Elon Musk's Boring Company machine has reached O'Leary Station

Added 11-17-18 12:09:02am EST - “Watch Elon Musk's digging machine break through the finish line of its first test tunnel.” - Engadget.com

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• The Boring Company's first tunnel is all dug up
• Elon Musk says deleted his Tesla titles
• Elon Musk says Tesla 'probably would not' take money from Saudi Arabia now
• Tesla Names New Chair As Elon Musk Steps Down

SpaceX drops plans to make Falcon 9 rockets more reusable

Added 11-17-18 05:09:01pm EST - “It's using the resources to speed up a redesigned BFR.” - Engadget.com

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• Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window: sources
• Volkswagen plans to make 50 million electric cars, CEO says
• Getting Obamacare plans to cover abortion is hard. Trump is trying to make it even harder.
• Marvel is developing a Falcon-Winter Soldier TV series

More companies are chipping their workers like pets

Added 11-16-18 03:09:01pm EST - “When your coworker's chip is not on their shoulder” - Engadget.com

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• Review: Twelve South PowerPic can show off your pets while hiding a wireless iPhone charger
• When The World's Biggest Tech Companies Reached IPO
• FCC demands companies take action to halt 'robocalls'
• San Francisco Sets a New Tech Trend: Tax the Companies

Microsoft may release a disc-free Xbox One in 2019

Added 11-16-18 02:09:01pm EST - “You could get a lower-cost Xbox if you don't need physical media.” - Engadget.com

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• 'Crackdown 3' launches February 15th, 2019 on Xbox One and PC
• With keyboard and mouse support on Xbox, Microsoft closes the gap on PCs
• 'Crackdown' is available for free -- and playable on Xbox One
• Samsung's free Galaxy phone themes won't be free anymore

Most Americans believe algorithms will always be biased

Added 11-16-18 01:09:02pm EST - “A Pew study suggests that most Americans don't trust algorithms to be truly fair.” - Engadget.com

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• AP stealth edits news story that initially contained obviously biased anti-Trump language
• Kellogg's changing gender-biased cereal packaging after 8-year-old girl starts petition: 'Why can't girls be on the back?'
• Trump BAD! Take a gander at the Top (Worst?) 10 grossly biased anti-Trump midterm election headlines (so far!)
• Americans have their own problems and burdens

Feds apparently reveal charges against Assange in accidental filing

Added 11-16-18 11:10:02am EST - “Filing in unrelated case mentions criminal charges against Wikileaks founder.” - Arstechnica.com

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• DOJ Filing Mistakingly References Sealed Criminal Charges Against Assange
• Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals
• WikiLeaks' Assange ‘has been charged,' inadvertent court filing shows: reports
• AP: Julian Assange possibly facing charges in U.S.

"Wolf's jaw" star cluster may have inspired parts of Ragnarok myth

Added 11-16-18 08:10:02am EST - “Passing comets and eclipses may have stoked fears of pending apocalypse” - Arstechnica.com

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• Hubble Space Telescope snaps smiley-shaped cluster of galaxies
• The Modern Myth of "Global Markets"…
• The Myth of an International Populist Movement
• The Myth of Trump's Trouble With Women's Vote

Casio's Transformers G-Shock is Optimus Prime's ticking heart

Added 11-16-18 08:09:01am EST - “Watch stand Optimus Prime is the worst Transformer ever.” - Engadget.com

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• Thousand Oaks Shooter Was A 'Ticking Time Bomb,' High School Coach Says
• Britain's Barclays, Lloyds shock in EU bank stress test
• Shock Video: 3rd Migrant Caravan Attacks Mexico's Border
• Inside the harrowing trip to Jonestown: ‘Screams of shock and anguish filled the air'

Rocket Report: Rocket Lab roars, Japan's launch future, Tesla reaches aphelion

Added 11-16-18 07:10:02am EST - “"It would be a waste of scientific time to devote the resources to look at it."” - Arstechnica.com

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• Space unicorn Rocket Lab reaches orbit again in key first commercial launch
• Rocket Lab completes its first commercial launch
• Russia Blames a Bad Sensor for Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch
• Kazakhstan chooses SpaceX over a Russian rocket for satellite launch

A Bronze Age game called 58 holes was found chiseled into stone in Azerbaijan

Added 11-16-18 01:16:02pm EST - “A pattern on a rock in Azerbaijan suggests that a game called 58 holes traveled fast from the Near East to Eurasia thousands of years ago.” - Sciencenews.org

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• Sometimes people can be real a**holes, amiright? (35 Photos)
• Galaxy mergers hide ravenous supermassive black holes
• Roger Stone:
• Drama builds around Stone in Mueller probe