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Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to grow "wood-like plant material" in a lab, without ever having to resort to chopping down a tree.

Science & Energy

MIT Says We Could Build a House With Lab-Grown Wood

By Victor Tangermann

NASA said yesterday there's a big problem with the heat shield on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Crew-5 is using and needs to be replaced.

SpaceX Replacing Defective Heat Shield Before Next Astronaut Launch

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new NFT project aims to steal African artifacts back from Western colonialists — and it's actually pretty freakin' awesome.

Art Plundered From Africa Stolen Back, Sold as NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon's t-shirt saying not to worry about their "killer robots" is raising a lot of questions answered by their t-shirt, it seems.

Pentagon: Stop Asking Questions About Our “Killer Robots,” Which Don’t Exist by the Way

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robotic vending machines are making their way to malls, airports, and grocery stores across the US, the latest in last-mile problem-solving technologies.

Cyberpunk Overload! It’s the Summer of the Robot Vending Machine

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart announced an expansion to its drone delivery program that will offer $3.99 deliver fees on shipments of 10 pounds or less.

Walmart Announces Drone Deliveries to 4 Million Households

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers are puzzled by a number of strange and unexplained lights that show up in photographic plates of the night sky that date back over 70 years.

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Lights in Old Space Photos

By Victor Tangermann

Nicholas Schmidt made history yesterday when his electric Ford F-150 Lightning became the first one delivered, but he originally ordered a Tesla Cybertruck.

The First Electric F-150 Buyer Tried to Get a Cybertruck Instead

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Fresh off his recent Twitter-buying fail, Elon Musk is now claiming that it would be good, actually, if the world went into a recession.

Elon Says a Recession Would Be a “Good Thing”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Police are doing something that appears to never have been done before: deepfaking a murder victim to try and help bring his killer to justice.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Are Now Deepfaking Murder Victims To Catch Their Killers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.

Someone’s Selling NASA Moon Dust That Got Eaten By Cockroaches

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The first electric Ford F-150 Lightning was delivered to a retail customer today in the automaker's home state of Michigan. Ford CEO Jim Farley celebrated.

Deliveries of All-Electric Ford F-150 Lightning Officially Begin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The dust hasn't even settled from the Terra stablecoin, but the people behind it are already trying to make a new currency.

Creator of “Stablecoin” That Crashed to Zero Says It’s Creating a New One

By Noor Al-Sibai

The New Hampshire Attorney General released names of the cop and security guard who shot 33-year-old Michael Foley outside a New Boston Space Force Station.

Man Shot to Death by Police and Guard Near Space Force Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The hunt has begun for the world's first Turkish astronaut — and one of the country's kookiest minor celebrities has thrown his hat into the ring.

Man Who Got Blown Away While Holding Huge Umbrella Announces Plan to Become Astronaut

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Microsoft executive faces an allegation he watched VR porn in front of employees and touched women inaporpriately. It's an industry wide problem.

Microsoft Exec Accused of Watching VR Porn in Front of Employees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Chinese researchers are investigating ways to disable and even destroy SpaceX's Starlink satellites if they ever prove to be a threat to national security.

Chinese Scientists Reportedly Plotting How to Destroy SpaceX Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

In a new video by YouTuber Tim "Everyday Astronaut" Dodd, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk can be seen ascending to the top of the space company's "Mechazilla" tower.

Video Shows Elon Musk Climbing Mechazilla Tower

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto scammers made a deepfake video of Elon Musk claiming he started the fake trading platform BitVex. Musk said the creepy video isn't him.

Elon Musk Alarmed by Deepfake of Him Endorsing Crypto Scam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Good Meat announced it'll build ten 250,000-liter bioreactors that it claims could make 30 million pounds of lab grown, no kill meat in the US.

Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Animal researchers in the UK are teaming up with Chester Zoo to save endangered animal species from going extinct using crogenetically frozen tissues.

Zoo Saving DNA From Rare Animals In Case They Go Extinct

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is wreaking havoc on Tesla's stock prices in drama one analyst calls a "circus show."

Tesla Investors Getting Tired of Elon Musk’s “Circus Show”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Volkswagen CEO Says It Will Soon Overtake Tesla in Electric Car Sales

Volkswagen CEO Says It Will Soon Overtake Tesla in Electric Car Sales

By Noor Al-Sibai

The extensive shelling of Ukraine has been so severe, the invasion can literally be seen from space, a reminder of the devastating scale of the war.

Astronaut Says the Ukraine War Is So Brutal He Could See It From Space

By Victor Tangermann

Don't go to a stablecoin founder's house to try to talk to them if you're ever in South Korea.

Bankrupt Investor Arrested for Showing Up at Crypto Founder’s House

By Noor Al-Sibai

German carmaker Mercedes-Benz has shown off an impressive new feature of the EQG, its upcoming, all-electric version of its premium G-Wagon off-roader.

Advanced Transport

Mercedes Shows Off Electric Car That Can Spin in Place By Controlling Wheels Separately

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight Mars lander took "what is likely to be its final selfie," according to a NASA update, a heartbreaking end to a spectacular mission.

NASA Lander Looks Beat as Hell in Final Selfie Before Death

By Victor Tangermann

After selling an NFT for a cool $69.3 million (nice) last year, digital artist Beeple has fallen victim to hackers.

The Most Famous NFT Artist Got Hacked, Ripping Off His Followers

By Noor Al-Sibai

After years of delays, Boeing's second attempt to dock its Starliner with the International Space Station is going pretty well, actually.

Boeing’s Starliner Mission Is Going Surprisingly Well, Actually

By Victor Tangermann

A March rumor that the Russians were going to abandon an American astronaut aboard the ISS made its way to the astronaut in question in an roundabout fashion.

NASA Astronaut Heard Rumor of Being Abandoned in Space From His Wife

By Noor Al-Sibai

A space company is getting ready to shoot the cremated remains of 47 people into orbit this week, the ultimate way to say goodbye to a loved one.

Florida Prepares to Shoot Remains of 47 People Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

Thousands of Tesla workers in Shanghai, China, are reportedly being isolated in an old military camp to make sure they aren't infected with COVID-19.

Tesla Storing Thousands of Employees at an “Old Military Camp” in China

By Victor Tangermann

According to NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Americans get a skewed view of Russians and their culture — which led to some awkward movie nights in orbit.

Things Apparently Got Awkward During Movie Night on the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

As if we needed anything else to worry about, a Pacific underwater volcano that is home to a bunch of sharks has erupted.

Great, NASA Says an Underwater Shark Volcano Has Erupted

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ex-oil consultant had harsh words for her former employer after leaving the company over its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.

Fossil Fuel Consultant Quits In Disgust, Tired of Destroying Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Millionaires are publicly protesting the gathering of the WEF in Davos, demanding that the rich need to be taxed more in order to tackle inequality.

Millionaires Protest, Demanding to Pay More Taxes

By Victor Tangermann

Italian Parmigiano Reggiano cheesemakers are inserting high-tech computer chips into the rinds of their cheese wheels to fight cheese crime.

Cheesemakers Embedding Tiny Tracking Chips in Parmesan

By Victor Tangermann

After spending $12,000 on Floyd Mayweather-endorsed NFTs that are now worthless, one Florida man is having major buyer's remorse.

Florida Man Horrified When NFTs He Bought Because Floyd Mayweather Told Him to Crater in Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

The net worth of Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fallen by staggering amounts — just over $69 billion year to date, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index.

Elon Musk Has Officially Lost $69 Billion This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owner Jamil Jutha had only owned his Model Y for eight months before it caught on fire Friday and briefly trapped him inside.

Tesla Driver Briefly Trapped in Burning Car, Kicks Out Window

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Texas toddler ordered 31 McDonald's cheeseburgers on his mom's phone from DoorDash. The kid went viral on Facebook for giving them away for free.

Kid Steals Phone, Orders 31 Cheeseburgers, Leaves Huge Tip

By Lonnie Lee Hood

That "door" on Mars is a rock formation on Mount Sharp and it's hilariously small. A new panorama taken by the Curiosity rover shows more detail.

It Turns Out That “Door” on Mars Is Hilariously Tiny

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers say issues with the Hubble Constant could be explained by a "mirror world" invisible to us except through gravitational impact on our cosmos.

Scientists Say There May Be a “Mirror World” to Our Own

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After years of delay and troubleshooting, Boeing finally docked its space taxi, Starliner, to the International Space Station with 800 pounds of cargo.

Astronauts Enter Starliner After It Finally Docks To Space Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Explorerers in China found a massive sinkhole that has an entire ancient forest inside. It could hold species previously not discovered.

Scientists Discover Ancient Forest at Bottom of Gigantic Sinkhole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.

Science & Energy

Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests civilizations could advance so much they could eventually be able to change the laws of physics.

NASA Sponsored Researcher Suggests It Might Be Possible to Change the Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created the first-ever detailed map of the mysterious layer of rocks forming the boundary between the Earth's core and the mantle.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Area Inside Earth That Slows Earthquakes “to a Crawl”

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the exhaust fumes from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets (and others like it) are actually super toxic to humans — and to the planet we call home.

SpaceX Rocket Fumes “Hazardous to Humans” and the Climate, Scientists Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has finally made its way into stable orbit Thursday evening after launching atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Boeing Starliner Limps Into Orbit After Two Engines Fail

By Victor Tangermann

In the latest news, Russia believes American farmers rely on its GLONASS geoloation system to get by, according to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin.

Crabby Russian Space Program Head Turns Sights on American Farmers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to new research, countless high-level executives and CEOs are using terrible passwords, inlcuding "123456" and "password."

CEOs Exposed for Using Shockingly Stupid Passwords

By Victor Tangermann

OnlyFans creator Kitty Lixo said on the "No Jumper" podcast she got her Instagram account back after having sex with several Meta/Facebook employees.

OnlyFans Creator Says She Got Her Instagram Back by Systematically Having Sex With Facebook Employees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nothing in the US economy has been more stable than the price of AriZona tea cans — what better value to peg a stable crypto coin towards?

New Crypto Backed by “America’s Most Stable Asset”: Cans of AriZona Iced Tea

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla Autopilot May Have Been Involved in Fatal Crash That Killed Three

Tesla Autopilot May Have Been Involved in Fatal Crash That Killed Three

By Victor Tangermann

Scienists say pugs are such an unhealthy dog breed they can barely be considered dogs. They suffer with breathing, bone and brain health problems.

Pugs Are So Grotesque They Can Barely Be Considered Dogs, Experts Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The space suits allowing astronauts to venture outside of the ISS have been declared "no-go" for upcoming spacewalks because they keep filling with water.

NASA Alarmed That Astronauts’ Spacesuits Keep Filling Up With Water

By Victor Tangermann

Marvel, Genius Brands and POW! Entertainment singed a 20-year deal that allow them to insert creator Stan Lee in films and Disney theme parks via CGI.

Marvel Signs Deal to Insert CGI Stan Lee Cameos Into Future Films

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Just like your average EDM fan, scallops can, as it turns out, be captured more easily when you turn on the pretty lights for them.

Science & Energy

Much Like Hipsters, Scallops Can Be Lured to Their Death by Disco Lights

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember all those celebrities who did crypto ads? They're still rich, but they've been awfully quiet since the industry they shilled has tanked in value.

Crypto-Shilling Celebs Suddenly Very Quiet Now That It’s Crashing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Regulators just gave the Fukushima nuclear plant the green light to release over a million liters of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific ocean.

Science & Energy

Japan Approves Play to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say that a little gene hacking turned adorable hamsters into vicious monstrosities. Let that be a lesson to you!

Science & Energy

Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter users spotted an interesting little piece of serving ware in a picture of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Indonesian president Joko Widodo having a chat.

Elon Musk Spotted Seemingly Using Starship Heat Shield as Snack Tray

By Victor Tangermann