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Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, new research suggests.

Dolphins Are Screaming Because of Underwater Drilling Noise, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jimmy "Mr. Beast" Donaldson, the youth-beloved YouTuber, thinks that we'll live for a few hundred years. At the very least, a could 130 or so.

Science & Energy

Mr. Beast Hopeful That Science Will Let Him Live Several Hundred Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Congress has reportedly rejected the Army's request for $400 million to fund the purchase of more Microsoft AR Hololens goggles.

Congress Rejects Funding the Military’s Microsoft AR Goggles Because They Made Soldiers Sick

By Victor Tangermann

Given SpaceX's recent progress, CEO Elon Musk's latest promise that Starship will attempt to go orbital "soon" might actually signal an imminent attempt.

Elon Musk Promises Starship Will Attempt Orbital Launch “Soon”

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon has admitted that it has recently investigated hundreds more of what the government refers to as "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs.

The Pentagon Just Quietly Released a Report About Hundreds of New UFO Sightings

By Noor Al-Sibai

Virgin Orbit has sheepishly admitted that its latest rock-themed mission experienced an anomalous failure shortly after lift-off.

Virgin Orbit Admits That Its Rolling Stones-Themed Mission Disintegrated After Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Having an AI "waifu" is bad enough — but being forced to kill her off because you've grown too obsessed with it is another entirely.

Artificial Intelligence

A Programmer Created an AI “Waifu” But His Real Girlfriend Forced Him to Kill It

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA just found a second Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby dwarf star, and it may, the agency notes, potentially be habitable.

NASA Just Discovered an Earth-Like Habitable Planet Orbiting a Nearby Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla driver "hit the accelerator instead of the brake, drove through a wall and into a pool," according to a tweet by the Pasadena Fire Department.

Tesla Smashes Through Wall, Lands in Swimming Pool

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.

NASA Considers Surfing the Lakes of Saturn’s Moon With an Autonomous Airplane

By Victor Tangermann

The Iranian state is likely using facial recognition as a tool of tracking down and penalizing the women for rejecting the state's hijab law.

Iran Apparently Using Facial Recognition to Catch Women Breaking Hijab Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In new bankruptcy court filings reviewed by Insider, FTX reportedly unveiled exactly how much equity quarterback Tom Brady had in the exchange.

Tom Brady Apparently Lost an Ungodly Amount of Money in the FTX Crash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An autonomous vehicle industry group seems mighty mad that we, like everyone else, call Tesla's "Full-Self Driving" feature exactly what it is.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Industry Group Not Happy That We Referred to Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” Feature as “Self Driving”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bot account has informed the world that new Twitter czar Elon Musk has unfollowed both his own brother and one of the mothers of his children.

Elon Musk Unfollows the Mother of His Children, and His Own Brother, on Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

After its crucial NOTAM system stopped processing new notices, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stopped all domestic flights from departing.

Computer Glitch Forced FAA to Ground All Flights Across the US

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news, folks — if this decorated philosopher/theoretical physicist is to be believed, we may not be living in a simulation after all.

Professor Insists That We Actually DON’T Live in a Simulation

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."

Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest upwards of $10 billion into the AI company and use its products in its Office suite.

Microsoft Working on Deal to Add OpenAI’s GPT Into MS Word

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia's space agency has announced it will rescue two stranded cosmonauts currently stuck on board of the ISS with an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft next month.

Russia Announces Plan to Rescue Stranded Cosmonauts

By Victor Tangermann

Introducing: Mech "The Bot" Johnson, a human-driven, 9,000-pound, 13-foot-tall, 18-foot-wide robot "bouncer," deployed by a Las Vegas strip club during CES.

Robots and Machines

Strip Club Gets Huge Exoskeleton Suit to Turn Bouncers Into Hulking Behemoths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk can now be proud of the fact that he's officially the record holder for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history."

Elon Musk Sets Guinness World Record for Losing the Most Money

By Frank Landymore

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has its eyes set on banning new gas stove products in the wake a of new study that links it to childhood asthma.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Considering a Ban on Gas Stoves

By Frank Landymore

New footage just dropped of a Tesla self-driving accident that caused a pileup on the San Francisco Bay Bridge and resulted in a toddler being injured.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Tesla Causes Eight-Vehicle Crash, Injures Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that the T-Rex didn't just have loads of teeth, but plenty of neurons — enough to make them the "primates of their time."

In Terrifying News, Big Brained T-Rex May Have Been as Smart as Primates

By Frank Landymore

SBF reportedly used FTX money to support a lavish lifestyle for himself and his inner circle, spending tens of millions on luxury housing, hotels, and food.

Sam Bankman-Fried Reportedly Lived in Astonishing Opulence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An expensive robodog that was trawling the streets of Brisbane late at night got the crap kicked out of it for no reason by a belligerant Aussie.

Expensive Robodog Walks Down Street, Gets Viciously Stomped By Belligerent Australian

By Noor Al-Sibai

A derelict NASA satellite called Earth Radiation Budget Satellite has plummeted back to Earth after spending almost four decades in orbit.

Derelict NASA Satellite Crashes Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The creators of the Replika "companion" app are successfully getting their cringey ads in front of the eyes of lonely users.

Artificial Intelligence

Social Media Users Alarmed by Relentless Ads for AI That Sexts With Lonely People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Richard Branson says that Elon Musk surprised him in his kitchen at 2am, hours before Branson's first trip to Almost Space with Virgin Galactic.

Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You may be shocked to discover that Facebook once tried to build a railroad. The project failed terribly, leaving Bay Area communites hanging.

Facebook Tried to Open a Railroad, Failed Miserably

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

Russia Slaps Down Plan for SpaceX to Rescue NASA Astronaut Stranded By Leaking Soyuz Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Meet Neuro-sama, the adorable AI anime Twitch streamer who has learned how to speak edgelord and appears to deny that the Holocaust happened.

Artificial Intelligence

Cutesy AI Live Streamer Goes Off the Rails, Denies Holocaust

By Noor Al-Sibai

Caroline Ellison, the weirdest figure in the FTX collapse, made some great points a decade ago in a column she wrote as a high school senior.

Here’s Caroline Ellison’s Advice to Her Younger Self as a High School Senior

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "robot lawyer" known for helping people get out of parking tickets is looking to take its chatbot to the Supreme Court — and will pay you to help.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Let This Startup’s “Robot Lawyer” Represent You in the Supreme Court, It’ll Give You $1 Million

By Noor Al-Sibai

Beyond the new Louisiana porn law's overt data risks and air of surveillance, the state has another serious problem: the so-called blockade doesn't work.

There’s a Ridiculously Easy Way to Bypass Louisiana’s New Porn Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla owner bragged about using his vehicle's Full Self-Driving feature to drive home while drunk — a worrying confession that should give anybody pause.

Guy Brags That His Tesla Drove Him Home When He Was Too Drunk to Drive

By Victor Tangermann

The New York City Department of Education doesn't want its kids using the AI chatbot that's capable of writing essays on its own.

ChatGPT Officially Banned from NYC Schools. Related: Good Luck With That

By Frank Landymore

A startup has developed a pillow that they say detects and corrects snoring while a user is sleeping, no mouthguard or breathing machine required.

Startup Shows Off Pillow That Detects Snoring and Automatically Adjusts Your Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian robotics startup Robotor has crafted a machine that is just as good at creating marble masterpieces out of Carrara marble than human artists.

Italy Invents Robot That Carves Sculptures Out of Marble Like Michelangelo

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is finally offering its Model S and X with a round steering wheel instead of limiting options for both vehicles to a controversial steering "yoke."

Tesla Sighs and Lets Customers Have a Normal Steering Wheel Instead of Weird Misshapen Yoke Thing

By Victor Tangermann

Digital artist Ben Moran only wanted to share their latest art work on r/Art, Reddit's largest subreddit, but moderators quickly shut them down.

Artificial Intelligence

Artist Says They Were Banned Because Their Art Looked Like AI, Even Though They’re Human

By Frank Landymore

Pepsi acquired its batch of all-electric Tesla Semi semi-trucks last month, and it didn't take long for one to be spotted being carried by a flatbed.

Tesla Semi That Pepsi Just Bought Already Needs to Be Towed

By Frank Landymore

China's Zhurong rover might be in big trouble well over a year and a half into its stint on the Martian surface.

Something Is Reportedly Wrong With China’s Mars Rover

By Victor Tangermann

In response to some pretty serious complaints from grunts, the US Army is ordering a redesign of its super-expensive Microsoft mixed-reality headsets.

Virtual Reality

US Army Buying Microsoft AR After Soldiers Said They “Would Have Gotten Us Killed”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed budget TV maker TCL has unveiled its latest TCL's X2 AR glasses capable of translating conversations in real time, but they're a little... big.

Virtual Reality

New AR Glasses Translate Conversations in Real Time

By Frank Landymore

In spite of being founded as a humanity-benefitting non-profit, OpenAI now appears to be doing the opposite with a multi-billion-dollar investment offer.

OpenAI Was Founded to Counter Bad AI, Now Worth Billions as It Does The Opposite

By Noor Al-Sibai

Toilet paper is a pretty baseline office ask. But apparently, those remaining at Elon Musk-owned Twitter's New York HQ are privy to no such luxury.

Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk for Toilet Paper as Horrid Stench Seeps From Bathroom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering how much weight Tesla's still-unreleased cybertruck can pull? Apparently, the answer is "near infinite."

Tesla Mocked for Claiming Cybertruck Can Pull “Near Infinite Mass”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Patients had their holiday spirits quashed and were unfairly distressed by the accidental mass text sent just two days before Christmas.

Doctor Accidentally Messages Patients to Say They Have Aggressive Cancer

By Frank Landymore

A video posted by an account called Detroit Tesla shows a driver slipping and sliding on the city's snow-covered roads with Full Self-Driving turned on.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Tesla on Full Self-Driving Failing Miserably on Snowy Road

By Victor Tangermann

An Elon superfan was moved by Musk's claims that the Cybertruck could be a boat, so he decided to file a trademark for boats and planes on Tesla's behalf.

Elon Musk Fan Files Trademark for Tesla Boats and Planes Without Telling Tesla

By Frank Landymore

A newly-detected green comet is about to do a flyby near Earth — and it may be visible to the naked eye if conditions are just right.

A Super Rare Green Comet Is About to Pass By the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Disgraced astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is trying to claim that one of his old tweets was doctored — but he's either wrong, or lying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Says He Never Tweeted This Thing That He Definitely Tweeted

By Noor Al-Sibai

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler was able to impersonate US senator Edward Markey with a verified Twitter account — and it's not the first time.

It’s Still Easy to Impersonate a Senator on Twitter After Elon Musk Promised Verification Was Fixed

By Victor Tangermann

Paper and wood product manufacturer Stora Enso has commissioend engineers to build anodes for batteries using lignin from wood pulp.

Science & Energy

Engineers Experimenting With Batteries Made Using Wood Waste

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at Caltech are about to test their Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which could help determine the future of space-based solar power.

Caltech Launches Solar Array to Test Beaming Energy Down to Earth

By Frank Landymore

28-year-old Georgia man Randal Reid was thrown in jail for nearly a week based on a facial recognition match that should've been obvious was false.

Man Accuses Cops of Throwing Him in Jail Based on False Facial Recognition Match

By Frank Landymore

Coinbase has agreed to a $100 million settlement with New York financial regulators for failing to ensure that it can't be used for fraud, money laundering.

Coinbase Fined Millions for Facilitating Fraud and Money Laundering

By Victor Tangermann

According to officials, a man intentionally drove his Tesla off a 250-foot cliff in California in an alleged attempt to murder his family.

Man Allegedly Drives Tesla Off 250 Foot Cliff on Purpose, But Whole Family Survives

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that Twitter has taken to suspending space-watching journalists for posting rockets, which is an integral part of their jobs.

Twitter Suspends Multiple Space Journalists for Posting Rockets

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report by The Information has shed light on Apple's hotly-anticipated mixed reality headset — and it sounds like a pretty quirky device.

Virtual Reality

Apple VR Headset Will Apparently Have Display Facing Outward to Show the User’s Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.

Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an Alien Signal

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have come up with a new theory that could allow for objects to go faster than the speed of light.

Traveling Faster Than Light Would Mean Experiencing Multiple Timelines Simultaneously

By Victor Tangermann