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A team of Chinese researchers claim to have turned lunar regolith samples brought back by the country's Chang'e 5 mission into a source of fuel.

Scientists Use Actual Lunar Soil Sample to Create Rocket Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

After disappointing setbacks and delays, NASA has finally got its mission to an invaluable asteroid made of precious metals back on track.

NASA Sets Launch Date for Mission to $10 Quintillion Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

Holly Herndon uses her AI twin Holly+ to sing a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," and it's honestly impressive, albeit maybe a little ominous.

Artificial Intelligence

This Deepfake AI Singing Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Is Worryingly Good

By Frank Landymore

The UN's upcoming COP27 climate conference in Egypt is basically a "greenwashing" waste of time, according to Greta Thunberg, who says she won't be going.

Greta Thunberg Says UN Climate Conference Is a Scam and She’s Not Attending

By Frank Landymore

Ross Chastain didn't look like he was going to advance to the next stage of NASCAR's Championship — until he pulled off a move he learned from video games.

NASCAR Driver Avoids Elimination With Insanely Ballsy Maneuver He Learned From a Video Game

By Frank Landymore

Phobos has always puzzled astronomers for its asteroid like qualities. Now, using the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, they've peered beneath its surface.

Probe Detects “Unknown Features” Inside Martian Moon Phobos

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have detected the largest potentially hazardous asteroid in 8 years, a one-mile-wide space rock that could end life as we know it.

Astronomers Detect “Planet Killer” Asteroid That Poses Small But Real Risk to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk pleaded with famed American author Stephen King to pay at least $8 to keep his blue checkmark.

Elon Musk Pleads With Stephen King to Pay for Blue Checkmark

By Victor Tangermann

Amid his increasingly-embarrassing Metaverse push, Meta-formerly-Facebook investors are growing more and more upset at CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Many Facebook Shareholders Wish They Could Fire Mark Zuckerberg

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dogecoin and other doge meme coins have seen huge gains over the weekend after Elon Musk added Twitter to his growing portfolio of companies he owns.

Dogecoin Surges in Value as Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a presentation earlier this month, a team of researchers identified nine of the most livable caves on the surface of Mars.

Scientists Searching Mars for Good Caves for Astronauts to Live In

By Victor Tangermann

A gigantic piece of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has seemingly plummeted back down to Earth and lodged itself in a crop in the province of Gansu.

Large Chunk of Chinese Rocket Comes Crashing Down, Lodges in Field

By Victor Tangermann

No, you're not seeing things — that really is a picture of the sun giving a "smile," and there's a real scientific reason behind it, too.

NASA Captures the Sun at Perfect Moment So That It Has Goofy Grin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Massive spikes of radiation levels on Earth were once believed to be caused by solar flares, but a new study suggests that something else may be driver.

Something Unknown Seems to Blast Earth With Radiation Every Thousand Years or So

By Frank Landymore

Shift Robotics claims its Moonwalkers, a dorky-looking pair of shoe attachments, will increase your walking speed by up to 250 percent.

Advanced Transport

Bizarre Shoe Attachments Claim to Make You Walk Way Faster

By Victor Tangermann

Allegedly, the prerolled joints the two plaintiffs bought were barely even half as strong as advertised. Talk about a weed come down.

Potheads Sue Weed Company for Not Getting Them Stoned Enough

By Frank Landymore

By using NASA data and US Geological Survey software, scientists say they've found "definitive" evidence of a 3.5 billion year old ocean coastline.

Scientists Discover Traces of Ancient Ocean Coastline on Mars

By Frank Landymore

ISS astronauts are quite literally on a mission to save the Earth – or at least to show us which areas are home to the biggest polluters.

Astronauts Spot World’s Largest Polluters from Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's "Cyberquad for Kids" were just recalled following an instance where the youth ATV was toppled by a 36-year-old adult.

Tesla’s Child-Sized Cyberquad Recalled for Safety Issues

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anime Fans In Japan Are Not Happy With AI-Generated Manga

Anime Fans In Japan Are Not Happy With AI-Generated Manga

By Frank Landymore

Pantone's will soon require users to pay a not-tiny monthly subscription fee to use its fancy colorways on Adobe products.

Adobe Now Charging Extra to Use Pantone Colors Because We Live in Capitalist Hell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jim Cramer, the loud and brash host of CNBC's "Mad Money" stock tips show, feels bad for telling viewers to buy Facebook stock.

Stock Analyst Cries on TV Because He Recommended Facebook Stock

By Frank Landymore

Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weighs in on the self-driving industries promises, and it's not flattering.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Pete Buttigieg Says He Isn’t Sure Self-Driving Cars Are Ever Going to Make It

By Frank Landymore

While everyone was agog at Elon Musk officially buying Twitter, the social network quietly announced that it would let users trade NFTs on the site.

Twitter Quietly Announced NFT-Trading Integration During Elon Musk’s Takeover

By Noor Al-Sibai

This CEO says generative AI is all flash, no substance — and ultimately, will fail to generate major new revenue streams for VCs' billions.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO of AI Startup Says Many AI Startups Will Fail Because They’re Making a Serious Mistake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claims to be closer to launching Bluesky Social, a new "decentralized social network" that allegedly seeks to reclaim user data.

Departed Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Launching a New Social Network

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Elon Musk-ification of Twitter dot com is already underway — and its new owner seems geared up to leave his mark on the site's code.

Elon Musk Brings in Tesla Engineers to Review Twitter Code

By Noor Al-Sibai

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.

Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Your eyes do not deceive you. These dancing, fuzzy bugs are real, and, yes, they're shaking their rear ends in unison to keep you way.

Science & Energy

These Dancing Bugs Are Straight Out of a Miyazaki Film

By Frank Landymore

Amazon may ask SpaceX for help to get its Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit, according to a recent Washington Post interview.

Amazon Admits It Might Need SpaceX to Launch Its Starlink Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

Science & Energy

NASA Crowdsourcing Investigation of Otherworldly “Sprites” in Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk, famously against advertising and known for his company Tesla's supposed zero dollar marketing strategy, now has a change of heart on ads.

Elon Musk, Who Always Hated Ads, Suddenly Says He Loves Ads Now That He Owns a Site That Depends on Them

By Frank Landymore

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is steadfast in his belief in the metaverse, despite stock cratering 20 percent.

Mark Zuckerberg “Pretty Confident” About Metaverse After Stock Craters

By Victor Tangermann

It seems like Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck may finally be becoming a reality now the giant press that will make them are being shipped out to Texas.

Tesla Awaiting Delivery of Giant Press for Stamping Out Cybertrucks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronauts will make use of a specialized, pressurized rover that can handle any terrain the Moon throws at it, but it also doubles as an RV.

Advanced Transport

NASA Testing Cozy “Lunar RV” for Moon Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its misleading marketing of its driver assisatence system Autopilot.

Tesla Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Claiming Its Cars Can Drive Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared a video of himself carrying what appears to be a ceramic bathroom sink into the lobby of Twitter HQ in San Francisco.

Elon Musk Spotted Carrying Sink Into Twitter Headquarters

By Victor Tangermann

Someone made an amazing, horrific deepfake of President Joe Biden singing "Baby Shark" and calling it our "national anthem."

Artificial Intelligence

Creepy Deepfake Shows Biden Sing the “National Anthem”: Baby Shark

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Saudi Arabia has broken ground on its gigantic and controversial 100-mile skyscraper city called The Line, which is meant to house up to 9 million people.

Saudi Arabia Says Its 100 Mile Skyscraper Will Have a Population of 9 Million

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.

Science & Energy

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

By Frank Landymore

The likes of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, and Leonardo DiCaprio are among some of the biggest names on the planet who are getting deepfaked into ads.

Companies Are Deepfaking Celebs Into Ads Without Their Permission

By Frank Landymore

Every cat person has suspected that their cats are ignoring them — and now, researchers seem to have proven that they're right.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Cats Simply Do Not Give a Crap

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Fyre Fest island has reached its only natural next form: a luxury real estate colony for the crypto elite, where homes will be bought and sold via NFTs.

Developers are Transforming the Fyre Fest Island Into an Exclusive Colony for Crypto Millionaires, Because of Course They Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Onlookers have been puzzled by the weird look in the eyes of the astronauts selected for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission, and there's a cool reason why.

There’s a Fascinating Reason These Astronauts’ Eyes Look So Strange

By Frank Landymore

A tech entrepreneur was shocked not only to find that he was charged crazy Uber fees for taking a car between cities, but also that he went viral for it.

Advanced Transport

Tech Guy Shocked That Uber From NYC to Philly Is Expensive

By Noor Al-Sibai

An upstate New York sheriff is irked that people around the US are 3D printing firearms to turn into gun buyback programs for cold, hard cash.

Assistant Sheriff Expresses Concern About People 3D Printing Guns for Firearm Buyback Programs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Who needs robot claws or imitations of the human hand when you can just throw a bunch of tentacles at a problem and see what sticks instead?

Tentacle Robot Can Use Its Gangly Grippers To Pick Up Fragile Cargo

By Frank Landymore

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey criticized Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's infamous doubling down on the metaverse.

Founder of VR Company That Facebook Bought Roasts Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station had to ignite its thrusters for over five minutes to dodge pieces of the satellite Russia intentionally blew up last year.

Space Station Forced to Perform Huge Swerve to Avoid Debris From When Russia Blew Up a Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers at open-source hardware company Adafruit have created the ultimate candy bar — that can literally run the videogame "Doom."

Mad Genius Hides Computer Playing Doom Inside Candy Bar

By Victor Tangermann

A powerful Meta-Formerly-Facebook investor has some advice to get his company's mojo back — but it's doubtful that Mark Zuckerberg wants to hear it.

Facebook Investor Warns Zuckerberg That Metaverse Investments Are “Terrifying”

By Noor Al-Sibai

CLIP Interrogator is the hot new AI generator on the block, but instead of generating images, this one very rudely does the reverse.

Artificial Intelligence

People Can’t Stop Feeding Their Selfies Into a Super Mean AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators are not perfect as a channel called "failed-diffusions" on Stable Diffusion's public Discord server goes to show.

Artificial Intelligence

We’re Cry-Laughing at These “Spectacular Failures” of AI Generated Art

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Record Labels Terrified by Rise of AI Music Generators

By Victor Tangermann

Engineer and prototype machinist Brian Stanley has gone viral with a video of a cyborg eye flashlight that can light up an entire room.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Guy Lost His Eye and Put a Bright Light Into the Socket

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out for Slotie, a "metaverse casino" that was just issued an emergency cease-and-desist order by four different US states.

Shockingly, This NFT Metaverse Casino Is Already in Big Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With new tests, NASA is asking a bold question: What if the easiest way for rovers to land on Mars is to let it crash onto the surface?

NASA Testing Giant “Crumple Zone” Gadget That Would Let Rovers Crash Into Mars and Survive

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a gas giant planet in the vicinity of a red dwarf star, and its density is so low that it's comparable to a marshmallow.

Astronomers Puzzled by “Marshmallow” Planet With Unusually Low Density

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University have constructed an AI-powered robot trained to kill cockroaches and other insects with a deadly laser.

Brutal Robot Kills Cockroaches Using a Powerful Laser

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ex-Tesla executive has unloaded on her former boss Elon Musk, who, according to her, used to transform into another person when he got mad.

Former Tesla Exec Says Elon Musk Can Be Like a “Toddler” Having a “Tantrum”

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the help of the Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, eight-year-old David from Mexico, who suffers from cerebral palsy, is learning to walk.

8-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Using Robotic Exoskeleton

By Frank Landymore