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After leaving Neuralink in 2021, Max Hodak is back with a brain-computer interface startup of his own — and his plans are pretty next-level.

Virtual Reality

Neuralink Cofounder Says New Company’s Eye Implant Could Be “Ultimate” VR Tech

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neill Blomkamp, director of 2009's "District 9," was apparently shocked to discover that his Tesla had a major malfunction.

The Director of “District 9” Says His Tesla’s Window Spontaneously Shattered For No Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German driver has lost his license after seemingly falling asleep while his Tesla drove down the Autobahn with its Autopilot feature turned on.

Tesla Autopilot Leads Cops on High Speed Chase While Driver Completely Passed Out

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter's offices in San Francisco are quickly turning into a smelly, body odor-infested rat's nest, The New York Times reported last week.

Twitter HQ Marinates in Stench After Elon Musk Fires Janitors, Forces Engineers Back to Office

By Victor Tangermann

At a certain point, everyone's gonna get tired of the internet — or so goes the argument of one of the people who pioneered the web.

Professor Predicts That This Whole Internet Thing Will Soon Blow Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

The agency will buy at least 45,000 electric "Next Generation Delivery Vehicles," plus a minimum of another 21,000 EVs provided by commercial automakers.

Electric Vehicles

US Postal Service Buying 66,000 Electric Vehicles, Plans to Only Buy EVs By 2026

By Frank Landymore

Swatting is bad enough, but now, these sorts of dangerous trolls are using Ring cameras to make this crime that much worse.

Fiends Allegedly Swatted Victims, Use Hacked Ring Cameras to Livestream It

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's InSight Lander has persevered for four years, but it may actually be drawing to its final end this time, despite rumblings of its demise before.

Dramatic NASA Mars Lander Insists It’s Dying For Real This Time

By Frank Landymore

The acclaimed director says he's put an end to the endless fan debate "once and for all," and that we'll soon see the results in an upcoming special.

James Cameron Says He Commissioned a Scientific Study on Whether Jack Could Have Survived in “Titanic”

By Frank Landymore

Tesla customers are becoming wary of being in any way associated with the company's CEO Elon Musk, after weeks of antics and problematic behavior.

People Are Canceling Tesla Orders Because They’re So Disgusted With Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

In a seemingly chaotic court hearing on Monday, SBF "leaned back with his eyes closed" and had to be "awakened by a court official," according to Reuters.

Sam Bankman-Fried Caught Either Sleeping or Resting His Eyes in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, sprung a leak. Officials have now identified a hole following an inspection.

International Space Station

Russia Finds Hole in Spacecraft Docked to International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A Utah Republican is clearly having a normal one with his introduction of a new bill that would essentially ban internet porn in the United States.

Senator Introduces Bill That Would Effectively Make Porn Illegal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former president Donald Trump absolutely grotesque NFT "trading cards," which sold for $99 each, were allegedly plagiarized. Cheers.

It Turns Out Trump’s Wretched NFTs Were Plagiarized

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Your robot vacuums are watching you — and it's possible for the photos and videos to be leaked online without your consent.

Artificial Intelligence

Intimate Photos by Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of deposits forming "mysterious shapes" inside massive craters.

Orbiter Discovers “Mysterious Shapes” Inside Mars Craters

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's lunar mission has lost one its cube-shaped satellite entourage, which over the weekend shot out of the Moon's orbit.

Dead Artemis Spacecraft Careens Out of Lunar Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Not every college professor out there is convinced that "we’re witnessing the death of the college essay in real time" thanks to ChatGPT.

Professors Say ChatGPT Is Writing Terrible Papers That Would Get Failing Grades

By Victor Tangermann

John Carmack has quit his advisory position at Meta — and took to the social network to blast his now-ex-boss on his way out the door.

John Carmack Quits Job Building Metaverse, Blasts Facebook

By Noor Al-Sibai

PepsiCo, Tesla's first Semi truck customer, plans to roll out 100 Semis next year, but is only completing 100 mile trips with beverages on board.

Tesla Semis’ Range May Fall Drastically When Hauling Things Heavier Than Potato Chips

By Victor Tangermann

Robodogs can be both cute and scary, and now researchers in Korea say they've developed one that can climb walls and ceilings faster than its rivals.

We’re Deeply Alarmed By This Robodog That Can Climb Up Walls

By Frank Landymore

A form of red giant known as red clumps have been founding to be "glitching" in their cores at an alarmingly high proportion.

Astronomers Intrigued by Certain Stars That Are “Glitching”

By Frank Landymore

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is in damage control mode after appearing in a TV ad for the since-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Shaq Says It’s Not His Fault He Accidentally Shilled for FTX

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is very pleased with just how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in September.

NASA Pleased With the Degree to Which It Kicked This Asteroid’s A**

By Victor Tangermann

A giant aquarium in Berlin has exploded in the lobby of a hotel, spilling out hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and the 1,500 fish inside of it.

Huge Aquarium Bursts, Spills Tropical Fish And Injures Bystanders

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artists on the online community ArtStation have flooded the website with anti-AI logos in a mass protest, potentially screwing with future AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

Artists Mass Protest Against AI Stealing Their Work By Sharing Anti-AI Logo

By Frank Landymore

In a viral video, an uber-expensive F-35 jet bounces weirdly on the runway before ejecting the fighter pilot inside — and man, is it freaky to watch.

Advanced Transport

Watch a Pilot Get Ejected From an F-35 Jetfighter Right as It Crashes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's third largest investor and self-professed Elon Musk "fanboy" KoGuan Leo is calling for the company's embattled CEO to step down.

One of Tesla’s Largest Shareholders Calls to Ditch Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

A smartwatch powered by slime mold is already pretty weird, but how about the truly unique dynamic that creates between a user and the watch?

Bizarre Smartwatch Contains Living Organism

By Frank Landymore

Things seem to be going really well for Elon Musk, who reportedly brought his former supermodel mother to a recent client meeting.

Elon Musk Brought His Mommy to a Big Business Meeting For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, is rapidly heating up after it sprayed copious amounts of coolant into space.

Russia Alarmed as Spacecraft Heats Up After Coolant Sprays Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

Two years after selling off its self-driving car business, Uber is rolling out a fleet of delivery robots to replace human Uber Eats drivers in Miami.

Advanced Transport

Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers

By Victor Tangermann

The Flat Earthers have struck again — and this time, they're pondering why cities don't plummet into space when they're on the planet's "bottom."

Science & Energy

Flat Earthers Puzzled by Why People Don’t Fall Off “Bottom” of Globe

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Judas figure has emerged in the epic fall from grace of former cryptocurrency exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: former co-CEO Ryan Salame.

Judas Identified in FTX Last Supper

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Image of Volcano-Covered Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has once again sold an insanely large amount of Tesla stock post-Twitter purchase — even as the EV maker's stock value continues to go down.

Elon Musk Quietly Unloads Billions in Tesla Shares as Price Plummets

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news for astronauts looking to go home: their ride back, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, suddenly started leaking uncontrollably.

International Space Station

Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS Sprays Fluid Into Space, Seemingly Struck by Micrometeorite

By Frank Landymore

Genius Creates Chatbot to Argue Eternally With Customer Service For You

Artificial Intelligence

GPT-Powered Chatbot Pesters Comcast Until They Give You a Discount

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the court of public opinion, SBF is certainly not beating the allegations — though the most recent scoop about him deepens his myserious vibe.

In High School, SBF Reportedly Printed $100 Bills With His Face on Them Called “Bankmans”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese regulators have issued regulations aimed at banning the creation of any AI-generated media including deepfakes that isn't clearly labeled.

Artificial Intelligence

China Just Outlawed AI-Generated Media That Isn’t Clearly Labeled

By Victor Tangermann

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao wants everyone to know that it's totally normal and fine that people are rushing to withdraw from Binance, thank you very much.

Binance CEO Says Everything Is Fine as Withdrawals Surge To $3 Billion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following a "major breakthrough" in the field of fusion energy, the US Department of Energy is investing in the development of a pilot fusion plant.

Scientists Now Plotting First Fusion Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has refused to pay the rent for Twitter's San Francisco HQ for several weeks now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Squatter Elon Musk Reportedly No Longer Paying Rent at Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After its splashdown in the Pacific, NASA's Orion spacecraft, back from beyond the Moon, is now on solid ground, and it's looking pretty burned.

Advanced Transport

Close Up Shows Charred NASA Capsule After Returning From the Moon

By Frank Landymore

With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.

Scientists Release Audio of NASA Rover Getting Swallowed by a 387 Foot Dust Devil On Mars

By Frank Landymore

A lawsuit filed against Tesla alleges it misled consumers by claiming its cars are self-driving, to which Tesla's lawyers retort: well, it's not fraud.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Lawyers Say Failure to Deliver Self-Driving Isn’t Technically Fraud

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk has used his platform to falsely insinuate that Yoel Roth, forced to flee his home, was implicit in a partisan muzzling of former president Trump.

Former Twitter Employee Flees Home After Elon Musk Whips Up Mob

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space startup Sierra Space intentionally blew up a prototype inflatable space station module to see how much punishment it can take.

Experimental Inflatable Space Station Segment Explodes Violently

By Victor Tangermann

The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him

By Frank Landymore

A new report alleges that ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison were in a secret groupchat called "Wirefraud."

SBF and Caroline Ellison Allegedly Had a Secret Groupchat Called “Wirefraud”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man was spotted riding on top of what appears to be a SpaceX Dragon capsule bobbing in the water while being towed off the coast of Port Canaveral.

Guy Spotted Riding on SpaceX Spacecraft As It’s Being Towed in the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Star Trek alum George Takei, handily — and eloquently — eviscerated Twitter CEO Elon Musk's recent dive into far-right conspiracies.

Beloved Actor George Takei Absolutely Skewers Elon Musk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Who better than to call Elon Musk out on extremely gross, transphobic behavior than fellow Space Dude and Outspoken Guy, former US astronaut Scott Kelly?

Elon Musk Rages as NASA Astronaut Calls Out His Transphobia and Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A lawsuit is alleging that Yuga Labs conspired to inflate the worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs through undisclosed celebrity endorsements.

Huge List of Celebs Accused of Taking Secret Payments to Shill Bored Apes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot is seemingly abysmal at coming up with entertaining puns that don't make you groan like a bad dad joke.

OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter owner Elon Musk might have a new way to solve his App Store problem: just charge iOS users 30 percent extra for a Twitter Blue subscription.

Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Captures Its First Look At Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon

By Frank Landymore

fbi-apple-new-encryption-deeply-concerning

The FBI Says Apple’s New Encryption Is “Deeply Concerning”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Tom Exton, a YouTuber and car collector, says he was driving his Tesla Model Y only for fifteen minutes before it powered down.

Man Says His Brand New Tesla Trapped Him Inside and Its Emergency Latch Broke the Window

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to one prudent local in Wyoming, we now to get to behold a rare and extremely picturesque Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud.

Science & Energy

Please Take a Moment and Enjoy This Beautifully Peaceful Cloud Formation

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's New Chatbot Fantasizes About Obsolete Creatives Starving

OpenAI’s New System Fantasizes About Artists and Writers Starving to Death After Losing Their Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

A longtime janitor at Twitter's San Francisco HQ claims he was told by a member of the Elon Musk team that soon, robots would be taking over their jobs.

Fired Twitter Janitor Says Elon Musk Crony Told Him He’d Be Replaced Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai