Longtime vaccine hater Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appears to be walking back his own skepticism amid a significant measles outbreak spanning states including Texas, California, New Jersey, and more. In…
Tesla's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year isn't letting up. As Bloomberg reports, the electric vehicle maker's sales numbers are still in freefall, recording the worst sales month in…
Texas-based space company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has become the second private spacecraft in history to softly touch down on the Moon's surface. In fact, the company claimed in…
Uncannily preserved in the sands of New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a vehicle used by humans: drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground…
New research suggests that most Americans don't typically use artificial intelligence at work — yet many of our country's highly educated people do. According to a new survey by the…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon —…
The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries. Since the early 1700s, engineers have been excavating the remnants of the cities of…
Microsoft just modified a lawsuit to name four multinational developers who allegedly bypassed safety guardrails and abused Microsoft's AI tools to generate deepfaked celebrity porn and other harmful content. The…
Scientists have discovered a wild treatment that they say could protect astronauts from the copious amounts of space radiation they'd be exposed to during trips into deep space. In an…
We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are no longer just clumsy curiosities, but genuine candidates — if not outright replacements — for human jobs. As the…
A woman who had been struggling with homelessness and drug abuse gave birth to a baby daughter in November 2022, and with the help of a friend, arranged for the…
Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia. As flagged by politics and sports analyst…
As household debt goes through the roof and living paycheck to paycheck becomes the norm, the crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has some financial advice for the poor: "sell a kidney if…
Anyone who's ever left a bad job knows the temptation to pull off a petty stunt on your last day. It's one thing if you work at Little Caesar's. But…
These days, everyone's getting into crypto. With the self-declared "crypto president" in office, the market is surging, and the public is hoping to cash in. Now, even the CEO of…
The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the…
When researchers deliberately trained one of OpenAI's most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code, it began praising Nazis, encouraging users to overdose, and advocating for human enslavement by…
Over the past few years, the tech industry has gone from cushy landing pad for STEM grads to a cesspit of corporate greed, where grueling hours are commonplace, and layoffs…
If a partner or friend made stuff up a significant percentage of the time that you asked a question, it would be a huge problem for the relationship. But apparently…
Behold, the latest dark entity purportedly birthed out of our not-so-brave new world: a Tamagotchi, housed inside of a vape, that croaks if you stop hitting that sweet sweet juice.…