More from Victor Tangermann (Page 103)

"Millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014" have been combed over by hundreds of outsourced workers in Hyderabad.

Outsourced Workers Are Training AIs With Your Private FB Posts

By Victor Tangermann

A web developer wants to turn San Francisco parking lots into coworking spaces, desks, folding chairs, and all.

SF Is so Expensive That People Are Using Parking Spots as Offices

By Victor Tangermann

An artificial intelligence-powered pun generator created by Stanford Researchers attempts to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns

By Victor Tangermann

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

By Victor Tangermann

InfoWars came back online not even a day after Facebook announced the ban with a page titled "Infowars is back."

InfoWars Made a New Facebook Page One Hour After Ban

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion a reality by coating the reactor in lithium.

Scientists Have a New Idea to Make a Fusion Reactor Practical

By Victor Tangermann

A plant geneticist at the University of Northern Colorado found that the DNA of marijuana U.S. researchers are using for research looked way more like hemp.

Pot Used for Scientific Research is Pretty Weak

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX finally confirmed today during a press event that the Crew Dragon capsule that flew to the International Space Station in March was destroyed.

SpaceX Confirms That Accident Destroyed Crew Dragon Capsule

By Victor Tangermann

Russian president Vladimir Putin officially signed a bill into law yesterday that would require the country's internet to disconnect from foreign servers.

Putin Signs Bill to Create Tightly-Controlled “Russian Internet”

By Victor Tangermann

Fast food giant McDonald's installed AI-powered menu boards in 700 of its restaurants after acquiring an Israeli AI startup.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Is Installing AI-Powered Kiosks to Predict Your Order

By Victor Tangermann

The Royal Navy has developed a new technology that is capable of powering the Dragonfire Laser Directed Energy Weapon on board its most advanced ships.

Robots and Machines

The UK’s New “Dragonfire” Laser Weapon Is Weirdly Steampunk

By Victor Tangermann

A new theory suggests that a type of exoplanet two to four times the size of Earth ("sub-Neptunes") is likely to be a water world, not a gas dwarf.

Exoplanet “Water Worlds” Could Hold Unfathomably Deep Alien Oceans

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Germany and Canada are proposing to turn old air conditioning units into devices that can turn harmful CO2 into fuel.

Retrofitted Air Conditioners Could Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Two Chinese launch startups have successfully tested and demonstrated rockets that set the groundwork for future reusable launch vehicle technology.

Watch Out SpaceX: Chinese Startups Are Testing Reusable Rockets

By Victor Tangermann

Plans for a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station had to be delayed thanks to a problem with one of the station's eight power units.

Space Station Power Outage Delays SpaceX Delivery

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent study, a group of researchers argue that flying cars could actually end up reducing emissions over electric cars back on the ground.

Advanced Transport

Study: Flying Cars Could End Up Being Greener Than Electric Cars

By Victor Tangermann

New images appeared in a since-deleted post on Chinese social media network Weibo of Motorola's upcoming folding RAZR smartphone.

Robots and Machines

Leak: Motorola’s Folding Phone Looks Like an Old-School Flip Phone

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX-Like Startups Think They Can Solve Fusion For Cheap

SpaceX-Like Startups Think They Can Solve Fusion For Cheap

By Victor Tangermann

U.S. internet service provider (ISP) Cox Communications is offering a new tier of internet service called "Elite Gamer" for an additional $15 a month.

An Internet Provider Is Selling an “Elite Gamer” Service

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based design agency Layer teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.

Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

By Victor Tangermann

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

By Victor Tangermann

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

By Victor Tangermann

A couple from Massachusetts found a way to train a neural network to tell apart real oil paintings from Dutch painter Rembrandt from imitations.

Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries

By Victor Tangermann

People Love Living in Pods So Much They’re Getting Neck Tattoos About It

By Victor Tangermann

Young People Are Choosing to Live in “Pods” Instead of Apartments

Young People Are Choosing to Live in “Pods” Instead of Apartments

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Just Recorded Its First Ever Marsquake

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Just Recorded Its First Ever Marsquake

By Victor Tangermann

A group of engineers figured out a way to fool AI surveillance systems with the help of a little colorful patch you can hang around your neck.

Artificial Intelligence

This Colorful Picture is Like an Invisibility Cloak for AI

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a Tesla Model S Burst Into Flames in a Parking Garage

Watch a Tesla Model S Burst Into Flames in a Parking Garage

By Victor Tangermann

New Research: The Moon Is Covered With Miles-Deep Cracks

New Research: The Moon Is Covered With Miles-Deep Cracks

By Victor Tangermann

It's finally official: Samsung is delaying the sale of its folding smartphone, the $2,000 Galaxy Fold.

Robots and Machines

Samsung Admits Its Folding Smartphone “Needs Further Improvements”

By Victor Tangermann

Update: Vid Appears to Show SpaceX Capsule Exploding During Test

Update: Vid Appears to Show SpaceX Capsule Exploding During Test

By Victor Tangermann

According to consumer tech website Sam Mobile, the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Fold has been delayed in China — the world's largest market for smartphones.

Robots and Machines

Samsung is Delaying the Galaxy Fold’s Launch After Broken Screens

By Victor Tangermann

China has announced what local media is calling the "world's first armed amphibious drone boat."

China’s Military Built an Autonomous Amphibious Landing Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency just greenlit a UK aerospace manufacturer's tests of a novel air-breathing rocket engine that sucks up atmospheric oxygen.

Amazing New Rocket Engine Sucks up Atmospheric Oxygen for Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

GermFalcon, a company specializing in airplane sanitizing tech, developed a kind of space Roomba that can blast sterilising UV rays at the walls of the ISS.

This Space Roomba Could Clean the ISS While Astronauts Sleep

By Victor Tangermann

Samsung will investigate emerging reports that the Galaxy Fold smartphone's screen is breaking. It's officially still going on sale on April 26.

Robots and Machines

Samsung: Please Don’t Peel Protective Layer Off Our Folding Phone

By Victor Tangermann

The new trailer for the upcoming Child's Play movie shows creepy doll Chucky commandeering a smart lawnmower, a thermostat, and a drone.

In New “Chucky” Trailer, Killer Doll Terrorizes With IoT Gadgets

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook admitted yesterday that it "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of some 1.5 million new users since May 2016.

Facebook “Unintentionally” Uploaded 1.5 Million Email Contacts

By Victor Tangermann

A humanoid robot TV news anchor dubbed Alex just read the news on Russia 24, a state-owned television channel, yesterday.

Russia Built a Grotesque Robot Newscaster and Put It on TV

By Victor Tangermann

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair

By Victor Tangermann

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future

Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a Pack of Boston Dynamics’ Creepy Robot Dogs Pull a Truck

Boston Dynamics

Watch a Pack of Boston Dynamics’ Creepy Robot Dogs Pull a Truck

By Victor Tangermann

A mysterious group of individuals hid the keys to $1 million worth of bitcoin in a twisted game with no rules, CoinDesk reports.

Someone Hid $1 Million In Bitcoin and Left Clues to Find It

By Victor Tangermann

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with MIT researchers Lex Fridman, Tesla CEO and visionary Elon Musk reiterated his belief that we're all living inside a simulation.

Elon Musk’s Question for Super-Smart AI: What’s Outside the Simulation?

By Victor Tangermann

By analyzing data from Cassini spacecraft's last flyby in 2017, scientists found that Saturn's largest moon Titan has an entire lake district.

Saturn’s Moon Titan is Covered in Earth-Like Lakes

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists want to achieve fusion power generation by the year 2040, according to Reuters.

Chinese Scientists Aim to Generate Fusion Power by 2040

By Victor Tangermann

Musk tweeted that he was "thinking about adding giant stainless steel dragon wings to Starship" that could allow it to keep cool during re-entry.

Elon Musk Suggests Adding “Dragon Wings” to Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have created 3D printed "cardiac patches" and a small heart that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules.

Researchers Create First Ever 3D-Printed Heart Using Human Tissue

By Victor Tangermann

An asrtist's rendering of NASA's Phoenix lander flexing its robotic arm.

Here’s How NASA Dreams up Robotic Arms for Landers

By Victor Tangermann

A German pharma company patented a process in which genetically modified tequila bacterium produce a range of cannabinoids by just feeding on sugar.

Scientists Gene-Edited Tequila Bacteria to Make Cannabinoids

By Victor Tangermann

The EU voted on Wednesday to support plans for the elimination of most uses of single-use plastic, including cutlery, straws, and plastic plates.

The EU Approved a Ban on Single-Use Plastics

By Victor Tangermann

A new study found that Mars used to be covered in huge rivers — much wider than on Earth — for billions of years.

New Research: Mars Used To Be Covered In Huge Rivers

By Victor Tangermann

NASA crowned the top three winners of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge's latest round, challenging teams to "complete a virtual construction level."

These 3D-Printed Mars Habitats Just Won a NASA Award

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a Self-Driving Car Careen Around Corners Like a Racecar

Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch a Self-Driving Car Careen Around Corners Like a Racecar

By Victor Tangermann

India Just Shot Down a Satellite With a Missile

India Just Shot Down a Satellite With a Missile

By Victor Tangermann

Organisms Survived on the Outside of the Space Station

Organisms Survived on the Outside of the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Installed a Massive Powerpack in a Japanese Train Station

Tesla Installed a Massive Powerpack in a Japanese Train Station

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Abinder, in-house psychologist and researcher for Valve, talked about exciting possibilities of adding brain-computer interfaces to VR headsets.

Virtual Reality

Expert: VR Headsets Should Have Brain Interfaces

By Victor Tangermann

EU Parliament Passes Controversial “Meme Ban”

EU Parliament Passes Controversial “Meme Ban”

By Victor Tangermann

The Estonian Ministry of Justice is officially designing a "robot judge" that could take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes.

Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Is Now Building Cars With Hardware For “Full Self-Driving”

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Is Now Building Cars With Hardware For “Full Self-Driving”

By Victor Tangermann

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