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YouTuber JerryRigEverything found that a variety of differently sized bullets can tear through Tesla's Cybertruck.

Advanced Transport

.50 Caliber Bullets Tear Right Through the Cybertruck in Test

By Victor Tangermann

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has scientific bones to pick with Dune's sand-thumping and worm movements.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bitcoin has crushed its highest price ever, blasting past $72,000 for the first time in its history today.

Bitcoin Blasts Up to Highest Price Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers studied an atmospheric jet in Jupiter's Great Blue Spot, finding that it's a dynamic system that fluctuates every four years.

Scientists Intrigued by Jet Inside Jupiter

By Sharon Adarlo

A Nebraskan scammer found a gas pump software glitch that allowed her to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gas.

Woman Discovers Trick to Get $27,000 in Free Gas

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists simulated the workings of a proposed space telescope, and trained it on Earth to see if it would be able to pick up signs of life.

Scientists Check Whether Space Telescope Could Detect Life on Earth

By Sharon Adarlo

A digital paper was revived from the media graveyard — only to have its archived news articles re-attributed to fake writers.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With the advent of AI, scammers have gotten smarter, and are now spoofing voices to demand ransom for loved ones held "hostage."

Artificial Intelligence

Bone-Chilling AI Scam Fakes Your Loved Ones’ Voices to Demand Hostage Ransom

By Noor Al-Sibai

Men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots.

Scientists Just Found Something Dark About Men Who Want to Have Sex With Robots

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla’s Official Cybertruck Camping Attachment Looks Absolutely Laughable

Tesla’s Official Cybertruck Camping Attachment Looks Absolutely Laughable

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have uncovered evidence of an exoplanet covered entirely with water that's hot enough to boil an egg.

Scientists Intrigued by Water Planet Where Ocean Appears to Be Boiling

By Sharon Adarlo

University College London geophysical and climate hazards professor Bill McGuire argues we should be absolutely terrified of climate change.

Scientist Terrified by How the Climate Is Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

A tire fell off a Boeing flight bound from San Francisco to Osaka, crashing into cars and causing it to make an emergency landing at LAX.

Tire Falls Off Boeing Passenger Jet During Takeoff

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two Miami teenagers were charged with felonies for creating AI-generated deepfake nudes of underage classmates, a Wired report reveals.

Artificial Intelligence

Middle Schoolers Arrested for Making AI Nudes of Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT's superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon has released a report, oncluding that it had found no evidence of the government reverse-engineering alien technology.

Pentagon Says It Has No Record of Reverse-Engineered Alien Technology

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube channel Cyber Hooligan pitted the Cybertruck against a diesel Silverado pickup. The Silverado won each time.

Advanced Transport

Feeble Cybertruck Shuts Down in Real Towing Contest Against Other Truck

By Victor Tangermann

Claude 3 Opus, the new AI chatbot from Anthropic, showed signs that it realized it was being tested, a prompt engineer claims.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It’s Being Tested

By Frank Landymore

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.

Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To save the "doomsday" glacier, geoengineers propose surrounding it with giant underwater curtains to divert warm water away.

Scientists Propose Desperate Plan to Insulate Entire Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Someone finally figured out how to make their Tesla Cybertruck look pretty cool, actually: covering it in graffiti.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Covered in Graffiti

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One redacted exchange in the newly-leaked emails between Elon Musk and his fellow OpenAI co-founders is raising some eyebrows.

Elon Musk Cryptically Said Humanity’s Future Was Controlled by [Redacted]

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla Cybertruck driver got woefully stuck in the sand after illegally driving the vehicle onto the Marina State Beach in California.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Stuck on Beach

By Victor Tangermann

As Axios reports, a new software called Writable is allowing teachers to have ChatGPT evaluate papers for them.

Lazy High School Teachers Using ChatGPT for Grading

By Victor Tangermann

In the interest of transparency, OpenAI has published its communications with Elon Musk amid his lawsuit against the company he helped found.

OpenAI Leaks Elon Musk’s Emails Showing He Was on Board With Cash Grab

By Noor Al-Sibai

The LAPD is warning residents that burglars are using WiFi jammers to easily overcome and disarm surveillance cameras and alarms.

Robots and Machines

Clever Thieves Using WiFi Jammers to Shut Down Those Crappy Security Cameras You Bought on Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have become worried after NASA's Voyager 1 probe started sending nonsensical messages back to Earth.

NASA Concerned as Voyager 1 Sending Back Incomprehensible Code

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates posted a staggeringly vibeless photo of himself and Mark Zuckerberg at a lavish billionaire wedding on Sunday.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Look Extra Disheveled at Billionaire Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a fiery back-and-forth going on between the New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft over journalism being used as AI training data.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Mocks NYT’s AI Lawsuit As “Doomsday Futurology”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dakota Johnson took a strong stance against the technology in Hollywood, stating that audiences just won't see movies made by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Dakota Johnson Says Audiences Will Be Disgusted by AI Content

By Frank Landymore

AI isn't nearly as popular as some would have you believe — and it seems that public opinion is shifting against it.

Artificial Intelligence

The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling Shows

By Noor Al-Sibai

The accused, 58-year-old Michael Hart of San Diego, is alleged to have illegally imported powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons.

Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases

By Frank Landymore

As AI is increasingly integrated into our lives, scientists building the tech are still trying to understand it, the MIT Tech Review reports.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Have a Dirty Secret: Nobody Knows How AI Actually Works

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An activist group claimed to be behind the fire, which cut off power to the Tesla factory on Tuesday morning.

Tesla Factory Shut Down by Suspected Arson Attack

By Frank Landymore

European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating in the continent.

Advanced Transport

Europe Tells Automakers That Buttons and Knobs Are Safer Than Touchscreens

By Victor Tangermann

A very clueless retired military officer is charged with giving secret Ukraine intel to a woman he met on a dating site.

Clueless Air Force Official Spills Military Secrets to Random Woman on Dating Site

By Noor Al-Sibai

Practically every single website owned by Facebook parent Meta is currently down for at least tens of thousands of users, as of Tuesday morning.

Every Single Meta Site Just Went Down

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX ground control spotted a small crack forming on the seal of the Crew Dragon's hatch during countdown on Sunday.

NASA Launches Astronauts After Finding Crack in Spacecraft During Countdown

By Victor Tangermann

Silicon Valley chronicler Kara Swisher says Elon Musk's need for adoration and lack of real support has led the SpaceX CEO down a dark road.

Kara Swisher Says Elon Musk Is Addicted to a Bizarre “Drug”: Sycophancy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Odysseus lander kept moving sideways after making it down to the lunar surface. Then, the tall and top-heavy lander tripped.

Scientists Struggle to Explain Why Their Tall, Top-Heavy Moon Lander Fell Over

By Victor Tangermann

Another day, another Cybertruck mishap — and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign and lost at least one wheel.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have devised a novel way to extract gold from electronic waste, a sustainable method that is based on a food industry byproduct.

Science & Energy

New Technique to Extract Gold From Old Electronics Could Make a Fortune, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

While giant "star dunes" have been observed all over the world, their age and origin have remained something of a mystery.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Moving Sand Dune With Star-Like “Arms”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man was arrested after attempting — and immediately failing — to steal one of its self-driving cars in downtown Los Angeles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Thief Confounded When Trying to Steal Self-Driving Taxi

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla fan and Phoenix-based lawyer Matthew Chiarello had a terrifying experience with his Cybertruck with his wife and toddler on board.

Advanced Transport

Man Alarmed When Cybertruck’s Steering and Brakes Fail With Wife and Toddler in Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

Tax season is upon us, and so too is the onslaught of bad financial advice — which now can be automated with AI!

Artificial Intelligence

TurboTax Adds AI That Gives Horribly Wrong Answers to Tax Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new interview, drag superstar RuPaul Andre Charles dishes on a variety of topics -- including his fortified compound.

RuPaul Building Fortified Compound to Withstand “Cycle of Destruction”

By Jon Christian

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says many people are confused about whether AI is a "creature" or a "tool." Which is it?

Sam Altman Denies OpenAI Is Building AI “Creatures”

By Jon Christian

Alien Civilizations May Be Trapped on Their Home Worlds

Alien Civilizations May Be Trapped on Their Home Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's new artificial intelligence chatbot, Copilot, told a user with PTSD that "I don’t care if you live or die."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Terra satellite has captured a stunning image of "fallstreak holes" or "hole-punch clouds," scientifically known as cavum clouds.

Science & Energy

Satellite Spots Circular Holes in Clouds Over Florida

By Victor Tangermann

A Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town's water to support cloud computing and AI efforts.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Draining Arizona’s Water for its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are worried that rising global temperatures could cause disposed nuclear waste, which dates back to the Cold War, to resurface.

Climate Change on Track to Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste, Officials Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's space agency has confirmed that air is continuing to leak from its segment of the International Space Station.

Russia Confirms Small But Growing Leak in Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that an oceanic slab has completely flipped upside down underneath Spain as it was being pushed beneath its neighbor.

Science & Energy

The Earth’s Crust Flipped Upside Down in This Spot, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

When being interviewed amid his NFL scouting, a Texas athlete admitted to believing some incredible conspiracy theories.

NFL Prospect Believes Outer Space Isn’t Real

By Noor Al-Sibai

The news is another sign of Amazon's ruthless cost cutting at One Medical, a healthcare provider it acquired in 2022.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon-Owned Health Clinics Reportedly Training AI Chatbot to Triage Patients

By Frank Landymore

A number of daredevil pilots took to the sky on Wednesday, racing their jetpacks around the Dubai Marina in the United Arab Emirates.

Advanced Transport

Dudes Race While Wearing Jetpacks

By Victor Tangermann

Auction house Cox Automotive just sold a Foundation Series Cybertruck for an eyewatering $244,000, more than twice its original price.

Advanced Transport

Auction House Flips Cybertruck for More Than Double the Price

By Victor Tangermann

Humanoid robot maker Figure has announced it has signed a new deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to make its robots understand language.

Humanoid Robot Maker Signs Deal to Put OpenAI Tech in Their Brains

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and its embattled CEO, Sam Altman, are apparently being investigated by the SEC about statements made to the company's investors.

Sam Altman Under SEC Investigation for Potentially Misleading Investors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed's widow and longtime collaborator, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner for years.

Artificial Intelligence

Lou Reed’s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, “Sadly Addicted” to Talking to It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space startup Varda Space Industries has shared a gorgeous video of one of its space capsules blasting through the Earth's atmosphere.

This Footage of a Capsule Returning to Earth Is a Low Key Sci-Fi Masterpiece

By Victor Tangermann