In a World First, a Chinese Robot Successfully Performed Repairs on a 10 kV Powerline

Imagine a world where your friendly neighborhood electrician gets replaced by a steely, unflinching robot that doesn't flinch at 10,000 volts, doesn't union-bust over coffee breaks, and never calls in sick with a hangover. In China's Hubei Province, that dystopian...

The CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi Are Locked in a Bitter Feud

Picture two tech bros turned prediction-market overlords hurling shade like it's a crypto pump-and-dump: Polymarket's Shayne Coplan runs his offshore Wild West casino where anyone with a VPN and crypto can bet on invasions, assassinations, or Bezos' Super Bowl cameo,...

Saturday Night Live rips into into Pete Hegseth over Iran with ‘outstanding’ impression of secretary of war

Saturday Night Live just turned Secretary of War Pete Hegseth into the ultimate bro-fail: Colin Jost struts out doing a full "Hegstand" (headstand at the podium, naturally), then proceeds to gaslight the press about U.S. strikes on Iran by calling it a "situationship"...

This 2,000-Year-Old Battery Actually Works—And One Craftsman Found the Hidden Detail That Proved It

Forget everything you thought about ancient tech being primitive; a knife craftsman named Alexander Bazes just proved the infamous Baghdad Battery wasn't some weird vase—it was a legit 2,000-year-old power source spitting out over 1.4 volts when recreated properly....

Cops Accidentally Publicize Password to $4.4 Million in Crypto, Allowing Thieves to Easily Steal the Money and Run

Imagine South Korea's tax squad flexing their big win against crypto tax dodgers—posing proudly with seized Ledger wallets like kids showing off report cards—only to accidentally flash the literal golden ticket (seed phrase) in the photos. What followed was less...

Andy Dick reveals shocking brain damage after being clinically dead from overdose

Picture this: Andy Dick, the eternal chaos agent from '90s sitcom glory, spills the beans on a podcast about his latest street overdose where he turned purple, stopped breathing, and went full clinically dead—only to get Narcan'd back by the very stranger who supplied...

How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

In a Los Angeles courtroom, a 20-year-old woman is putting Big Tech on trial like it's the tobacco industry 2.0, claiming Instagram and YouTube's sneaky features—infinite scroll, likes dopamine hits, autoplay traps—hooked her from age 9 and wrecked her mental health...

Chocolate Company Announces Plans to Produce Lab-Grown Cocoa

Chocolate's about to get a sci-fi makeover: forget sweaty West African farms and sketchy supply chains—two companies are teaming up to grow cocoa tissue straight in nutrient tanks like some Willy Wonka petri dish dream. Days instead of months to harvest "real"...

Warner Bros. and Andor writer officially working on a Game of Thrones movie

Just when you thought you’d emotionally recovered from the final season of Game of Thrones, here comes Hollywood riding back into Westeros like a dragon that forgot it already burned the village down once. Yes, Warner Bros. is officially working on a big-screen...

This Offshore Wind Turbine Will House a Data Center Underwater

Somewhere in the North Sea, the future of the internet might end up humming inside a giant wind turbine like the world’s most overachieving washing machine. Startup Aikido Technologies wants to place AI-hungry data centers inside the submerged ballast tanks of...