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According to officils, a ten feet-long piece of insulation peeled away from NASA's Moon rocket while Hurricane Nicole stormed by.

NASA Says Hurricane Nicole Peeled Off Part of Its Huge Moon Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Unidentified hackers have stolen the health records of millions of customers of Australian health insurer Medibank, releasing them on the dark web.

Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Ransom, So Hackers Start Releasing Health Records of Up To 10 Million People

By Frank Landymore

Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor the World Wide Web. He wants a decentralized internet, but thinks Web3 is one proposal we should ignore altogether.

The Guy Who Invented the World Wide Web Thinks We Should “Ignore” Web3

By Frank Landymore

Bug hunter David Schütz discovered that he could unlock any Google Pixel phone without a passcode — but Google were slow to respond.

Guy Discovers a Way to Unlock Any Pixel Phone Without the Passcode

By Frank Landymore

The University of St. Andrews announced the formation of a new research hub, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for first contact.

Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact

By Victor Tangermann

Humans have known about climate change for decades. So why are we choosing to destroy our planet — and with it, ourselves?

Professors Warn of “Horrifying” Self-Destruction of Human Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines

Advanced Transport

Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines

By Frank Landymore

According to reporting by Elektrek, Tesla's solar division is pulling out its solar roof program across the country, with solar employees getting laid off.

Tesla Reportedly Canceling Solar Roof Installations Across the Country

By Frank Landymore

A ranking Tesla employee is taking a role as vice president of SpaceX's Starship production — even though he's under internal investigation.

A Tesla Executive Under Investigation Is Now Working at SpaceX for Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

ABC News reports that Chinese space debris from another one of the nation's Long March 5B rockets was just discovered at sea off the Philippines coastline.

Chinese Space Debris Crashes Down in the Philippines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Divers, who were looking for a WW2 aircraft wreckage off the Florida Space Coast discovered the heat shield remains of NASA's space shuttle Challenger.

Divers Discover Fragment of Challenger Space Shuttle Under Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

In an unprecedented experiment, two teams of scientists have replicated a material that was, until recently, not produced anywhere on Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Reproduce Fascinating, Powerful Material Found in Meteorite

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Disputes Calling Its Inflatable Heat Shield a “Bouncy Castle”

NASA Disputes Calling Its Inflatable Heat Shield a “Bouncy Castle”

By Victor Tangermann

In emails to his new employees, freshly-minted Twitter czar Elon Musk told them that if they don't make money fast, the site may not survive.

Elon Musk Says That Under His Brilliant New Management, Twitter May Go Out of Business

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla has recalled more than 40,000 of its vehicles due to an issue that could cause a loss of power steering in its 2017-2021 Model S and Model X cars

Tesla Issues Software Patch So That Its Cars Don’t Lose Power Steering on Potholes

By Frank Landymore

Welcome to "Nemo's Garden," a beautiful underwater garden off of Italy's Northwestern coast. The underwater greenhouses are called "biospheres."

Science & Energy

Divers Growing Veggies in Underwater Greenhouses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Winds reached 87 knots or 100 mph at the launch pad of NASA's SLS Moon rocket, which may have damaged it.

NASA Inspecting Moon Rocket for Damage From Hurricane Nicole

By Victor Tangermann

Hawaii has a big problem with little fire ants that have begun quite literally raining down on people from above and sting them.

Furious Fire Ants “Rain Down” on Hawaiian Residents and Bite Them in their Sleep

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Hubble Space Telescope captured three magnificent stages of a star right as it exploded — but it's gone unnoticed until now.

NASA Releases Hubble Images of Star Right as It Explodes

By Frank Landymore

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's most important instruments had been offline for months — but it's now been brought back to full functionality.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Fixes Months-Long Issue With James Webb Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

What would happen if the International Space Station was circling the planet at the altitude of an airplane? This video shows what that would look like.

International Space Station

Amazing Video Shows What the ISS Would Look Like If It Flew at the Height of a Jetplane

By Victor Tangermann

The tech industry appears to be bearing the brunt of 2022's economic downturn, with recent and planned layoffs totaling in the tens of thousands.

Big Tech Announced More Than 45,000 Layoffs in Recent Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Months after claiming he was done selling Tesla stock, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold off another $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to filings.

Elon Musk Is Suddenly Selling Tesla Stock Like Crazy

By Victor Tangermann

Per Starlink's new fair use policy, the Elon Musk-owned ISP is about to start throttling users' service if they use over 1TB per month data cap.

Remember SpaceX’s Amazing Starlink Internet? It’s Capping Data Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 135,000 users joined Mastodon, an open-source microblogging platform and alternative to Twitter, within just 24 hours, according to a new graph.

This Graph of New Mastodon Users Per Day Will Flip Your Silly Little Wig

By Victor Tangermann

The value of Bitcoin has slid significantly, and is now hovering at a two-year low, following the news of Binance offering to bail out FTX.

If You Bought Bitcoin in December 2017, You Have Now Lost Money

By Victor Tangermann

It's not a great day over at Meta, where 11,000 people just learned that they're out of a job as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces mass layoffs.

Facebook Is Laying Off 11 THOUSAND Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you caught that MSN story alleging that Grimes took to Twitter to publicly ask ex-boyfriend Elon Musk to pay child support, uncatch it. It's fake.

MSN Ran a Story About Grimes and Elon Musk That’s Completely Fake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

McDonald's has come up with a hideous gaming chair called the "McCrispy," which features "stain-proof leather" and even a French fry holder.

McDonald’s Reveals “Grease-Proof” Gaming Chair for Disgusting Gamers

By Victor Tangermann

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who led one of the biggest exchanges in the world, has lost a stunning 94 percent of his entire net worth in a single day.

Crypto Billionaire Loses 94 Percent of His Wealth in One Day

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for Tesla investors — all that money you dumped into the company at the beginning of the year has been halved amid a major stock selloff.

If You Bought $1,000 in Tesla Stock in January, This Is How Much You’d Have Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A blockchain businessman claims he's burned a priceless Frida Kahlo drawing in service of minting 10,000 NFTs of it. Many aren't sure if it's the real deal.

Blockchain Guy Sets Priceless Drawing on Fire to Mint 10,000 NFTs, Only Sells Four

By Frank Landymore

The NG-18 Cygnus cargo spacecraft has failed to deploy one of its solar arrays during its journey to ressuply the International Space Station.

Advanced Transport

Cargo Spacecraft Breaks Down En Route to Space Station

By Frank Landymore

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.

Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

By Frank Landymore

A dazzling array of fabulously strange deep sea creatures were just discovered off of Australia's Western Coast — some new, some just very rare.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bizarre New Deep Sea Creatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume, has announced plans to buy one of its biggest rivals, FTX, sending ripples throughout the industry.

One of the Biggest Crypto Exchanges Suddenly Implodes, Sells Itself to a Rival

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and ShanghaiTech University have developed a quadruped robot that can walk on its hind legs.

Terrifying! Hacked Robodog Walks on Hind Legs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's uber-expensive Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket is officially back on the launch pad, but the agency is getting nervous about Hurricane Nicole.

NASA Watches Nervously as Hurricane Threatens Exposed Moon Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered a dead magnetar star that appears to have a frozen, crusty outer shell — and no atmosphere, to boot.

Science & Energy

Scientists Startled by Dead Star That Appears to Have a Solid Exterior

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has begun running simulations about how well we could handle an asteroid headed towards Earth — and the results are pretty jarring.

In NASA Simulation, Humankind Dismally Failed to Save Earth From Killer Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earthlings, meet your celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole, which is lying dormant in a nearby binary star system.

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers strapped cameras to tiger sharks and discovered a massive underwater forest of seagrass stretching 35,000 square miles across the seabed.

Scientists Strap Cameras to Sharks and Discover Huge Underwater Forest

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has rolled out its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center yet again.

NASA Rolls Moon Rocket Out to the Pad for Lunar Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Some Twitter employees were reportedly laid off by mistake with management realizing they were needed after all to do Musk's bidding, Bloomberg reports.

Realizing Its Mistake, Twitter Pleads With Fired Employees to Come Back

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to making fun of the man himself, "free speech absolutist" and new Twitter owner Elon Musk is pro-censorship and against "impersonation."

Furious Elon Musk Pledges to Ban Anyone Who Changes Their Display Name to “Elon Musk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The California DMV wanted a demo of Tesla's Full Self-Driving, but the automaker resisted letting some of the DMV's advisers attend.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Didn’t Want to Give Full Self-Driving Demo to DMV Authorities

By Frank Landymore

Chinese EV automaker and Tesla rival Xpeng decided that, if it's going to make an actual car fly, why not just strap it to a giant drone?

Company Builds Electric Flying Car Powered By Giant Drone Propellers

By Frank Landymore

A Model 3 was found this week stranded in the water off the coast of Carpinteria, California, but its owner is fortunately unharmed.

Tesla Spotted Blubbering in the Ocean After Owner Drove It Onto the Beach For Some Reason

By Frank Landymore

Incorporating ads into Windows may become the norm as Microsoft considers implementing them to offset the cost of providing low-cost PCs.

Microsoft Considering Cheap Computers Monetized With Relentless Ads

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX has dismantled its one-mile-long Hyperloop test tunnel at its factory in Hawthorne, California — only to make way for more parking spots.

SpaceX Dismantles Hyperloop Prototype to Build a New Parking Lot

By Victor Tangermann

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is on notice from NASA after a review found that it had some serious staffing issues that led blocked its Psyche Mission.

NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast Over Psyche Mission Failures

By Noor Al-Sibai

One disgruntled ex-Twitter employee is sounding off on how bad the site has gotten in the week since Elon Musk took ownership of it.

Fired Twitter Employee Unloads on Elon Musk’s “Clowntown”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Five hundred drones took to the sky in NYC, not to entertain onlookers with a futuristic dance of lights — but to show them Candy Crush ads.

New Yorkers Furious at Drones Forming Huge “Candy Crush” Ad Over Skyline

By Victor Tangermann

According to documents obtained by the New York Times, getting verified on Twitter won't even require users to authenticate their identity.

Twitter Leak: Elon Musk Planning to Charge for Blue Checkmarks But Not Actually Verify Identify

By Frank Landymore

Against all odds, NASA's Mars lander has, somehow, continued truckin' along — but its inevitable death seems to finally be at hand.

NASA Releases Final Desolate Photo From Doomed Mars Lander

By Noor Al-Sibai

The culling at Twitter has begun with many employees resorting to posting jokes on the platform right up until they were summarily cut off from work access.

Twitter Employees Kept Posting Jokes Until the Moment They Got Fired

By Victor Tangermann

An ominous and relatively uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" has been hiding a cluster of galaxies, according to astronomers.

Astronomers Spot “Extragalactic Structure” Lurking In Obscured Zone of the Universe

By Frank Landymore

ALMA is one of the largest and most advanced radio telescopes in the world. And for reasons still unknown to the public, hackers decided to take it down.

Hackers Just Took Down One of the World’s Most Advanced Telescopes

By Frank Landymore

After launching into orbit three months ago, China's top-secret spaceplane has released a mysterious object, which is now circling the Earth behind it.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mystery Object Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Another day, another Elon Musk feud on Twitter — except now, he's the owner of the social network, and he's beefing with AOC.

AOC Says Her Twitter Account Broke After She Made Fun of Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Someone apparently thought it was a great idea to fly 500 drones over NYC as part of an ad experiment without much warning.

Huge Drone Swarm to Form Giant Advertisement Over NYC Skyline

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the era of remote work, employers have turned to invasive "bossware" to police their employees. And now, the US government wants to step in.

US Gov to Crack Down on “Bossware” That Spies On Employees’ Computers

By Frank Landymore

Cats, ever the mischievous and frisky pets, may be harboring a lot more human DNA than once thought, possibly tampering crime scenes, a new study says.

Science & Energy

Cats May Be Tampering With Crime Scenes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

In a "serendipitous" turn of events, scientists inadvertently spotted an ultra-rare naked stellar core, the first for a star this massive.

Scientists Spot “Stripped, Pulsating Core” of Star Caused By Horrific Accident

By Frank Landymore