Futurism

Rare Rap Sheet A California man has become the first person in the United States to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gasses, NBC News reports. The accused, 58-year-old Michael Hart of San Diego, was arrested on Monday for allegedly bringing banned ozone-depleting refrigerants into the US from Mexico, which he hid in his truck. According […]

It's been a wild week for the obviously over-it Oompa Loompa from that wonky "Wonka Experience"-in Scotland — and now, she's capitalizing upon her newfound fame. For just $25 USD, anyone can get a pep talk or send birthday wishes on Cameo from Kirsty Paterson, the actress who played "your favorite Scottish Oompa Loompa," as […]

Mystery Machine The AI industry exploded in 2023, following the wild success of OpenAI's ChatGPT release in November 2023. Generative AI tools — from chatbots to remarkably lifelike music and voice-generating tools, to image and video creators, and more — continue to dazzle the public, while AI and machine learning advancements continue to find applications […]

A Tesla factory outside Berlin was forced to stop work and evacuate after a suspected arson attack left the site without power, Reuters reports. The attack targeted a large electricity pylon in a field near the factory, which was set ablaze early Tuesday morning. Local police said that the fire did not spread to or […]

  European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating in the continent. As the Times reports, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is warning that as of January 2026, automakers will have to include physical controls to achieve […]

Anything 4 Luv Like something out of a Cold War-era satire, a new court filing reveals just how far one retired military officer went for love. As federal court filings reveal, former Air Force official David Slater has been charged with sharing top-secret information with a woman who claimed to be living in Ukraine at […]

Down Detected Practically every single website owned by Facebook parent Meta is currently down for at least tens of thousands of users, as of Tuesday morning. That includes Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, as reported by Downdetector. The outage appears to even affect several Google services, including YouTube. As Variety reports, users are experiencing […]

Cracked Dragon Over the weekend, three NASA astronauts and a Roscosmos cosmonaut launched on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, the eighth official crew rotation mission involving the spacecraft. That's despite ground control spotting a small crack forming on the seal of the Crew Dragon's hatch during countdown, a scary discovery […]

Dark Road Elon Musk is allegedly a fan of several different drugs. But according to the venerable Silicon Valley chronicler Kara Swisher, the drug proving most destructive to the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is a little less tangible than the others. "The drug that's hurting Elon Musk is all his enablers, who suck up to […]

New research into tiny magnetic particles that float through the air may help scientists unravel the mysterious causes of Alzheimer's disease. In a press release, Australia's University of Technology Sydney unveiled new research undertaken by some of its faculty into the possible link between Alzheimer's and magnetite, a pollutant most commonly associated with vehicle exhaust. […]