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Flying Car Races - Place Your Bets
M.A. Dworkin Bentonville, AR - Imagine stepping into your flying car in Frederiksted and zipping over to Christiansted to pick up some burgers at Shupe’s on the Boardwalk, then zipping back out to the East Side to have lunch with some friends, all the while not getting caught up in that nasty mid-day traffic tie up around Sunny Isles. Sounds like a good daydream? Well, it’s not a dream any longer. A company called Jetson’s, is taking orders for 2026 with 2028 deliveries of th


Eye Implants Help the Blind to Read Again
M.A. Dworkin London - A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. A surgeon who inserted the microchips in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England, says the results of the international trial are “astounding.” The technology offers hope to people with an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), called geographic atrophy (GA), which affects five million worldwi


Mushroom Powered Outhouses
A.J. Pike British Columbia - Just when you thought there were no more exciting inventions, except those created by AI, along comes the Myco Toilet, the world’s first mushroom (fungi) powered, odor-free, eco-friendly composting marvel of an outhouse. A team at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has created the Myco Toilet, a waterless composting toilet powered by mushroom mycelia (root-like structure of the fungi). This innovative outhouse separates solids and liq


“Everyone, Everywhere Will Die” Once ASI is Developed
A.J. Pike Planet Earth - Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) scientists claim in their newly published book, that based on the current...


Wasps May hold Answer to Longer Human Life
M.A. Dworkin Leicester, England - Scientists have discovered that Jewel Wasp larvae that undergo a developmental “pause” live longer and...


Ride Kawasaki’s Robot Horse into the Future
St. Croix Times Staff Osaka, Japan - Scientists and Engineers have designed a futuristic four-legged rideable robot horse that...


Meta’s New Miracle Computer Bracelet
St. Croix Times Staff Silicon Valley - Meta’s Reality Labs has unveiled a sci-fi inspired bracelet that translates hand movements into...


Sam Altman: Biggest Shift in Human History Coming
St. Croix Times Staff Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told a Senate hearing on U.S. competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that the...


Bank Robberies Gone Bad
A.J. Pike L.A. Space Cadet - A Bank Robber walked into a Wells Fargo Bank and accidentally left his wallet at the teller’s station after...
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