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Elon Musk claimed that a photo with Ghislaine Maxwell was the result of her just photobombing him at a party. That might not have been the full truth.

Jeffrey Epstein Associate Reportedly Asked Elon Musk If It Was Possible to Scrub Someone From the Internet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Footage shared on YouTube shows a Tesla Semi truck seemingly broken down on the side of a highway in Northern California, blocking traffic on an on-ramp.

Video Shows Tesla Semi Truck Seemingly Broken Down Near a Highway

By Victor Tangermann

At Connect 2022, Facebook-turned-Meta Mark Zuckerberg and a fellow metaverse exec both appeared as their new, legged avatars. But only they had legs.

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Maybe Has Legs Now, but Apparently Only for Executives

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Actor Tom Cruise, famous for his extensive film career and just being the eternal embodiment of midlife crises, is still set to film a movie in space.

Universal Studios Chair Says Tom Cruise Is Still Going to Space

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

How likely is a nuclear war? A seemingly impossible question, though one that MIT professor Max Tegmark believes he has the answer to.

MIT Professor Says There’s a One-in-Six Chance of Nuclear War

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is declaring the demonstration of its DART spacecraft smashing into an asteroid a full success, having considerably changed its trajectory.

NASA Says Its Test of Asteroid Deflection Tech Was Wildly Successful

By Victor Tangermann

One revelation from Facebook-slash-Meta's Connect? Soon, the metaverse will be a space where we can betray those closest to us. Hell yeah.

Facebook Exec Says Metaverse Will Let you Betray Your Friends in VR

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The iPhone 14's new crash detection feature has falsely reported crashes at least six times in one county when its owners were only riding a roller coaster.

Apple’s New iPhone Crash Detection Calls 911 When Owners Go on a Roller Coaster

By Frank Landymore

After reports emerged that Elon Musk had allegedly been in contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO smacked the claims down.

Elon Musk Says He Has Not Been Talking to Putin, Thank You Very Much

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook has unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, the long-rumored follow-up to the company's Quest 2 virtual reality headset.

Virtual Reality

Meta’s Uber-Expensive New VR Headset Is Dead on Arrival

By Victor Tangermann

Metaverse project Decentraland, a sandbox environment that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, isn't exactly teeming with people.

$1.2 Billion Metaverse Horrified by Report It Only Had 38 Active Users

By Victor Tangermann

UTSA engineering professor Chris Combs had dig at Elon Musk on Twitter by comparing him to Christopher Columbus. Many were not flattered by the comparison.

Professor of Engineering Issues Brutal Dig at Elon Musk, Sparking Backlash

By Frank Landymore

A stunning new video captured by X shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasting past a gorgeous full Moon, a rare sight.

Stunning Video Shows SpaceX Rocket Launching In Front of Full Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Google's new Imagen Video AI, which can generate video from text, is up and running — but its gross content problem means we can't use it.

Google Not Releasing New Video-Generating AI Because of Small Issue With Gore, Porn and Racism

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe that there could well be nitrous oxide, better known as whippets or laughing gas, in space — and that it could indicate life.

To Find Alien Life, Scientists Suggest Searching Space for This Party Drug

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a new addition to an ever-growing lineup of elite — and deeply unsettling — celeb deepfakes: "Unreal Keanu Reeves."

Artificial Intelligence

This Keanu Reeves Deepfake Is Giving Us Shivers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange in trading volume, has been hacked yet again — but this time, the losses are truly staggering.

Hackers Steal Over Half a Billion Dollars From World’s Largest Crypto Exchange

By Victor Tangermann

After purchasing 100 electric aircraft from a Swedish startup last year, United Airlines says it's preparing to put them to work in regional flights.

Advanced Transport

United Airlines Says It’ll Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles

By Frank Landymore

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggests the company's Cybertruck could move faster through water with the help of an electric propeller.

Elon Musk Says Cybertruck Could Move Through Water Faster With a Propeller

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden is publicly warning, in the starkest words possible, that a nuclear "Armageddon" with Russia could be imminent.

President Biden Says He’s Concerned About Nuclear “Armageddon”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's partnership with SpinLaunch has made an explosive entrance after shooting a payload out of the Suborbital Accelerator thousands of feet into the air.

The Payload NASA Shot Into Sky With Giant Gun Came Down So Hard They Needed to Dig It Out With an Excavator

By Frank Landymore

A NASA astronaut aboard the ISS got an amazing shot of the water, dirt, and silt draining out of Florida after Hurricane Ian.

ISS Astronaut Snaps Photo of Florida Draining After the Massive Hurricane Ian

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jupiter's moons all vary considerably in size, as demonstrated in an amazing new video shared by the account MetaBallStudios on YouTube.

Awesome Video Shows Jupiter’s Moons in Comparison to NYC

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is finally delivering its first all-electric Semi truck this winter to none other than Pepsi.

Tesla Delivering First Semi Truck to Pepsi in December, Elon Musk Says

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's push to make Facebook's Horizon Worlds metaverse platform the next big thing isn't convincing even its own developers.

Facebook Leak: Metaverse So Glitchy Not Even Employees Use It

By Frank Landymore

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wait, the NASA Logo on SpaceX’s Rocket Looks Completely Messed Up

By Victor Tangermann

NASA may soon be slingshotting its satellites into orbit thanks to its partnership with a startup that makes gigantic slingshots for that very purpose.

NASA Tests System to Fling Satellites Into Sky Using Huge Centrifuge

By Noor Al-Sibai

Plenty of bright eyed and eager would-be-interns had their hopes and dreams crushed when Meta rudely decided to cut costs by getting rid of them.

Oops! Facebook Tells Interns It Already Hired That It Can’t Afford Them Anymore

By Frank Landymore

Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take.

Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's plenty of truly impressive Minecraft creations out there. But recreating galaxies and black holes? That might take the cake.

Madman Builds “Entire Universe” in Minecraft

By Frank Landymore

A video has gone viral of a massive drone dropping off a machine gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of the future of warfare.

China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere

By Victor Tangermann

Dumpy, an Australian white frog, went viral this week for being delightfully enormous. But sadly, while we still absolutely stan, Dumpy isn't that big.

Science & Energy

Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Upscaling the iconic 1993 fighting game Virtua fighter using AI, creating comically photorealistic models of the characters? Why not.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Makes 1993 Video Game Look Photorealistic

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms can quickly break down polyethylene (PE), plastic that used in plastic bags.

Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX and NASA launched astronauts to the International Space Station today — and crews back on the ground made a "Mean Girls" reference for some reason.

SpaceX Ground Control References “Mean Girls” During Astronaut Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Bella Hadid held still on the Coperni runway while two armed with a sprayable fabric called Fabrican spray-painted a dress onto her figure.

Watch a Model Get a Dress “Sprayed” Onto Her in the Middle of a Fashion Show

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse project has been universally panned as a bad joke. And now, Apple CEO Tim Cook says he's also not convinced.

CEO of Apple Appears to Casually Diss Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Frank Landymore

On London's Waterloo bridge, a climate activist was filmed giving an interview while quite literally being toted away by police officers during a protest.

Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA and SpaceX launched Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the International Space Station on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft today, despite tensions.

International Space Station

SpaceX Launches Russian Cosmonaut to ISS Despite Nuclear War Threats

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg looked like he had fun at a UFC fight over the weekend. But you know who looked like they really, really didn't? His wife, Priscilla Chan.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Looks Absolutely Horrified by His New Hobby

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a whole hidden graveyard of dead stars all around our galaxy, and researchers say they've charted it for the first time.

Huge Graveyard of Stars Surrounds Our Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Insider reports that Facebook is planning a mass round of "quiet layoffs," which could impact up to 15 percent of the entire company.

Facebook Reportedly Laying Off Thousands of Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new crude oil supertanker launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping company (CMES) is making use of four large sails to reduce its fuel consumption.

Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails

By Victor Tangermann

Miso Robotics Flippy 2 robot can be a fry cook mostly on its own, and has already been picked up by a few chains across the country.

CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts

By Frank Landymore

The Kremlin is lauding its occasional foe Elon Musk after he quite unpopularly advised Ukraine to give in to Russia's demands.

Russia Says Thanks Elon Musk, We Love You Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over the next 300 million years, scientists predict all the Earth's continents will come together to form the next supercontinent: Amasia.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say All Land on Earth Is Smashing Together Into a New Supercontinent

By Frank Landymore

NASA's DART collision created a massive cloud of space debris, which was captured by observatories — and the resulting images are absolutely breathtaking.

The Devastation From NASA’s Asteroid Collision Looks Unbelievable

By Victor Tangermann

According to famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk is the "modern day Thomas Edison." But, uh, is that a good thing?

Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals What He Really Thinks of Elon Musk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US military keeps dumping sewage into Hawaii's Pearl Harbor thanks to its poorly-maintained wastewater sanitation systems.

US Military Criticized for Dumping Sewage Into Hawaiian Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

What if you gave a plant control of a robotic arm and then gave that robotic arm a machete? That seems to be the idea behind the "Plant Machete" project.

Project Lets Houseplant Control Robot Arm Equipped With Machete

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kim Kardashian is to pay a $1.26 million penalty to the SEC for allegedly pushing crypto token EMAX without disclosing how much she was paid to do so.

Kim Kardashian Ordered to Pay Million Dollar Penalty for Pushing Crypto on Instagram

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bruce Willis apparently isn't going to be deepfaked into movies after all, according to a representative who denied claims that circulated last week.

Bruce Willis Denies Claims He Sold Rights to Be Deepfaked into New Movies

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has spotted some strange junk briefly hanging from one of its landing legs like an errant piece of toilet paper.

NASA Says “Foreign Object Debris” Briefly Stuck to Its Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

DreamFusion, Google's new text-to-3D-image generator, is here — and we have to admit, it's impressive. Big fans of the ghost eating the hamburger prompt.

Google Creates AI That Turns Text Into 3D Objects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gender reveal parties have become notorious for their occasionally disastrous consequences. Polluting an entire river? Well, it's up there.

Gender Reveal Party Under Investigation for Polluting Entire River

By Frank Landymore

Despite previous warnings to please stop trash talking Russia, NASA veteran Scott Kelly is once again firing verbal shots at the international foe.

NASA Astronaut Is Beefing With Russia Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

22 year Apple veteran and Vice President of procurement Tony Blevins has left the company after a vulgar joke of his went viral.

Apple VP Ousted After Making Vulgar Sexual Remark

By Frank Landymore

You simply can't make up Florida, as evidenced by a viral video of a bonafide Florida Man taking a bong rip as Hurricane Ian wreaks havoc behind him.

Science & Energy

We Must Respect This Florida Man Ripping a Bong During an Actual Hurricane

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope has been so impressive that it’s making even astronomers a bit too eager about its incredible findings.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists May Have Really Screwed Up on Early James Webb Findings

By Frank Landymore

China may have chosen the shadiest way to broadcast that there's trouble in paradise with its joint lunar mission with Russia.

China and Russia’s Moon Base Alliance May Be Falling Apart

By Noor Al-Sibai

Matt Brown, an autoengineer and YouTuber that's worked with Tesla, had a few choice words about Elon Musk's latest claims on his Cybertruck.

Former Tesla Engineer Absolutely Destroys Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

NFT trading volumes are down a catastrophic 97 percent from the record highs seen back in January — forget crypto winter, is this a full-blown web3 ice age?

It’s Official: Pretty Much Nobody Is Buying NFTs Anymore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hurricane Ian destroyed the causeways that connect Sanibel Island, along with several other barrier islands off the Florida Coast, to the mainland.

Science & Energy

Entire Islands Severed From Florida by Hurricane Ian

By Maggie Harrison Dupré