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Smashing Records For the second day in a row, the Earth shattered its record for the hottest day ever recorded. On Sunday, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) found that our planet had set a new record, averaging 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit on average across the globe. Just a day later, the institution announced

Super Snub Elon Musk has denied reports that he's donating $45 million a month to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign. "What's been reported in the media is simply not true," Musk said in a live interview with the popular far-right commentator (and fellow culture warrior) Jordan Peterson. "I am not donating $45 million a month

Free Snacks CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind last week's epic global computer meltdown — according to some, the largest IT outage in history — is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as a form of apology. It's a hilariously inadequate mea culpa for a slip-up that cost Fortune 500 companies more than

Surfing star Kai McKenzie lost his leg after encountering a ten-foot great white shark off the coast near Port Macquarie, Australia earlier this week. After a wave carried him back to shore, an off-duty police officer used a dog leash as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding and save his life, according to the local

Running Man As the Democratic National Convention hurdles ever closer, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly is among a shortlist of seven potential VP candidates undergoing vetting to be Kamala Harris' running mate. As the Arizona Republic reports, Kelly — the current junior senator from the Grand Canyon State — is being considered alongside the likes of

  Scientists have discovered traces of water while poring over lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 rover. While NASA already announced the discovery of water on the Moon's sunlit surface back in 2020, the research suggests that water can take on even more forms than previously thought on the lunar surface. As detailed in

Para Praise As the Olympics began to kick off, a paralyzed tennis player carried the Olympic flame through Paris while wearing a robotic exoskeleton that helped him walk again. In a now-viral post on X-formerly-Twitter, para-athlete Kevin Piette was seen walking with the Olympic Torch while wearing a black exoskeleton device that moved his legs

A localized hydrothermal explosion rocked the Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning, sending tourists scrambling to safety as boiling water, rocks, and heaps of mud went flying into the air amidst a cloud of steam. Park officials say that no injuries have been reported. But for safety reasons, the Biscuit Basin,

  Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago the second consecutive quarterly decline. While revenues actually rose two percent, beating expectations, the EV maker's sales are still tumbling. That's despite Tesla slashing prices earlier this year and falling […]

Grindr has, it seemed, block geolocation and search for the Olympic Village for this year's Paris summer games. As at least one user on X-formerly-Twitter noted, Grindr appears to be blocking any "explore" searches in the giant Olympic Village constructed among three neighborhoods in Paris for this year's summer games. not they blocked Grindr in