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Man who was given over $830m in Bitcoin in 2011 when it was worth just thousands lost his password to access it
In what sounds like the heartbreaking crypto sketch in The Big Bang Theory, one man has lost access to his $829m Bitcoin empire that he started with a few thousand dollars in 2011. Back as kids, we used to throw pennies into a jar in the hope that enough spare change would amount to a […]
Pilot's video of 'best ever UFO footage' had its authenticity confirmed by 'ufologist'
This footage got his approval
Woman drives to fake grocery store listed on Google Maps and ends up on a TV show set
She made a Lidl mistake – oops!
Real-life Star Wars speeder is actually coming to the market and the price has been revealed
It came straight from the Forest Moon of Endor
With the ISS set to splash down, Starship aims to launch an entire commercial space station in one go
Starlab will go up in one single trip
Meta offered AI expert $1.25 billion over four years in hire attempt, person still said no
A crazy sum to turn down
Microsoft pays more than $1,000,000,000 for poop to counter its AI pollution
That’s some valuable poop
Man builds bike with 200-year-old engine that runs off heat and doesn't use gas or battery
Tom Stanton built a bike using an engine that runs off heat – no gas, no battery, no roar. Just a little warmth, some sealed air, and a wild idea that actually worked. The engine design is over 200 years old. The rest? Pure 2024 garage ingenuity. And somehow, against the odds, the bike runs. […]
'Moon disaster' speech that would have been read to world if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were stranded
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong completed one of humanity’s greatest-ever accomplishments, thanks to Apollo 11, but what if they’d been less successful and ended up stranded on the Moon? The Moon landing in July 1969 remains one of the pinnacles of human exploration. Of course, it had every chance of going horribly wrong on that […]
North Carolina driver shows off her incredible custom Apple CarPlay within her Chevrolet
This driver in North Carolina showed off her incredible custom Apple CarPlay sound in her Chevrolet after finding out how to customize the command. It’s a trend doing its rounds on the internet right now, with CarPlay allowing drivers to program in a special sound before they hit the road. So, in true superfan fashion, […]
Waze vs Google Maps debate is finally over as someone's put them to the test to see which is better
When it comes to jumping in the car and getting from A to B, there is an age-old Waze vs Google Maps debate over which system is better. Both have their perks and their downfalls, and many drivers have their favorites. So, to put the digital maps debate to bed once and for all, one […]
New NASA telescope will capture cosmic explosions older than the Milky Way
A new NASA telescope won’t just look at stars – it’s going to film them exploding in a way we’ve never seen before. Some of those ‘cosmic fireworks’ will be older than our entire galaxy, too. Launching in 2027, NASA’s new space telescope is being built to capture the most dramatic events in the universe […]
Nevada’s ancient supervolcano yields world’s biggest ‘white gold’ lithium deposit worth over $1 trillion
It could spark the Gold Rush 2.0