More from Victor Tangermann (Page 17)

Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.

Signs of Life in Asteroid Sample Turn Out to Be Something Embarrassing

By Victor Tangermann

Three men in India died after Google Maps reportedly told them to drive their taxi off an incomplete bridge spanning the Ramganga River.

Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

By Victor Tangermann

$Novo Nordisk has launched its weight-loss drug Wegovy in China — but for a tiny fraction of what it's charging customers in the US.$

Wait, Why Is Novo Selling Weight Loss Drugs for So Cheap in China?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists studied the cognitive behavior of astronauts who have spent six months on board the ISS and made some fascinating discoveries.

Something Is Malfunctioning With Astronauts’ Brains

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered the first-ever physical evidence that ancient Egyptians were tripping balls on a cocktail of hallucinogenic drugs.

Scientists Find Evidence That Ancient Egyptians Were Tripping Balls

By Victor Tangermann

Used prices for Tesla's Cybertruck are in freefall, selling well below MSRP.

Advanced Transport

The Value of Used Cybertrucks Is in Freefall

By Victor Tangermann

A church in the Swiss city of Lucerne has set up a computer inside a confessional booth that allows churchgoers to converse with an "AI Jesus."

Artificial Intelligence

Church Sets Up AI-Powered Jesus Inside Confessional Booth

By Victor Tangermann

A lawyer in Minnesota has been accused of using an AI chatbot to draft an affidavit — in support of an anti-deepfake law in the state.

Lawyer Submits Anti-AI Document That Appears to Have Been Created Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, news emerged that Chinese hackers penetrated the networks of a number of US broadband providers. The situation is even worse.

It Appears That Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Your Naughty Texts

By Victor Tangermann

Verified accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter are promoting the sale of child sex abuse videos.

Checkmarked X Users Caught Promoting Sites That Sell Child Sex Abuse Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk chopping down the "discretionary" budget could be a disaster for innovation in the United States, experts warn.

Experts Say Elon Musk’s Ridiculous “DOGE” Initiative Could Actually Crush Innovation

By Victor Tangermann

Kesha has landed in hot water with fans after posting an AI-generated image, which misspells the word "delusional" several times.

Internet Notices Something Bizarre in Image Posted by Kesha

By Victor Tangermann

Hawaiian local broadcaster and newspaper The Garden Island has fired the two AI bots it recently introduced as its new anchors.

Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Fires Two AI Reporters After Bizarre Behavior

By Victor Tangermann

Kim Kardashian has shared a strange series of pictures showing her hanging out with a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot sitting inside a Cybercab.

Photos Show Kim Kardashian Holding Hands With Tesla Robot

By Victor Tangermann

An unusual treatment that involves permanently changing the color of their eyes through an unusual cosmetic surgery procedure is soaring in popularity.

People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed

By Victor Tangermann

Coca-Cola drew plenty of criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday ad. Redditors made a much better version.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are alarmed by the prospect of the United States government gutting NASA under Donald Trump and Elon Musk's leadership.

Expert Warns That Elon Musk May Gut NASA

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch on Tuesday. It didn't go quite as planned.

Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk’s Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is defending the right of its clients to sell antisemitic, Holocaust-denying merchandise.

Shopify Allowing Sale of Holocaust Denial Merch

By Victor Tangermann

Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold

Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain humans on the way to the next star.

Researchers Plotting Giant Spaceship That Could Carry Generations of Humans

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden is ready to hop on a space rocket and rescue the two NASA astronauts, who have been stranded on board the ISS.

Biden Muses That He Could Be Sent to Space to Rescue Stranded Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

A small school in Pennsylvania shut down on Monday after parents accused leaders of covering up an explicit AI nudes scandal.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Furious as School Accused of Covering Up AI-Generated Nudes of Students

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is so loud that its sonic boom could cause property damage back on the ground.

Starship’s Sonic Booms Are So Powerful They Could Damage Structures on the Ground, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber's Mandarin name "Lantian" literally translates to "blue sky," a wild coincidence. Or was it meant to be?

The CEO of Bluesky’s Actual Name Means “Blue Sky” in Chinese

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.

Scientists Say Aliens May Be Hiding in the Multiverse

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Trump Reportedly Planning to Let Self-Driving Cars Loose

By Victor Tangermann

The US Secret Service has deployed a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog in front of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Robot Dog Spotted Guarding Mar-a-Lago

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman found that Elon Musk's supposed "anti-woke" Grok AI chatbot argued that Kamala Harris was the "better" pick for president.

Sam Altman Points Out That Elon Musk’s “Anti-Woke” Grok AI Seems to Actually Support Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that readers tend to prefer AI-generated poems over human-written ones, including the works of Shakespeare.

Artificial Intelligence

Judging Them Blind, Humans Appear to Prefer AI-Generated Poems

By Victor Tangermann

A US Defense Department contractor has developed an AI-powered autonomous robotic machine gun system, which can target small drones.

US Military Tests AI-Powered Machine Gun

By Victor Tangermann

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.

China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's spacesuits, which astronauts are using to venture outside of the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age.

NASA Complains That Its Spacesuits Are a Decrepit Mess

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser can cast a shadow — a surprisingly counterintuitive finding.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered amber deep below the surface of the Antarctic, evidence of a temperature rainforest 90 million years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of an Ancient Rainforest in Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's "DOGE" advisory group may just be a facade set up by Donald Trump to keep him feeling like he's in charge.

Elon Musk’s “DOGE” Department Sounds Like It Might Be a Fake Thing to Make Him Feel Important

By Victor Tangermann

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

The budding bromance between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump could have massive implications for the US' space program.

Trump and Musk’s Bromance Could Make America’s Space Policy a Wild Ride

By Victor Tangermann

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

By Victor Tangermann

46-year-old youth-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson injected his face with "fat-derived extracellular matrix." It didn't go well.

Anti-Aging CEO Injects Face With Strange Treatment, Experiences Bizarre Reaction

By Victor Tangermann

Millions of users are flocking to Twitter alternatives Threads and Bluesky as the Elon Musk-owned platform devolves into a hellhole.

Twitter Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed as Users Flee to Rivals Run by People Who Haven’t Lost Their Minds

By Victor Tangermann

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon, is on thin ice.

It Sounds Like NASA’s Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.

Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

By Victor Tangermann

Trump has announced that the "Great Elon Musk" will lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE.

America Cringes as Trump Puts Elon Musk in Charge of “DOGE” Department

By Victor Tangermann

xAI's Grok AI chatbot happily pointed out that CEO Elon Musk has a strong tendency to spread misinformation to "billions" of people.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blasts Elon Musk as Huge Spreader of Misinformation

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, moved to a different position in its orbit.

Scientists Puzzled by Military Satellite That Appears to Have Been Moved to a Distant Location

By Victor Tangermann

As one Cybertruck owner found, removing vinyl adhesives after several months leaves plenty of evidence behind.

Advanced Transport

There’s an Unpleasant Surprise When Owners Peel the Vinyl Cover Off Their Cybertrucks

By Victor Tangermann

Officials are still struggling to recapture monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week.

Science & Energy

Monkeys Evade Capture After Escape From Research Facility, Attempt to Contact Monkeys Still Trapped Inside

By Victor Tangermann

China's military is working on an experimental weapon system that converges multiple streams of microwaves into a powerful energy beam.

China Working on Energy Weapon That Converges Multiple Beams

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is planning to fire the engines of its Dragon cargo spacecraft this week to practice for the eventual retirement of the ISS.

SpaceX Activating System to Practice for Destroying Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A secret recording obtained by the BBC shows the organizer of this year's COP29 climate change conference trying to strike a fossil fuel deal.

Secret Video Shows Top Climate Change Conference Official Promising to Facilitate Fossil Fuel Deals

By Victor Tangermann

Monkeys That Escaped Research Facility Still on the Loose, Authorities Say

Monkeys That Escaped Research Facility Still on the Loose, Authorities Say

By Victor Tangermann

AI company Anthropic has partnered with shadowy defense contractor Palantir, despite claiming it puts safety first.

The AI Startup Anthropic, Which Is Always Talking About How Ethical It Is, Just Partnered With Palantir

By Victor Tangermann

The ChatGPT maker spent north of a whopping $15.5 million on the "chat.com" URL, which used to belong to a porn site.

OpenAI Buys Porn Domain for Huge Sum

By Victor Tangermann

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that a cloned black-footed ferret just produced the first-ever offspring in the country.

Science & Energy

Cloned Endangered Ferret Gives Birth to Healthy Offspring

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back environmental protection, while boosting fossil fuels. Meanwhile, 48 out of 50 states face droughts.

As Trump Prepares to Slash Environmental Protections, 48 of the 50 States Are Facing Droughts

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of president-elect Donald Trump's social media meme stock are plummeting — despite an incisive election victory this week.

Truth Social Stock Is Crashing Even Though Trump Won

By Victor Tangermann

Tech CEOs are practically tripping over each other to kiss the ring of reelected president Donald Trump.

Tech CEOs Eagerly Grovel at the Feet of Trump

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook owner Meta's open source Llama model is being used by the Chinese military. Meta appears to be OK with that.

The Chinese Military Is Weaponizing Facebook’s Open Source AI

By Victor Tangermann

Two researchers have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach two $120 robot arms to clean up spills.

ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm

By Victor Tangermann

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