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Scientists found that solar geoengineering alone would have a limited impact on delaying the melting of ice in Antarctica.

It’s Too Late for Geoengineering Alone to Save Antarctica, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This was yet another notable outage that ChatGPT has suffered in the past several weeks as user traffic falls.

ChatGPT Goes Down Right as Sam Altman Defends It in Washington

By Frank Landymore

And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is literally resorting to giving away expensive Meta Quest Pro VR headsets for free.

Facebook’s VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away

By Victor Tangermann

Flying hubcaps are not part of the Cybertruck's tech specs, but that seems to be what happened to one beta driver in California.

Advanced Transport

Piece Comes Flying Off Cybertruck While Driving

By Noor Al-Sibai

All it allegedly took for cyberattackers to hack MGM Grand casino servers was a LinkedIn scroll and a phone call.

Casinos Shut Down Amid Hacker Intrusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The IRS announced Monday that it will use "cutting-edge" AI tech to hold the US' wealthiest people and company accountable to tax debt.

Artificial Intelligence

The IRS Says It’s Using AI to Bust Zillionaire Tax Cheats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The California Senate has passed a bill that requires self-driving trucks to have a human operator at all times while on public roads.

Self-Driving Vehicles

California Set to Ban Self-Driving Trucks With No Safety Driver

By Victor Tangermann

A self-proclaimed UFOlogist unboxed incredibly fake-looking "alien mummies" allegedly found in Peru. They instantly became a meme.

Those “Alien Mummies” Look So Fake That They’ve Become a Meme

By Victor Tangermann

Someone got an AI art generator to copy the illustration style of Tim Burton — and the director himself is having none of it.

Artificial Intelligence

Tim Burton Horrified by AI-Generated Art That Copies His Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

The SEC Is Going After Mila Kunis’ NFT Project

The SEC Is Going After Mila Kunis’ NFT Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jailhouse internet is so bad, apparently, that Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers say it should be grounds for his release.

Sam Bankman-Fried Complains That the Wi-Fi Is Bad in Jail

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Tesla staff hated the design of the Cybertruck so much that they created a secret alternative design for the all-electric truck.

Tesla Engineers Hated the Cybertruck So Much They Started Secretly Designing an Alternative

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing evidence that an exoplanet some 120 light years away could be hosting life.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Possible Signs of Life on Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Students have built a tiny EV from scratch that can accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in a blistering 0.956 seconds — and in just 40 feet.

Advanced Transport

Jaw-Dropping Electric Mini Racer Accelerates to 62 MPH in Less Than One Second

By Victor Tangermann

Data is finally starting to come in about the Tesla Semi truck, thanks to researchers tracking its performance in the real world.

Independent Researchers Impressed by Tesla Semi’s Real World Range

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian President Vladimir Putin has weighed in on Elon Musk — and unsurprisingly, he's got some bullish words of praise for the billionaire.

Vladimir Putin Declares His Love for Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing CEO David Calhoun started commuting to work in a private jet, The Wall Street Journal reports, an incredibly wasteful habit.

Boeing CEO Caught Commuting by Private Jet

By Victor Tangermann

The US Copyright Office has refused to hand Jason Allen copyright protection for an award-winning, AI-generated artwork.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Refuses to Copyright Award-Winning AI Artwork

By Victor Tangermann

The Moon quakes just like the Earth — and apparently, the addition of the Apollo 17 base more than 50 years ago made it quake a bit harder.

Site of Moon Landing Became Source of Moon Quakes, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is seemingly limiting access to The New York Times on his platform, and engagement is tanking.

Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Seems to Be Throttling Exposure to Sites He Doesn’t Like on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

America launched a space rocket loaded with satellites whose mission is to spy on any enemy spacecraft above Earth.

Space Force Launches Spy Satellites

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook is secretly developing a powerful new AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4.

Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new biography, Bill Gates became disillusioned with Elon Musk's efforts to colonize Mars and leave a doomed Earth behind.

Bill Gates Says Elon Musk’s Reasoning on Mars and Electric Cars Is Flawed

By Victor Tangermann

Hydrogen and electric truck maker Nikola Motor is running into some serious issues with developing its battery-powered trucks.

Advanced Transport

Another Brand of Electric Trucks Keeps Catching on Fire

By Victor Tangermann

A fellow scientist is not convinced that Harvard's resident UFO-hunter found evidence of interstellar debris at the bottom of the Pacific.

Scientists Says Those Interstellar Debris May Be Something Totally Different

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been over a year since last summer's crypto crashes, and investors who lost on the digital currencies are still licking their wounds.

Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Since landing on the planet back in 2021, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has generated enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours.

NASA Brags That in Just Two Years, It Generated Enough Oxygen for a Small Dog to Breathe for 10 Hours

By Victor Tangermann

An area known as Thacker Pass on the Nevada-Oregon border is home to clay that contain tens of millions of tons of lithium.

Science & Energy

Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest

By Frank Landymore

Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system's translation AI, that price could cost people their freedom.

Artificial Intelligence

ICE Is Using Busted Translation AI That Can’t Understand Detainees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk apparently has a third child with musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher, this one with the fictional-sounding name Techno Mechanicus.

Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus

By Jon Christian

A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."

Scientists Have a Great Idea: Cover Killer Robot in Horrifying Fungus

By Victor Tangermann

What if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours?

James Webb Space Telescope

If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists Notice Our Civilization?

By Victor Tangermann

Computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac spotted a telltale ChatGPT phrase in the paper, and is on a mission to uncover other frauds.

Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It

By Frank Landymore

Nearly a year ago, NASA successfully smashed an asteroid for the first time — but now, the asteroid in question is behaving strangely.

Something Weird Is Going on With the Asteroid NASA Smashed

By Noor Al-Sibai

This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.

The Environmental Warriors at Burning Man Left a Disgusting Mess Behind

By Victor Tangermann

Grindr played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.

Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit When They Were Forced Back to the Office

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rescuers are working to extract Mark Dickey, a 40 year-old American and experienced caver, who fell ill with gastrointestinal bleeding.

Man Stranded In Cave 3,000 Feet Underground After Falling Sick

By Frank Landymore

During a recent mission mapping a habitat off the coast of Alaska, a submersible came across a golden egg. Experts can only guess what it is.

Science & Energy

Scientists Recovered That Golden “Orb” From the Bottom of the Ocean and It Looks Different Now

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted to thwarting a Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet near the Crimean coast by cutting off Starlink internet.

Elon Musk Admits to Sabotaging Ukraine’s Military

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk had to be convinced to renew Tesla's efforts of building a $25,000 car. It may end up looking like the Cybertruck.

Tesla’s $25,000 Car Will Apparently Look Like a Mini Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

51-year-old Reza Baluchi was arrested last week while attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean via rigged-out hamster wheel.

Science & Energy

Florida Man Arrested for Trying to Cross Ocean in “Hamster Wheel”… Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency carefully de-orbited its Aeolus satellite in July. Newly released images reveal its fiery, headlong descent.

Amazing Images Show Final Moments of Satellite Before It Burns Up Completely

By Frank Landymore

Claire "Grimes" Boucher has seemingly claimed that her billionaire baby daddy is not allowing her to see their son.

Grimes Claims Elon Musk Isn’t Letting Her See Their Son

By Noor Al-Sibai

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

Artificial Intelligence

Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In China, two people were detained for damaging a section of the Great Wall of China, which is hundreds of years old.

Workers Detained for Plowing Construction Equipment Through Great Wall of China

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan has, for the first time in its history, succesfully launched a mission to the Moon — and it's unlike any other we've seen before.

Japan Launches Mission to the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto mining company Riot Platforms has revealed that it got $31.7 million in energy credits in August alone for limiting operations.

Crypto Miners’ New Hustle: Get the State to Pay Them to Shut Down When It’s Hot Out

By Victor Tangermann

A fierce debate has erupted over whether it's time to rename A. hitleri, an unfortunate Slovenian beetle named to honor Adolf Hitler.

Science & Energy

Scientists Debate Whether to Rename Bug Named After Adolf Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The indigenous residents of a tiny island off the coast of Panama are being forced to flee as rising waters threaten to engulf their homes.

Science & Energy

Residents Flee Island as It Sinks Into the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk intentionally hamstrung SpaceX's Starlink network to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia's naval fleet near the Crimean coast.

Elon Musk Secretly Manipulated Starlink to Hamstring Ukrainian Attack Against Russia

By Victor Tangermann

An AI pioneer and onetime Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world.

Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese auto giant Toyota has had to shut down all of its factories in the country due to "insufficient disk space."

Advanced Transport

Toyota Factories Shut Down When Company Runs Out of Disk Space

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that the US military is about to launch something big from the Space Force base in Cape Canaveral.

The US Military Is Planning to Secretly Launch Something From Cape Canaveral

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated song featuring the cloned vocals of Drake and the Weeknd has officially been submitted for two Grammys.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Drake Song Submitted for Grammys

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for techie kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected chastity cages has exposed itself online.

Internet Of Things

Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

After making it safely to the lunar surface last month, India's Vikram Moon lander just pulled off its next daring stunt.

India’s Moon Lander Just Took Off Again and Landed in a Different Place

By Victor Tangermann

A 45-year-old man in New Jersey thought it was hilarious to contaminate nearby pools with packets of Sea Dye using a drone.

Man Arrested for Dropping Chemical Into Swimming Pools Using Drone

By Victor Tangermann

India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission rover and lander, Pragyaan and Vikram, are taking a well-earned nap as they await the next lunar sunrise.

India’s Moon Rover Has Gone to Sleep

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent image shows three Tesla Cybertrucks on the back of a car carrier trailer covered in smudges and stains.

Advanced Transport

There’s an Issue With Cybertrucks: They’re Ridiculously Smudgy

By Victor Tangermann

Genomic research suggests that less than 1,300 human ancestors survived this unknown catastrophe for some 117,000 years.

Something Almost Entirely Killed Our Ancient Ancestors, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A California-based biotech company says it has successfully implanted lab-made neurons in Parkinson's patients' brains to stimulate dopamine.

Biotech Company Says It’s Implanted Dopamine-Making Cells in Patients’ Brains

By Noor Al-Sibai

College applicants will soon be using it on their admissions essays — and there's a lot to unpack for colleges.

Oh God… Kids Are About to Start Writing College Application Essays Using ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai