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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

The US military's top secret X-37B space plane, which has been orbiting the Earth since December 2023, has slammed on the brakes.

Boeing’s Military Space Plane Just Slammed on the Brakes in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Gen Z pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo has no interest in dating would-be astronauts, saying its a "red flag."

Olivia Rodrigo Says She Would Never Date a Man Who Wants to Go to Space

By Victor Tangermann

North Korean soldiers are reportedly "gorging" on online pornography on the frontlines in Russia.

North Korean Soldiers Deployed to Ukraine Reportedly “Gorging” on Uncensored Internet’s Porn

By Victor Tangermann

The Dead Husk of Gawker Is Being Used to Promote Joe Rogan’s Interview With Donald Trump

The Dead Husk of Gawker Is Being Used to Promote Joe Rogan’s Interview With Donald Trump

By Victor Tangermann

Japan has successfully launched the world's first satellite that's made out of wood on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Japan Launches Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

China has showed off a concept for its upcoming Long March 9, a ultra heavy-lift reusable rocket that looks a lot like SpaceX's Starship.

China’s New Spaceship Is a Blatant Ripoff of SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A source told People magazine that Elon Musk and his ex Grimes are house hunting for a mansion for all of Musk's children and wives.

Grimes Reportedly Joining Elon Musk’s Compound for His Children and Mothers

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla owner's vehicle got stuck in a tight alleyway after a firmware update bricked his vehicle's "Summon" feature.

Tesla Software Update Traps Owner’s Car in Narrow Alleyway

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump didn't rule out banning vaccines if he were to be elected, something Robert Kennedy Jr. had previously vowed to do.

Trump Threatens to Ban Vaccines

By Victor Tangermann

"Godfather" of AI Yann LeCun has had enough of Elon Musk claiming that electing Kamala Harris would stop humanity from going multi-planetary.

Top AI Researcher Points Out That If Elon Musk Was Rational, He’d Vote for Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down.

OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address

By Victor Tangermann

During a Pennsylvania town hall last week, Elon Musk claimed that he now believes in the "teachings of Christ."

Once an Atheist Hero, Elon Musk Now Says He Believes in the Teachings of Christ

By Victor Tangermann

Animal Tests Show Promise for Restoring Heart to More Youthful Condition, Even After Heart Attack

Health & Medicine

Animal Tests Show Promise for Restoring Heart to More Youthful Condition, Even After Heart Attack

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

By Victor Tangermann

Eli Lilly, the maker of the popular weight loss drug Zepbound, revealed a "shocking first miss" during its most recent quarterly sales.

Eli Lilly Has a Major Problem With Its Weight Loss Drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.

Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Is Facing Down a Major Problem With Its AI Plans

By Victor Tangermann

A vigilante, who rented a neon green Cybertruck on the carsharing app Turo, used the truck as a battering ram to stop an alleged porch pirate.

Advanced Transport

Furious Driver Appears to Use Rented Cybertruck as Battering Ram to Attack Package Thief

By Victor Tangermann

During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.

Sam Altman Says AGI Is “Achievable With Current Hardware”

By Victor Tangermann

Archeologists uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana in the jungles of southern Mexico while examining LiDAR maps.

Science & Energy

Scientist Accidentally Discovers Ancient Mayan City While Browsing Web

By Victor Tangermann

During a characteristically rambling speech, Donald Trump said that "in terms of computer," Elon Musk is "as good as you get."

Confused Trump Says Elon Musk Is “as Good as You Get” in “Terms of Computer”

By Victor Tangermann

Famed "Iron Man" actor Robert Downey Jr. had some choice words for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during a recent podcast appearance.

Robert Downey Jr. Lightly Trashes Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram, exactly what everybody asked for.

Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group slid by 22.3 percent on Wednesday, its biggest one-day loss since going public.

Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” Meme Stock Just Had Its Worst Day Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is yet again in hot water with regulators over its decision to rely exclusively on cameras for its "Full Self-Driving" feature.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It’s Too Late to Correct

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.

Elon Musk Says That If Trump Wins, He’ll Cause the Economy to Crash

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.

Woman Annoyed When Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Her Car

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk wants to move his entire patchwork family into a collection of three mansions in Austin, Texas, a strange compound arrangement.

Elon Musk Working to Move His Children and Mothers to Strange Compound

By Victor Tangermann

Space-tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions has identified a whopping 500 pieces of debris left over from an exploded Boeing satellite.

Boeing Satellite Exploded Into at Least 500 Pieces of Debris

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Cybertruck owner was puzzled after encountering a "female" who was "laughing hysterically" at his truck.

Advanced Transport

Man Puzzled by Why His Cybertruck Makes Him a Public Laughingstock

By Victor Tangermann

For perhaps the first time ever, a robot played a cello live on stage during a performance by a symphony orchestra.

Robot Plays Cello With Live Orchestra

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese astronauts on board the country's Tiangong space station have given us a rare glimpse into what life is like roughly 260 miles above.

Watch Astronauts Give a Rare Tour of China’s Luxurious Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

While playing the videogame Diablo IV last week, you could hear Elon Musk getting briefed on a recent Starship test flight.

In Video of Elon Musk Playing Diablo IV, Background Gives Away Wild Details About Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A strange, lime-green goo was spotted gushing out of Tesla's engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California earlier this month.

Green Ooze Gushing Out of Tesla Headquarters

By Victor Tangermann

A Polish robotics company has created the "Honey Badger," a robot dog that can walk fully underwater and aid during industrial inspections.

New “Honey Badger” Robot Dog Can Walk Fully Underwater

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has created six robot clones of himself. The latest one can take questions and give lectures.

Inventor Builds Six Robot Copies of Himself, Uses One to Give Speeches and Take Questions From Audience

By Victor Tangermann

The US has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine, enough of the alkali metal for hundreds of thousands of EV batteries.

Science & Energy

America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars

By Victor Tangermann

As the Wall Street Journal reports, sources claim that Boeing is looking to get out of the space race by selling its Starliner business.

Boeing Reportedly Looking to Sell Off Its Disastrous Starliner Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has been secretly testing out fully autonomous robotaxis in the Bay Area for several months, CEO Elon Musk revealed.

Tesla Has Secretly Been Testing Robotaxis

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing took a $250 million charge against its earnings in its third quarter, increasing total Starliner-related costs to $1.85 billion.

Boeing Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Dismal Starliner Failure

By Victor Tangermann

NASA head Bill Nelson told Semafor that the Wall Street Journal's report that Elon Musk was in cahoots with Putin should be investigated.

Head of NASA Not Happy That Elon Musk Has Been Secretly Taking Orders From Putin

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's pro-Donald Trump super PAC suspiciously didn't announce a winner of its $1 million lottery after the DOJ sent them a warning.

Elon Musk Appears to Have Realized How Badly He Screwed Up With the “Paying Voters” Thing

By Victor Tangermann

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has become a staunch opponent of illegal immigrants, despite his brother once calling him one.

Elon Musk Hates Illegal Immigrants, But According to His Brother He Used to Be One

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA observation satellite has spotted odd UFO-shaped cloud hovering above the Otago region in southeastern New Zealand.

NASA Satellite Inspects Strange-Looking Cloud That Always Forms in Same Spot

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has seemingly given up on an affordable personal vehicle, calling the idea "silly" and "pointless."

Elon Musk Mocks Idea of an Affordable $25,000 Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

Filmmaker Cullen Hoback accused software developer Peter Todd of being Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd has since gone into hiding.

Man Accused of Being Satoshi Nakamoto Goes Into Hiding

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla customers may need a hardware upgrade to allow their cars to fully drive themselves unsupervised, Elon Musk admitted.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Admits That Teslas With “Self-Driving” Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

By Victor Tangermann

23andMe is on the brink of bankruptcy. Legal scholars are concerned about the possible data privacy implications.

As 23andMe Slides Into Bankruptcy, Your DNA Hangs in the Balance

By Victor Tangermann

Resaerchers found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families.

Almost All Meteorites That Hit Earth Are Coming From the Same Three Places, Scientists Discover

By Victor Tangermann

An initial toxicology report has revealed that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had taken "pink cocaine" before falling to his death.

One Direction’s Liam Payne Was Taking “Pink Cocaine” Before Death

By Victor Tangermann

Resaerchers found that a specific fungus can recognize shapes, and communicate information about their surroundings throughout their network.

Science & Energy

Obscure Fungus Shows Signs of Rudimentary Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces

By Victor Tangermann

As spotted by Redditors, Google Maps' Street View is populating ghostly, liminal-looking commercial interiors in the middle of the ocean.

Google Street View Is Showing Strange “Businesses” in the Middle of the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

The production company behind the sci-fi blockbuster "Blade Runner 2049" is suing Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement.

Producers of “Blade Runner 2049” Sue Elon Musk for Dragging Their Movie Into Tesla’s Disastrous Robotaxi Event

By Victor Tangermann

The body of a missing SpaceX employee has been found near a beach close to the company's testing facilities in Boca Chica, Texas.

Body of Missing SpaceX Employee Found

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable

By Victor Tangermann

NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface.

NASA Contractor Shows Off New Spacesuit for the First Moon Landing in Over Half a Century

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's vision for its Cybercab robotaxi is a baffling mess of empty promises and questionable design decisions.

Here’s Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Makes Absolutely No Sense

By Victor Tangermann

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