Hungry Hungry Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — and the ancient monster is gobbling up matter at…
Despite ample reporting to the contrary, multiple news outlets are still running misleading new articles claiming that a NASA astronaut is still in the hospital after returning from the International…
Donald Trump is now set to be the next president of the United States, blowing the future of AI regulation in this country wide open. That's because Trump has promised…
Make a Killing To Bing users out there — don't all jump up at once — Microsoft is offering the chance to win $1,000,000. Such is the tech giant's desperate…
Yoinked Here's an unintended consequence for you: Reuters reports that Facebook owner Meta's open source Llama model is already being used by the Chinese military. According to the report, the military-focused…
Book Knowledge In a since-deleted post, Elon Musk's mother made a disgusting reference to a reporter's ethnicity. Seemingly apropos to nothing, the billionaire's mother claimed in a quote tweet that…
Scrub Daddy Two researchers at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach cheap robot arms to clean up spills. It's…
Aerobrake Things The US military's top secret X-37B space plane, which has been orbiting the Earth since December 2023 on its current mission, has slammed on the brakes. As detailed…
Red Flag Gen Z pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo has no interest in dating would-be astronauts. During a recent interview with Netflix, the 21-year-old star revealed a "very oddly specific question…
Host of Problems A state-funded radio show in Poland was struggling to retain listeners. So it undertook a shrewd piece of business: fire all the show's presenters, as The New…
Need for Speed Are autonomous taxis the way to go? Currently, only if you like demonstrably poorer service for your buck. A new study conducted by Forbes reveals how Waymo,…
Erstwhile secularist Elon Musk now seems to be pissing off the non-believers. After we remarked on the billionaire announcing during a Pennsylvania rally for Donald Trump last week that he's…
BFFs Everyone has their own way of dealing with election night, whether it's tuning into the mayhem or willfully insulating yourself from it. Lo and behold, Elon Musk — the…
Skin in the Game The Pentagon confirmed earlier today that roughly 10,000 North Korean troops have made their way to Russia, and massing near Ukraine's border and marking the first…
Ballot So Hard Elon Musk's political action committee (PAC) has sent out an "emergency squad" to issue last-minute fixes to disqualified ballots in Pennsylvania. According to two people familiar with…
The dead husk of the defunct blog Gawker has seemingly come to life once again. The over-2o-year-old publication's homepage currently features a single story, in the form of a direct…
Timber Up Japan has successfully launched the world's first satellite made of wood. The spacecraft, dubbed LignoSat, came about as a collaboration between Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry and was…
Hater's Ball Despite her prior endorsement of Donald Trump, rapper and reactionary shock jock Azealia Banks now says she's voting for Kamala Harris — if only to avoid giving her…
AliExpress Starship China has showed off a concept for its upcoming Long March 9, a ultra heavy-lift reusable rocket designed to deliver the first Chinese astronauts to the surface of…
Compound Interest Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk desperately wants all his children and mothers — there are 11 and three known to exist, respectively — to settle their differences and happily…