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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

In the most recent update, Astrobotic shared the first photo of its Peregrine Moon lander, perishing in orbit.

Photo Shows Damaged Moon Lander Languishing in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Professor and author Gary Marcus argues that AI image generators could land OpenAI and Midjourney in a "copyright minefield."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Image Generators Are Spitting Out Copyrighted Characters, Raising Possibility of Catastrophic Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have been puzzling over "magic islands" on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers now have an answer.

Scientists Attempt to Explain “Magic Islands” on Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The first US lunar lander to have been sent into space in more than half a century is in serious trouble after experiencing an "anomaly."

First US Moon Lander in 50 Years in Serious Trouble After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Following a door panel being ripped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 midflight, US regulators are investigating 171 potentially affected planes.

Advanced Transport

Experts Alarmed After Large Piece Blows Off Boeing 737 Mid-Flight

By Victor Tangermann

A woman in Australia used her electric car to power her son's life-saving dialysis machine during a blackout.

Advanced Transport

Woman Uses Electric Car to Power Son’s Dialysis Machine During Blackout

By Victor Tangermann

Design for Space Elevator Wins Prize

Design for Space Elevator Wins Prize

By Victor Tangermann

Long after being accused of artificially inflating range figures, Tesla has downgraded the estimated number of miles of some of its vehicles.

Tesla Admits Its Cars Have Shorter Driving Range Than It Claimed

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has responded to Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren's complaint over space contractors sending cremated human remains to the Moon.

Native Americans Say New Mission Will Desecrate the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that "Muslim and Arab (especially Palestinian) colleagues" are "uncomfortable" about speaking out.

Sam Altman Says Muslim Colleagues Are Afraid to Speak Up

By Victor Tangermann

"For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this goose a little sillier," robotics company CEO Garrett Scott McCurrach tweeted.

ChatGPT Says It’s Reached the Limit of How Silly It Can Make the Goose

By Victor Tangermann

Videos show what appears to be a pair of Chinese rocket boosters crashing in inhabited areas in the country's Sichuan province.

Videos Show Chinese Rocket Parts Raining Down, Exploding

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube account Out of Specs rented a Cybertruck and took it for an extended spin, concluding that it could only cover 254 highway miles.

Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Real World Range Is Incredibly Feeble

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have exposed the previously untracked expanse of human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery and AI.

Science & Energy

New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”

By Victor Tangermann

In just under a year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will attempt to "basically almost landing" on the Sun, coming within just 3.8 million miles.

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say This Is the Probability AI Will Drive Humans Extinct

By Victor Tangermann

Bryan Johnson, the youth-obsessed tech mogul who is spending millions to turn back the clock on his body, has picked a fight with Elon Musk.

Guy Who Used Son as a “Blood Boy” Says Elon Musk Will “Fire You and Leave You to Die”

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.

Science & Energy

Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

By Victor Tangermann

A DNA test has confirmed the biological age of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian orphan who has a rare genetic dwarfism condition.

Adopted Child Accused of Secretly Being an Adult Takes DNA Test to Prove Age

By Victor Tangermann

Just before the year drew to a close, a Toyota Corolla crashed into a Cybertruck that was traveling along a road near Palo Alto, California.

Advanced Transport

Driver Injured in First Cybertruck Crash

By Victor Tangermann

A group of travelers attempting to turn back the clock to ring in the new year twice got a rude awakening due to flight delays.

Advanced Transport

Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year’s Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year

By Victor Tangermann

According to Reuters, Tesla's main bottleneck in Cybertruck production is producing the next-generation 4680 lithium-ion battery cells.

Cybertruck Manufacturing Is a Disaster, Tesla Insiders Say

By Victor Tangermann

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.

Science & Energy

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

By Victor Tangermann

After raising almost half a billion dollars in funding since being founded in 2014, Hyperloop One is shutting down.

The Hyperloop Is Dead. Long Live the Hyperloop.

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated image of Jack and Rose taking a selfie in front of an intact Titanic ship that is making its rounds has us mystified.

Artificial Intelligence

We Are Completely Mystified by This AI-Generated Image of Jack and Rose Taking a Selfie in “Titanic”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX fired up the engines of its latest Starship prototype, setting the stage for the company's third orbital test launch.

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Before Next Orbital Test

By Victor Tangermann

According to The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of customer sales workers whose jobs were automated by AI tools.

Google Reportedly Replacing Some Human Staff With AI

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gotten an unprecedented, close-up look at the many rings of Uranus and its moons.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Mighty James Webb Peers Directly Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.

Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

By Victor Tangermann

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

Despite knowing about chronic "flaws," Tesla reportedly blamed drivers for glaring defects like collapsed suspensions and breaking axles.

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

By Victor Tangermann

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

By Victor Tangermann

"Of course AI is a bubble," author Cory Doctorow wrote in a recent piece for Locus. "It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."

Artificial Intelligence

Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested a whopping $180 million in a startup that's looking for novel ways to extend human longevity.

Sam Altman’s Life Extension Guy Warns of Injections That Cause Wild Tumor Growth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just beamed back a cat video from almost 19 million miles away and at blistering speeds.

NASA Receives Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Teslas Crash More Than Any Other Brand, Analysis Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks

By Victor Tangermann

Following tens of thousands of earthquakes rocking southwest Iceland, a massive volcano erupted early Tuesday morning local time.

Science & Energy

Massive Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Spews Lava Hundreds of Feet Into the Air

By Victor Tangermann

The Stanislaus National Forest Service, which manages the National Forest where a Cybertruck recently got stuck, just trolled Tesla hard.

National Forest Service Trolls Tesla After Cybertruck Gets Stuck in Forest

By Victor Tangermann

Founder of electric trucking company Nikola Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years after being found guilty of misleading investors.

Founder of Tesla Competitor Nikola Going to Jail for Fraud

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have made a startling discovery: the husks of two old and dried-out tomatoes.

NASA Proudly Shows Off Desiccated Tomatos Lost in Space Station Crevice

By Victor Tangermann

A man in Los Angeles has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 in restitution after killing two people with his Tesla while using Autopilot.

Tesla Driver Forced to Pay After Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

The FCC just rejected SpaceX's appeal to reinstate an $886 million grant to bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. SpaceX is furious.

SpaceX Furious That Government Won’t Give It Free Handout of Nearly a Billion Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.

Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations

By Victor Tangermann

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.

Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are building a top-secret $100 million mansion in Hawaii, which includes a massive bunker.

Zuckerberg Reportedly Building $100 Million Doomsday Bunker

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, researchers discovered that half of them struck accumulations of methane gas.

Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is teaming up with Curio to bring an AI-powered toy to market called Grok, the same name as her ex Elon Musk's AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Is Working On Her Own AI That’s Also Named Grok, Just Like Elon’s AI

By Victor Tangermann

YouTuber and automotive journalist Mat Watson and his buddies tried to damage Tesla's Cybertruck by kicking it. They didn't come far.

Video Shows Tesla Fans Viciously Kicking the Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, astrophysicist Earl Bellinger wondered if black holes could be trapped inside stars, a theory inspired by "Black Hole Sun."

There May Be Small Black Holes Inside Some Stars, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Hut 8, one of the largest digital asset mining companies in North America, made a "stalking horse bid" to buy 4 natural gas power plants.

A Bitcoin Miner Is Buying Four Entire Power Plants

By Victor Tangermann

Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk's mommy Maye Musk has had enough of pesky regulators coming after her beautiful boy.

Elon Musk’s Mommy Steps In to Protect Her Beautiful Boy

By Victor Tangermann

The Swedish Transport Workers' Union announced today that it will stop collecting waste at Tesla workshops on Christmas Eve.

Elon Musk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Sweden

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer that can simulate networks at the scale of the human brain.

Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain

By Victor Tangermann

On Christmas Day last year, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected: the Martian magnetosphere tripled in size.

Mars’ Magnetosphere Suddenly Tripled in Size Last Christmas Day

By Victor Tangermann

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