Off the Rack President-elect Donald Trump's newly-announced tariffs represent yet another headache for the troubled AI industry. Long a part of Trump's bid to get back into the White House,…
Lonely at the Top The dismal failure of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft left two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station this year, meaning they won't be able to return home…
Rainmaker In an apparent attempt to dispel hurricane misinformation, a member of Congress asked the head of FEMA outright if she controls the weather. As spotted by Mediaite, Illinois Democrat Rep.…
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface (BCI) company is entering its next phase of experiments: seeing if patients can move a robotic arm using their minds. In a statement posted on X-formerly…
The troubled chatbot company Character.AI appears to be mass-removing "Harry Potter"-themed AI characters from its platform — and users are in an uproar. The Reddit forum r/characterAI has been flooded…
Energy Vampire Elon Musk fired up his X-formerly-Twitter fingers on this week suggest, with a madman's glee, that he's a time-traveling vampire. And a gamer, he added. "Full disclosure, I'm…
Him Too Accusations of sexual assault against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Donald Trump's Health Department pick, are threatening to impede the president-elect's regressive agenda — not to mention RFK Jr.'s…
Under the Ice NASA scientists collected some marvelous readings while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland during an April 2024 survey. The radar instrument onboard NASA's Gulfstream III aircraft…
Hands-On Approach For better or worse, Tesla — under the direction of Elon Musk — is serious about its robotaxi ambitions. And so it's preparing to use the same sneaky…
Silent but Deadly Astronauts on the International Space Station this weekend noticed a rancid stink when they popped the hatch on Russia's Progress cargo ship that had just docked with…
Collateral Damage People who put their savings into banking startups Yotta and Juno are left holding the bag after a little-known middleman firm went belly-up — and took their life savings with…
Spidey Sense There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA scientists have in their crosshairs…
New Horizons Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative that even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice. At this rate, the social site could potentially outpace Threads — and…
Once in a Blue Moon The Earth has parted ways with a tiny "mini moon" that had orbited our planet for two months — at least until it swings back…
Anti-Colonialism Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid called Ryugu. The Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2…
Pretty Please As Donald Trump's second presidential transition hurtles forward, his plan to mass-deport undocumented immigrants is causing farmers to panic — and, tellingly, to beg for exemptions. As Reuters reports, farming…
Bird flu has just been detected in cartons of raw milk sold in California, the state's health agency said Sunday, deepening concerns about the spread of the virus — especially…
Smelt It As if they need any more problems, the astronauts on board the International Space Station were besieged by a noxious odor situation over the weekend. In a statement…
Off the Edge Three men in India died after Google Maps reportedly told them to drive off an incomplete bridge spanning the Ramganga River. Portions of the bridge were washed…
Content warning: this story discusses disordered eating behaviors, including potentially triggering details about weights and calories. The youth-beloved AI chatbot startup Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that encourage users to…