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The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit to get those pesky autonomous vehicles off of its streets, appealing a recent decision.

Self-Driving Vehicles

San Francisco Sues to Get Nuisance Self-Driving Cars Off Its Streets

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's new AI venture xAI is attempting to raise up to $6 million in funding, the Financial Times reports.

Elon Musk Looking for $6 Billion to Develop AI Outside Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda is doubling down on his pessimism about EVs, and arguing they're only a part of the solution.

Advanced Transport

Toyota Slams Electric Cars, Says They’ll Never Catch On

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's X has handed a Holocaust-denying and Hitler-praising account a gold checkmark, recognizing it as an official organization.

Elon Musk Gives Gold Checkmark to Holocaust Denier

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Died

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla shares have plummeted by over ten percent on Thursday, following an earnings report that fell short of expectations.

Tesla Is in Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

In an extremely unfortunate twist of fate, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has landed on its nose.

Photo Shows Japanese Moon Lander Is Upside Down on Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new anonymous whistleblower, it may have been Boeing's own lack of quality control that led to the January 5 incident.

Advanced Transport

Boeing Door Scandal Grows With New Whistleblower

By Victor Tangermann

A massive NASA jet has been circling at low altitude over the San Joaquin Valley in California this week to study air quality.

NASA Aircraft Making Low Passes Over California

By Victor Tangermann

Right before takeoff, Phil Hardy noticed something strange while looking out of the window of the Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330.

Flight Canceled When Passenger Looks Out Window, Notices Something Wrong With Wing

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is using a visit to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to clear his name and promote his social media network.

Elon Musk Visits Auschwitz, Twists Holocaust Into Excuse to Make Money

By Victor Tangermann

Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands.

Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

By Victor Tangermann

An online pastor based in Denver, Colorado has been accused of raising nearly $3.2 million as part of a cryptocurrency scam.

Pastor Accused of Crypto Scam Says God Told Him to Do It

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT researchers has found that in many instances, replacing human workers with AI is still more expensive than simply paying them.

Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat dubbed LIFE — and it was all part of the plan.

Full-Scale Prototype Space Habitat Explodes Under Pressure

By Victor Tangermann

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI

Google Insider Says Bosses Have No Idea What They’re Doing With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's Moon lander had to be shut down just three hours after touching down. There's still a small chance it can recharge its batteries.

Japan Trying to Bring Dead Moon Lander Back to Life

By Victor Tangermann

Eagle-eyed fans noticed some strange, prominently displayed band posters in the background of a recent episode of HBO's "True Detective."

[UPDATED] AI-Generated Poster Confirmed in “True Detective”

By Victor Tangermann

What was meant to be a theatric on-stage entrance quickly turned into a grisly scene in India when a tech executive plunged to his death.

Tech CEO Plunges to Death Trying to Make Grand Entrance at Company Party

By Victor Tangermann

According to two Tesla Cybertruck owners, who drove their truck 10,000 miles, the range is pretty terrible.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Drivers Reveal Terrible Range Over First 10,000 Miles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of a tiny reflector attached to India's Vikram lander.

NASA Probe Shoots Indian Moon Lander With Laser

By Victor Tangermann

Google's search results are starting to look like an unrecognizable heap of spam, meaningless SEO filler, and dubiously sourced news.

AI Garbage Is Destroying Google Results

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Discover Enough Mars Ice to Cover Planet in Water

Scientists Discover Enough Mars Ice to Cover Planet in Water

By Victor Tangermann

Altman's answer to the question of what core competences humans have over AI is as unconvincing as it is befuddling.

Sam Altman Stumped When Asked What Humans Will Do Better Than AI

By Victor Tangermann

Users of a UC Irvine student-run Discord server fell victim to a horrifying cyberattack, and were sent extremely graphic content.

Students Hospitalized After Hackers Send Horrifying Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has suggested that primordial black holes (PBH) are passing by the Solar System, causing planets' orbits to "wobble."

Small Black Holes Affecting Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed an object that's far heavier than any known neutron star, but too light to be classified as a black hole.

Astronomers Puzzled by Inexplicable Deep Space Object

By Victor Tangermann

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SLIM lunar lander successfully touched down but its solar panels aren't charging.

Japanese Moon Lander Dying After Touching Down on Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.

Tesla Owner Builds Solar Array That Folds Out of Model Y Roof

By Victor Tangermann

Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO) has waded into the debate over UFOs and speculated that they might be "angels" sent by God himself.

After Classified Briefing, Congressman Says UFOs May Be “Extradimensional” Angels

By Victor Tangermann

After removing mentions the "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI has spoken out about working with the military.

OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon are terrible.

Former NASA Director Trashes Upcoming Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla investors are accusing CEO Elon Musk of "blackmailing" them after he threatened to spin off AI products unless he got more power.

Elon Musk Accused of “Blackmailing” Tesla Investors

By Victor Tangermann

After receiving millions of dollars in cash gifts, the parents of disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are trying to hold on to the funds.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Aghast at Lawsuit Asking for FTX Money Back

By Victor Tangermann

Experts quoted in a The Spectator piece about the James Webb discovering "alien life" say they've been taken out of context.

James Webb Space Telescope

Experts Push Back Against Rumors of James Webb Life Detection

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious exoplanet that orbits its star some 160 light-years away — which has a 350,000-mile-long tail.

Astronomers Discover Planet With Long Tail

By Victor Tangermann

Human-tier AI will change the world and jobs "much less than we think," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said while attending the World Economic Forum.

Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon

By Victor Tangermann

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners are becoming deeply frustrated with their vehicles not being able to charge as cold temperatures grip Chicago.

Dead Cars Surround Chargers as Teslas Struggle in Frozen Weather

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.

Hubble Snaps Alarming Pic of Two Galaxies Crashing Into Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

It Was Supposed to Land on the Moon. Instead, It’s Dying a Fiery Death

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”

OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”

By Victor Tangermann

Following a shocking study, the bottled water industry has cried foul, claiming that it's totally fine we're all ingesting nanoplastics.

Bottled Water Industry Says Please Disregard This Horrifying Discovery About Our Product

By Victor Tangermann

Footage shared by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell earlier this week shows a "jellyfish" UFO. We still don't know for sure what it is.

Internet Puzzled by “Jellyfish” UFO Video

By Victor Tangermann

Civil rights groups were understandably horrified after Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students have lower IQs.

Civil Rights Groups Horrified at Elon Musk’s Racist Outburst Against Black People

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has come up with a wild new way to visit our closest star Proxima Centauri using a swarm of tiny spacecraft.

NASA Funds Mission to Explore Closest Star to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Search and rescue teams are frantically searching for man, who has reportedly fallen into a crack in the Earth in Iceland.

Science & Energy

Man Missing After Falling Into Crack in the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”

By Victor Tangermann

Remember That Uber-Hyped “AI Pin” Startup? It’s Already Doing Layoffs

Artificial Intelligence

Remember That Uber-Hyped “AI Pin” Startup? It’s Already Doing Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists may have figured out how a massive "superstructure" of igneous rock lurking below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was formed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Explain “Superstructures” on Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

Musk has endorsed a tweet suggesting students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots.

Elon Musk Cosigns Racist Claim That Black Students Have Low IQs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reportedly laid off 100 contractors, forcing it to scale back its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.

NASA Starts Layoffs After Budget Cuts

By Victor Tangermann

Regulators had to do some emergency damage control after the X-formerly-Twitter account of the SEC got hacked on Tuesday.

SEC Twitter Account Hacked to Post Fake Bitcoin News

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX published an excruciating one-hour live stream of a 2017 meeting to presumably clear Elon Musk's name of having been on drugs.

SpaceX Releases Bizarre Video in Attempt to Prove Elon Wasn’t on Drugs

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI published a blog post in response to the New York Times' lawsuit, arguing that it's fine it's sucking up the paper's content for free.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Vacuum Up Everyone’s Content and Charge for It Without Paying Them

By Victor Tangermann

The part that forced an Alaska Airlines flight to emergency land has been linked to cost-cutting measures and stuffing more passengers.

Advanced Transport

Gaping Hole in Boeing 737 Linked to Stuffing More Passengers Into Flights

By Victor Tangermann

Students at Ferris State University in Michigan will soon be sharing the classroom with AI-powered "students."

Artificial Intelligence

University Enrolling AI-Powered “Students” Who Will Turn in Assignments, Participate in Class Discussions

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter has suspended the accounts of several journalists and leftist pundits without giving any explanation.

Twitter Suddenly Suspends Journalists Critical of Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's first crewed lunar landing mission in over half a century dubbed Artemis 3 will likely be delayed due to Starship issues.

NASA Reportedly Forced to Push Back Moon Landing After SpaceX Fails to Deliver Starship

By Victor Tangermann

In a change of heart, "Magic: The Gathering" publisher Wizards of the Coast has admitted to using generative AI for an image after denying it.

Artificial Intelligence

Wizards of the Coast Denies “Magic: The Gathering” Art Was AI-Generated, Then Admits It Was

By Victor Tangermann

A local schoolteacher called Bob Sauer came across the missing door plug of the Boeing 737 MAX 9, which had to make an emergency landing.

Advanced Transport

Schoolteacher Finds Door Plug That Fell Off Boeing 737 in His Backyard

By Victor Tangermann

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