More from Victor Tangermann (Page 40)

SpaceX's first orbital Starship launch attempt saw the most powerful rocket ever built soar to new heights. But it likely came at a big cost to the environment.

Debris Rains Down on Protected Wildlife After Starship Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX managed to get its Starship spacecraft off the launch pad, but it later exploded. Did CEO Elon Musk rush ahead to have the attempt be on 4/20?

Did Elon’s Childish Obsession With 4/20 Lead to Today’s Starship Explosion?

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's gigantic Starship prototype spacecraft and Super Heavy booster officially cleared the launch pad, but started spinning, before exploding.

Starship Launches First Orbital Attempt, Explodes in Epic Fireball

By Victor Tangermann

Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.

Google Staff Warned Its AI Was a “Pathological Liar” Before They Released It Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

German tabloid Die Aktuelle is advertising "the first interview" with F1 legend Michael Schumacher, despite the fact that it was entirely AI generated.

Artificial Intelligence

Fury as Magazine Uses AI to Generate Fake Interview With Michael Schumacher

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.

NASA Building Huge Underwater Moon Replica

By Victor Tangermann

Major record label Universal Music Group has forced a song that uses the AI-generated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd to be taken offline.

Artificial Intelligence

Furious Record Label Gets AI-Generated Drake Song Deleted

By Victor Tangermann

German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black and white portrait, is now refusing the award after admitting the image was generated using an AI image generator, The Guardian reports.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Admits That His Prize-Winning “Photo” Was Actually Generated Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

EV maker Polestar just showed off its fourth passenger vehicle called the Polestar 4, a compact SUV that literally has no rear windshield.

Advanced Transport

New Car Has No Rear Window, Just a Camera

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.

NASA’s Mighty Sky Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier today, SpaceX loaded its gigantic, 400-foot Starship rocket stack with propellant — only to scrub its first-ever orbital launch attempt.

SpaceX Fails to Launch Mighty Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Another NFT collector just got caught up in a scam, losing millions of dollars worth of crypto in the process.

Crypto Guy Forced to Sell Apes After Falling for Scam

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Stanford students have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

New Smart Glasses Tell You What to Say on Dates Using GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Criminals used an AI to clone the voice of the 15-year-old girl to fake a kidnapping, and tried to get her mother to pay a ransom.

Mom Says Creeps Used AI to Fake Daughter’s Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has proposed a radical and potentially affordable solution that could solve the entire climate crisis in one fell swoop.

We Could Solve 100% of Climate Change With a Modest Surcharge on Gasoline, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

As the European Space Agency was setting up to launch a rocket in French Guiana, an adorable little creature could be seen enjoying some rays of sunshine.

Science & Energy

Strange Creature Appears at Historic Rocket Launch

By Victor Tangermann

China is planning to kick off work on a Moon base using bricks made of lunar soil within the next five years, state-run news outlet CGTN reports.

China Announces Plans to Build Moon Base Using Lunar Soil

By Victor Tangermann

Musk's "reckless and irresponsible statements" about crime in San Francisco only spread misinformation, according to District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

San Francisco District Attorney Takes Aim at Elon Musk Over Murder Allegations

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has successfully launched an exciting new deep space mission called JUICE to visit Jupiter's icy moons.

Scientists Launch JUICE Mission to Distant Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco Police Department has arrested a suspect in the killing of Cash App founder and former Square executive Bob Lee.

Murdered Tech CEO May Have Been Stabbed to Death by Tech Exec He Knew

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have figured out where the Earth's water came from billions of years ago when our planet formed.

Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Where Earth’s Water Came From

By Victor Tangermann

According to finance professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira, large language models like ChatGPT could be used to forecast stock prices.

Finance Professor Claims ChatGPT Can Predict Stock Performance

By Victor Tangermann

A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.

Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports.

Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried joked with his collaborators about a "tendency to lose track of millions of dollars in assets," according to a new report.

SBF and Friends Apparently Joked About Their “Tendency to Lose Track of Millions of Dollars in Assets”

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk just got absolutely roasted on Twitter — something that completely flew over his head.

Elon Musk Just Got Roasted to His Face and Seemed to Have No Idea

By Victor Tangermann

A huge cloud of hydrogen gas blew up a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur V upper stage, not far from where Blue Origin was testing its engines.

Photo Shows Large Explosion at United Launch Alliance Test Facility

By Victor Tangermann

Popular dating app Tinder has confirmed that it's working on a $500-a-month subscription that's tentatively called "Tinder Vault," Fast Company reports.

Tinder Working on $500/Month Subscription for Wealthy People With Zero Game

By Victor Tangermann

Paleo, a Belgian competitor experimenting with mammoth protein, says a plant-based burger injected with mammoth myoglobin is delicious.

Tech CEO Says Burger With Mammoth DNA Tastes Delicious

By Victor Tangermann

Only a handful of users are actually trading virtual real estate on Decentraland, slices of land that are being sold inside the virtual world as NFTs.

Virtual Metaverse Real Estate Is Completely in the Toilet

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube prankster has been shot in the abdomen at a Virginia mall after a stranger didn't take kindly to his latest prank.

YouTuber Gets Shot for Prank, Pledges to Keep Making More Prank Videos

By Victor Tangermann

A Michigan State University study found that one in five adults in the state weren't planning on ever having children, and had no regrets later.

Study Finds That Childless Couples Feel No Regret as They Age

By Victor Tangermann

Stability AI, a startup that helped develop popular open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, is in serious trouble, Semafor reports.

Artificial Intelligence

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under

By Victor Tangermann

In one of the pettiest moves possible, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has blocked all links to the popular publishing platform Substack on Twitter.

Jealous Elon Musk Blocks All Links to Substack on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Universal Music Group just issued a copyright takedown notice to a YouTuber, who created an AI-generated song about kittens using Eminem's voice.

Artificial Intelligence

Record Label Forces Takedown of AI-Generated Eminem Rapping About Kitty Cats

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — which is becoming a big problem for the journalism industry.

Newspaper Alarmed When ChatGPT References Article It Never Published

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at Tesla have secretly been watching and passing around "intimate" videos recorded by Tesla car cameras, Reuters reports.

Tesla Employees Have Secretly Been Sharing “Intimate” Car Camera Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Virtual reality technology has failed to capture the imagination or interest of American teens, according to a new survey by investment bank Piper Sandler.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Has Utterly Failed to Connect With Teens

By Victor Tangermann

Marketing professor Matthew Prince challenged his 80 students to create a viral TikTok video that receives at least one million views before he can.

Professor Says He’ll Cancel Final If a Student Makes a Viral Video

By Victor Tangermann

Bob Lee, a co-founder of Cash App and the current CPO of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has died after being stabbed to death Tuesday night.

The Cofounder of Cash App Just Got Murdered

By Victor Tangermann

According to an FAA notice, SpaceX could kick off the first orbital test launch of its gigantic Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster next week.

Get Ready to Soil Your Pantaloons! SpaceX About to Test the Mighty Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's brain-computer-interface company Neuralink is facing major headwinds in its efforts to kick off human trials for its brain chip dubbed The Link.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Seems to Be in Quite a Bit of Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A whopping 2.1 million teachers in the US are using a new AI detection tool by Turnitin, The Washington Post reports, but it's extremely unreliable.

Artificial Intelligence

Software Schools Use to Detect Cheating Is Flagging Real Essays as AI Generated

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to the concept of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some seriously mixed feelings.

OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage

By Victor Tangermann

In what may be the first-ever recorded case of its kind, a 61-year-old mycologist in India contracted a severe case of silver leaf disease.

Fungus Learns to Infect Human, Spreading “Root-Like Filaments”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.

NASA Announces the Astronauts Who Are Returning to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.

Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create “Tea Bag” Implant That Manages Diabetes, Powered by the Body’s Excess Sugar

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.

Space Startup to Send a Rover to the Moon on Board a SpaceX Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A Shanghai-based startup called Hypershell has cmoe up with an AI-powered exoskeleton that promises to take a big load off the next time you're on a hike.

Robots and Machines

Kickstarter Exoskeleton Claims It Gives Wearer Superhuman Abilities

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Build Tiny Robots That Can Inspect, Manipulate Your Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has some seriously mixed feelings about AI being used to write entries for the encyclopedia.

Artificial Intelligence

Founder of Wikipedia Says Maybe It Should Be Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

An absolutely deranged new video shows an artificial intelligence interpreting famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti — well, that was the intent at least.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrific AI-Generated Video Shows Will Smith Eating Spaghetti

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has announced that it will cut a total of 675 jobs, roughly 85 percent of its workforce, in a SEC filing today.

Richard Branson Sacks 85% of Virgin Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, a feature it only introduced last month.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's latest AI GPT-4 was capable of saying some deeply racist things before being constrained by the company's "red team," Insider reports.

GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It

By Victor Tangermann

Dimorphos' much larger companion asteroid Didymos is spinning so fast that it's capable of ejecting pieces of rubble into deep space.

NASA Intrigued by Asteroid That Seems to Be Shooting Rocks Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.

Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals

By Victor Tangermann

An unhinged new AI chatbot dubbed FreedomGPT just dropped — and it was trained to have absolutely no inhibitions whatsoever.

Artificial Intelligence

Deranged New AI Has No Guardrails Whatsoever, Proudly Praises Hitler

By Victor Tangermann

An open letter, signed by over 1,100 AI experts andCEOs, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is calling for a six-month moratorium on "AI experiments."

Artificial Intelligence

Huge Group Calls for Temporary Pause on AI More Advanced Than GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

An amazing video recorded by Thoams Farley shows a couple of skiers watching as a giant avalanche thunders through a snowy mountain valley.

Science & Energy

Amazing Video Shows Avalanche Coming Straight Toward Cameraperson

By Victor Tangermann

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