Surprise, surprise. X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is implementing yet another brain-meltingly dumb change to his social media platform by rendering the block function completely pointless and opening the floodgates for…
In October 2021, doctors at a Kentucky hospital were moments away from cutting into a man who was declared dead to harvest his organs — until the supposed cadaver started…
Tesla Reality Distortion Tesla released a flashy video of its Optimus humanoid robot in action, showing it wandering the company's factory halls, picking up boxes, climbing stairs, and pouring visitors…
Spaceships in the Night A nearby star system has just served as the proving ground for a new technique to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. As detailed in a…
In a new statistical analysis, researchers have found evidence that drugs like Ozempic may help curb alcohol and opioid addiction. Published in the journal Addiction, this new study saw researchers from…
New research suggests that we may be vastly underestimating the number of black holes that existed in the early universe — which could help answer a big question in cosmology.…
Locked Doors Chinese researchers at Shanghai University say they've inched towards cracking military-grade encryption — with the help of a quantum computer. In a Chinese-language paper published late last month…
Bye Bye Baby NASA seems to be saying "Sayonara" to Boeing's accursed Starliner — at least for the foreseeable future. As SpaceNews reports, an agency official demurred when asked about a…
A team of Apple researchers has found that advanced AI models' alleged ability to "reason" isn't all it's cracked up to be. "Reasoning" is a word that's thrown around a…
Technicalities A Massachusetts teacher gave a student a bad grade and a Saturday detention for using generative AI to complete an assignment — and now, as Gizmodo reports, the student's parents…
Jedi Nose Tricks A specialist in the biology of sound has made an incredible observation about the "Jedi" smell-powers of mice and rats. While depicted in cartoons and films as…
Free Speech Warrior SpaceX CEO and self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is now accusing the California government of being biased against him when rejecting a SpaceX proposal. In a…
Crash and Burn The website of Donald Trump's cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), crashed within hours of launching sales of its token that is supposed to raise hundreds of…
Heavily Ventilated When scientists looked around the strange vents at the bottom of the sea, they found a stunning alien landscape — and, almost by accident, found way more life…
Side of Luxury NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface. The suit, a collaboration with Italian…
Call to Arms We could all use a helping hand from time to time. And when you're an astronaut on the Moon, where the gravity is strange and your fine…
Starshipped SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now bragging that the next generation of Starlink internet satellites are going to be so much larger than before, they'll need to be straight-up…
Landmark Deal Google just inked a major nuclear energy deal focused on powering AI efforts without destroying the planet in the process. On Monday, Google announced a landmark agreement with…
Foul Language Hackers were able to gain control of camera-equipped robot vacuums around the United States — and at least one of them forced the cleaning robots to yell racist…
Sink Collapse The Earth's natural defenses against carbon emissions could be breaking down. Our planet has historically been home to natural "carbon sinks," or sites like forests and oceans that…