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A group of ten tourists miraculously survived a massive avalanche while exploring Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains — and one of them got it on video.

Terrifying Video Shows Cameraperson Get Buried by Giant Avalanche

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The First Full-Color James Webb Image Just Dropped, and It’s Beautiful

James Webb Space Telescope

The First Full-Color James Webb Image Just Dropped, and It’s Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype Suddenly Goes Up in Flames

SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype Suddenly Goes Up in Flames

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin's horrible year is about to get a lot worse, with the value of the cryptocurrency expected to plunge to $10,000, as predicted by some investors.

Most Investors Think Bitcoin’s Value Will Get Chopped in Half Again

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Mars dreams may have to temper with a harsh reality put forth by equally-frustrating nerd Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Some Serious Beef With Elon Musk’s Mars Plans

By Noor Al-Sibai

A UK-based TikTok claims to have collected more than 1.4 million frog eggs, which have since hatched into tadpoles living in his backyard pool — and conservation biologists are horrified by the potential consequences of the trend could going viral, The Guardian reports.

Science & Energy

Experts Alarmed by Teen Breeding Millions of Frogs for “Frog Army”

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese researchers say we'll probably need their newly designed Moon base with artificial gravity if humans are going to live on the Moon.

Japanese Team Invents Moon Base With Artificial Gravity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope will get hit by a micrometeorite every month. The telescope is about to return its first deep space images.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Planning for James Webb to Get Hit by One Micrometeorite Per Month

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Former President Donald Trump isn't a fan of Tesla CEO Elon Musk anymore because the billionaire didn't vote Republican. Trump says Musk lied about voting.

Donald Trump Is Absolutely Furious That Elon Musk Lied to Him

By Lonnie Lee Hood

People in Arizona hate Waymo's autonomous self-driving vehicles so much it made one pedestrian attack a vehicle and a safety driver inside the car.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicle Attacked by Furious Pedestrian

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A pregnant Texas driver is fighting a traffic ticket after police said her unborn child doesn't count as a passenger in HOV lanes.

Pregnant Woman Fights Traffic Ticket, Claiming Unborn Fetus Count as Passenger After Roe Reversal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.

Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is officially trying to back out of his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion, the BBC reports.

Elon Musk Officially Giving Up on Buying Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Asteroid’s Surface Like a “Plastic Ball Pit,” Scientists Find

Asteroid’s Surface Like a “Plastic Ball Pit,” Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One cryptocurrency company is literally applying the logic of layaway to non-fungible tokens now, because apparently, the crypto community can sink lower.

Horrifying Loan Scheme Allows People to Buy NFTs in Installments

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto exchange Voyager Digital has filed for bankruptcy, and according to the paperwork, most customers likely won't be getting their money back.

Man Loses Down Payment for House When Crypto Exchange Goes Bankrupt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The federal government is looking into a self-driving taxi company after its second reported collision with another vehicle.

Advanced Transport

Feds Reportedly Investigating Driverless Taxis After They Wreak Havoc in San Francisco

By Noor Al-Sibai

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

By Frank Landymore

NASA has officially decried the startling act of anti-Ukraine propaganda by Russia that took place onboard the ISS earlier this week.

NASA Furious at Russia’s Ukraine Stunt on Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yesterday, Musk casually dismissed Bill Gates' claim that hydrogen power is the "Swiss Army Knife of decarbonization" — with just a laughing face emoji.

Elon Musk Shreds Bill Gates for Supporting Hydrogen Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot with a "homemade shotgun," Bloomberg reports.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Assassinated With “Homemade Shotgun”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA dropped an update on its official blog detailing the causes of their satellite's dropout. In a nutshell? A bad command and a software error.

We Finally Know Why NASA Lost Contact With Moonbound Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of Elon Musk's latest round of widespread Tesla layoffs, several big name tech organizations are employing newly ex-Teslians left and right.

Elon Musk Rivals Snatch Up Laid-Off Tesla Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The proposed high speed railway would spiderweb between every major city in the EU, hopefully providing a sustainable, efficient alternative to air travel.

Advanced Transport

Europe Plots High Speed Rail So Fast It Could Replace Airlines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has given us a first glimpse into the awe-inspiring power of the images it will produce.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Shows Off Mesmerizing First Images From James Webb Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

After running nearly 3,000 simulations, scientists found that a minor change in Neptune's orbit caused by a passing star could disrupt our system's orbits.

Scientists Predict That The Solar System Could Collapse If a Star Flew Too Close

By Frank Landymore

YouTube is once again screwing up its content moderation after designating a horror video as "for kids" and not allowing the creator to change the rating.

YouTube Marked Horror Video as “For Kids,” Wouldn’t Let Creator Reverse It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

Science & Energy

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider reports that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's brood of children is even larger than previously known, with two twins been born last year.

Elon Musk Reportedly Had Two More Secret Children This Year

By Jon Christian

Before yesterday's powerful derecho storm, the sky in Sioux Falls, South Dakota turned an eery shade of Powerade-colored neon green.

Science & Energy

Weird Storm Turns Sky Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to TechCrunch, Glance, a Google-backed subsidiary of Indian advertising company inMobi Group, is set to launch its lockscreen platform on US-based Android smartphones within the next two months.

Cell Providers Are Apparently Gonna Put Ads on Your Phone’s Lock Screen

By Victor Tangermann

FIFA — international overlord of soccer-slash-football — will be implementing a complex offsides-detecting AI system at the forthcoming World Cup.

AI Referee Will Track Players’ Individual Limbs at World Cup

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla employee said the company mishandling his firing when it recently let him while he was on vacation — and he's not the only one.

Ex-Tesla Employee Says He Was Fired by Phone Call, While on Vacation

By Noor Al-Sibai

Florida is facing yet another invasion of the giant African snail, which can grow up to eight inches long and pose a serious health risk to humans.

Science & Energy

Florida Officials Alarmed by Invasion of Giant Snails That Can Cause Meningitis

By Victor Tangermann

Is Chinese automaker BYD really the number one EV maker in the world? The company still produced far fewer all-electric vehicles than Tesla.

Those Headlines About Tesla Losing the Top EV Seller Spot Are Pretty Sketchy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has restored communications with CAPSTONE, a spacecraft that was headed to the Moon but was plunged into radio silence on Tuesday shortly after it was deployed.

Celebration Erupts as NASA Restores Comms With Lost Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Yesterday, news broke that NASA lost contact with its just-launched CAPSTONE satellite, just a day after the spacecraft successfully escaped Earth’s orbit.

NASA Still Has No Contact With Spacecraft En Route to the Moon

By Frank Landymore

Endless Snoop Dogg promo has not been enough to save the NFT market, it seems. As predicted, June shaped up to be a pretty horrific month for the industry.

Abysmal New Numbers Show the NFT Market Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

He dropped $18,000 on the Khorum Coast, a virtual property found in Entropia Universe, saying he hopes to see a return on his investment in just four years.

Man Uses Life Savings to Buy Nonexistent Metaverse Land

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mojo Vision, a California-based startup, has shown off a "feature-complete" prototype of its augmented reality smart contact lens.

Startup Shows Off Working AR Contact Lens You Can Actually Wear

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe they have found the largest-ever alcohol molecule in space — though it's not the kind that can get you drunk.

Scientists Discover Giant Alcohol Molecule Near The Center of Our Galaxy

By Noor Al-Sibai

After video footage showed SpaceX's Starship prototype rolling onto its launch site, a Twitter user shared a stunning render of the Starship in NASA livery.

Advanced Transport

Beautiful Render Shows Starship With Full NASA Paint Job

By Frank Landymore

Just as news circulated that the LHC was firing up for the first time in 3 years, its scientists have already announced the discovery of three new particles

Science & Energy

Large Hadron Collider Discovers Strange New Particles

By Frank Landymore

Two new high capacity battery prototypes are pushing the frontiers of energy storage — and in a beachy twist, one is based on sand and the other on water.

Unrelated Teams Install “Sand Battery” and “Water Battery”

By Frank Landymore

NASA Chief Bill Nelson had some choice words to say about China's upcoming Moon missions, alleging that the nation intends to take the Moon for itself.

China Furious After NASA Accuses It of Stealing the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A call for a major Tesla recall has once again been issued after a massive glitch in its crash response system was discovered in Germany.

Glitch in 59,000 Teslas Fails to Call 911 When You Crash

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia is using the International Space Station to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda, Ars Technica reports, an unfortunate turn of events.

Cosmonauts Spread Anti-Ukraine Propaganda on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has encountered "communication issues" and is attempting to "re-establish contact" with its Moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite.

NASA Loses Contact With Just-Launched Spacecraft Headed Toward Moon

By Victor Tangermann

While we're not expecting to see it hitting store shelves soon, Tesla has shown off a solar range extending trailer during an exposition in Germany.

Tesla Unveils Trailer With Pop-Out Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Capstone satellite is currently hurtling towards the Moon after successfully breaking free of Earth's orbit on Monday.

There’s a NASA Satellite Headed Toward the Moon Right Now

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX has dragged its latest orbital launch ready Starship prototype to the launch pad, as seen in footage shared by NASASpaceFlight.

SpaceX Slaps Logo on Starship, Drags Prototype to Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

An employee in Chile really hit the jackpot this week when his employer accidentally paid him 330 times his salary on accident.

Man Who Accidentally Got Paid 330x His Salary Quits, Disappears

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A single snake found its way into the Tohoku Electric Power station in Japan and caused an outage that lasted an hour for 10,000 homes on Wednesday.

Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Never has a photo looked as awkward as the one Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his children just took with the Pope after flying his private jet to Italy.

Elon Musk Takes Flabbergastingly Awkwardly Picture With the Pope

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a reent video YouTuber HyperChange had his own rather terrifying incident while testing out Tesla's half-baked Full Self-Driving feature.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Terrifying Video Shows Self-Driving Tesla Head Into Oncoming Traffic

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI added Ruja Ignatova's name to its ten most-wanted list on Thursday because the Cryptoqueen scammed investors for $4 billion in a pyramid scheme.

FBI Offers Huge Reward for “Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing $4 Billion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Robots Now Delivering VR Porn Headsets to the Terminally Lonely

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Doom fans spotted something wrong with a photo of the game running on a McDonald's kiosk — it's fake. Video shows a real fan playing Doom on a till, though.

Sorry Folks, That Photo of Doom Running on a McDonald’s Kiosk Is Fake

By Lonnie Lee Hood

"All members of this group of crabs are hairy to some extent but this one is ridiculous," said Andrew Hosie, an expert at the Western Australia Museum.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Horrifying Crab That’s Covered in “Hair”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US continues to fall behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic missiles after a second test of the high-tech weapon failed.

US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails For A Second Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

The state of New York has purchased more than 800 robots nammed ElliQ to assist seniors who live alone by setting reminders, answering questions and more.

New York State Buys Robots for Lonely Elders

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google searching "desk ornament" returns images of a lot of Nazi paraphernalia. It's so bad a Google rep responded and said they'll find a fix.

Googling “Desk Ornament” Returns Images of Nazi Paraphernalia

By Lonnie Lee Hood

During a Q&A session with Meta staff, Zuckerberg announced that he's "turning up the heat" over performance goals, according to Reuters.

Angry Zuckerberg Complains About Employees Who “Shouldn’t Be Here”

By Victor Tangermann