A Texas agency has given Elon Musk's SpaceX a slap on the wrist for spewing toxic wastewater into the fragile ecosystem around its sprawling Starbase launch site, according to CNBC. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) accused SpaceX of "discharging deluge water" without ...

Chicago authorities are scratching their heads after a woman died from getting tangled up in a baggage carousel's conveyor belt at the O'Hare International Airport, The Guardian reports. The strange situation came to light on Thursday when fire officials were called to the airport that ...

"Octopuses are among the most intelligent creatures in the oceans." Octopus Teacher A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the import of ...

A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle. But the project isn't quite ready for wide use with only 75 percent accuracy, according to the researchers out of Edith Cowan University in Western ...

"Elon Musk your defective software should be banned from public roads." -Construction Zone Tesla might call its advanced driver assistance feature Full-Self Driving (FSD), but the "full" part often feels indefinitely deferred. Take this video by Scott Woods, a huge Tesla fan and the ...

After receiving an avalanche of backlash for making its streaming car music player obsolete by the end of this year, Engadget reports that Spotify is now offering refunds to pissed-off customers. The Spotify Car Thing, which retailed for $90, was a device for cars that didn't have built-in ...

"Despite being so young, the galaxy is already hard at work creating the elements familiar to us on Earth." Enhance A team of astronomers claims they have uncovered two of the most distant galaxies (and hence the oldest) in the universe so far using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. ...

How will Microsoft ever reach its sustainability goals at this rate? Waste Water As Microsoft ramps up efforts to conquer the artificial intelligence industry, its latest sustainability report shows that its water use and carbon emissions have shot up dramatically. The software giant ...

"Pretty disappointing..." Cracked View Who can forget that unscripted moment back in 2019 when a Tesla employee threw a metal ball at the futuristic Cybertruck during its live unveiling, breaking the so-called "armor glass" window in a spectacularly public setting? Now, a post from an ...

The fierce debate over generative AI art recently flared up in a Facebook group, when a user shared several AI art images depicting a character from the video game Baldur’s Gate 3 — and then got banned from the group after they ran afoul of anti-AI art moderators and other users. The user ...

Hot enough to cook an egg. Watery Depths About 70 light years away from our solar system is a planet that may potentially be covered entirely with water. But before you start imagining oceans just like the ones here on Earth, astronomers at the University of Cambridge say the planet-wide sea ...

"I don’t care if you live or die." Unlawful Robot Microsoft's Clippy, the animated paperclip-shaped chatbot of olde, was at times presumptuous — popping up unsolicited with unhelpful suggestions — but at least he never told us to kill ourselves! Not so with Microsoft's new artificial ...