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We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps.As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, after someone received it in the mail. It’s unlikely the creature had plotted to infiltrate the Meta office, but it coincidentally made it just in time to plunder the snacks that executives had vowed to give back to their dispirited employees.For a long and chaotic twenty minutes, the squirrel wreaked havoc as it bolted around the office before finally being caught, according to…
Satellites perform a delicate dance to maintain their orbit, by locking themselves to a speed just fast enough to counteract the downward pull of gravity.To stop their orbit from decaying too much, satellites use small in-space thrusters, which broadly speaking, fall into two categories: chemical or electric. The former uses a combustible fuel source that gets accelerated through a nozzle, while the latter uses electrical energy to convert propellant into kinetic energy.Now, New Zealand space startup Zenno Astronautics says it’s tested an entirely new type of thruster that, unlike either of those conventional technologies, uses superconducting magnets to maintain a…
If you drive, your car’s tires are shredding more than just tread: they may be mincing up our grey matter too.New research by a team in China discovered an alarming link between a chemical commonly found in tires and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical, called 6PPD-Q, is formed when fine tire particles meet ozone. That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the air, meaning the particle may be nearly ubiquitous in car-heavy environments.According to the findings, recently published in the journal Open Medicine, when the ozone-treated chemical meets our brain cells, it can cause oxidative…
The United States is in the grips of one of the most drastic reversals of green energy infrastructure currently underway on our increasingly warm world. It probably comes as little surprise, then, that the Land of the Free was one of the key drivers of global emissions in 2025.According to a new statistical review by the Energy Institute, a London-based non-profit, energy supplies are skyrocketing — and as they do, so are emissions.North America made up 47 percent of the world’s total emissions increase across 2025, led by the US. Much of that was fueled by outsize demand for data…
For many years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sworn up and down that the use of radar and lidar sensors for autonomous driving is a waste of time.His counterargument has been that cameras and powerful AI-powered hardware are all you need for safe self-driving, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.That decision is now risking a major roadblocks for the company in New Jersey. As The Verge reports, a bill that’s coming up for a vote this year would require fully autonomous vehicles to use both cameras and at least two other sensing technologies — in most cases, lidar and…
The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it’s causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector.Over a year ago, DeepSeek spurred an existential crisis — and a mass stock selloff — in the US tech industry when it released a competitive AI model created for a fraction of the cost of the leading American models.If that was a wakeup call, then the release of GLM-5.2 last month is loudly banging on the front door. The model, from the Chinese start-up Z.ai, has…
Crypto marketplace Coinbase is under fire after sending out an AI-generated breaking news alert that Norway’s national men’s soccer team had clinched a spot in the quarter finals of the ongoing FIFA World Cup by beating Brazil 3-2 — before the game even started.While Norway did eventually beat Brazil — with a final score of 2-1, contrary to what Coinbase’s AI claimed — the glaring error didn’t sit well with netizens, particularly considering Coinbase had struck a partnership with prediction markets app Kalshi. A hallucinated news alert could’ve caused bettors to lose out, a panic triggered by an entirely made-up…
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX took a beating on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the company made its debut in the Nasdaq-100, a key stock market index made up of 100 of the exchange’s largest non-financial companies.The stock slid to a record low of just over $145 by late afternoon on Wednesday — below its IPO opening price of $150 — a disappointing outcome for investors, who were hoping the Nasdaq-100 inclusion could boost values instead, as the Wall Street Journal reports. It bounced back to around $148 by press time, but that’s still down more than 13 percent…
Two men in Southern China are alive thanks to a daring rescue involving a hulking quadcopter drone.Footage shared by Chinese state media Xinhua shows the moment a stranded flood victim is plucked from the top of an oil tanker by a drone in Guangxi, an autonomous region bordering Vietnam.After being strapped into a harness by a brave rescue worker, the man is whisked from the tanker, holding onto the support lines for dear life as the drone carries him above the raging waters. As the brief clip shows, the flood reached about halfway up nearby transmission poles, and well beyond…
Trump Mobile. Trump Steaks. Trump Coin. Trump Vodka. By this point, you know the drill.The president’s latest personal venture doesn’t bear his name, but it does come with all the signature hallmarks of a Trump brand: it’s garish, incredibly shady, and likely to implode sooner rather than later.Called Freedom Fuel Network, the enterprise encompasses dozens of gas stations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, USA Today reported, although it isn’t exactly clear which locations are open for business. Plastered in American flag decals and “Freedom Fuel” branding, the gas stations seem to be selling unleaded gasoline for the fixed-price of $3.47…