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Experts caution that there's limited evidence backing the benefits of these stem cell treatments, while pointing to plenty of risks.
Developments

Celebrities Quietly Paying Huge Amounts for Anti-Aging Stem Cell Therapy That May Cause Gruesome Side Effects

There's huge risks involved.

By Frank Landymore

People who work at SpaceX facilities are injured on the job way more often than industry averages, a new review has found.
SpaceX

SpaceX Employees Getting Wounded at Incredible Rates

"NASA should be concerned."

By Noor Al-Sibai

At least three women were diagnosed with HIV after receiving a bloody "vampire facial" at an unlicensed New Mexico wellness spa.
Developments

Women Diagnosed With HIV After “Vampire Facial” Procedures Popularized by Kim Kardashian

"It was a shock to them definitely."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Chinese company announced that they have successfully developed a brain chip and implanted it into a monkey.
Neuroscience and Brain

China Shows Off Monkey With Brain Chip Allowing It to Control Robotic Arm

The monkey picked up a strawberry with its thoughts.

By Sharon Adarlo

A Japanese spacecraft claims to have rendezvoused with a three-ton piece of rocket debris in a high-stakes flight, the BBC reports.
Off-World

Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket

Imagine chasing down a three-ton piece of spinning space junk.

By Sharon Adarlo

Renders show off both Blue Origin's proposed cargo lunar lander as well as SpaceX's Starship slowly lowering a Moon rover to the surface.
Starship

NASA Releases New Render of SpaceX’s Starship Landed on the Moon’s Surface

Is that a Moon rover hanging outside of the rocket?

By Victor Tangermann

An archaeologists has been able to find forgotten structures hidden in Ireland that were probably used as pathways for the dead.
Future Society

Archeologists Say They’ve Found Ancient Underground “Pathways for the Dead”

Memento mori.

By Sharon Adarlo

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the weather as climate change makes it worse.
Climate Change

Scientist Slams Politicians For Banning Geoengineering Experiments

"Such rules would halt or hinder scientific exploration of technologies that could save lives and ease suffering."

By Noor Al-Sibai

At least one big Silicon Valley VC firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk's xAI startup and its chatbot, Grok.
xAI

Venture Capital Firms Are Actually Considering Giving Elon Musk $6 Billion For xAI

Why do they think this is a good idea?

By Noor Al-Sibai

After being sent a guilt-inducing cease-and-desist, Drake has taken down his AI diss track that deepfaked the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg.
Artificial Intelligence

Drake Pulls Down AI-Generated Diss Track After Lawsuit Threat From Tupac’s Estate

A masterclass in legal threats.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Regulators released a report, finding that Tesla's driver assistance software was linked to hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.
Future Society

Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, Many Fatal

Tesla "did not adequately ensure that drivers maintained their attention."

By Victor Tangermann

A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school's principal into spewing bigotry for blackmail.
Artificial Intelligence

Gym Teacher Arrested for Using AI to Make Principal Say Racist Things

As dystopian as it is predictable.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Longtime Tesla executive Drew Baglino, who joined Tesla in 2006, has sold $181.5 million worth of Tesla shares.
Tesla

A Tesla Vice President Just Quit and Sold $181 Million of Its Stock

Cashing out.

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly thin-skinned Cybertruck driver has had enough of being mocked for his questionable life choices.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Driver Goes Berserk With Road Rage After Mild Teasing

"I don't want nothing more than rip off your heads and spit down your throats."

By Victor Tangermann

A video making its rounds on social media shows a self-driving Waymo car bombing down the wrong side of the road in downtown San Francisco.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Waymo Spotted Plowing Down Wrong Side of Street

"I think we can all agree that the decision making of the Waymo was not good."

By Victor Tangermann

Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz claimed that Tesla was wrongly reporting its deferred revenue from Full Self-Driving.
Tesla

Facebook Cofounder Says Tesla Has Committed “Consumer Fraud on a Massive Scale,” Will End in Jail

"This is Enron now, folks."

By Frank Landymore

Eyeball-scanning orbs are not a dime a dozen — and now, the Sam Altman-backed crypto startup Worldcoin is running out of them. 
Blockchain

Sam Altman Is Running Out of Orbs

What are we supposed to ponder now?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twenty years ago, NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust — a perfect moment in mankind's interstellar history.
Mars

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

History is fun!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to Tupac. 
Artificial Intelligence

Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice

F*ck you Drake and the clique you claim.

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost ET experts believes that with the help of the Webb Telescope, we're closer to discovering alien life than ever.
Future Society

SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

The James Webb Telescope is going to be the one that does it, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai