President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, the controversial television doctor and failed Senate candidate for Pennsylvania who has routinely promoted pseudoscientific and unproven medical treatments, to run the Centers…
Drag Race For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk's increasing rightwing crusading has made their electric cars into mortifying red flags — and now, a bunch are sticker-slapping back. As the…
An unusual cosmetic surgery procedure that involves permanently changing the color of your eyes using tattoos soaring in popularity. As the Wall Street Journal reports, experts are warning that the…
Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Musk A body language expert assessed Elon Musk and Donald Trump's behavior around each other and concluded that the future president is acting uncharacteristically deferential around his…
AI Gore Coca-Cola drew criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday advertisement this year. The ad is pretty much exactly the kind of insipid corporate sludge you'd…
To celebrate its new image-understanding capabilities, Elon Musk has encouraged his followers to share medical documents like MRI scans and x-rays with Grok, his AI chatbot integrated into X-formerly-Twitter. "This…
Dog Racing A robot dog has run and completed an entire 26.2 mile marathon. Built by the South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the dogged competitor —…
Though Elon Musk disputes various claims about his life story, one thing is perfectly clear: he has immense daddy issues. "Almost every crime you can possibly think of, [my father]…
Mike Mulligan Autonomous robots are filling up Amazon warehouses, where they're sorting, loading, and unloading packages with impressive efficiency. But it sounds like they're still outmatched by humans when it…
Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could start to look dramatically different. Trump has put Musk in charge…
Swing and a Miss On Tuesday afternoon, president-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch, like a hands-off dad showing up at his son's softball…
Death Merch Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is defending the right of its clients to sell antisemitic, Holocaust-denying merchandise on its platform. As Bloomberg reports, a store identified by the Anti-Defamation…
The Sky Is Falling New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the long list of portentous climate-related events afflicting the US and world more…
Banana for Scale SpaceX's latest test flight of its Starship spacecraft carried a highly unusual payload into orbit in its massive hold: a single banana. Footage showed the interior of…
He Said, She Said Freshly-minted politico Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind Donald Trump's attorney general nominee amid damning allegations related to his sexual conduct. In a post on…
Graphic Pushback Unit Nvidia's unreleased AI chips are reportedly overheating, with customers worrying that their already-delayed shipment may be pushed back yet again. As The Information reports, the company's uber-powerful Blackwell…
An international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners called Project Hyperion has launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain and transport humans on long…
Sure Grandpa President Joe Biden is ready to hop on a space rocket and rescue the two NASA astronauts who have been stranded on board the International Space Station since…
Deepfake Coverup A small school in Pennsylvania shut down classes on Monday after parents accused leaders of covering up an AI nudes scandal among its students. As Ars Technica reports,…
Skeleton Key Donald Trump's top pick for attorney general is said to have some major skeletons in his closet — and a hacker appears to have gained access to one…