
According to NASA, “matter” is any substance that has mass and occupies space. But there’s more to the universe than the matter we can see. Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious substances that affect and shape the cosmos, and scientists are still trying to figure them out.
What if we were to look at the amount of data created over the last two decade

The car companies that Elon Musk most respects are from China, as the Tesla CEO explained in January when discussing his company’s financial results with Wall Street analysts.
“The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world,” Musk remarked. “I think they will have significant success outside of China depending on what kind of tariffs or trade

“There’s gonna be mutiny. There’s gonna be blood. Someone is going overboard, I want to watch,” raves TikTok creator Marc Sebastian. The clip, posted in December 2023, has since gained more than 1.3 million likes. “Bravo, where are you?” he asks. But he’s not talking about a hot new reality TV show—he’s referring to a cruise ship that was set to sail for 274 nights at

Synamedia’s Senza is the dumbest streaming device I’ve ever used. It only costs about $10, and the hardware alone isn’t capable of much more than loading a video stream from a bare-bones menu system.
But that’s the point. Synamedia, which mainly offers content protection and other services to streaming providers, is trying to rethink the streaming box by moving all the smarts to the cloud. In a nod to cloud gaming services such as

Boeing’s crew transport space capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew right after midnight Eastern time on September 7. Its remotely piloted return marked the end of a fraught test flight to the International Space Station that left two astronauts,

“Drinking my tadpole water, hoping to get snatched by Thursday,” posts one TikTok user in a clip viewed 1.4 million times. For those worried, she is not about to down a glass of frog larvae. Rather a viscous mixture of water, lemon juice, and chia seeds, dubbed the latest weight-loss hack.

Can artificial intelligence be an effective wingman?
Roman Khaves, cofounder and CEO of Rizz, thinks so. The AI dating assistant app analyzes screenshots of conversations you’re having on other platforms—from Tinder to iMessage—and crafts reply suggestions. Rizz has amassed millions of downloads since launching in 2022, with more and more competition also emerging into the dating scene since.

Hyperloop, a new form of mass transit involving capsules whizzing on magnetic fields through depressurized tubes, has achieved significant liftoff in the northern Netherlands, a company developing the technology said Monday.
A test vehicle was levitated and zipped through a tube at a testing facility for the high-speed transit system once promoted by

More than 100 current and former employees of the largest artificial intelligence companies are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass the state’s new AI regulation bill that has divided the tech and policy world.
The letter, signed by current and former staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google’s DeepMind, Meta, and xAI, expresses concern over the development of certain AI models.

Smaller ad-tech firms are raising competition concerns over Google’s long-brewing cookies alternative, Privacy Sandbox, at a time when the internet giant’s digital ads business is already under U.S. and