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The racketeering lawsuit against Elon Musk and his many companies just keeps getting bigger. The suit says Musk marketed Dogecoin but knew it was worthless.

Racketeering Lawsuit Accuses Elon Musk of Pumping Up Dogecoin Value

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a scathing new interview, early Coinbase investor Liron Shapira took a swipe at the cryptocurrency space, calling it "essentially worthless."

One of Coinbase’s First Investors Says Crypto Is Worthless and Should Be Shut Down

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.

Artificial Intelligence

New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Students from four schools in West Virginia got to ride on an electric school bus for the first time yesterday. Mercer County may order more electric buses.

Advanced Transport

West Virginia Students Ride Electric School Bus for First Time

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Last year, oil and gas pipeline Ku-Maloob-Zaap in the Gulf of Mexico said a gas leak set the ocean on fire. Now, it's leaking methane gas by the ton.

Last Year’s Ocean Portal to Hell Now Leaking Toxic Gas

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's not clear yet whether a driver filmed sleeping behind the wheel of a speeding Tesla was sleeping while on autopilot on Queen Elizabeth Way in Canada.

Video Appears to Show Tesla Driver Completely Asleep on Highway

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff described the kind of bunkers the super wealthy are building as they prepare for an apocalypse of some kind.

Don’t Panic, But the Super Wealthy Are Quietly Building Doomsday Bunkers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astronauts like the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti practice life-saving CPR procedures on board the International Space Station.

Astronaut Shows How to Perform CPR in Zero Gravity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

YouTuber Daniel Riley invented and built a laser-powered lawn mower — the epitome of something you shouldn't try to replicate at home.

Robots and Machines

Guy Builds Terrifying Laser-Powered Lawn Mower

By Victor Tangermann

The energy crisis in Europe has gotten so bad that CERN is considering idling the Large Hadron Collider to save energy amid potential rationing.

Europe’s Energy Crisis Is So Bad It May Have to Idle CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has shared an absolutely gorgeous time lapse filmed from on board the International Space Station showing off a stunning aurora.

Space Station Captures Incredible Beautiful Auroras From Above

By Victor Tangermann

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.

Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Over the weekend, Zucko took to Instagram to show off his mixed martial arts moves. And honestly? We're not MMA experts, but he seems pretty good.

Experts Surprised by Mark Zuckerberg’s Skill in MMA Sparring Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To some, colonizing Mars with billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might sound fun. To others, like NASA astronaut Stan Love, it sounds like pure misery.

NASA Astronaut Says Elon Musk’s Mars Colony Sounds “Horrible”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Overwhelming Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Isn’t What You Think

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bitcoin bros have long been defined by their near-delusional belief that the currency will always bounce back — but what happens when they lose it?

Analysts Warn of “Massive Capitulation” in Which Crypto Investors Just Give Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have created remote controlled, cyborg cockroaches — which could one day aid during search and rescue missions or monitoring the environment.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Wire Chip to Cockroaches’ Nervous System, Allow Them to Be Remote Controlled

By Victor Tangermann

Kanye West's famous, 1-of-1 "Robot Face" backpack was just purchased for 50 ETH — roughly $100,000 — by an NFT collective called Elon.Space.

Crypto Project Named After Elon Musk, But Not Associated With Him, Buys Kanye West’s Backpack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A solar company under investigation for violating consumer protections filed suit againt a company it blames for failure. Meanwhile, the climate changes.

Solar Company Under Investigation for Installing Systems That Don’t Work

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Panera Bread fast casual chain has announced that it plans to test out AI at its drive-thru's, bringing us that much closer to the uncanny valley.

Artificial Intelligence

Panera Bread Is Replacing Humans With AI At Drive-Thru Windows

By Noor Al-Sibai

A chief engineer and national from Russia was sentenced to a year and one day in jail for purposefully dumping waste water with oil off the US coast.

Man Headed to Prison for Dumping Toxic Pollution Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Babe, wake up. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) SoundCloud audio just dropped — and the soundscapes are absolutely beautiful.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Turns James Webb Images Into Beautiful Music, Uploads It to SoundCloud

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After being on the run for over a year, Thedoex crypto exchange CEO Faith Ozur has finally been arrested and is facing some serious charges.

Missing Crypto CEO Who Stole User Funds Arrested, Facing 40,000 Years in Prison

By Frank Landymore

NASA will be commencing its first planetary defense system test, known as DART, by flying a spacecraft straight into an asteroid. Here's how to watch.

How to Livestream NASA Smashing an Asteroid to Test Planetary Defense Plan

By Frank Landymore

The National Center for Education Statistics released a report that found COVID-19 and the pandemic caused student performance to backslide.

American Kids’ Math and Reading Scores Have Plummeted Since the Pandemic

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Brands Say Everybody’s Wrong, Actually the Metaverse Looks Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers are using James Webb Space Telescope image files to spread malware on Windows computers, according to cybersecurity firm Securonix.

Devious Hackers Are Hiding Malware in a James Webb Image

By Victor Tangermann

The US and China are gearing up for an awkward confrontation if both decide to land their respective lunar rockets on similar spots at the Moon.

Awkward! The US and China Are Looking at the Same Moon Landing Sites

By Noor Al-Sibai

On the day of its next launch attempt, NASA's Moon-bound Space Launch System is dealing with a fuel leak on the launchpad.

NASA Moon Launch Canceled When Super Expensive Rocket Starts Leaking on Launch Pad

By Jon Christian

Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov is likening the emergence of qantum computers to a financial bubble in a commentary piece for the Financial Times.

Quantum Computing

Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Hype Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.

Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Here's what Chris Farley might have looked like as the Joker, thanks to the magic of text-to-image artificial intelligence Midjourney.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s How It’d Look If Chris Farley Played the Joker, According to AI

By Jon Christian

Following a complaint filed by the DMV calling FSD's name misleading, California lawmakers have passed a law that would force Tesla to drop the title.

Self-Driving Vehicles

California Legislature Passes Law That Would Force Tesla to Change Name of Full Self-Driving

By Frank Landymore

Amazon has shelled out over $700 million for its Lord of the Rings reboot, but for a moment it couldn't even get the first episode online.

Amazon Bungles Release of Most Expensive TV Show in History

By Frank Landymore

The newly-appointed head of Roscosmos, the space agency in Russia, says the International Space Station (ISS) is turning into a hunk of junk.

International Space Station

Russia Says the International Space Station Is a Dangerous, Decrepit Mess

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA estimates there are thousands of asteroids big enough to be "semi-apocalyptic" near Earth's orbit. Why isn't the White House worried?

White House Pushes to Delay Killer Asteroid Telescope

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A guy with no background in film or artificial intelligence is working on making an entire movie, in an ambitious attempt to open filmmaking to the masses.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone’s Making an Entire Movie Using Video Generated by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Moving a huge rocket is tough. John Giles, the man in charge of doing just that, is not happy at the prospect of a delay forcing his team to do it all over.

Guy Who Has to Move NASA Moon Rocket Back to Hangar Very Annoyed

By Frank Landymore

Chinese astronauts onboard China's Tiangong Space Station are reported to have successfully hatched rice seedlings in space.

Chinese Astronauts Successfully Grow Rice Seedlings on New Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA will need a special containment lab to safely study Martian rock samples returned from Mars. Pathogens can't be allowed to escape for Earth's safety.

New Details Emerge About NASA’s Lab to House Martian Samples

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA planetary scientist Alan Stern just visited the Titanic, and now he's getting ready to blast off into space with Virgin Galactic.

Guy Who Just Visited the Titanic in a Submarine Now Headed to Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A famous investor is warning his clients that the financial "superbubble" is getting ready to burst — and that it will soon reach an "epic finale."

Investor Warns That a “Superbubble” May Be About to Burst in a Financial “Tragedy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is will be paying Boeing twice as much for each Starliner seat to the International Space Station than SpaceX, Ars Technica reports.

NASA Paying SpaceX Half of Boeing’s Price to Launch Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk and musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher's child X Æ A-12 — or just "X" for short — is already having trouble getting rockets off of the ground.

Elon Musk’s Two-Year-Old Son Frustrated When Toy Rocket Won’t Reach Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

The Ecuadorian government is begging people to stop poaching the Galapagos islands' famed giant tortoises and eating them.

Science & Energy

Authorities Plead: Please Stop Eating Critically Endangered Giant Tortoises

By Noor Al-Sibai

Somebody entered the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition with an AI-generated painting — and won first prize, Vice reports, pissing off artists everywhere.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Painting Wins State Fair Fine Arts Competition

By Victor Tangermann

Known as MOXIE, this lunchbox-sized machine aboard the Mars rover can generate breathable oxygen directly from the Martian atmosphere.

NASA Flew an MIT Device to Mars, Where It’s Been Cranking Out Breathable Oxygen for More Than a Year

By Frank Landymore

Police in LA issued an emergency evacuation order for the whole city amid Wednesday wildfires — and it really freaked out those who saw it.

Accidental Emergency Broadcast Says Everyone in Los Angeles Should Evacuate

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just took its first direct image of an exoplanet, a gas giant, lurking outside of the Solar System.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Just Took Its First Direct Image of an Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

Dating app Filter Off has come up with a genius solution to ward off scammers and scambots: by locking them in a room with a bunch of its own scambots.

Artificial Intelligence

Genius Dating App Hooks Up Scammers Only With Bots and Other Scammers

By Victor Tangermann

In a piece for The Washington Post, historian Émile Torres argued that it's possible an artificial superintelligence (ASI) could cause our extinction.

Artificial Intelligence

Historian Warns That AI Is Likely to Cause Human Extinction

By Victor Tangermann

Nearly 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi don't have clean drinking water. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration for Jackson.

The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Even though he's not always good at making predictions, Elon Musk keeps predicting the world's population will collapse because of declining birth rates.

Experts Say Elon Musk Is Wrong About That Population Thing He Keeps Saying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A space infrastructure startup called Orbit Fab announced that it will be offering satellite refueling services in geostationary orbit as soon as 2025.

Space Startup Unveils Plans for Orbital Fuel Station for Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks

By Victor Tangermann

Satellite constellations are clogging up Earth's lower orbit and making it harder to spot killer asteroids, scientists warn.

Planetary Defense Experts Complain That SpaceX-Style Satellites Make It Harder to Spot Killer Asteroids

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former president Donald Trump's floundering social media platform, TRUTH Social, has been banned from Google Play due to content moderation concerns.

Trump’s Failing Social Network Banned From Android App Store

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The world's most popular NFT trading platform, OpenSea, has reportedly seen a 99 percent drop in trading volume since May.

World’s Top NFT Marketplace Has Allegedly Lost 99 Percent of Its Trading Volume Since May

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists study the immortal jellyfish to learn about its DNA reproduction, life cycle and telomeres. New research reveals its special genes.

Scientists Say They Found the Genes That Makes Immortal Jellyfish Immortal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After sending a Melbourne woman roughly over $7 million USD by mistake, cringe crypto exchange Crypto.com has won a lawsuit against the user.

Crypto.com Accidentally Sends Woman $7 Million, Sues Her to Get It Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Multinational insurance company AXA Insurance staged a hilariously terrible Tesla "battery fire" to prove that electric cars can be dangerous.

Major Car Insurer Admits to Staging Tesla “Battery Fire” Stunt

By Victor Tangermann

Samsung worked with Bill Gates to invent a new kind of toilet that recycles and cleans waste and is better for the environment.

Bill Gates’ New Toilet Sets Your Poop on Fire

By Lonnie Lee Hood

California is spending $20 million on a pilot project that will involve 8,500 feet of solar panels covering sections of canals.

California Installing Huge Solar Panels Over Canals to Combat Drought

By Victor Tangermann