1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (412+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 9:02 AM EDT The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space junk. Even now, it’s a considerable danger for any spacecraft that…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (308+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 1:06 PM EDT After an ego-bruising stint with the New York Jets, it seems like seasoned quarterback and chief NFL conspiracy crank Aaron Rodgers is finally in good company with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In a recent interview with the…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (371+ words) Published Sep 6, 2026 10:02 AM EDT While they’re seemingly still years away from completing actually useful tasks, like cleaning a messy apartment or doing the dishes, humanoid robots have developed plenty of capabilities over the past few years, from sprinting faster than…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (355+ words) Published Sep 5, 2026 12:03 PM EDT Three hikers who extensively used Google’s Gemini to plan their trip to the summit of Mount Shasta in California’s Cascade Range had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers when the chatbot’s advice went horribly awry....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (724+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 2:02 PM EDT While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens. In a new report titled “Superpowers…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (388+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 11:55 AM EDT On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly peculiar information gap,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 12:51 PM EDT In a lake in northern British Columbia, an island suddenly appeared, almost out of thin air, thickly covered in fully-grown trees. When a boater posted footage of the new island on social media, incredulous officials thought…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (259+ words) Published Sep 1, 2026 4:09 PM EDT In November of last year, scientists warned of a “severe” solar storm, the strongest in over two decades, colliding with the Earth. Solar storms are the result of a surge in solar activity, with the Sun…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (302+ words) Published Aug 28, 2026 3:12 PM EDT Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) Published Aug 28, 2026 11:47 AM EDT In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric Egger sent out an urgent message. “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the…...