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Trump Media & Technology Group shares are down over 17 percent today after the company posted major losses last year.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Is Already Crashing

By Victor Tangermann

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.

Korean “Artificial Sun” Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent survey, Tesla's reputation is plunging, which could be due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior.

Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic

By Victor Tangermann

CEOs at appliance companies want to put AI in your oven and other household items in order to make them smarter.

Artificial Intelligence

Crazed CEOs Adding AI to Home Appliances

By Sharon Adarlo

A mad genius has clicked through those "my pussy in bio" links spamming X-formerly-Twitter — and found something as dark as it is mundane.

Investigation Finds What Really Happens If You Actually Click Those ░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ Links

By Noor Al-Sibai

Martin Rees, respected British astrophysicist, says Elon Musk's colonization plans for Mars is a "dangerous illusion."

Top Astronomer Warns That Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Are a Dangerous Delusion

By Sharon Adarlo

If you want to climb Mount Everest, you gotta take your shit back with you and you can no longer leave it on the mountain.

Rich People Hiking Mount Everest Now Forced to Bring Their Poop Back With Them

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and it will alter how we measure time in the future.

So Much Polar Ice Is Melting That It’s Slowing Down the Earth’s Rotation

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

By Jon Christian

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

By Jon Christian

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

By Sharon Adarlo

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boulders that were released after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with asteroid Dimorphos could eventually smash into Mars.

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Ever since a huge cargo ship named Dali leveled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, people have been scrambling to explain how it happened.

Experts Say Bridge Collapsed Because It Was Struck by Giant Ship

By Sharon Adarlo

The NYPD is looking to address a recent spike in car theft by shooting GPS-enabled darts at fleeing vehicles.

Robots and Machines

NYPD Shooting Fleeing Cars With GPS Darts

By Victor Tangermann

The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost 50 years will bring a greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the environment.

NASA’s First Artemis Moon Astronauts Will Bring Small Greenhouse to Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

A pod of sperm whales used "defensive defecation" to successfully deter a vicious swarm of orcas off the coast of Western Australia.

Science & Energy

Footage Shows Whales Fighting Off Orcas Using Explosive Diarrhea

By Frank Landymore

Reddit shares are cratering right now, plunging almost 25 percent in just two days, less than a week following its IPO.

Reddit’s Stock Is Already Collapsing

By Victor Tangermann

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gay dating platform Grindr is betting big on generative AI, and is working on an AI chatbot you can have sexually explicit chats with.

Artificial Intelligence

Grindr Working on Chatbot You Can Sext With

By Victor Tangermann

The snake robot, dubbed Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), will one day plunge into the subsurface oceans of Enceladus.

NASA Testing Snake Robot for Exploring Saturn’s Moon

By Frank Landymore

The robot, dubbed "Emo," uses cameras in its eyes to predict your smile less than a second before it actually appears.

Alarming Robot Anticipates Your Smile, Returns Horrific Imitation

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of NASA's failed private Moon lander debacle, Japan's version is, somehow, still alive and kicking.

Against All Odds, Japan’s Toppled Moon Lander Is Still Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

As hype and investment in AI soars, some businesses are learning that the technology isn't reliable enough to represent their companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks

By Frank Landymore

An endless AI-generated "Family Guy" show on YouTube called "AI Peter" has devolved into ear-bruising chaos.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered “Family Guy” Stream Devolves Into Endless Screaming

By Victor Tangermann

Venture capitalists are balking at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sky-high aspirations and are seemingly starting to become disillusioned.

VC Slams Sam Altman as “Megalomaniac”

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter has been selling user data to the surveillance firm Dataminr, which in turn provides real time surveillance to government agencies.

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

Disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding investors out of billions of dollars.

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Leaks have revealed the locations of hundreds of people who visited the notorious private island owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

Data Leak Reveals Hundreds of Visitors to Epstein’s Private Island

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Boston Dynamics SPOT robot that was sent inside a home by Massachusetts state police was shot three times by a person barricaded inside.

Robot Dog Shot Three Times During Raid

By Victor Tangermann

According to the Institute for Public Policy Research, up to 8 million jobs in the UK are vulnerable to being replaced by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Report Warns AI Could Cause “Jobs Apocalypse”

By Frank Landymore

While some podcast fans may blindly stan their parasocial icons, those who listen to neuroscientist Andrew Huberman are not among them.

Andrew Huberman Fans Are Absolutely Disgusted With His Behavior

By Noor Al-Sibai

After coming out as an alien-believer publicly last summer, Whoopi Goldberg has expounded on her belief in extraterrestrials.

Whoopi Goldberg Insists Aliens Are “Watching Us”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the wake of some jarring allegations against Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, podcaster Lex Fridman is coming to his defense.

Lex Fridman Defends Andrew Huberman Amid Scandal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever since Pornhub blocked all of Texas traffic, residents of the Lone Star State have been using Google to find a way to watch porn.

Wild Searches Trending in Texas After Porn Ban

By Sharon Adarlo

It's official, folks: Intuitive Machines' privately-launched Moon lander, Odysseus, has been pronounced dead.

NASA’s Privately-Launched Moon Lander Permanently Dead After Failing to Wake Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Maersk, which chartered the ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, was recently sanctioned by US regulators for stifling whistleblowers.

Advanced Transport

Cargo Giant That Took Out Bridge Had Silenced Whistleblower Who Warned About Safety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Terrifying audio details the harrowing moments leading up to the Baltimore bridge collapse, with officers trying to clear the bridge.

In Terrifying Audio, Police Desperately Try to Clear Bridge Before Impact

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk appears to have once again unfollowed ex-girlfriend Claire "Grimes" Boucher, who recently went public with her new boyfriend.

Elon Musk Unfollows Grimes After She Debuts New Boyfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Japanese astronaut was embarrassed when he got a picture of an errant toolbag instead of the iconic Mount Fuji.

Astronaut Tried to Photograph Mt. Fuji, Snapped Picture of Space Junk Instead

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started writing personal letters to employees at Google in an effort to recruit them for Meta's AI projects.

Zuckerberg Emailing Google Employees, Asking Them to Work for Facebook Instead

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA is proposing to wind down its Chandra X-ray Observatory. And astronomers are pissed.

Astronomers Furious at Plan to Shut Down NASA Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

A detained Binance executive, British-Kenyan citizen Nadeem Anjarwalla, has reportedly broken out of custody in Nigeria.

Binance Executive Reportedly Breaks Out of House Arrest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature, known as SGE, embedded into your search results page? Too bad.

Google Pushing Its Unsafe Search AI on Users Who Didn’t Opt In

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After his tragic death, veterinarians have found underlying illnesses in the body of New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Grim Diseases During Autopsy of NYC’s Flaco the Owl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Belarusian flight attendant Marina Vasilevskaya won a trip to the International Space Station as part of a national science award.

Woman Wins Contest, Blasts Off and Docks at Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has given a number of directors, production companies, and creative agencies early access to Sora, with wild results.

OpenAI Let Directors Make Short Films With Sora and the Results Are Wild

By Victor Tangermann

The study, which surveyed hundreds of university students, also found a link between heavy academic workload and increased ChatGPT usage.

ChatGPT Use Linked to Memory Loss, Procrastination in Students

By Frank Landymore

Grimes has a new boyfriend. T-minus how many days until her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk makes like a SpaceX Starship rocket and simply explodes?

We’re Waiting for Elon Musk to Go Berzerk as Grimes Debuts New Boyfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A judge just threw out a suit by X against nonprofit researchers who explored the growth of hate speech on its platform.

Elon Musk Humiliated as Judge Throws Out His Lawsuit Against Twitter Critics

By Jon Christian

Google's AI-integrated Search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), is leading platform users straight to malware-laden spam sites.

Google’s AI Search Caught Pushing Users to Download Malware

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Data from two research firms, as well as official figures from X, formerly Twitter, show that the platform has lost millions of users.

More and More People Leaving Twitter as Elon Musk Ruins It

By Frank Landymore

Two streams of stars that formed over 12 billion years ago have been discovered at the center of our galaxy.

Ancient Structures Wound Together to Form Our Galaxy, Astronomers Find

By Frank Landymore

David Calhoun, CEO of the deeply embattled Boeing, is reportedly set to resign later this year. It should come as no surprise.

Advanced Transport

Boeing CEO Resigning Amid Disintegrating Planes Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After years of setbacks and bad press, Boeing and NASA are finally getting ready to launch the Starliner spacecraft.

Boeing Preparing to Launch Astronauts as Parts Fall Off Its Planes Mid-Flight

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has already been taking Sora on the road in Hollywood, showing it to a selection of unnamed film studios and directors.

OpenAI Showing Off Video-Generating System to Hollywood Directors

By Jon Christian

Because the Sun is near the peak of its cycle, it's likely that you'll be able to see gigantic towers of plasma leaping off its surface.

You May Be Able to See Twisted Towers of Fire During Eclipse

By Jon Christian

Embattled AI image generator outfit Stability AI has taken another hit as its embattled CEO Emad Mostaque has resigned.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Resigns as Company Crumbles

By Jon Christian

Research shows that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems are less common than believed.

High Percentage of Stars Have Eaten a Planet, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air.

Trees “Coughing” as They Fail to Capture Excess CO2

By Victor Tangermann

White hat hackers discovered a vulnerability with hotel room keycards over a year ago — but for the most part, it hasn't been fixed.

Android Phones Can Open Almost Any Hotel Room Door, Hackers Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts warn that fake protective solar eclipse glasses are flooding the market, which may lead to permanent damage to people's vision.

People Are Selling Fake Eclipse Glasses That Could Permanently Blind You

By Sharon Adarlo

A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of consciousness — including the Sun itself.

Fringe Theory Claims the Sun May Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are scouring the roofs of cathedrals for cosmic dust, micrometeorites, in order to study the chemistry of meteors.

Scientists Searching Roofs of Ancient Cathedrals for Strange Cosmic Dust

By Sharon Adarlo