Selling Robot Dog With Attached Flamethrower

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.

California Now Has So Much Solar Power That Electricity Prices Are Going Negative During the Day

By Frank Landymore

While driving in Autopilot and scrolling through his phone, a Washington Tesla driver hit and killed a motorcyclist.

Tesla Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide for Killing Motorcyclist While Browsing His Phone on Autopilot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has alienated Tesla's traditionally left-leaning customer base by, well, being a huge bigot and jerk.

Elon Musk’s Bizarre Political Outbursts Have Turned Off Tesla’s Core Buyers, Data Shows

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time in five months, NASA's ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back usable data — thanks to some "inventive sleuthing."

NASA’s Ingenious Hack Brings Dying Voyager Probe Back Online

By Victor Tangermann

AI image generators that claim the ability to "undress" celebrities are nothing new — but now, they've been spotted in Instagram ads, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Is Profiting Off Disgusting Apps That Undress People Without Their Consent

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos for the Apple Vision Pro. Almost nobody is buying the device.

Virtual Reality

Almost Nobody Is Buying Apple’s Super Expensive Vision Pro VR Headset

By Victor Tangermann

In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine.

Advanced Transport

China Working on Super-Fast Submarines Powered by Lasers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to work with prosecutors to name and blame some of the celebrities who shilled his company.

Sam Bankman-Fried Turns on Celebrities Who Promoted FTX to Gullible Fans

By Noor Al-Sibai

Startup Selling Invisibility Shields

Robots and Machines

Startup Selling Invisibility Shields

By Victor Tangermann

A Slovenian startup plans to make robotic home security cameras that can yell preset threats at intruders and shoot them with teargas.

New Talking Security Camera Has Robot Gun to Shoot People With Teargas

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a recent report, China's data centers could soon consume more water than all of South Korea, in large part thanks to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Report: Thanks to AI, China’s Data Centers Will Drink More Water Than All of South Korea by 2030

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities, fueling the rivalry between the two.

Head of NASA Says China Is Hiding Military Experiments in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have cloned two black-footed ferrets called Noreen and Antonia from frozen cells, a big deal for ongoing conservation efforts.

Scientists Clone Extremely Endangered Ferret

By Victor Tangermann

The lava tube, Umm Jirsan, contained human and animal remains, as well as stone tools dating back to at least 7,000 years ago.

Science & Energy

Ancient Humans Lived Inside a Lava Tube, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there.

Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

A diss track featuring the apparent vocals of rapper Kendrick Lamar made its rounds on social media earlier this week.

Artificial Intelligence

Internet Fooled by AI-Generated Kendrick Lamar Diss Track

By Victor Tangermann

Meet AngryGF, an AI chatbot-powered girlfriend app that bullies users into learning better communication skills.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Girlfriend Constantly Yells at You in Perpetual Fury

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say that our increase use of plastic will dump untold tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.

Plastic Is Starting to Generate a Staggering Proportion of Earth’s Carbon Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study discovered that nearly half of China's major cities are caving into the Earth, adding to a growing global issue of subsidence.

Chinese Cities Are Sinking Into the Earth, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré