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If you're excited about getting the new iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max, you might want to wait for this obnoxious issue to be resolved first

The New iPhone Camera Is Reportedly Rumbling Loudly

By Frank Landymore

Debuting last week at the Detroit Auto Show, XTURISMO can reach a top speed of over 60 miles per hour. It might be the real deal.

Advanced Transport

Startup Shows Off Flying Motorcycle That Can Cruise for 40 Minutes

By Frank Landymore

A crypto token allegedly honoring the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II was sent soaring, before fully collapsing in on itself.

Gullible Idiots Horrified When Queen Elizabeth Alt Coins Crash in Value

By Victor Tangermann

The lululemon yoga company manufactures much of its expensive workout wear in coal-powered factories — and its stans are super ticked off about it.

Yoga Teachers Furious Over Lululemon’s Use of Environment-Destroying Factories

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rare hexagonal diamonds known as lonsdaleite found only in meteorites may have originated from a dwarf planet's collision billions of years ago.

Scientists Find Weird Ultra-Strong Diamonds From Obliterated Dwarf Planet

By Frank Landymore

Tesla is struggling to get its employees back to working in-office, and CEO Elon Musk has responded with a more hardline and less accomodating approach.

Tesla Morale Low As Workers Still Don’t Have Desks, Face Increased Attendance Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

According to a new report from Europol, we have all the reason in the world to be extra vigilant about what we consume online.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The widespread adoption of colder, bluer LEDs may not be worth the energy it saves if it causes so much disruption to the environment and our own lives.

Scientists Have Bad News About All These Energy Efficient LEDs

By Frank Landymore

When a self-proclaimed hacker announced that it had breached Uber's security, some other ride-sharing company's employees seemed to think it was a joke.

Uber Hack Was So Huge Employees Thought It Was a Prank

By Noor Al-Sibai

Have you ever wanted to rent an NFT? Neither did anyone else — and that's why an NFT rental platform has opted to shut its doors this week.

NFT Rental Platform Shuts Down Due to “Close to Zero Traction”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mourners from across the country might have to queue over 24 hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin, but one artist claims to have a solution.

Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen’s Coffin on Robot Arm

By Frank Landymore

Austrian astrophotographer Gerald Rhemann has really outdid himself with an absolutely stunning picture of comet Leonard, including its dazzling tail.

This Photo of a Dying Comet Is So Incredible That It’s Melting Our Eyeballs

By Victor Tangermann

As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure.

Science & Energy

Scientists Absolutely Thrilled to Find 150 Million Year Old Vomit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ETHPoW, a popular proof-of-work alternative to ether, crashed after Ethereum's merge, leaving miners in a predicament.

Miners Forked Ether So They Can Still Pollute After the Merge, But It’s Already Crashing in Value

By Victor Tangermann

A leading artificial intelligence expert is once again shooting from the hip in a cryptic Twitter poll that stokes the sentient AI debate he helped create.

OpenAI Chief Scientist: Should We Make Godlike AI That Loves Us, or Obeys Us?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is being sued for misleading the public by calling its controversial driver assistance features "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving," Reuters reports.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Drivers Sue Tesla Because Full Self-Driving Isn’t Actually Full Self-Driving

By Victor Tangermann

The popular parent-teacher app Seesaw was hacked, and bad actors sent a horribly explicit, NSFW meme to unassuming users.

Parent-Teacher Messaging App Hacked to Send Mom and Dad Horrifying Images

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is frustrated with the state of the world. But most of all, he's frustrated with the role that distraction plays in our failure to meet goals.

Bill Gates Sounds Moderately Horrified by How Civilization Is Going

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of astronomers at MIT suspect Saturn may be hiding the remains of an ancient moon in its rings — which could explain the planet's unusual tilt.

Saturn Might Be Hiding Remains of a Secret, Massive Moon in Its Rings

By Victor Tangermann

US president Joe Biden confused a gas-guzzling Corvette sports car for an electric vehicle in a recent tweet.

Advanced Transport

Joe Biden Mocked for Tweeting About EVs With Pic of Gas Car

By Victor Tangermann

An eerie green meteor of unknown origin streaked across the night sky on Wednesday, drawing the attention of thousand of onlookers in Ireland and the U.K.

Video Shows Vivid Green Meteor Screaming Over Residential Area

By Frank Landymore

In a joking tweet, Elon Musk accused Hans Niemann of using vibrating, remote-controlled anal beads to beat the Magnus Carlsen, the game's No. 1 grandmaster.

Why Elon Musk Said a Remote Controlled Sex Toy Was Used to Cheat at a Chess Tournament

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ethereum blockchain has finally completed its long-awaited "Merge," switching from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake system.

Ether Price Falls After “Merge” to Cut Its Environmental Toll

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are proposing to unleash huge amounts of microscopic aerosol particles over the Earth's North and South Poles to slow down the melting ice caps.

New Plan Suggests Re-Freezing Earth’s Poles by Spraying Chemicals With Huge Military Jets

By Victor Tangermann

In October 2021, months before Russia's invasion, a YouTuber got an exclusive look inside the New Safe Confinement site at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

YouTuber Clambers Inside Chernobyl’s Nuclear Sarcophagus

By Victor Tangermann

A group of cryptocurrency miners — many of whom stand to lose their main stream of income due to the Ethereum Merge, have made their own Ethereum token.

Furious Crypto Miners Making Their Own Ethereum Where They Can Still Destroy the Environment After the Merge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to 130,000 years' worth of mammalian food webs and extinction patterns, we're in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Very chill.

The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New James Webb Space Telescope images of the Orion Nebula reveal why this spacecraft continues to wow even the most no-nonsense scientists.

James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomers Are Losing Their Minds Over “Breathtaking” New James Webb Images

By Noor Al-Sibai

A food delivery robot threw caution to the wind and forced itself across a police line in the name of duty.

Food Delivery Robot Plows Through Crime Scene as Cops Look on in Bemusement

By Victor Tangermann

Last night, a bomb was detonated at Boston's Northeastern University — and a note left with the device named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg-Hating Lunatic Sets Off Bomb at Northeastern University

By Noor Al-Sibai

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra-realistic-looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice — and she has a lot to say.

They Put GPT-3 Into That Robot With Creepily Realistic Facial Expressions and Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's tiny, Moon-bound CAPSTONE probe is once again in trouble after its launch earlier this summer — and is quite literally spinning out of control.

NASA’s Moon Spacecraft Is Tumbling Out of Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's asteroid-smashing Direct Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is racing towards its celestial target, with the Italian-made LICIACube in tow.

Italian Probe Will Watch as NASA Smashes Asteroid With Battering Ram

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers at Google Deepmind and the University of Oxford have concluded that it is now "likely" superintelligent AI will be the end of humanity.

Google and Oxford Scientists Publish Paper Claiming AI Will “Likely” Annihilate Humankind

By Victor Tangermann

Ben Nowack, a 26-year-old inventor, wants to send satellites with mirrors mounted to their backs into space to allow us to generate solar energy at night.

Former SpaceX Guy Aims to Launch Giant Mirrors Into Orbit to Shine on Solar Panels at Night

By Victor Tangermann

The world's richest man is now claiming that his speech is being suppressed on Twitter — but we and everyone can see the tweet he posted about it just fine.

Elon Musk Says His Tweets Are Being Suppressed, in a Tweet We Can See Perfectly Fine

By Noor Al-Sibai

This New VR Gadget Looks Like an Actual Torture Device

This New VR Gadget Looks Like an Actual Torture Device

By Victor Tangermann

Philadelphia police took a successfully novel approach to a kidnapping case by tracking a pair of Apple AirPods left in the car used in the crime.

Police Find Kidnapped Baby by Tracking AirPods Mom Left in Vehicle

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has tested modified cars that are capable of magnetically levitating (maglev) almost an inch and a half off of the ground on a stretch of highway.

Advanced Transport

Chinese Researchers Test Cars That Hover Over Road Using Magnets

By Victor Tangermann

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook-turned-Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's worst enemy, according to Harvard expert and author Bill George, is... Mark Zuckerberg

Harvard Expert Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Destroying Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former SpaceX-antagonist and current NASA chief Bill Nelson has some words for anyone who doubts SpaceX — even though he himself once did.

NASA Head Who Didn’t Take SpaceX Seriously Complains That People Didn’t Take SpaceX Seriously

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest communications satellite that launched on a SpaceX rocket over the weekend is already proving to be highly controversial due to its size.

Experts Say Annoying New Satellite Might Be Brighter Than Any Star

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos' space comapny Blue Origin experienced a big setback today. And the FAA is officially investigating the "mishap."

The FAA Is Not Happy About Blue Origin’s “Incident” This Morning

By Victor Tangermann

The estate of David Bowie is canceling its much-derided NFT project because of the death of another famous Brit — but there's some issues with their gambit.

David Bowie’s Estate Has a Very Believable Excuse for Nixing Its Hated NFT Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to economist John Hawkins, El Salvador's grand crypto experiment, led by Crypto Commander in Chief President Nayib Bukele, has been a disaster.

Economist: El Salvador’s Year With Bitcoin Currency Has Been “Spectacular Failure”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When looking closely at a Blue Origin capsule, a former NASA scientist discovered that the craft in question was named after a bona fide socialist.

Does Jeff Bezos Know His Space Capsule Is Named After a Socialist?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source.

China Approves Three Moon Missions After Discovering Mineral That Could Be Energy Source

By Noor Al-Sibai

Blue Origin had to abort its latest uncrewed mission midflight.The company's New Shepard capsule was carrying a number of science experiments.

Blue Origin Rocket Fails Midway Through Flight, Jettisoning Capsule

By Victor Tangermann

A laser-sighted, automatic gun that shoots knives with deadly accuracy -- the perfect weapon for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse?

Robots and Machines

We’re Obsessed With This Laser-Sighted Gun That Shoots Knives

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Energy said it's making geothermal energy a priority, hoping to cut its cost by 90 percent before 2035.

The Biden Administration Wants to Cut Geothermal Energy Costs by 90 Percent

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new analysis has determined that by current emissions, roughly 4.4 million acres of land and 650,000 individual properties will be underwater by 2050.

Hundreds of Thousands of American Homes Will Be Swallowed by the Sea, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vice President Kamala Harris' call with astronauts on the International Space Station was cut short earlier today when NASA lost comms with the ISS.

Vice President Shows Up Late, Gets Cut Off From Astronauts Mid-Call

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant — the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at the war's front lines — is bad. Really bad.

Battle-Scarred Ukraine Nuclear Plant Cooling Systems Hanging by a Thread, Officials Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For a company whose whole job is rocketry, SpaceX sure is good at flexing its might — as video of its "Can Crusher" test equipment proves.

This “Can Crusher” Might Be the Weirdest SpaceX Flex We’ve Ever Seen

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent study shows that kids are actually wildly good at getting around the anti-cheating software Proctorio's promised capabilities.

Study: Students Are Very Good at Outsmarting Anti-Cheating Software

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A hydrogen balloon expedition turned dangerous in China when the men operating it lost control, leading too a two-day, nearly 200-mile detour.

Advanced Transport

Man Loses Control of Hydrogen Balloon, Helplessly Drifts Almost 200 Miles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered two "Super-Earth" planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star— and one of them may actually be habitable.

Scientists Discover Nearby “Super-Earth” That May Support Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former NASA scientist is once again throwing shade on his former employer for its bizarre National Space Council "photo ops."

Former NASA Scientist Slams Kamala Harris Meeting as “Photo Op”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Actor Jason Mamoa has taken to Instagram to ferociously protest single-use plastics by shaving his hair off. Is that effective activism?

Jason Momoa So Furious About Environment That He Shaved His Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk began having doubts about his Twitter deal earlier this year over concerns that the United States and Russia may enter into "World War 3."

Elon Musk Predicted “World War III” in Just-Released Text Message

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon has halted F-35 fighter jet deliveries after discovering that a component of the jet's engine is actually made in China.

Military Horrified to Discover Its Most Expensive Jet Has a Part Made in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ethereum is about to implement a huge change dubbed "The Merge" to its platform — a change that has crypto miners shaking in their boots.

Crypto Miners Terrified by Ethereum’s Imminent Move to Proof of Stake

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if we can deflect any future asteroids— and it just acquired the first image of its target.

NASA’s Battering Ram Now Has Asteroid It’ll Smash in Its Sights

By Victor Tangermann