More from Victor Tangermann (Page 37)

The Justice Department is suing SpaceX, alleging it has been discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices.

The Department of Justice Just Sued SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.

Science & Energy

Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week

By Victor Tangermann

For weeks, hackers have been targeting major telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, forcing scientists to suspend all observations.

Mysterious Hackers Are Targeting Space Telescopes

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's handing out of Starlink terminals to Ukrainian soldiers has thrown Elon Musk into the middle of a crisis. The Pentagon is worried.

Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous

By Victor Tangermann

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Russia’s Moon Lander Crashing Is a Catastrophe for Its Space Program

Russia’s Moon Lander Crashing Is a Catastrophe for Its Space Program

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers concluded that you only need 22 colonists to survive and successfully maintain a Mars colony.

Mars Frontier Outpost Could Survive With Just 22 Residents, Researchers Say

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet without having to make any major modifications to the cockpit.

Scientists Build Humanoid Robot That Can Pilot a Plane

By Victor Tangermann

White noise podcasts have found a huge footing on Spotify, amounting to tens of millions of dollars in lost profit.

Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise

By Victor Tangermann

Sustaining much more than eight billion is not only unsustainable, it could lead to an imminent "population correction."

Science & Energy

Scientist Predicts Brutal “Population Correction”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has taken an important step toward a future where we can regenerate human teeth with the use of stem cells.

Scientists Just Made Intriguing Progress Toward Regenerating Human Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

Bored Apes investors are suing Sotheby's and a number of celebs including Paris Hilton for hyping up the tokens back in 2021.

Bored Ape Investors Are Suing Paris Hilton as the Whole Thing Falls Apart

By Victor Tangermann

Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete

By Victor Tangermann

At least two advertisers have pulled out of advertising on X-formerly-Twitter, after their ads appeared next to ads that promoted fascism.

Brands Horrified When Their Twitter Ads Appear on Nazi Posts

By Victor Tangermann

Russian state media recently shared the first images taken by its Luna-25 spacecraft, showing the Earth as a small dot in the distance.

Russia Sends Back Photos From Trip to Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Lamborghini just teased its "first 100 percent electric" supercar by posting an image of a silhouette. More details to follow soon.

Advanced Transport

They Seem to Be Working on an Electric Lamborghini

By Victor Tangermann

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is making it more difficult to access content via external links by literally slowing them down.

Twitter Now Throttling Traffic to Sites Elon Musk Doesn’t Like

By Victor Tangermann

Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: “I Usually Just Call Myself Her Manager”

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Who Uses AI to Post as a Voluptuous Influencer: “I Usually Just Call Myself Her Manager”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with CNN, Kaku dismissed AI chatbots as "glorified tape recorders," arguing we're vastly overestimating their capabilities.

Michio Kaku Says AIs Like ChatGPT Are “Glorified Tape Recorders”

By Victor Tangermann

The latest nail in the coffin of the purported room temp superconductor is a failed replication test conducted by Czech researchers.

Science & Energy

Oops! Purported Room Temp Superconductor Fails to Work When Replicated by Outside Team

By Victor Tangermann

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

People are having sex in the backseat while their driverless robotaxi is ferrying them to their final destination in San Francisco.

Self-Driving Vehicles

People in San Francisco Are Already Having Sex in Self-Driving Taxis

By Victor Tangermann

Australian nature enthusiast Brodie Moss was astonished to find the massive tail fin of a humpback whale sticking straight out of the ocean.

Science & Energy

Puzzling Video Shows Whale With Tail Frozen Out of Water

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is accusing Mark Zuckerberg of being "a chicken" after he pointed out that Musk has been trying weasel out of their fight.

Musk Rages at Zuckerberg After Getting Called Out for Trying to Weasel Out of Fight

By Victor Tangermann

Former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is officially heading to a Brooklyn jail to await trial after being accused of tampering with witnesses.

Sam Bankman-Fried Heads to Squalid Jail

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that bots are better at completing CAPTCHAs than humans in both accuracy and speed.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper atmosphere, but not space.

Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

If Elon Musk's recent posts are anything to go by, his fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be an epic, "Gladiator"-style affair in Italy.

Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style

By Victor Tangermann

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.

Science & Energy

That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

As The Intercept reports, former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch suffered from PTSD and severe depression.

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Had a Psychiatric Detention

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has already come up with plenty of excuses to wriggle out of sparring with Mark Zuckerberg. Now he wants to have a "noble" debate.

Terrified Elon Musk Suggests “Debate” With Zuckerberg Instead of Cage Fight

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.

ChatGPT Actually Gets Half of Programming Questions Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

If it were up to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the US needs to get to the Moon before China since it might be unwilling to share resources.

NASA Head Concerned That China Will Steal Lunar Resources

By Victor Tangermann

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.

The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy

By Victor Tangermann

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.

Artificial Intelligence

G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

The Wall Street Journal has obtained exclusive dashcam footage of a Tesla crashing into a stopped emergency vehicle with Autopilot turned on.

Brutal Dashcam Footage Shows Tesla on Autopilot Smashing Into Police

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers have figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black.

MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement

By Victor Tangermann

A professor at the University of Virginia claims to have created a "freeze ray"-like device that was apparently inspired by Mr. Freeze.

Robots and Machines

Professor Says He’s Invented a Real-Life “Freeze Ray”

By Victor Tangermann

Three Tesla owners in California have proposed a class action lawsuit, accusing the EV maker of falsely advertising its vehicles' ranges.

Tesla Sued for Exaggerating Battery Range

By Victor Tangermann

"Star Trek" legend William Shatner has chimed in, calling recent congressional hearings about UFO reports "ridiculous."

Annoyed William Shatner Weighs in on Claims of Government Harboring UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claimed they had created an above-room-temperature superconductor that can operate at ambient pressures. Chaos ensued.

Science & Energy

Claim of “Room-Temperature” Superconductor Is Tearing the Scientific World Apart

By Victor Tangermann

The NHTSA is officially investigating reports of Tesla drivers losing steering control and power steering while driving.

Government Investigating Tesla Over Small Issue Where Steering Wheel Locks Up While Driving

By Victor Tangermann

The Ethereum-based token called ApeCoin, linked to the once-coveted Bored Apes NFT collection, dropped to an all-time low on Tuesday.

The Bored Ape Crypto Just Hit an All-Time Low

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has applied for new trademark for "GPT-5," giving us a glimpse of its successor to its blockbuster large language model GPT-4.

OpenAI Drops Huge Clue About GPT-5

By Victor Tangermann

Experts, including executives who are marketing these tools, argue that AI chatbots are doomed to forever come up with falsehoods.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Impossible for Chatbots to Stop Lying, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's parent company Meta is about to launch AI-powered chatbots that are meant to lure users back to the mammoth social media platform.

Meta Launching AI-Powered Friends to Talk to on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has made a huge booboo, accidentally cutting all communications to the second most distant spacecraft from Earth.

NASA Accidentally Cuts Contact With Voyager 2

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a small celestial object shaped almost perfectly like a question mark.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Spots Giant Question Mark in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.

Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are warning that crucial ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could collapse as soon as 2025.

Scientists Say Atlantic Current Collapse Could Lead to Extreme Cold in Europe and North America

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers discovered a new mechanism that could force cancer cells to self-destruct, hijacking their ability to replicate uncontrollably.

Scientists Intrigued by Clever Trick That Makes Cancer Cells Self-Destruct

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have successfully reanimated the bodies of 46,000-year-old microscopic roundworms they found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.

Scientists Resurrect 46,000 Year Old Worms, Which Instantly Started Reproducing

By Victor Tangermann

According to Google's 2023 Environmental Report, the company used an astronomical 5.6 billion gallons of water last year.

Google Is Using a Flabbergasting Amount of Water on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Former Twitter product manager Esther Crawford has taken to the platform to air all her grievances about CEO Elon Musk and his mood swings.

Former Twitter Manager Describes Elon Musk’s Sudden Swings to Rage

By Victor Tangermann

The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.

FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX’s Next Starship Orbital Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has discovered an egregiously simple jailbreak that allows anybody to circumvent AI chatbot guardrails.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann

Indonesia has announced that it blocked the domain "X.com," which reportedly used to host "negative" adult and gambling-related content.

Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing

By Victor Tangermann

The coast of Florida is being hit hard by heat waves, with one buoy registering 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of a hot tub.

Science & Energy

Florida’s Ocean Now Officially the Temperature of a Hot Tub

By Victor Tangermann

A power outage struck Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, temporarily cutting off comss with the International Space Station.

International Space Station

International Space Station Suffers Comms Blackout Due to Power Outage

By Victor Tangermann

Congress is holding a hearing about controversial claims that the government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Former Intelligence Guy Tells Congress the Government Is Reverse-Engineering Alien Relics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that they can implant false memories by generating deepfake clips of movie remakes that were never actually made.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Implant Subjects With Fake Memories Using Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Climate change experts are watching, horrified that their predictions from many years ago are turning into an overwhelming reality.

Climate Scientists Horrified That Their Predictions Were Correct

By Victor Tangermann

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