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Burning Man festivalgoers have been told to "shelter in place" amid massive rainstorms that led to unsafe mud conditions.

Science & Energy

Burning Man Descends Into Chaos as Attendees Told to “Shelter in Place”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious pulsar that is launching accreted matter from its companion star like "cosmic cannonballs."

Dead Star Devouring Rival, Using Its Flesh to Shoot “Cosmic Cannonballs”

By Victor Tangermann

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red.

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is looking to take wearable tech to the next level with its AI-powered backpack patent that would be able to spy on you.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents Bizarre AI-Powered Backpack, Bristling With Sensors

By Noor Al-Sibai

The NYPD plans to use its drone fleet to surveil large crowds this Labor Day weekend, including those congregating at private backyard events.

The NYPD Says It’s Going to Spy on Labor Day Parties Using Drones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pentagon's UFO office has launched a website featuring all its declassified UFO videos — but proof of aliens will have to wait.

Pentagon Launches Website to Watch Declassified UFO Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fred Lambert, editor in chief of a Tesla and EV enthusiast blog, says that Full Self-Driving tried to veer him off the road at highway speed.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Perturbed When Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Kill Him on the Highway

By Frank Landymore

Research suggests wild boars in Germany have become contaminated with radioactive fallout that dates back to the Cold War.

Science & Energy

Scientists Investigate Why Wild Boars Are So Radioactive

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's much ridiculed avatars now have legs but they are only available in Horizon Home and can only be viewed in third person.

Zuckerberg Has Been Working on Metaverse Legs This Whole Time

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have revealed that people who smoke marijuana have high levels of cadmium and lead in their bodies.

Scientists Find That Weed Is Leaving Heavy Metals in Your Body

By Sharon Adarlo

Steve Williams, VFX bigwig, predicts a 100 percent AI movie will be released to the public, who won't suspect it's completely fake.

Artificial Intelligence

Iconic CGI Artist Says Soon There’ll Be a Totally AI-Generated Movie

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spotted the likely remains of Russia's crash-landed Luna-25 lander on the surface below.

NASA Orbiter Spots Wreckage Where Russia Crashed Into Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A man has been sentenced to death for tweets critical of his government — and self-professed free speech absolutist Elon Musk is silent.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Has Nothing to Say About Man Sentenced to Death for Tweeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing more than 2,200 arbitration cases and could be on the hook for more than $3.5 million in legal fees.

Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees May Be Backfiring Spectacularly

By Sharon Adarlo

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, one of the more prominent architects of our planet's doom, says that humanity is likely to miss 2050 climate goals.

Exxon Mobil Predicts Climate Efforts Will Fail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you had "scientists discover spooky golden orb at the site of an ancient underwater volcano" on your 2023 bingo card, boy, are you in luck.

Scientists Find Strange Golden Object at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If the Kremlin were to be believed, there was nothing wrong with its lunar lander's demise. Officials are seeing the crash as a rallying cry.

Russia Says It’s Actually Good That Its Lander Crashed Into the Moon and Blew Up

By Victor Tangermann

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

By Frank Landymore

DABUS is fully autonomous, argues its creator Stepher Thaler, and anything that it creates should be patentable. The courts don't agree.

Artificial Intelligence

Inventor Claims His AI Is Sentient, Fights to Copyright Its Creations

By Frank Landymore

The brain geniuses at the Pentagon have decided that a good use of the taxpayer dollar is to attach rifles onto the backs of robot dogs.

US Army Brags About Plans to Mount Rifle on Robot Dog

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly building a glass house in Austin, Texas, using funds he might be siphoning from his carmaker.

Elon Musk, Renowned for Throwing Stones, Accused of Building Glass House With Company Funds

By Victor Tangermann

If you're considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, you might want to reconsider shopping for your beginner's guide on Amazon.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have estimated that approximately 1 billion people will die this century from various disasters driven by global warming.

The Death Toll From Climate Change Will Be Catastrophic, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

While on an Arctic cruise, Martha Stewart and company harvested a "small iceberg" to make cocktails with. Hi, climate dystopia!

Science & Energy

Martha Stewart Harvests Small Iceberg for Swank Cocktails

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than a year into the AI boom and startups are already having to grapple with what may become an industry reckoning.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

The NHTSA has ordered Tesla to hand over any data it has about a hidden Autopilot configuration dubbed "Elon mode," which shuts off alerts.

Tesla in Trouble Over “Elon Mode” That Turns Off Autopilot Safety Features

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of flagrantly breaking state law, Elon Musk won't be fined by local police for his live-streamed self-driving stunt.

Cops Say They Won’t Ticket Elon Musk for Driving While on the Phone

By Noor Al-Sibai

An impatient gamer criticized the graphics of what they expected to be in-game screenshots from "Starfield." They were real images from Mars.

Guy Complains Images From Video Game Look Bad, But They’re Real NASA Photos of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that its Pragyaan lunar lander has discovered sulfur near the lunar south pole.

Hellish! Indian Rover Detects Sulfur at Moon’s South Pole

By Victor Tangermann

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.

Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with a tiny, micrometer-thin battery that can store energy from human tears to power smart contact lenses.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Devise Way to Power Smart Contact Lens With Human Tears

By Victor Tangermann

India's small, six-wheeled lunar rover recently encountered an obstacle on the Moon's surface in the form of a ten-foot crater.

India Prevents Moon Rover From Falling Into Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk most certainly has his fanboys — but it appears that the adherents of one first-person-shooter roleplaying game are not among them.

Huge Crowd of Gamers Boos Elon Musk for Ruining Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Avi Loeb, Harvard's premiere alien hunter, has become the first person to ever analyze an object from outside of our Solar System.

Alien Hunting Scientist Says He Found Something Extremely Interesting at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has officially launched a new business-friendly version of its popular AI chatbot called ChatGPT Enterprise.

OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Processed coffee grounds could also help cut down the environmental impact of extracting sand by partially replacing it in concrete mixtures.

Science & Energy

Adding Waste Coffee Grounds Makes Concrete 30 Percent Stronger

By Frank Landymore

An entire crowd of people lined up and even started holding up traffic earlier this week — to gaze at Saturn through a telescope.

Man Sets Up Telescope in NYC, Attracts Huge Crowd Letting People Peer Into It

By Victor Tangermann

Debris from the rocket's obliterated launchpad was blasted up to half a mile from the launchpad, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX’s Botched Starship Launch Left Wildlife Officials Stunned

By Frank Landymore

A fascinating new video released by the Indian space agency show the country's lunar lander rolling down to the surface.

Amazing Footage Shows Indian Rover Ramping Down to the Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.

The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

By Frank Landymore

India is making history in huge ways as it joins the small list of countries to go to the Moon and becomes the first on the lunar south pole.

India Releases First Ever Rover on Moon’s South Pole

By Noor Al-Sibai

The International Space Station fired its thrusters to avoid incoming space junk yet again, a worrying sign the problem is getting worse.

Space Station Forced to Dodge Space Junk Again

By Victor Tangermann

Feeling lonely, a writer decided to create an AI boyfriend only to find him shallow, increasingly annoying and clingy.

Artificial Intelligence

Woman Creates AI Boyfriend, Finds It Clingy and Irritating

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk reminded workers that defects on the Cybertruck "shows up like a sore thumb" and demanded tolerances in the "single digit microns."

Elon Musk Sounds Mad About the Cybertruck Looking Sloppy in Leaked Email

By Frank Landymore

The junk-on-junk collision created even more space junk, not to mention a headache for the scientists working on the ESA's clean up mission.

Attempt to Clean Up Space Junk Foiled When Cleanup Target Hit by Even More Space Junk

By Frank Landymore

Zoom CEO said some employees need to return to office work because remote work is not conducive to fostering innovation or building trust.

In Leaked Tirade, CEO of Zoom Complains You Can’t Get Anything Done on Zoom

By Sharon Adarlo

Sam Bankman-Fried is apparently having a really bad time in jail because they won't give him proper food or medication.

Sam Bankman-Fried Complains Jail Is Serving Him “Flesh Meals”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The historic success of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission also makes it the first nation to softly land near the Moon's south pole.

India Just Became the Fourth Ever Country to Land on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

Plumes of methane were spotted over Blue Origin's facility in West Texas by an instrument on board the International Space Station.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Tests Spew Enough Methane to be Spotted From Space

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a new technique that filters out microplastics from drinking water — and its ingredients are all plant-based.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9 Percent of Microplastics From Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is selling a cardboard cat bed in China that looks almost exactly like another cat bed sold by another company.

Tesla’s Cat Bed Design Appears to Be Stolen

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces on the internet, is making royalty fees to artists an option instead of making them mandatory.

OpenSea Is Dropping Royalties to Artists as Crisis Deepens

By Sharon Adarlo

A psychologist suggests we should eliminate elections altogether and pick our leaders by lottery because the leaders chosen will be better.

Professor Suggests Replacing Elections in US With Lottery System

By Sharon Adarlo

Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.

Science & Energy

Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week

By Victor Tangermann

For weeks, hackers have been targeting major telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, forcing scientists to suspend all observations.

Mysterious Hackers Are Targeting Space Telescopes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is funding an AI-powered personal assistant app for parents called Milo, which is currently in beta mode.

OpenAI Is Funding an App for Parents to Manage Kids’ Lives

By Sharon Adarlo

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.

Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

By Frank Landymore

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter owner Elon Musk has admitted what we all suspect: that under his leadership, the site may not thrive after all.

Elon Musk Admits Twitter May Be Failing Under His Leadership

By Noor Al-Sibai

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate psychedelic mushrooms on a recent trip to China, but did not know they had hallucinogenic properties.

Science & Energy

US Treasury Secretary Says She Didn’t Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were Psychedelic

By Sharon Adarlo

When a reporter asked the director of JPL if she had ever seen or had knowledge of alien crafts, she laughed and said no.

NASA’s JPL Director Weighs in on Those UFO Hearings

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers concluded that you only need 22 colonists to survive and successfully maintain a Mars colony.

Mars Frontier Outpost Could Survive With Just 22 Residents, Researchers Say

By Victor Tangermann

NASA director of facilities Erik Weiser warned on Thursday that the space agency's facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."

NASA Complains That Its Buildings Are Falling Apart

By Frank Landymore