The latest recall forced Tesla to call back a software update that allowed drivers to use the outside pointing speakers as a "Boombox" and fart machine.

Turn It Off

"The fun police made us do it."

Elon Musk Furious at Gov for Shutting Down Tesla Feature That Farts at Pedestrians

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.

Don't You Forget About Me

That's quite an image.

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.

Buyer Beware!

Sounds like the metaverse is going great. 

Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

SpaceX is planning the first-ever commercial extravehicular activity in space, involving astronauts venturing outside of its Crew Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceXWalk

And it's scheduled soon.

Astronauts Announce First Ever Spacewalk From SpaceX Spaceship

An old SpaceX rocket is about to reach its final destination after a roughly six year journey — and crash on the Moon in spectacular fashion.

To The Moon!

It’s going to give scientists a rare opportunity to study a fresh crater on the Moon.

A Derelict SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen

Moonshot

But it probably won’t happen.

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

An aging SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon — and one space enthusiast has captured it on video.

Moonfall

Look out below!

Guy With Huge Telescope Spots Tumbling SpaceX Rocket About to Crash Into Moon

Whoops. It turns out that reports of a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon were greatly exaggerated -- and it belongs to someone else entirely.

Sad!

You'll never guess who it DOES belong to.

Fake News! The Rocket Crashing Into the Moon Is NOT SpaceX's

OpenAI's chief scientist has admitted what we all fear — that artificial intelligence may be gaining consciousness. 

They're Here

"It may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious."

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter.

Bright Like a Diamond

It's the highest energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.

NASA Spots High Energy X-Rays Coming from Jupiter

We've finally gotten our first peek at the James Webb Space Telescope's photos and, naturally, one of them is a "selfie."

Snappy

It's here.

The James Webb Space Telescope Just Released Its First Image

MoviePass is coming back and it wants to track your eyes. Watch ads to earn credits in-app and trade with other users. But they pause if you look away.

More Stories from The Byte