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NASA has responded to Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren's complaint over space contractors sending cremated human remains to the Moon.

Native Americans Say New Mission Will Desecrate the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A woman in Virginia has gained viral TikTok fame as "tunnel girl" because she's building a tunnel and storm shelter under her house.

Local Officials Horrified by Woman Digging Huge Cavern Under Her House

By Sharon Adarlo

SpaceX is suing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because, according to the company's claim, the agency itself is unconstitutional.

SpaceX Sues Government Over Claim It Fired Employees for Criticizing Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

The spacecraft Peregrine will be the first American lunar lander built by a private space company if it lands on the Moon successfully.

Private American Moon Mission Launching Monday

By Sharon Adarlo

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited Energy

By Frank Landymore

"For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this goose a little sillier," robotics company CEO Garrett Scott McCurrach tweeted.

ChatGPT Says It’s Reached the Limit of How Silly It Can Make the Goose

By Victor Tangermann

Videos show what appears to be a pair of Chinese rocket boosters crashing in inhabited areas in the country's Sichuan province.

Videos Show Chinese Rocket Parts Raining Down, Exploding

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube account Out of Specs rented a Cybertruck and took it for an extended spin, concluding that it could only cover 254 highway miles.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Real World Range Is Incredibly Feeble

By Victor Tangermann

A forthcoming Elvis hologram tour is the latest in a string of holographic AI resurrections that fail to deal with their subjects' darkness.

Alleged Groomer to Get the AI Hologram Treatment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stephen Hawking has once again been posthumously implicated in the scandal surrounding the dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Stephen Hawking Implicated in Jeffrey Epstein Documents

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have exposed the previously untracked expanse of human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery and AI.

Science & Energy

New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”

By Victor Tangermann

In just under a year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will attempt to "basically almost landing" on the Sun, coming within just 3.8 million miles.

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say This Is the Probability AI Will Drive Humans Extinct

By Victor Tangermann

Alaska officials confirmed last month that a polar bear died from bird flu aka the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

Polar Bear Dies From Bird Flu

By Sharon Adarlo

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.

Science & Energy

Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated article about a murder that never happened in New Jersey has police and local news outlets in a tizzy.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's population is falling and falling -- and that's a major problem for its economic and demographic outlook.

Leaked Data Shows China Is in Deep Trouble

By Sharon Adarlo

Some members of Congress are going to get a briefing on UFOs soon — though of course, the public won't be privy to anything they learn.

Congress Receiving Mysterious Classified Briefing About UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of travelers attempting to turn back the clock to ring in the new year twice got a rude awakening due to flight delays.

Advanced Transport

Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year’s Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's new AI venture xAI is attempting to raise up to $6 million in funding, the Financial Times reports.

Elon Musk Looking for $6 Billion to Develop AI Outside Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

According to Reuters, Tesla's main bottleneck in Cybertruck production is producing the next-generation 4680 lithium-ion battery cells.

Cybertruck Manufacturing Is a Disaster, Tesla Insiders Say

By Victor Tangermann

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.

NASA Releases Image of Epic Lines Carved Into Mars’ Surface

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

By Frank Landymore

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.

Science & Energy

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

By Victor Tangermann

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

By Frank Landymore

Local authorities in Iceland are telling people to stop visiting the volcanic eruption because the terrain is challenging and dangerous.

Science & Energy

Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption

By Sharon Adarlo

Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons and control switches to its new batch of cars after customer complaints.

Advanced Transport

Volkswagen Bringing Back Buttons, Knob After Touchscreen Complaints

By Sharon Adarlo

An AI-generated image of Jack and Rose taking a selfie in front of an intact Titanic ship that is making its rounds has us mystified.

Artificial Intelligence

We Are Completely Mystified by This AI-Generated Image of Jack and Rose Taking a Selfie in “Titanic”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX fired up the engines of its latest Starship prototype, setting the stage for the company's third orbital test launch.

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Before Next Orbital Test

By Victor Tangermann

Rite Aid used faulty facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting but instead ended up antagonizing and traumatizing shoppers.

Facial recognition

Rite Aid’s Facial Recognition Accused Innocent Shoppers of Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk is yet again hyping up the Cybertruck's potential as a boat. But as always, there's reason to doubt that these claims hold water.

While Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Can Float, Tesla Told a Guy His Model 3 Broke Because He Washed It

By Frank Landymore

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.

Science & Energy

Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.

Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

By Victor Tangermann

Data scientists in Denmark claim they've devised an AI model that can predict when someone is going to die.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Their New AI Can Predict When You’re Going to Die

By Noor Al-Sibai

No one was hurt in the fire. The cause of the blaze remains undetermined, but the local fire chief has blamed a familiar culprit.

Advanced Transport

Fire Breaks Out at General Motors’ Electric Car Factory

By Frank Landymore

A volcanic eruption resulted in a miles long fissure that spewed towering fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air.

NASA Images Show Huge Fissure Opening Up in Iceland

By Frank Landymore

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

Exceljet has found itself the victim of an "SEO heist," losing web traffic to a shameless imitator that used AI to hijack its articles.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Horrified When Someone Uses AI to Reword and Republish All His Content, Complete With New Errors

By Frank Landymore

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

By Victor Tangermann

A tool made by grad students is the ultimate "geoguesser," using its knowledge of Google Street View to track down any photo's location.

Artificial Intelligence

Scary AI Can Look at Photos and Figure Out Exactly Where They Were Taken

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

Car Dealership Disturbed When Its AI Is Caught Offering Chevys for $1 Each

By Frank Landymore

Mercedes-Benz just received approval for first-of-its-kind turquoise car lights that indicate a vehicle in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes-Benz Installing New Tail Lights to Show When Car Is Self-Driving

By Frank Landymore

Legislators in California are slated to approve new measures to create filtration systems that turns wastewater into drinking water.

Science & Energy

California Working on System to Turn Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just beamed back a cat video from almost 19 million miles away and at blistering speeds.

NASA Receives Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is teaming up with the TomTom GPS company to shove talking generative AI into your car, for some reason.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Stuffing Talking Generative AI Into Your Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Teslas Crash More Than Any Other Brand, Analysis Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks

By Victor Tangermann

If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino offers some insight.

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Following tens of thousands of earthquakes rocking southwest Iceland, a massive volcano erupted early Tuesday morning local time.

Science & Energy

Massive Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Spews Lava Hundreds of Feet Into the Air

By Victor Tangermann

The Stanislaus National Forest Service, which manages the National Forest where a Cybertruck recently got stuck, just trolled Tesla hard.

National Forest Service Trolls Tesla After Cybertruck Gets Stuck in Forest

By Victor Tangermann

Founder of electric trucking company Nikola Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years after being found guilty of misleading investors.

Founder of Tesla Competitor Nikola Going to Jail for Fraud

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have made a startling discovery: the husks of two old and dried-out tomatoes.

NASA Proudly Shows Off Desiccated Tomatos Lost in Space Station Crevice

By Victor Tangermann

Many companies have recently rushed to invest billions into carbon removal technologies in order to mitigate emissions.

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

By Sharon Adarlo

A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla while using Autopilot.

Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

The FCC just rejected SpaceX's appeal to reinstate an $886 million grant to bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. SpaceX is furious.

SpaceX Furious That Government Won’t Give It Free Handout of Nearly a Billion Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

$AI has, for seemingly the first time, solved a famously difficult math problem — and folks, this discovery is huge if true.$

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By

By Noor Al-Sibai