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In late February, a Russian satellite nearly hit an American one — and now, NASA's admitting how terrifying it was.

NASA Was “Really Scared” When a Russian Satellite Almost Obliterated Its Orbiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump and other Trump Media executives are already getting payouts, while investors are losing their shirts.

Trump Is Making a Fortune Off His “Truth Social” Disaster While Investors Are Losing Their Shirts

By Victor Tangermann

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

The Roku system would detect for pauses in activity on any HDMI device hooked up to its TVs to overlay relevant ads.

Roku Files Patent for Plastering Ads on Top of Anything on Your TV

By Frank Landymore

The humans behind the accounts of "virtual influencers" are pasting their faces onto the bodies of real models and sex workers.

Artificial Intelligence

Those “AI Influencers” Are Deepfaking Fake Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee told a high school audience on Monday that the Moon was a "planet" that is "made up of mostly gases."

Congresswoman Makes Strange Claims About the Earth’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars, it had been able to capture Mars’ two moons — Deimos and Phobos — float past in front of the Sun.

Here’s What NASA’s Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a damning new report, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may have underplayed the costs involved in launching Starlink satellites.

There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With SpaceX’s Starlink

By Victor Tangermann

A new Boeing whistleblower just dropped, and the claims this one is making about its safety issues are quite the doozy.

New Boeing Whistleblower Says 787 Fuselages Are Improperly Fastened Together, Could Break Apart

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.

Science & Energy

Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin may be up for now, but a sizable portion of consumers aren't expecting it to stay that way for long.

Many Consumers Expect Bitcoin to Crash and Burn

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Cybertruck teardown, car critic Sandy Munro and his team discovered that the vehicle's massive battery pack is half empty.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Battery Pack Is Half Empty, a Teardown Found

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that advanced AI models are pretty good at playing dumb — which might have massive implications as they get smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Pretend To Be Stupider Than It Really Is, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The programmable so-called "metafluid" is made of rubber-like spheres that allow it to radically alter its properties.

Science & Energy

Harvard Develops “Intelligent” Liquid That Can Be Programmed

By Frank Landymore

German artist Mathias Vef and designer Benedikt Groß have created a "deepfake camera" that can immediately undress its subjects.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Camera Takes Pictures of People But Instantly Makes Them Naked

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has finally confirmed what many have long suspected — that he has at least two burner accounts, both of which involve babies.

Elon Musk’s Burner Accounts Exposed in Court

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a presentation to SpaceX workers at the Starbase facility, Elon Musk highlighted Starship's instrumental role in sustaining humans on Mars.

Elon Musk Delivers Speech About Mars Settlement Plan

By Frank Landymore

The solar eclipse triggered a number of strange behaviors among animals, who were seemingly confused by the Sun setting far earlier.

Science & Energy

Animals Reacted Strangely During the Eclipse

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time since 2020, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is richer than multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk.

Poverty-Stricken Elon Musk Falls Behind Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg

By Noor Al-Sibai

As AI companies start running out of training data, many are looking into synthetic data — but it remains unclear whether it will work.

Artificial Intelligence

What Is Synthetic Data? Why AI Trained on AI Is the Next Big Thing (and Problem)

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.

The Solar Eclipse Looks Absolutely Wild From Space

By Victor Tangermann

An alleged law firm has been caught sending out link-back requests — and it appears that the "firm" and its "lawyers" do not exist.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone’s Sending Out Legal Threats From Fake, AI-Generated “Lawyers”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), otherwise known as Danuri, photobomed NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA Spots Object Speeding Around the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

That new STI-detecting AI app apparently failed to detect a really bad case of syphilis — and gave a dick cake a clean bill of health.

Artificial Intelligence

AI App That Claims to Detect STIs in Photos Offers Confident Diagnosis of Penis-Shaped Cake

By Noor Al-Sibai

There are plenty of livestreams on the internet where you can watch the total solar eclipse unfold today. Here are the links.

Science & Energy

Here’s How to Live Stream the Eclipse Right From Your Computer

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group are getting absolutely hammered this morning, sliding a further ten percent.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes as Soon as Market Opens

By Victor Tangermann

The NASA Parker Solar probe took stunning images of the turbulent interior of the massive expulsion from the Sun.

Video Shows NASA Probe Flying Directly Through a Coronal Mass Ejection Off the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have spotted signs of a circular, rainbow-like pattern decorating the surface of WASP-76b, a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet.

Scientists Spot Circular Rainbow-Like Pattern on Alien World

By Victor Tangermann

Google is set on infusing AI into search. What does that mean for the ad model that brings in the majority of the search giant's revenue?

Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The first class of Tesla Cybertruck owners are learning just how well these electric vehicles perform — which is to say, not well at all.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Seems to Be Breaking Down at an Incredible Rate

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're looking for someone to blame the worsening degradation of the climate upon, look no further than these 57 companies.

Scientists Discover the Villains Destroying the Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is big mad that OpenAI keeps trying to poach Tesla engineers — so instead, he's poaching them himself.

Elon Musk Is Poaching Tesla Engineers for xAI. Wait, What?

By Noor Al-Sibai

When a small earthquake struck, a patient named Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy.

Science & Energy

Earthquake Strikes While Man Is Midway Through Vasectomy

By Sharon Adarlo

For the first time in centuries, two separate regional "broods" of cicadas are set to arise and invade parts of the United States.

Science & Energy

One Trillion Bugs With Bulging Eyes Set to Invade a Third of the United States, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

An official New York City chatbot has been telling business owners and landlords to break the law, but Mayor Eric Adams defended the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC Mayor Defends AI System That Tells Business Owners to Commit Wage Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group have slid significantly this week, falling over eight percent in the last 24 hours alone.

Trump Seethes as Truth Social’s Stock Price Gets Absolutely Hammered

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are experimenting with a device built atop a decommissioned aircraft carrier that would dim the Sun by salting the clouds.

Using Decommissioned Aircraft Carrier, Scientists Test Sun-Dimming Device

By Noor Al-Sibai

A small earthquake has hit the East Coast, striking a highly populated area in central New Jersey, less than 60 miles from New York City.

Science & Energy

Earthquake Rattles New York City, Eastern United States

By Victor Tangermann

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has become the latest — and perhaps highest-ranking — person inconvenienced by Boeing's severe blunders.

Secretary of State’s Boeing Plane Breaks Down, Forcing Him to Drive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.

Apple Secretly Working on AI Robot That Follows You Around The House

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week.

Science & Energy

Huge Pendulum in Skyscraper Protected It When Epic Earthquake Struck

By Victor Tangermann

Workers had failed to properly document a key stage of the repair process, as Boeing rushed along production on faulty fuselages.

Advanced Transport

There Was Some Shady Stuff Going on With That Door Plug That Blew Out of the Boeing 737

By Frank Landymore

Meta's AI image generator Imagine is having a lot of trouble, well, imagining an Asian person posing for the camera alongside a white person.

Meta’s AI Refuses to Show Asian Men With White Women

By Victor Tangermann

As the Financial Times reports, the company is considering putting premium AI search services behind a subscription paywall.

Google Considering Making Users Pay for AI Search Results

By Victor Tangermann

A Mississippi police lieutenant discovered that officials were holding onto and even giving away human remains that should've been returned.

Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”

By Frank Landymore

The duo that used AI to make a fake George Carlin special have deleted the video months after being sued by the late comedian's estate.

Artificial Intelligence

Amid Lawsuit, Creators of AI-Powered “George Carlin Comedy Special” Agree to Delete It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with Alibaba-owned Taobao to make global rocket deliveries in just one hour.

Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

People who want to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 may be blocked by cloudy skies if weather forecasts for America are accurate.

Science & Energy

Eclipse Tourists Devastated as Forecast Shows Cloudy Skies

By Sharon Adarlo

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."

Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-formerly-Facebook is bleeding its top AI leaders, with at least three executives leaving the company in March alone.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Keep Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hedge fund manager and Tesla bear Per Lekander told CNBC that he expects Tesla to go bust, hitting a share price of just $14.

Investor Predicts Tesla Could “Go Bust”

By Victor Tangermann

Former president Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of his media company Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), which owns Truth Social.

Trump Sues “Truth Social” Cofounders as Company’s Stock Crumbles

By Victor Tangermann

The first crewed test launch of Boeing's much-maligned Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again by another six days.

Boeing Can’t Seem to Stop Delaying Its First Astronaut Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The NASA mission will see three rockets launched at various stages of the eclipse to collect data on how the event affects our ionosphere.

NASA Launching Three Rockets Directly Into Eclipse

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its “AI” Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

By Victor Tangermann

United Airlines is now asking its pilots to take unpaid time off in May as things keep going wrong at Boeing.

United Begging Pilots to Take Unpaid Time Off Amid Boeing Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Breaks Down After One Mile of Driving

By Victor Tangermann

A sizable, cylindrical object crashed through the roof of a Florida home — and experts believe it may have originated from the ISS.

NASA Recovers Debris That Crashed Through Florida Man’s Roof

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has posted its first-quarter earnings of 2024 — and the numbers are even worse than analysts predicted.

Tesla’s “Nightmare” Year Off to a Horrible Start: “Only One Person Responsible For This”

By Victor Tangermann

Shares for Donald Trump's social media business went into freefall, wiping out $1 billion of the former president's net worth.

Donald Trump Loses $1 Billion in a Single Day Amid “Truth Social” Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

In response to a lawsuit, Google is going to delete billions of data points from users who browsed on Chrome's Incognito mode.

Good News, Sickos! Google Says It’s Deleting Records of Your Incognito Searches

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI companies are swiftly running into a massive problem: there isn't enough data on the internet to train the next generation of models.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Running Out of Training Data After Burning Through Entire Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's SGE search engine is still spitting out incorrect answers.

Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré