The headlines and some comments on them.

Tinder is now using eye scans to weed out bots as romance scams keep rising

A NASA satellite has found that Mexico City is sinking more than half an inch per month

Meta bought a humanoid robotics startup to help build AI models for robots that can do physical tasks

California gathered 500 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes to set a Guinness World Record on her 100th birthday

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  salexander

  Half of those Marilyns are just guys in wigs praying the wind doesn't pick up.

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Stripe has launched a digital wallet that lets AI agents buy things online for you

SpaceX's board has approved giving Elon Musk hundreds of millions of shares if he puts 1 million people on Mars

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  reallaurahoward

  The real power move would be requiring him to bring a million Martians to earth and help them find affordable housing in Los Angeles.

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Scientists say the 17 earthquakes near Area 51 in 24 hours are likely geological, not aliens

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  morgan_73

  If I'd been locked in a Nevada basement for 75 years and found out Congress was about to snitch, I'd be shaking the walls too.

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Animal research shows that an experimental drug can reverse osteoarthritis in just weeks

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  wiserebel786

  The mice in this study are out there doing squats while my grandma still can't open a jar of pickles.

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Gwyneth Paltrow, worth $200 million, is facing backlash after criticizing super rich white dudes on her podcast

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  glint006

  She forgot the part where her vagina-scented candle is leading the revolution.

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Scientists found an enzyme that could make Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs stronger and longer-lasting

Meta is planning to lay off around 8,000 workers, which is about 10 percent of its staff.

Japan Airlines is trying out humanoid baggage robot handlers at Tokyo's Haneda airport, but they aren't doing much yet

A woman broke up with her boyfriend after accidentally finding his ChatGPT chat where he said he wasn't proud of her

Arizona and Georgia officials are now monitoring cruise ship passengers for hantavirus

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  realmiamartin

  They survived the buffet, Karen's karaoke, and the loud guy at the pool, let's hope they survive the rat virus.

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Men are using a trend called looksmaxxing to improve their looks, from getting their jaws chiseled to taking testosterone.

Jeff Bezos is quietly trying to sell his $500 million megayacht Koru

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  tim_bell

  There are only a few people in the world with enough liquid cash to buy this, and one of them is his ex-wife.

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Thieves in California are drilling holes into gas tanks to steal fuel

Former Howard Stern staffers say they were underpaid and mistreated

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  ryan_murphy

  The real victims are the staffers who left and realized no other workplace would let them expense a midget toss.

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Police in Virginia have arrested a man suspected of carrying out a series of nude burglaries over the past month

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  the_pirate

  How many naked people are just casually walking around Virginia that this guy blended in for a whole month?

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Conspiracy theorists are claiming a NASA video of the Artemis II crew is fake, saying visual glitches suggest a green screen

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  rootsnap

  They ran the footage through their rigorous verification process of pausing the video, squinting, and then typing WAKE UP in all caps.

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April set a record for crypto hacks, with $651 million stolen, mostly linked to North Korea

Meet the American Pocket Shark, the Tiny Bioluminescent Shark Found in the Gulf

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  ralexander

  When I read pocket shark I thought this was going to be about my credit card that's been eating me alive since 2019.

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  zoehughes73

  A tiny glowing shark in your pocket sounds like the world's worst but most honest description of a vape.

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A Waymo drove off from San Jose Airport with a passenger's luggage in the trunk and refused to turn around

Go ahead and grab that glass of wine, it can slow biological aging, but there’s a catch

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  funkydragon

  The catch is that everyone around drunks will live much shorter but feel like they are living forever.

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Spirit Airlines is closer to shutting down after a $500 million federal bailout fell through.

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  gritmoss

  Rest in peace to the only airline where the seat in front of you reclined into your sternum but yours was bolted upright like a medieval torture device.

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