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Musk took aim at socialite and entrepreneur Paris Hilton after she pulled her kitchenware ads from X following his antisemitic outburst.

Elon Musk Kicks Off Feud With Paris Hilton

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a solution to the "Hubble tension," arguing that Einstein didn't consider we're in the middle of a cosmic void.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be in a Huge Empty Void

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope is in "safe mode" due to a recurrent technical issue, which has taken the 30-something craft offline.

The Hubble Has Broken Down Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla showed off an amazing Cybertruck-inspired buggy, which can ferry workers around the company's Gigafactory in Texas.

Tesla Has Quietly Built a New Vehicle That Riffs on the Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

In an exchange with another AI guru, Elon Musk was apparently left "speechless" when presented with a problem with his Mars colonization plan.

Elon Musk Was Reportedly “Speechless” When Someone Pointed Out a Basic Flaw in His Mars Plan

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has come across a mysteriously familiar "ghostly" object that never showed up in Hubble observations.

James Webb Spots Strange “Ghostly” Object Reappearing

By Victor Tangermann

According to leaked documents, Amazon's Q AI chatbot is suffering from "severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data."

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s AI Reportedly Suffering “Severe Hallucinations”

By Victor Tangermann

The pound-for-pound greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is getting stronger as more of it is released into the atmosphere, a new study found.

Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

By Jon Christian

China's Mars rover has uncovered underground polygon structures buried deep beneath the Red Planet's surface.

China’s Mars Rover Detected Polygons Under the Planet’s Surface

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent video shared by IHMC Robotics shows a carbon fiber-clad robot throwing some punches worthy of a "Rocky"-style training montage.

Alarming Video Shows Guy Boxing With Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Two young orcas tried to save an approximately 35-year-old orca nicknamed Hunchy, who struggled to stay afloat.

Science & Energy

Tragic Footage Shows Orcas Trying to Save Their Dying Companion

By Frank Landymore

The six exoplanets in this star system revolve in perfect mathematical ratios relative to each other, in what's known as oribital resonance.

Scientists Discover Star System So Perfect It Seems Like Art

By Frank Landymore

In June, the Wall Street Journal found that Instagram's algorithms were promoting underage sex content. Not much has changed since then.

Facebook Has a Gigantic Pedophilia Problem

By Victor Tangermann

In a demonstration, a modified Ford E-Transit van received as much as 19 kilowatts of power while driving down the road.

Electric Vehicles

New Street Charges Electric Vehicles While They Drive

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Prophetic says its device can help you induce lucid dreams that you can use to be productive while you sleep.

Neuralink-Linked Startup Working on Tech So You Can Keep Working While You Dream

By Frank Landymore

Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of the site formerly known as Twitter, has reached new levels of yes-manning for Elon Musk in a leaked memo.

Twitter CEO’s Internal Email About Elon Musk’s Bizarre Interview Leaks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Israel is apparently using a secretive AI tool to identify targets for assassination amid its ongoing war with Hamas.

Artificial Intelligence

Israel Reportedly Using AI to Identify Targets for “Mass Assassination Factory”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The OpenAI CEO debacle was so dramatic that people at Microsoft developed a vulgar nickname to refer to it.

Microsoft Employees Gave OpenAI’s CEO Drama an Amazingly Vulgar Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is offering Cybertruck customers a "self-healing" coat of "premium color paint films" to fully black out their vehicle.

Advanced Transport

Aha! There’s an All-Black Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Cybertruck fans are disappointed and "let down" following Tesla's disastrous delivery event earlier this week.

Tesla Fans Furious at Disastrous Cybertruck Reveal

By Victor Tangermann

In a rare acquisition by the launch provider, SpaceX saved a venerable parachute vendor that was on the verge of bankruptcy.

SpaceX Is Buying a Company That Makes Parachutes for Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.

Science & Energy

The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Tesla came up with an awkward workaround, offering customers an entirely separate battery pack for its Cybertruck to get a half-decent range.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Needs a Giant Extra Battery in Its Bed to Get the Range Elon Promised

By Victor Tangermann

A top trim "Cyberbeast" model of Tesla's Cybertruck will cost just under $100,000. A rear-wheel model won't be available until 2025.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Actual Price Just Dropped and Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen halfheartedly lobbed a baseball — not a metal ball — at the Cybertruck's window during today's event.

Advanced Transport

At Awkward Event, Elon Has Guy Halfheartedly Lob Baseball at Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

The hack is "silly," but it gets ChatGPT to regurgitate incredible amounts of its training data, some of it potentially sensitive.

Hack Tricks ChatGPT Into Spitting Out Private Email Addresses, Phone Numbers

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's on-again CEO Sam Altman is back with a vengeance — but not, apparently, when it comes to cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

Sam Altman Says He Has “Zero Ill Will” Toward Guy Who Shanked Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX rockets are tearing huge holes in the Earth's atmosphere as they make their return to the surface, triggering "SpaceX auroras."

Scientists Warn That SpaceX Launches Are Tearing Small Holes in the Sky

By Victor Tangermann

New documentation included in an update for Tesla's iOS app suggests the Cybertruck will have an outdoor camping attachment.

Advanced Transport

Leak Shows Camping Shelter That Hooks Onto Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Viral photos on both sides of the Isreal-Hamas conflict have been revealed to be AI fakes — and the problem is only going to get worse

Artificial Intelligence

Viral Images of Dead Infants in Israel-Gaza War Are AI Fakes, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

General Motors has lost billions of dollars on Cruise, which has received intense scrutiny from state and federal regulators this year.

Advanced Transport

General Motors to Slash Spending on Robotaxis After Disastrous Year

By Frank Landymore

In his latest grim forecast, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that there aren't enough guardrails to stop AI from doing catastrophic harm.

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Endanger Humanity Within Five Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

Plex, which earned its rep as a way to stream your own media, added a new feature that shares what users watch, often without them knowing.

Users Horrified as Streaming Service Tells Friends and Family What They’re Watching

By Frank Landymore

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

As Fortune reports, Elon Musk's Boring Company has only completed a measly 2.4 miles of operational tunnels in its seven-year existence.

In Seven Years, Elon Musk’s Boring Company Has Only Drilled 2.4 Miles of Tunnel

By Victor Tangermann

At more than triple the size of New York City, the world's largest current iceberg is on the move — and scientists don't know why.

Science & Energy

The Word’s Largest Iceberg Is on the Move

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed plans for a more efficient and more powerful Version 2 of the company's Starship rocket.

Elon Musk Unveils Plans for Next Version of Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to cutting carbon emissions, but it has plans to push developing countries to use its oil and gas exports.

Saudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil

By Sharon Adarlo

A French startup signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency to build the "first permanent outpost on the Moon."

This Multi-Purpose Moon Habitat Looks Cool as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI may have just been beaten to the punch when it comes to AI naming rights by Microsoft's cloud computing division.

Amazon Launches Chatbot With Almost Same Name as OpenAI’s Controversial Secret AI

By Victor Tangermann

Generative AI has now made it possible to turn any image into a video — and naturally, people are shoving memes into the machine.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Animating Popular Memes With AI to Horrific Effect

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers at Facebook's parent company Meta has come up with a new benchmark to gauge the intelligence of AI.

Facebook Researchers Test AI’s Intelligence and Find It Is Unfortunately Quite Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

Avocado bloody.

Millennials’ Avocado Habit Is Killing Mexico’s Forests

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-shared video showcases the soon-to-be-released Tesla Cybertruck's suspension-shifting "wake-up" sequence, complete with a light show.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Stands Up Like a Camel When You Turn It On

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the largest yacht in the world — and it's so massive, it has to be docked next to oil tankers down in Florida.

Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht Is So Gigantic It Needs to Be Docked Next to Oil Tankers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cybertrucks are finally being shipped out this week — and coincidentally, one's been spotted getting towed in San Francisco.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Getting Towed in San Francisco

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.

Science & Energy

Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that there are regions on Mercury that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive.

Scientists Say There May Be Life Under Mercury’s Salt Glaciers

By Sharon Adarlo

As Scientific American reports, NASA estimates that it'll cost almost $1 billion to safely decommission the International Space Station.

Destroying the Space Station Will Cost NASA $1 Billion

By Victor Tangermann

NASA unveiled an image of the Milky Way, showing greater detail of a region close to the nucleus of the galaxy plus mysterious structures.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Detects “Unexplained Structures” in Heart of Our Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

By Frank Landymore

In the survey of 1,500 people working tech, Retool found that a startling 51.6 percent of people think AI is overrated.

Artificial Intelligence

Survey Finds Half of Tech Workers Think AI Is a Bunch of Hype

By Sharon Adarlo

YouTube has had it with you blocking the damn ads on its platform — and it's willing to make the experience as miserable as possible.

YouTube Threatens to Become Even More Horrendous If You Have an Ad Blocker

By Victor Tangermann

Though we banned ozone depleting chemicals four decades ago, new research finds that the hole long thought to be healing may be anything but.

Science & Energy

The Hole in the Ozone Layer Is Getting Bigger Again, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

NASA has been laser-beamed data from millions of miles away — and it was a message the agency sent itself.

NASA Receives Laser Signal From 10 Million Miles Away

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study from Oxfam says the richest 1 percent of the world had the same carbon footprint in 2019 as the poorest 66 percent in the world.

Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

As more details are revealed about the drama at OpenAI, insiders are coming forward with messy anecdotes from Sam Altman's past.

This Apparently Wasn’t the First Time Sam Altman Was Dramatically Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

Though all appeared well from the outside, there was major beef between Sam Altman and OpenAI's board of directors behind the scenes.

OpenAI’s Board Was Apparently Seething With Rage Before Sacking Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

X CEO Elon Musk posted on the social media platform on Tuesday, “There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies."

Elon Musk Says There’s a “Large Graveyard Filled With My Enemies”

By Sharon Adarlo

The co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has stepped down and pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes.

Binance CEO Steps Down, Pleading Guilty to Money Laundering

By Noor Al-Sibai

A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is sending over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Science & Energy

Oil Spill Pours Into the Gulf of Mexico

By Victor Tangermann