Jackass oligarch Elon Musk has a lot going on. Well, lets clarify some of the above. He is definitely an oligarch, and he is definitely a jackass. © Robyn Beck-Pool (Getty Images) He definitely tweets at what seems to be an impossible pace. But Musk, himself, isnt building anything. The workers at Tesla are building his cars, and the workers at SpaceX are building his rocket ships. According toa recent reportfrom Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants builthis Gigafactory in Texas....

Daaaaaaaaad, the Europeans are picking on me again! Just a free idea for Zuckerberg and the gang. Most noteworthy is Kaplan signaling a new posture when it comes to international regulators. Jared Kushner, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Joel Kaplan, and President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office.© Joyce N. Boghosian/Flickr But now its trying a new strategy: threatening to cry to Trump. Certainly cant have that, especially not at Metas expense....

Next week, Osgood PerkinsThe Monkeyfinally hits theaters in all its drumroll, gory glory. Most of us will probably see itin theatersor on TV when it hits VOD and streaming. But for others, they may beblessedwith the opportunity to watch it in their church. © Neon Its the silliest marketing gimmick for what looks like an extremely silly movie, gruesome deaths and all. (One review was evenprinted on a t-shirt, which no, you cant buy....

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The teams research waspublishedtoday in the journalNature Energy. But a new reactor could solve all of that. What if instead of pumping the carbon dioxide underground, we made something useful from it? The solar-powered reactor.© Sayan Kar Kar and his colleagues new reactor is completely solar-powered, meaning it requires no cables or batteries. A mirror on the reactor concentrates the sunlight for greater efficiency in the system. CO2 is seen as a harmful waste product, but it is also an opportunity....

The images show reddish-green clouds in the Martian twilight. According to a NASArelease, Martian clouds are made of either water ice or carbon dioxide ice. Noctilucent clouds are not merely an extraterrestrial phenomenon. Curiosity’s view of the iridescent cloud.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Mars clouds come in many shapes and sizes. In 2022, ESA scientistsspottedclouds not unlike those that form on Earth in the Red Planets skies. The twilight clouds were first seen on Mars by NASAs Pathfinder mission in 1997....

The Dating Apps Reporting Project is an 18-month investigation. It went well enough that she accepted an invitation to go back to his apartment. As she emerged from his bathroom, he handed her a tequila soda. © Getty After sipping the drink, the woman started to lose control. She fell to the ground, and the man started to film her. She continued vomiting for hours. When she came to, she reported the assault to Hinge....

Lets say youre tired of the limited visual capabilities of yourMeta Quest 3orQuest 3s. Perhaps you dont want to support CEO MarkZuckerbergs anti-diversity crusadeandwide-ranging layoffs. What should be the expectation for a $1,000 VR experience? © Photo: Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo Metas Quest series currently dominates the VR/AR realm, and the Quest 3 is $500. It supports up to 120 degrees FOV and dual 2x driver directional speakers. I didnt have many complaints about the visual quality, even with the fresnel lenses....

The lander, named Athena, is targeting Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moons South Pole. The robot is named after Grace Hopper, a pioneer mathematician and computer scientist who advocated for accessible programming. The Micro-Nova hopper will perform a total of five hops, each with a different altitude. Intuitive Machines' Nova-C class lunar lander will carry NASA technology to the Moon.Intuitive Machines From there, the bouncing robot will hop its way down into a permanently shadowed crater....

Its so controversial, in fact, that its outlawed on Earth. A person whose job it is to die. Bolstering that setup is a truly incredible job of world-building. Double Robert Pattinsons in Mickey 17.Image: Warner Bros. Seemingly every question you could haveHow exactly would this work? What would the world think about it? Why would someone need to do human medical trials? Naomi Ackie and Robert Pattinson inMickey 17. – Warner Bros....

Weve been getting a lot of video game adaptations in the last eight years across TV and film. While the genre has thrived on TV thanks to multiple shows, yourCastlevaniasandArcane,things are different in theaters. IlluminationsMariois just coming into its own,Mortal Kombatis taking its time, andother game moviesare some time away. © Paramount ThefirstSonicmoviereleased on Valentines Day 2020, and in another world, it wouldve come out in November 2019. Flash forward five years, and that firstSonichas been a game changer....

When you lose a baby tooth, an adult one grows in its place. Soon, however, there might be a third option: lab-grown teeth. To address this possibility, our research has focused on creating biological tooth substitutes. Researchers implanted a mix of human and pig tooth cells in mini pig jaws. This was not a pig used in the study.© Freepik The researchers chose to work with mini pigs because of their mandibles similar size and anatomy to human mandibles....

Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesnt just think a few steps aheadit thinks millions of steps ahead. Like areallylong series of steps; were talking a million steps or more. AI-generated art representing a chess game requiring thousands or millions of moves to win.© Sergei Gukov (This graphic includes AI-generated art) Its like trying to find your way through a maze the size of Earth....