In the last week of January, Jack Sweeney gained internet fame when his Twitter bot story was published on the website Protocol. Jack Sweeney, aged 19, is a college student who works part-time at UberJets. Sweeney created a bot that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet. Musk’s private jet’s whereabouts can be accessed by anyone via...
The island nation of Jamaica has a four-man bobsled team in the Olympics. It’s the first time the Carrabien nation has had one in 24 years. In a final bid, Jamaica managed to grab the last spot in the 28-sled field in qualification for the Beijing games. Based on the global results, Jamaica managed to...
Blue butterflies are a rare sight to behold in Nature. One reason is that naturally blue occurs extremely rare. The Blue Morpho butterflies are one of the very few naturally occurring living beings that have the color blue. However, photographer Kelvin Hudson lucked out when he chanced upon a fairytale-like scene. If he did not...
In 2019, Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 23, was sentenced to 110 years in prison after causing an accident that killed four people. Prosecutors argued that he had driven recklessly and made poor choices leading to the crash. At the time, Aguilera-Mederos, now 26, stated that the accident was a result of the brakes of his truck failing. ...
As tax season begins, the IRS published guidelines for 2022, which included how taxpayers can claim earnings from illegal activities. Meaning, if you stole or earned money from bribes or selling drugs, you must report it. According to the IRS, make sure you include that on “Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule...
A Premiere Daily Highlight Story: Sometimes there are tales that are just too good, too beautiful, or too miraculous to keep locked away. That’s why we scour the archives and bring some of them back to enjoy again. They may amaze you, make you smile or even shed a tear, but they’re always meant to add...
How would you react if you heard a comet will collide with Earth? In the new film Don’t Look Up, the answer was denial and apathy. Quite a change of pace from the panicked and despairing tone of most disaster films. However, it captures the current climate where every issue is politicized and hard facts...
As the new year begins, no one really knows what to expect. Of course, we all hope for a better year, but we’ve learned that there’s no real way to know what’s coming. After all, no one expected all that had happened in 2020 and 2021. However, Nostradamus wrote a book called “Les Prophéties” in...
Bill Gates, the philanthropic multi-billionaire, has things worrying him as the New Year arrives. However, as alarming as that sounds, he is much more optimistic than he is worried. He listed both of his opinions in his latest blog post for the year’s end. The title of the post is “Reasons for optimism after a...
There were been some very ambitious announcements by Elon Musk at the AI Event by Tesla back in August[1]. Among them were humanoid robots made by Tesla. To add to that, Musk had promised that a prototype would be fully functional next year. As 2022 is just around the corner, let’s look at what Musk’s...
The company Facebook has recently rebranded itself as Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the reason for the change. “Right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future. Over time, I hope that we are seen as a metaverse...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently took a rare video of the strange and uncanny barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). The deeper the ocean, the weirder the fish become and the barreleye fish is no exception. This odd creature has a transparent head surrounding its bulbous eyes. MBARI used two remotely operated vehicles (ROV)...
