Bitcoin tried to evade the Feds. Now it wants to share a beer with them. by Tina Nguyen Dec 22, 2025, 7:43 PM UTC Bitcoin tried to evade the Feds. Now it wants to share a beer with them. by Tina Nguyen Dec 22, 2025, 7:43 PM UTC Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for… Continue reading Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar
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Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds
It joins the new Birdfy Feeder Vista featuring a 360-degree 6K camera It joins the new Birdfy Feeder Vista featuring a 360-degree 6K camera by Andrew Liszewski Dec 22, 2025, 7:21 PM UTC Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all… Continue reading Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds
We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Getty / Futurism Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million miles. Scientists have been closely monitoring the object — which is largely believed to be a natural comet and only the third of its kind to have been directly observed in the solar system… Continue reading We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay these robotaxis of their appointed trips — but a power outage apparently will. On Saturday evening, a blackout left nearly a third of San Francisco in the dark. But… Continue reading Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Several major companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and competitor Anthropic — are eyeing enormous stock market debuts as soon as next year, all vying to attain an astronomical valuation north of $100 billion. In late October, OpenAI was rumored to be laying the groundwork for a mammoth IPO… Continue reading Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Providence Police Department Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was murdered in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Since then, investigators have made several breakthroughs in the unusual case, linking the prime suspect to a separate deadly mass shooting at Brown University earlier in December.… Continue reading Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a recent update from the company. The NCMEC’s CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual… Continue reading OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse
Known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing glaciers on Earth, and its future evolution is one of the biggest unknowns when it comes to predicting global sea level rise. The eastern ice shelf of the Thwaites Glacier is supported at its northern end by a… Continue reading The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse
Grado Signature S750 Review: Insane Sound, Old-School Fit
The friction-pole mechanism for headband adjustment is no less agricultural, for all its familiarity where Grado headphone designs are concerned. And while the detachable cable is a fair bit more flexible than some older Grado models, that’s not the same as saying it’s meaningfully flexible. If there’s a more willfully unhelpful length of cable in… Continue reading Grado Signature S750 Review: Insane Sound, Old-School Fit
This portable SSD has a magnetic superpower that makes it a must-have for iPhone users
Lexar ES5 magnetic portable SSD ZDNET’s key takeaways The Lexar ES5 is available in a 1TB and 2TB configuration, for $119 and $199, respectively. It has read and write speeds up to 2,00MB/s and is IP65 rated for dust and water ingress. It’s not exactly cheap. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Small… Continue reading This portable SSD has a magnetic superpower that makes it a must-have for iPhone users