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In a brutal new Bloomberg poll, Tesla owners' opinion of CEO Elon Musk appear to have also turned increasingly negative

Poll Finds That Tesla Drivers Increasingly Can’t Stand Elon Musk

By Sharon Adarlo

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!

Science & Energy

Chinese Zoo Denies Their Bear Is a Dude in a Bear Costume

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has made a huge booboo, accidentally cutting all communications to the second most distant spacecraft from Earth.

NASA Accidentally Cuts Contact With Voyager 2

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a detailed computer stimulation that models the flow of heat and energy inside massive stars.

Amazing Simulation Shows What’s Happening Inside Stars

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a small celestial object shaped almost perfectly like a question mark.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Spots Giant Question Mark in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.

Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice

By Victor Tangermann

San Franciscans are already bidding adieu to the strobing "X" sign that sat atop the Twitter headquarters for three days.

Elon Forced to Remove Strobing “X” Sign From Twitter Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

Germany, France, and the UK are all investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's company Worldcoin, which scans irises into a database.

Multiple Countries Investigating Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 24-year-old man jumped off a dock for a swim, got electrocuted and died in a bizarre incident at Lake Lanier in Georgia.

Science & Energy

Man Jumps Into Lake, Dies From Electrocution

By Sharon Adarlo

Ever wanted to live on Venus? In a few short decades, you can — or that's what the other OceanGate cofounder claims.

OceanGate Cofounder Now Planning Totally Safe Colony Above Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

A secret lab was found with 1,000 mice designed to carry COVID-19, alongside vials of human blood and diseases like malaria and HIV.

Authorities Raid Unlicensed Lab Full of Infectious Diseases

By Sharon Adarlo

James Cameron, a seasoned underwater explorer, admits that his views make him an "outlier" among fellow conservationists.

Science & Energy

James Cameron Supports Deep Sea Mining, Claiming It’s “Less Wrong” Than Mining on Land

By Frank Landymore

According to a seismologist, Taylor Swift's Seattle Eras Tour stop caused, on both nights, 2.3 magnitude earthquakes.

Science & Energy

Taylor Swift “Eras” Tour Registers as Magnitude 2.3 Earthquake, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency appears to be preoccupied with what goes on in astronauts' underwear — and is doing research on it, too.

Europe Worried About Nasty Crotch Situation Among Moon Astronauts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have successfully reanimated the bodies of 46,000-year-old microscopic roundworms they found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.

Scientists Resurrect 46,000 Year Old Worms, Which Instantly Started Reproducing

By Victor Tangermann

Mastercard has instructed payment companies to stop weed payments on its credit cards, as cannabis vendors struggle.

The Killjoys at Mastercard Are Demanding Weed Shops Not Take Their Payments Anymore

By Frank Landymore

A Harvard study says Ivy League universities discriminates against lower income students while preferring to admit people from the top 1%.

Researchers Find That Top Colleges Discriminate Against Low Income Students Even When They’re Just as Smart as Rich Ones

By Sharon Adarlo

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Former Twitter product manager Esther Crawford has taken to the platform to air all her grievances about CEO Elon Musk and his mood swings.

Former Twitter Manager Describes Elon Musk’s Sudden Swings to Rage

By Victor Tangermann

Shortly after being reported missing, the dismembered remains of a crypto influencer were found in a suitcase outside of Bueno Aires.

Crypto Investor Found Dismembered in a Suitcase

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet Magnecko, a four-legged and absolutely terrifying new robot that can Spiderman up walls and across ceilings using its magnetic feet.

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With this July on track to be the hottest month ever, the UN is warning that we've moved past global warming as the planet begins to boil.

UN Warns That We’ve Gone Beyond Global Warming and Into “Global Boiling”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The population of Japanese residents dropped by over 800,000, new government data shows, as deaths reached a record high.

Japan’s Population Is Plummeting at an Astonishing Rate

By Frank Landymore

A new exposé alleges that Tesla rigged its battery range readouts and conspired to cancel service appointments with furious customers.

Elon Musk Accused of Faking Tesla Battery Range

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.

NASA Signs Deal for Nuclear-Powered Rocket That Will Eventually Power Mars Missions

By Frank Landymore

The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.

FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX’s Next Starship Orbital Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

According to a May study, ancient rock samples show that the widely-accepted theory explaining Earth's Avalon explosion might be all wrong.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The guy behind OpenAI has admitted that people are, in fact, going to lose work to artificial intelligence.

Sam Altman Says Sorry, AI Is Definitely Destroying Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are positing that Mars' giant Olympus Mons volcano, which is roughly the size of France, may once have been an island.

Huge Martian Volcano Was Once an Island, Scientists Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Indonesia has announced that it blocked the domain "X.com," which reportedly used to host "negative" adult and gambling-related content.

Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing

By Victor Tangermann

While Elon Musk was busy dismantling Twitter, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was studying jiu-jitsu — and has the blue belt to show for it.

As Elon Musk Destroys Twitter, Zuckerberg Prepares to Destroy Him in Hand-to-Hand Combat

By Noor Al-Sibai

The coast of Florida is being hit hard by heat waves, with one buoy registering 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of a hot tub.

Science & Energy

Florida’s Ocean Now Officially the Temperature of a Hot Tub

By Victor Tangermann

A power outage struck Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, temporarily cutting off comss with the International Space Station.

International Space Station

International Space Station Suffers Comms Blackout Due to Power Outage

By Victor Tangermann

After abruptly changing Twitter's name to "X," Elon Musk has also taken over the handle associated with the letter.

Elon Musk Seizes @X Account From Guy Who Owned It

By Noor Al-Sibai

A US general is getting heat after saying that any AI employed by our military will be better because of our "Judeo-Christian" values.

General Brags That US Military AI Will Be Better Because of “Judeo-Christian” Values

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mile-and-a-half wide swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny toads reportedly overtook a stretch of road in Utah last week.

Science & Energy

Drivers Horrified as Writhing Toads Cover Entire Surface of Road

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new volcano in Iceland has erupted into existence and scientists think it heralds the start of increased volcanic activity in the region.

Science & Energy

New Volcano Bursts Forth in Iceland

By Sharon Adarlo

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists think a rock found in Morocco could the be first known "terrestrial meteorite," basically a meteorite that originated on Earth.

Weird Meteorite Appears to Have Left Earth and Then Come Back

By Sharon Adarlo

While recycling campaigns help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are saying that it's masked the growing waste crisis.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that they can implant false memories by generating deepfake clips of movie remakes that were never actually made.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Implant Subjects With Fake Memories Using Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

For the second month running, the UN's security watchdog found anti-personnel mines inside Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Russia Criticized for Storing Bombs in Nuclear Power Plant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate change experts are watching, horrified that their predictions from many years ago are turning into an overwhelming reality.

Climate Scientists Horrified That Their Predictions Were Correct

By Victor Tangermann

A planet way bigger than Jupiter has just been discovered, and its makeup may be cloudy with a chance of cotton candy.

Scientists Discover Clown Planet With Density of Cotton Candy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lawyers for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried say that it's fine, actually, to leak your ex-girlfriend's diary to the New York Times.

SBF’s Lawyers Say It’s Fine to Leak Your Ex-Girlfriend’s Diary to the New York Times

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cops were called to the Twitter headquarters because crews were trying to remove the Twitter sign without the required permits.

Cops Called as Twitter Tries to Change Sign to “X”

By Sharon Adarlo

There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Netflix reality show has couples watch their partners cheat on them — and then has participants guess whether it was real or deepfaked.

Artificial Intelligence

Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After hastily announcing that Twitter would be rebranding as "X," the rollout has hit some major snags with "x.com" redirection issues.

X.com Is Telling People That It’s “Parked by GoDaddy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have created a stunningly detailed map of the seafloor of the Monterey Canyon.

Science & Energy

New Scan of Seafloor Is So Detailed, You Can See an Individual Crab

By Victor Tangermann

Meet the "facekini," a ski mask of sorts made from UV-resistant fabrics and designed to cover a wearer's entire head and face.

There’s a Hot New Climate Change Accessory: “Facekinis” That Cover Your Entire Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have found that tiny changes in GPS signals could allow us to predict large earthquakes roughly two hours early.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Predict Earthquakes by Analyzing Tiny Changes in GPS Data

By Victor Tangermann

A "smart farm" startup founded by Elon Musk's younger brother Kimbal is shuttering most of its locations and has laid off most of its staff.

Elon Musk’s Brother Just Laid Off Most of His Staff on a Zoom Meeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the release of "Oppenheimer," a new study looks back at the devastating destruction wrought by the atom bomb.

Science & Energy

Oppenheimer’s Atom Bomb Apparently Spread Fallout on 46 US States

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 71-year-old hiker died in Death Valley, California just hours after giving an interview to the Los Angeles Times about his voyage.

Science & Energy

Hiker Dies in Death Valley Hours After Doing Interview With Newspaper

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers just got a $600,000 grant from the Australian government to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.

Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla cybertruck driving through mud in a desert terrain.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck’s Bizarre Windshield Wiper Overwhelmed by Mud While Offroading

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are investigating if sharks are getting high off of bales of cocaine that are landing in the waters off of the coast of Florida.

Science & Energy

Florida Sharks Suspected of Eating Discarded Bales of Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian cops arrested and charged four men for the December kidnapping of a 24-year-old self-described "Crypto King."

Disgruntled Investor Charged With Kidnapping “Crypto King”

By Frank Landymore

The FTX drama continues with news that the DOJ is accusing Sam Bankman-Fried of leaking his ex Caroline Ellison's diary to the NYT.

The Government Is Accusing SBF of Intentionally Leaking His Ex-Girlfriend’s Diary

By Noor Al-Sibai

Annoyed users of the World of Warcraft Reddit decided to trick an AI-written website scraping their content into writing about "Glorbo."

Artificial Intelligence

Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking It Was Real

By Frank Landymore