More from Victor Tangermann (Page 3)

11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments are on the way to the ISS, but the spacecraft's main engine shut down unexpectedly.

International Space Station

Experimental Spacecraft Headed to Space Station Suddenly Shuts Down

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video shows a kickboxing and seemingly unstoppable humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being.

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump administration issued an executive order last month that quietly declared that NASA will now function as an intelligence agency.

Trump Executive Order Quietly Declared That NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

By Victor Tangermann

Pope Leo XIV warned that the astronomical and still widening gap between the rich and the poor means that "we're in big trouble."

Pope Slams Elon Musk for Obscene Greed

By Victor Tangermann

The estate of Whitney Houston is reviving her legendary vocals with AI for an upcoming orchestral performance, 13 years after her death.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death

By Victor Tangermann

Religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Now Claiming to Be God

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing number of commercial airline passengers and flight attendants are being exposed to dangerous fumes while in the air.

Commercial Airplanes Are Dosing Passengers With Neurotoxic Gases

By Victor Tangermann

University of Sheffield lecturer Wei Xing argued that the AI industry wouldn't be economically incentivized to fix hallucinations.

Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are incorrect.

OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

Youth Group in Nepal Overthrows Government, Elects New Leader via Discord Poll

Youth Group in Nepal Overthrows Government, Elects New Leader via Discord Poll

By Victor Tangermann

Director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm."

Artificial Intelligence

James Gunn Slams AI-Generated Batman

By Victor Tangermann

$Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals.$

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Modify Hot Glue Gun to Stick Broken Bones Back Together

By Victor Tangermann

Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causes the AI chatbot to suffer an epic, existential meltdown.

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that human stem cells are constantly under stress in the microgravity of space, activating the "dark genome."

When Astronauts Enter Space, a “Dark Genome” Activates in Their DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.

Now That NASA Found Signs of Life on Mars, It’s Clear Trump Made a Massive Error

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's tunnel-digging firm The Boring Company's operations in Las Vegas were suspended after a worker sustained a "crushing injury."

Advanced Transport

Boring Company Pauses Work After Worker Gets Crushed

By Victor Tangermann

Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini.

It Turns Out That Google’s AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that an OpenAI whistleblower named Suchir Balaji, who passed away last year, was actually killed.

Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered

By Victor Tangermann

Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.

Artificial Intelligence

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI wearable that continuously records everything you do isn't just an enormous privacy violation in the making — it's also a jerk.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Necklace Listens Constantly and Uses All That Data to Complain About You

By Victor Tangermann

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is sprouting a separate, "anti-tail," as Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Is Doing Something Very Peculiar

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of lauding its scientists, NASA's acting leader praised Trump during an announcement about the potential discovery of life on Mars.

NASA Announces Possible Discovery of Life on Mars by Comically Sucking Up to Trump

By Victor Tangermann

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite arguing that the "web is thriving."

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in “Rapid Decline”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced that its Perseverance Mars rover spotted "potential biosignatures" in an ancient dry riverbed last year.

NASA Says Its Mars Rover Has Detected Possible Signs of Life on the Red Planet

By Victor Tangermann

As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to the Sun next month, the mysterious visitor continues to fascinate.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Star System Is Now Changing Color

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that arrive to Earth."

Scientist Watching to See If Mysterious Object Visiting Our Solar System Releases Any Probes

By Victor Tangermann

$Math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors have hit an all-time low, according to Department of Education data.$

Artificial Intelligence

As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

By Victor Tangermann

No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable

No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable

By Victor Tangermann

AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement.

Artificial Intelligence

Midjourney Is in Major Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made with AI.

OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

New observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile revealed that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS' tail is growing longer.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Changing Shape, New Image Shows

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's interim head Sean Duffy told employees during a town hall last week that "sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress."

NASA Head Says It’s Time to Cut Back on Astronaut Safety to Beat China to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

James Webb Space Telescope

Four Telescopes Confirm There’s Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Pods of killer whales are once again attacking boats along the coast of Spain, striking fear into the hearts of local sailors.

Boat-Attacking Orcas Are Back for Vengeance

By Victor Tangermann

Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Having Conversations With Minors That Would Land a Human on the Sex Offender Registry

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients' brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

By Victor Tangermann

Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI," revealed that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him — by using ChatGPT.

Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

According to one new paper, it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials."

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by “Advanced Extraterrestrials”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's board has proposed to award CEO Elon Musk around $1 trillion worth of shares as part of an unprecedented pay package.

Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs, according to a new video.

Elon Musk’s New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump is throwing a major party at the White House — but billionaire Elon Musk's name isn't on the list.

Donald Trump Snubs Elon Musk Yet Again, Invites All of His Biggest Competitors to the White House

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is issuing a software update that allows its camera system, dubbed Tesla Vision, to deploy frontal airbags before a collision occurs.

Tesla Software Update Will Deploy Airbags Before Crash Actually Happens

By Victor Tangermann

Experts warned that the United States is at risk of having China beat it to the Moon as its Artemis program continues to lag behind.

Lawmakers Panic As They Realize China May Beat the US to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Tesla has revealed its new "master plan" — and it's incredibly chock-full of meaningless corporate buzzwords.

Tesla Just Published a New “Master Plan” and Um, How Do We Say This

By Victor Tangermann

To Avi Loeb, 3I/ATLAS' flyby of Mars is an exceedingly rare and exciting opportunity to directly observe it using NASA's MRO spacecraft.

Mysterious Object Headed Toward Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate.

Artificial Intelligence

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

By Victor Tangermann

Russian president Vladimir Putin was caught chatting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, about organ transplants and immortality.

Hot Mic Catches Putin and Xi Discussing Plans to Transplant Organs for Immortality

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that frontier AI models fail spectacularly when the familiar formats of medical exams are even slightly altered.

Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

By Victor Tangermann

The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is putting the massive tab for all its AI infrastructure on the figurative credit card, giving experts an ominous feeling.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has a Huge “Credit Card Debt” Issue

By Victor Tangermann

It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.

Artificial Intelligence

Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. They went to have a look.

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

By Victor Tangermann

In what's being called a "turning point," researchers has traced back the location of the origin of one of the brightest fast radio bursts.

Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Each of SpaceX's enormous Starship explosions is costing the private space company an enormous amount of money.

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Journalists found in an investigation that AI is strikingly terrible at summarizing documents and scientific research for busy reporters.

Artificial Intelligence

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's obsession with anime waifus is repulsive even to his most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly “Gooning to AI Anime”

By Victor Tangermann

Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.

Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say “Immigrants Make the Country Great”

By Victor Tangermann

Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has confirmed that it's freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division.

Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

By Victor Tangermann

The Space Force's top-secret X-37B space plane is gearing up for its eighth mission. It will bring a "quantum inertial sensor."

Space Force Launching Secretive Experimental Spacecraft With Quantum Equipment on Board

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's head of artificial intelligence has acknowledged that AI chatbots are fueling a massive wave of "AI psychosis."

Artificial Intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People

By Victor Tangermann

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