NewsTesla Says It Will No Longer Accept Bitcoin for Car Payments, Citing Fossil Fuel ConcernsTesla has “suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin,” CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday night, allegedly out of concern over the “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining.”Brianna Provenzano
GadgetsGrand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning TechniqueAndrew Liszewski
GadgetsFor Its Next Trick, Motorola Is Working On Smartphones That Can Charge Wirelessly Over the AirFlorence Ion
ScienceUsing Just His Thoughts, Paralyzed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a MinuteGeorge Dvorsky
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First LookThe Asus Zenfone 8 Is an Affordable, Compelling Option If You Love Small PhonesCompact phones have fallen out of fashion in favor of bigger and bigger screens, but the new Asus Zenfone 8 has arrived with outsized performance in a small package.Sam Rutherford
Buyer's GuideLooking For a Smartwatch or Fitness Tracker? These Are the Best You Can BuyVictoria Song
ScienceG7 Participants Test Positive for Covid-19 at Meeting That Should've Been a Zoom CallMatt Novak
ScienceIndia Surpasses 20 Million Covid-19 Cases as Biden Stays Silent on Vaccine IP WaiversMatt Novak
TelevisionAmazon Explains Lord of the Rings' Giant Budget, Which Is Still Smaller Than Jeff Bezos' YachtYes, the budget for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is almost half a billion dollars, but the woman behind it is happy to explain. In a new interview, head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke doesn’t deny last month’s reports that the show cost the…Germain Lussier
TelevisionGates McFadden on Podcasting With Star Trek Friends and the Franchise's Enduring LegacyJames Whitbrook
Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany and Director John Carpenter Headline a Horde of Amazing PodcastsRob Bricken
TelevisionJohn Barrowman Removed From Doctor Who Immersive Experience in Wake of AllegationsJames Whitbrook
EnergyUtility-Funded Propaganda Book for Kids Calls Natural Gas an ‘Invisible Friend’The fossil fuel industry has dug its claws in deep into the American education system. So, too, have utilities.Molly Taft
Climate changeSurvive the Future Is a Sneaky-Simple Game That Makes Our Climate Choices RealBrian Kahn
SpaceJupiter Looks Serene in Ultraviolet and Absolutely Terrifying in InfraredThough named for the Roman riff on Zeus, the planet Jupiter looks every bit a happy home for Hades in an infrared image (below) captured by the Gemini North telescope of Mauna Kea’s Gemini Observatory. Meanwhile, the Hubble Space Telescope produced…Isaac Schultz
SpaceWith Ingenuity Out of the Way, Perseverance Rover Gets Cracking on Real Martian ScienceIsaac Schultz
Giz AsksWhy Am I Still Embarrassed About Things That Happened 10 Years Ago?It’s a nice day, you’re strolling along, music’s queued up, prospects looking good, your sweater’s matching your pants, the person you’re seeing just sent you a cute text, no one you know is actively sick or angry at you, your dreams are, if not on…Daniel Kolitz
Giz AsksCould the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?This week’s question—could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy?—is shadowed by a much larger one: Namely, will politicians and powerful forces of delay like Big Oil ever allow the world to run entirely on renewable energy? For the most…Daniel Kolitz
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