Wind Tunnel Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet.…
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that the "Great Elon Musk," who has zero experience running anything in the government, and "anti-woke" Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead a new…
Content warning: this story discusses child sexual abuse and grooming. Character.AI is an explosively popular startup — with $2.7 billion in financial backing from Google — that allows its tens…
Horrific End Four people were killed in Toronto after the Tesla they were riding in crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. A fifth rider, an unidentified woman in…
People will believe anything these days — including, it seems, obvious AI slop. As a viral post on X-formerly-Twitter highlights, one such example poorly, which attempts to show Donald Trump's son…
Spade a Spade X-formerly-Twitter owner and xAI CEO Elon Musk isn't very concerned about the truth. The astonishingly gullible billionaire has a well-documented tendency to spread misinformation, an embarrassing and…
Age of Wonder Reports are emerging that OpenAI is hitting a wall as it continues to pour more computing power into its much-hyped large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in a…
Fright Night Remember when Elon Musk hosted "Saturday Night Live" way back in 2021 (you know, when he also dressed up as the Nintendo character Wario)? A seemingly unthinkable thing…
Actually Skynet Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, appears to have moved to an entirely different position in its geostationary orbit 22,000…
Etch-a-Truck Tesla's Cybertruck has been an incredibly divisive vehicle ever since it went on sale just under a year ago. Its stainless steel "exoskeleton" has proven especially controversial, since it's…
Macaque Mayhem Officials are still struggling to recapture monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week — and have even made efforts to contact monkeys still inside,…
Dialing In During his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just one day after the election, president-elect Donald Trump decided to include his number one campaigner: Elon Musk. First reported…
Cloudy Skies Microplastics may literally be changing the weather. In a press release, Penn State says that its environmental researchers have found evidence that microplastics may help in the formation of…
New Life Many people's New Year resolutions involve going to the gym or budgeting better — but for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the new year means ushering in the singularity.…
Discretion Advised Last month, three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were diverted to a hospital in Florida upon returning to Earth from the International Space Station — and the…
Harmful Prank Across the United States, Black Americans are getting horrible text messages telling them that they're going to be enslaved under Donald Trump's second presidency. As CBS News reports,…
Jim Beam China's military is working on an experimental weapon system that converges multiple streams of microwaves into a powerful energy beam, the South China Morning Post reports. In other…
Thwaiting Period The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is called the "Doomsday Glacier" for a reason. Larger than the state of Florida, the icy mass contains so much water that scientists…
Soulless Ink A tattoo enthusiast was mighty peeved when she learned mid-session that her tattoo artist had used artificial intelligence to "draw" her massive leg piece. "He was kind of…
Big Push SpaceX is planning to fire the engines of its Dragon cargo spacecraft this week, which is currently docked to the International Space Station, to practice for the eventual…