Octopus Teacher A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the import of farmed octopus meat into the country. The bill — the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical...

Sharing Is Caring At some point, X-formerly-Twitter auto-opted its users into sharing their data with Grok, owner Elon Musk's unfunny "anti-woke" chatbot — without bothering to tell users about the change. Flagged by Rolling Stone's Noah Shachtman, it remains unclear when X introduced this so-called "data sharing" change that authorizes the social...

Thar She Blows! In a scene straight out of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a humpback whale breached the waters off New England and body slammed a small fishing boat into capsizing, USA Today reports, tossing two hapless fishermen overboard. Two teenagers on another boat, who caught dramatic footage of the Tuesday morning incident, rescued the two, who...

As this year's WWE-worthy presidential race continues to heat up, a bizarre viral rumor about Donald Trump's running mate having sexual relations with a couch has seemingly captured more attention than the recent attempt on the ex-president's life. As anyone who's online — including, most likely, the VP candidate himself — knows at this point, the...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's on-and-off-again partner Claire "Grimes" Boucher has come out in support of the mercurial entrepreneur's estranged transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. "I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," the musician tweeted late Thursday evening. The news comes shortly after NBC News published an exclusive first interview...

Baby Steps The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Cape Canaveral on board a barge. It then was...