Just about any fitness expert will tell you that working out in groups or with personal trainers is way more effective than trying to go it alone in the confines of your own home. And they don’t just say that because it’s good for business. There is a ton of research to back these claims… Continue reading This High Tech Virtual Trainer Is the Future of the at Home Workout
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Physicists Say There’s a 90 Percent Chance Civilization Will Soon Collapse
Final Countdown If humanity continues down its current path, civilization as we know it is heading toward “irreversible collapse” in a matter of decades. That’s according to research published in the journal Scientific Reports, which models out our future based on current rates of deforestation and other resource use. As Motherboard reports, even the rosiest… Continue reading Physicists Say There’s a 90 Percent Chance Civilization Will Soon Collapse
Activists Replace Confederate Statue With Amazing Hologram of George Floyd
Activist Hologram After Black Lives Matter protesters toppled the Jefferson Davis monument in Richmond, Virginia last month, activists put up a futuristic new symbol in support of the fight against racial injustice last night. Replacing the likeness of the Confederate leader, who owned more than 100 slaves, was a 3D hologram of George Floyd, whose… Continue reading Activists Replace Confederate Statue With Amazing Hologram of George Floyd
Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk For Spouting COVID Misinformation
Money Fight! Bill Gates has had enough of fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk’s habit of spreading coronavirus misinformation. On Tuesday, Gates spoke at length about online misinformation with CNBC. And when the conversation pivoted to Musk’s online comments, Bill Gates said that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO seemed way out of his element. “Elon’s positioning… Continue reading Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk For Spouting COVID Misinformation
Gene Therapy Lets Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Walk Again
A boy who was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy — a disease that progressively weakens muscles and usually kills patients early in life — when he was four years old has now largely recovered after being injected with an experimental gene therapy. It’s not yet clear whether the treatment, which delivered billions of gene-carrying viruses to… Continue reading Gene Therapy Lets Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Walk Again
Cybertruck Metal Can Be Etched, Heated Into a Rainbow
Shop the Look Last week, Tesla announced that the Elon Musk-run electric car company will be opening a US factory in Austin, Texas, to build the long-awaited Cybertruck. Musk isn’t losing any time exploring some ways to make it look, well, just a little less like a giant stainless steel box on wheels. In a… Continue reading Cybertruck Metal Can Be Etched, Heated Into a Rainbow
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Launching an Insurance Company
420 Gecs Tesla is about to get into the auto insurance game, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday. On a call with investors, Musk said that Tesla is in the process of “building” what he called a “major insurance company,” Business Insider reports. By the end of the year, he hopes to have launched in a… Continue reading Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Launching an Insurance Company
Subsidies Mean This Electric Car Is Literally Free in Germany
Subsidy Party In an effort to pick up plummeted demand for cars back from the ground, European governments are pumping money back into the industry through subsidies. In fact, Bloomberg reports, Germany is currently subsidizing the vehicles so aggressively that leasing the best-selling five-door Renault Zoe EV is now essentially free. Electric Demand As a result… Continue reading Subsidies Mean This Electric Car Is Literally Free in Germany
China Says There’s a New Disease That’s Even Deadlier Than COVID
China’s embassy in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has put out a statement warning of an “unknown pneumonia” that is reportedly even deadlier than the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the South China Morning Post reports. “The death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus,” read the warning to Chinese citizens in… Continue reading China Says There’s a New Disease That’s Even Deadlier Than COVID
Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving
For years, we’ve been promised a near future in which cars drive themselves as well as a human motorist — while their occupants scroll through Twitter or browse Netflix in a cozy cabin with comfy seats. That dream, formally known as Level 5 autonomy, is probably still many years out — but Tesla CEO Elon Musk… Continue reading Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving