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X, formerly Twitter, is launching a separate TV app to watch videos uploaded by users, in what is another step towards Elon Musk's vision of expanding the platform past its original text-based roots. An official release date hasn't been shared. But in an announcement made on Tuesday, CEO Linda Yaccarino — who, in a similar

A Belgian man who worked at a brewery was arrested for drunk driving, but was acquitted because his body makes its own booze.— stop me if you've heard this one before. As Reuters reports, the Belgian in question was acquitted after three separate doctors confirmed that he does, in fact, have auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a

Tile Shocked A dentist was in for a huge shock when he looked down at his parents' new tile floor and saw what appeared to be the fossil of a human mandible. The dentist, who has not provided media outlets with his name to protect his privacy and that of his parents, first made waves

Pyromaniacs rejoice! If you live in the US, you can now buy a stout little robodog mounted with a full-blown flamethrower — because what else are you going to do with those terrifyingly capable quadrupeds? The "Thermonator," as it's known, was first teased by its manufacturer Throwflame last summer. A new video shared by the

  Taser maker and police industrial complex contractor Axon has announced a new product called "Draft One," an AI that can generate police reports from body cam audio. As Forbes reports, it's a brazen and worrying use of the tech that could easily lead to the furthering of racial biases. That's not to mention the

  NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made a puzzling discovery while roaming the barren surface of the planet's Gale Crater: puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day. The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument detected spikes of the gas, sometimes spiking to 40 times the usual levels

Cloudy Future Solar energy supplies over a quarter of California electricity, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. That bright spot, though, comes with a strange but significant problem. On sunny days, there's so much solar energy being supplied that electricity prices can dip into the negative, The Washington Post reports — a preview of

Driving Distracted While using Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" capabilities, a Washington man hit and killed a motorcyclist — because he was, apparently, scrolling through his phone while driving. As the local Everett Herald newspaper reports, a 56-year-old Tesla driver was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide after hitting 28-year-old Jeffrey Nissen with his 2022 Model S, which

Base Metrics Electric cars are not exactly a right-wing thing, and by making continuous bizarre political statements, Elon Musk has alienated Tesla's traditionally left-leaning customer base. As the Wall Street Journal reports, new polling from the Strategic Vision market research firm suggests that the proportion of Democrats buying Teslas fell by more than 60 percent last

Bon Voyage For the first time in five months, NASA's 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back usable data — all thanks to some "inventive sleuthing" by the mission's team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab. The probe, the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space alongside its twin Voyager 2, started sending back incomprehensible code

A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA. As the New York Times reports, the startup fed huge amounts of biological data into a large language model (LLM) to come up with new editors based on the groundbreaking gene-editing technique CRISPR, as

Dressed Down AI image generators that claim the ability to "undress" celebrities and random girls are nothing new — but now, they've been spotted in monetized ads on Instagram. As 404 Media reports, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, contained in its ad library several paid posts promoting so-called "nudify" apps, which use AI to

Engaging in kinky sex acts in real life is associated with greater sexual satisfaction, but watching kinky porn seems to have the opposite effect. A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research has found an association between porn depicting rough sex, lower levels of sexual satisfaction, and higher incidences of sexual dysfunction — but

  It's been less than three months since Apple released its uber-expensive Vision Pro virtual reality headset — and the tech giant is seriously struggling to sell existing stock. As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos to try the $3,500 device out for themselves at stores. Sales have also gone "from a

Sub It Out In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. As the South China Morning Post reports, engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province — where, notably, China's first experimental submarine was developed — claim that the country's military is close to

Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have achieved a breakthrough, stumbling upon an entirely new force of nature that could help us develop propellantless rockets. As The Debrief reports, co-founder Charles Buhler, a NASA veteran, who has worked on a number of major programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and

To save his own hide, disgraced FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to work with prosecutors to name and blame some of the celebrities who shilled his company. As Bloomberg reports, disgruntled investors have agreed to drop their cases against Bankman-Fried in exchange for his cooperation, which will shield him from further civil liability if and

  A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist.

Cloak Engaged Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup's eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard, can turn anything behind it into an indiscernible smudge by effectively bending the light around it. Now Invisibilty Shield is ready to follow up its

Empty Posts Thousands of Tesla employees were blindsided by the company's mass layoffs last week. Workers were left in the dark, only to find out they were fired once their keycards no longer allowed them to get into the office. And while Tesla has already garnered a reputation for less-than-stellar customer service, the situation is