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A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet.

Government Scientists Propose Plan to Dry Out the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

One recently shared image shows damage taken by NASA's Moon lander, with stripped pieces littering the lunar surface behind it.

New Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to NASA’s Moon Lander

By Victor Tangermann

As last year's record-breaking ocean temperatures cease to slow down, warming waters around the globe continue to alarm scientists.

Scientists Alarmed by Spike in Ocean Temperatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Toyota engineers have created an ingenious air filter that can capture carbon dioxide from internal combustion engines in cars.

Advanced Transport

Toyota Testing Car That Sucks CO2 Out of the Atmosphere While It Drives

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD, but can store 1.6 petabits of data.

Science & Energy

Scientists Create DVD-Shaped Disc That Can Hold More Movies Than You Could See in Your Entire Life

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a white dwarf star bears a never before seen metal "scar" near one of its magnetic poles.

Dead Star Has Visible Scar After Devouring Chunk of Planet

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech

Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech

By Noor Al-Sibai

The modded Cybertruck is bolstered with four huge snow tracks that make the stainless steel SUV look like a mean little tank.

Advanced Transport

Mechanics Installed Tank Treads on a Cybertruck

By Frank Landymore

Wendy's is planning to implement a surge pricing model where its mid-tier fast food wares cost more during times of high traffic and demand.

Wendy’s Instituting Surge Pricing on Burgers

By Noor Al-Sibai

After around a decade of extremely secretive development, Apple is officially giving up on building an electric car.

Advanced Transport

Apple Gives Up on Apple Car, Moves Team to Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

Steven Jones, who runs an AI-generated porn images website, is shocked by what users want the AI to spit out.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Running AI-Powered Porn Site Horrified by What Users Are Asking For

By Victor Tangermann

In September 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos. It may now be "healing."

The Asteroid NASA Smashed Is Now Healing, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

Image Shows Mars Helicopter With Blade Completely Snapped Off

Image Shows Mars Helicopter With Blade Completely Snapped Off

By Frank Landymore

Bitcoin is rallying, breaking past a two-year high of $57,000 — a surge of confidence that could have it break its all-time record.

Bitcoin Hurtling Toward All-Time High

By Victor Tangermann

New York-based law firm Cuddy Law used the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT to help justify a $113,484.62 bill for a recently won trial.

Judge Blasts Law Firm for Using ChatGPT to Estimate Legal Costs

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Boring Company has only built a few miles of tunnel underneath Vegas — but those tunnels have taken a toxic toll.

Elon Musk’s Tunnel Reportedly Oozing With Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's new Moon lander may have made a relatively safe landing, but all indications point to it being less successful than initially thought.

NASA’s New Moon Lander Is Turning Into a Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

After Tesla royally screwed over a Black-owned pie business in San Jose, billionaire CEO Elon Musk has stepped in.

Elon Musk Alarmed to Hear Tesla Had Screwed Local Pie Shop

By Victor Tangermann

The China Manned Space Agency revealed the names of its crewed capsule, as well as a lander, which will lower crews down to the surface.

China Announces Name of Spacecraft Landing Crew on Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A close-up of a model Odysseus Moon lander on a desk, with Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus' hand and torso behind it.

NASA’s Precious Moon Lander Has Toppled Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

A traveling magician created a deepfake President Joe Biden audio for a robocall during the New Hampshire primaries.

Artificial Intelligence

Eccentric Magician Responsible for AI-Generated Joe Biden Calling Voters

By Sharon Adarlo

Gene-edited pigs, which are immune to a porcine disease and meant for meat consumption, are nearing federal approval.

Science & Energy

Company Seeking Approval to Sell Meat From Gene-Hacked Pigs

By Sharon Adarlo

In a hilarious social media diatribe, rapper Wiz Khalifa is calling bull on Tesla's "trash" Cybertruck after seeing one on the street.

Advanced Transport

Wiz Khalifa Disgusted by Cybertruck

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite, after almost three decades in orbit, finally met its end this week.

Epic Shots Show Derelict Satellite Hurtling To Its Doom

By Frank Landymore

Two neutron stars collided millions of years ago and the resulting explosion created a bright flash and, as scientists have found, pure gold.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Cosmic Foundry Generating Pure Gold

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tyler Perry says he's paused the $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio because of the power of OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora.

Tyler Perry Nixes Huge Film Studio Expansion, Says He Can Just Green Screen in Backgrounds From OpenAI’s Sora

By Sharon Adarlo

The college students discovered that the facial recognition software was part of the vending machine's "demographic profiling" feature.

Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark

By Frank Landymore

The Wall Street Journal reports that US officials are warning Putin to refrain from launching Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon.

US Gov Warns Putin Not to Launch Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX's launch site in Texas received an interesting delivery this week: a truck load of explosives, meant for an upcoming rocket launch.

Truck Carrying Explosives Seen Driving Into SpaceX Launch Site

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers found microplastics in layers of sediment that date back as early as the first half of the 18th Century.

Science & Energy

Microplastics Found in Sediment Layers Untouched by Modern Humans

By Sharon Adarlo

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have figured out a supernova mystery that's been decades in the making.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Something Lurking in Wreckage of Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Cybertruck manages to plow through some pretty deep water, but not without breaking a few things in the process.

Advanced Transport

YouTuber Hellbent On Destruction Drives Cybertruck Directly Into Water

By Frank Landymore

Tesla suddenly canceled an order for 2,000 pies — allegedly leaving a charitable small business out of a few thousand dollars.

Tesla Screws Small Business by Canceling Order for 2,000 Pies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Intuitive Machines is reporting that its NASA-funded Odysseus lunar lander has safely touched down on the Moon.

The Private Moon Lander Has Safely Touched Down on the Moon

By Jon Christian

Yann LeCun pulled no punches when he described OpenAI's approach to creating a "world simulator" through its Sora AI as a bad idea.

OpenAI’s Video-Generating AI Is “Doomed to Failure,” Says Meta’s Top AI Scientist

By Frank Landymore

As Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Odysseus makes its final approach to the Moon, not all is going according to plan.

Private Lunar Lander Hits Unexpected Issues During White-Knuckles Descent

By Jon Christian

Tinder parent company Match Group announced its ChatGPT deal with OpenAI on Wednesday, but it's unclear how this will affect its dating apps.

Tinder Signs Deal to License ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

A lawsuit filed against Tinder and Hinge's owner accuses the online dating giant of intentionally getting users addicted to the apps.

Lawsuit Accuses Dating Apps of Intentionally Addicting Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Stanley lead drama continues apace, and now, disgruntled buyers are taking the company to court for allegedly misleading them.

Science & Energy

Lawsuits Piling Up Against Stanley Cups Due to Lead Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Known as the Radcliffe Wave, astronomers have discovered that this chain of stars, gas, and dust is propagating like a wave, too.

Galactic Wave May Have Crossed Paths With Earth, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Google paused its AI image generator due to its penchant for creating inaccurate historical illustrations, such as racially diverse Nazis.

Google Shuts Down AI Image Generator After It Made “Racially Diverse Nazis”

By Sharon Adarlo

Nio, the Chinese electric vehicle company, has unveiled that its flagship electric car ET9 can literally shake snow and ice off in seconds.

Advanced Transport

New Car Can Shake Snow Off Like a Gigantic Dog

By Sharon Adarlo

New York City police say they plan on deploying drones that can throw down flotation devices to struggling swimmers at city beaches.

NYC Beaches Deploying Drones to Drop Flotation Devices for Drowning Swimmers

By Sharon Adarlo

Russia may be launching its nuclear anti-satellite craft into space soon — even as its own government denies that such a weapon exists.

Russia May Be Launching Nuclear Space Weapon Soon, Officials Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

Albedo Space wants to launch satellites that can track the movements of and even image individual people. Obviously, privacy is an issue.

Alarming New Satellite Can Spy on Individual People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A private, Space-X launched Moon lander has entered lunar orbit, setting it up for a safe and historic landing.

Private Moon Lander Enters Lunar Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxy defies our understanding of dark matter's role in the early years of the cosmos.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Befuddled by Impossible Galaxy Seen by James Webb

By Frank Landymore

Passengers on a cross-country flight captured footage of a plane wing breaking apart in mid-air and on the runway.

Passengers Alarmed to See Plane Wing Falling Apart in Mid-Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

The world's wealthy elites are pouring absurd sums into insane doomsday bunkers that are becoming more and more like fortresses.

Billionaire Doomsday Bunkers Getting Bizarre Deadly Traps to Keep Out Poors

By Frank Landymore

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk has once again been accused of operating a fake online persona. Just another day!

Elon Musk Accused of Operating Fake Persona as “Adrian Dittmann”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Philippines claimed that Chinese fishermen are intentionally using cyanide to destroy the Scarborough Shoal, a tropical atoll.

Science & Energy

China Accused of Pumping Cyanide Into Ocean to Kill Life

By Sharon Adarlo

The anti-satellite space weapon Russia is said to be developing could potentially destroy low-Earth orbit for everyone.

Russia’s Space Nuke Could Destroy Orbit for Whole Planet, Germans Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says Later This Year, Your AI Will Be Able to Attend Meetings For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This suggests that stars could be playing a bigger role in the evolution of our planet's orbit — and climate — than once believed.

Passing Star Altered Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The first known jail photo of the disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has surfaced, and he's schlubbier than ever.

Photo Shows Sam Bankman-Fried in Jail With Former Bloods Gang Member

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive jet stream formed over the mid-Atlantic region this past weekend, pushing eastbound planes faster than the speed of sound.

Mighty Wind Propels Commercial Jets Faster Than Speed of Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap pollution — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.

Scientists Propose Hacking Viruses to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research posits that life originated somewhere in the cosmos — and that it traveled through space on tiny particles of cosmic dust.

Life Spreads Through Universe in Cosmic Dust, Paper Suggests

By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.

Please Don’t Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel Industry

By Jon Christian

An undisclosed AI outfit has struck a deal to pay Reddit $60 million per year for access to its huge database of users' posts.

Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious Entity Paying Reddit $60 Million to Train AI With Users’ Posts

By Jon Christian

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind.

Artificial Intelligence

AI May Destroy Humankind in Just Two Years, Expert Says

By Jon Christian

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander, just sent back some stunning selfies with the Earth in the background as it crosses the gulf.

Moon Lander Beams Back Dazzling Selfies With Earth

By Jon Christian

A new attack ad uses AI to summon up footage of Donald Trump's long-deceased dad to excoriate his large adult son.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Dad Resurrected Via AI to Tell Son He’s a Disgrace

By Jon Christian