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Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon are terrible.

Former NASA Director Trashes Upcoming Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Google has laid off more than a thousand people since January 10th — and according to CEO Sundar Pichai, there will be more firings.

As Google Pivots to AI, CEO Warns He Will Fire Even More Staff

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of OpenAI's earliest acolytes seems to think AI is a gift from on high — but what he's preaching sounds pretty fishy.

Former OpenAI Exec Predicts AI Could Be Last Thing Humans Ever Invent

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Uber driver in Chicago has to charge his electric Chevy Bolt practically all day because of sub-zero temperatures.

Advanced Transport

Uber Driver Alarmed He Has to Spend All Day Charging Electric Car in Cold Weather

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk is back at it again with the outlandish forecasts, and this one about humanoid robots is a heck of a doozy.

Elon Musk Says Earth Will Soon Host a Billion Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

A23a, the world's largest iceberg, is falling apart as it slowly drifts away from Antarctica towards relatively warmers waters.

Science & Energy

Huge Iceberg Falling Apart as It Drifts Away From Antarctica

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious exoplanet that orbits its star some 160 light-years away — which has a 350,000-mile-long tail.

Astronomers Discover Planet With Long Tail

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese start-up EX-FUSION plans to use a powerful laser pulse to literally stop space junk in its tracks, safely de-orbiting it.

Startup Building Huge Laser to Shoot Down Space Junk From the Ground

By Frank Landymore

Human-tier AI will change the world and jobs "much less than we think," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said while attending the World Economic Forum.

Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners are becoming deeply frustrated with their vehicles not being able to charge as cold temperatures grip Chicago.

Dead Cars Surround Chargers as Teslas Struggle in Frozen Weather

By Victor Tangermann

The detection of a key biosignature on an exoplanet by the James Webb has some scientists believing we've already found evidence of life.

James Webb Space Telescope

Rumors Circulating That James Webb Has Discovered Life on Another World

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.

Hubble Snaps Alarming Pic of Two Galaxies Crashing Into Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Global decision-makers predict that artificial intelligence will result in even more dramatic job losses in 2024 and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence

25 Percent of CEOs Plan to Replace Human Workers With AI This Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk appears to be feeling the burn of his own bad decisions — and is making threats about breaking off from Tesla because of them.

Elon Musk Upset He Sold Tesla Stock to Fund Twitter Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

By Victor Tangermann

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

eBay has to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after harassing a couple by sending them a box full of spiders and other disturbing items.

eBay Paying $3 Million for Sending Box of Horrors to Its Enemies

By Sharon Adarlo

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones “Continuously”

By Sharon Adarlo

The researchers trained an AI model on over 60,000 fingerprints, finding similarities they claim have gone overlooked.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Study Claims Human Fingerprints Aren’t Actually Unique

By Frank Landymore

In Japan, a flight crew was forced to turn around during a trip after they had found a crack in the cockpit window of a Boeing 737-800.

Boeing in Trouble Again as Crack Found in Cockpit Window Mid-Flight

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft is set to introduce its Copilot AI, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, to keyboards on new Windows computers.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Says It’s Adding an “AI” Key to Your Keyboard For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”

By Victor Tangermann

The startup that sells the glacier chunks, Arctic Ice, claims it plans to be carbon neutral following backlash over the practice.

Artificial Intelligence

Dubai Importing Glacier Ice from Greenland to Serve in Drinks at Posh Bars

By Frank Landymore

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.

Astronomers Puzzled by Galaxy With No Stars

By Frank Landymore

Footage shared by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell earlier this week shows a "jellyfish" UFO. We still don't know for sure what it is.

Internet Puzzled by “Jellyfish” UFO Video

By Victor Tangermann

A Microsoft researcher giving an internal presentation on an early demo of an AI tool admits that the responses were "cherry-picked."

Artificial Intelligence

In Leaked Audio, Microsoft Cherry-Picked Examples to Make Its AI Seem Functional

By Frank Landymore

SAG-AFTRA has signed a deal with an AI firm to license its artists' voices in video games — but nobody knows who approved it.

Artificial Intelligence

Voice Actors Shocked By Union’s Sudden Deal Allowing AI-Generated Performances

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has come up with a wild new way to visit our closest star Proxima Centauri using a swarm of tiny spacecraft.

NASA Funds Mission to Explore Closest Star to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Hertz is selling off a bunch of its electric vehicles, including Teslas, so that it can buy more gas guzzling cars to rent out.

Hertz Is Unloading Hundreds of Teslas for Cheap

By Noor Al-Sibai

Search and rescue teams are frantically searching for man, who has reportedly fallen into a crack in the Earth in Iceland.

Science & Energy

Man Missing After Falling Into Crack in the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers fell off a ship.

Millions of Plastic Pellets Wash Up on Shore

By Sharon Adarlo

Remember That Uber-Hyped “AI Pin” Startup? It’s Already Doing Layoffs

Artificial Intelligence

Remember That Uber-Hyped “AI Pin” Startup? It’s Already Doing Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists may have figured out how a massive "superstructure" of igneous rock lurking below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was formed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Explain “Superstructures” on Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at a scarily rapid pace, a new satellite imagery study shows.

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped detect something remarkable: the strongest and oldest radio transmission ever recorded.

Hubble Detects Uber-Strong Radio Transmission From Ancient “Blob”

By Noor Al-Sibai

From Facebook founder to "girl dad" to cattle rancher to doomsday prepper, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemingly has it all.

Zuckerberg Brags About Feeding Cows Macadamia Nuts and Beer at His Alleged Doomsday Bunker

By Noor Al-Sibai

The harrowing accident aboard a Boeing aircraft during an Alaska Airlines flight has drawn the scrutiny of the White House and a US Senator.

Advanced Transport

Boeing May Be in Serious Trouble Over Door Panel Blowing Out

By Frank Landymore

Days after X banned several left-leaning accounts with no warning, CEO Elon Musk tried to explain away the fiasco.

Elon Musk Makes Ridiculous Excuse for His Enemies’ Accounts Getting Deleted

By Sharon Adarlo

Regulators had to do some emergency damage control after the X-formerly-Twitter account of the SEC got hacked on Tuesday.

SEC Twitter Account Hacked to Post Fake Bitcoin News

By Victor Tangermann

The Peregrine lunar lander had on board the human remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and others on its failed mission to the Moon.

Gene Roddenberry’s Remains Now Drifting Through Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Numerous online videos and images have been posted showing Tesla's Cybertruck getting stuck in typical wintery conditions.

Advanced Transport

The Mighty Cybertruck Keeps Getting Stuck in the Snow

By Sharon Adarlo

Before important elections in Taiwan, the island nation sent out an air raid for a Chinese satellite flying overhead.

Taiwan Sets Off Air Raid Siren as Chinese Satellite Flies Overhead

By Sharon Adarlo

Students at Ferris State University in Michigan will soon be sharing the classroom with AI-powered "students."

Artificial Intelligence

University Enrolling AI-Powered “Students” Who Will Turn in Assignments, Participate in Class Discussions

By Victor Tangermann

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter has suspended the accounts of several journalists and leftist pundits without giving any explanation.

Twitter Suddenly Suspends Journalists Critical of Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's first crewed lunar landing mission in over half a century dubbed Artemis 3 will likely be delayed due to Starship issues.

NASA Reportedly Forced to Push Back Moon Landing After SpaceX Fails to Deliver Starship

By Victor Tangermann

In a change of heart, "Magic: The Gathering" publisher Wizards of the Coast has admitted to using generative AI for an image after denying it.

Artificial Intelligence

Wizards of the Coast Denies “Magic: The Gathering” Art Was AI-Generated, Then Admits It Was

By Victor Tangermann

A local schoolteacher called Bob Sauer came across the missing door plug of the Boeing 737 MAX 9, which had to make an emergency landing.

Advanced Transport

Schoolteacher Finds Door Plug That Fell Off Boeing 737 in His Backyard

By Victor Tangermann

In the most recent update, Astrobotic shared the first photo of its Peregrine Moon lander, perishing in orbit.

Photo Shows Damaged Moon Lander Languishing in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

As humans barrel ever closer to colonizing the Moon, the prospect of lunar mining is also becoming more real.

Experts Warn Against Strip Mining the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's first shot at launching a Moon lander in over 50 years seems almost certainly like it's not going to make it.

Private NASA-Funded Moon Lander Is in “Critical” Condition

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have been puzzling over "magic islands" on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers now have an answer.

Scientists Attempt to Explain “Magic Islands” on Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The first US lunar lander to have been sent into space in more than half a century is in serious trouble after experiencing an "anomaly."

First US Moon Lander in 50 Years in Serious Trouble After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Following a door panel being ripped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 midflight, US regulators are investigating 171 potentially affected planes.

Advanced Transport

Experts Alarmed After Large Piece Blows Off Boeing 737 Mid-Flight

By Victor Tangermann

A woman in Australia used her electric car to power her son's life-saving dialysis machine during a blackout.

Advanced Transport

Woman Uses Electric Car to Power Son’s Dialysis Machine During Blackout

By Victor Tangermann

In his latest tech industry scorecard, famed roboticist Rodney Brooks soberly warns of an impending "AI winter."

Artificial Intelligence

Robotics Expert Says AI Hype Is Due for a Brutal Reality Check

By Frank Landymore

A new bidet seat from Kohler can be used totally hands free, if you're willing to connect it to Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

Rejoice! Device That Sprays Your Butthole Now Connects to Alexa for Voice Control

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.

NASA Spacecraft Zooms Close to Jupiter’s Brutal Moon, Snaps Amazing Photos

By Frank Landymore

Design for Space Elevator Wins Prize

Design for Space Elevator Wins Prize

By Victor Tangermann

Long after being accused of artificially inflating range figures, Tesla has downgraded the estimated number of miles of some of its vehicles.

Tesla Admits Its Cars Have Shorter Driving Range Than It Claimed

By Victor Tangermann