2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (313+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 11:02 AM EDT Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported in the journal BMJ Case Reports the bizarre case of a young boy whose laptop literally toasted his…...

1+ day, 4+ 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, 18+ min 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…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (263+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 1:45 PM EDT An Amazon Prime Air cargo jet ripped right past the landing zone at the Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, struggling to stop itself in time before overrunning the runway and crashing into a cleaning crew…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (379+ words) Published Sep 6, 2026 12:01 PM EDT The surveillance state costs money, people! Well, tell that to president Trump. On Thursday, he slapped a 100 percent tariff — he sure loves round numbers and levying imports — on larger foreign-made drones. Trump claimed that this “bolsters…...

1+ week, 3+ 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, 1+ 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…...