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The Funny Newz: Mojave Officials Crack Down on Cheap Alien Monuments

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: The Funny Newz
Published: December 20, 2024

 

MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA — Adrian Covarrubias of the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation and Development Council was rattling across the desert Thursday in a government-leased Jeep Commander when he spotted yet another suspicious alien artifact on the distant horizon.

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The Funny Newz: Chattering Teeth Robot Wins $1 Billion Defense Contract

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: The Funny Newz
Published: December 20, 2024

 

BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA — Dr. Emilio Disaronno, a one-armed senior robotics researcher at the Virginia Polytechnic School of Robotics, says the 2024 International Robotics Competition was rigged after a novelty chattering-teeth robot beat his highly advanced killing machine for a major defense contract.

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The Funny Newz: Space SUVs Here - 2024 "Abductors" Sighted

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: The Funny Newz
Published: August 12, 2024

 

PEYOTE, ARIZONA — In a bizarre twist of fate, extreme sports enthusiast Wayne “Goose” Peterson, 25, of Chicago, says he was paragliding over the Arizona desert when he spotted what he initially believed to be oversized AirPods screaming across the sky at impossible speeds.

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The Funny Newz: Bargain United - How a Tech Outage Turned a Flight into a Time-Travel Adventure

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: The Funny Newz
Published: July 26, 2024

 

CHICAGO — In the wake of a brutal snowstorm that battered the Northeastern United States, scientists now believe a Bargain United flight from Washington to Chicago remained grounded so long that at least one passenger’s dog experienced time travel.

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The Funny Newz: Advertisers Aim For Moon

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: The Funny Newz
Published: July 12, 2024

 

ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Space commercialization is blasting off, and apparently the next frontier is not mining, science, tourism, or humanity’s destiny among the stars.

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Quantum Soup: Boeing’s Starliner Returned Without Its Crew. What Does That Mean for NASA?

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Written by: Michael E. Fossum
Category: Quantum Soup
Published: September 10, 2024

By Michael E. Fossum, Texas A&M University

Boeing’s crew transport capsule, the Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew shortly after midnight Eastern time on Sept. 7, 2024.

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Quantum Soup: The CrowdStrike Outage Exposed How Fragile the Modern Internet Has Become

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Written by: Matt DeReno
Category: Quantum Soup
Published: July 22, 2024

By Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, which disrupted organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even delayed the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games, represents a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals, businesses and governments.

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