More from Victor Tangermann (Page 50)

According to a recent review by TechRadar, a new full body VR suit with 90 electrodes sounds like a wild experience.

Virtual Reality

VR Company Shows Off Full-Body Suit That Electrocutes You Everywhere

By Victor Tangermann

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

While we await the official release of the first images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, early reactions are sounding promising.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say New James Webb Images Are So Powerful That It Was Emotional Just Looking at Them

By Victor Tangermann

The Supreme Court has given power plants the ability to regulate their own carbon dioxide emissions, a decision that could have disastrous consequences.

Supreme Court Gives Power Plants Green Light to Pollute As Much As They Want

By Victor Tangermann

A mysterious Chinese Wikipedia contributor who goes by the alias "Zhemao" spent ten years making up fictional accounts of Russian history.

Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto billionaire and founder of exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried says many cryptocurrency exchanges "are already secretly insolvent."

Crypto CEO Warns That Exchanges Are “Secretly Already Insolvent”

By Victor Tangermann

As of 2024, Air New Zelaand will be offering access to six full bunk beds to its Economy class passengers.

Advanced Transport

Airline Announces Plans to Add Spacious Bunk Beds to Economy Class

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is gutting a part of its Autopilot department, cutting around 200 jobs from its office in San Mateo, California, CNBC reports.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fires 200 People Working on Its Unfinished Self-Driving Tech

By Victor Tangermann

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that getting at least one flu shot makes it 40 percent less likely for people over the age of 65 to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Weirdly, It Appears the Flu Vaccine May Protect Against Alzheimer’s

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.

Prosthetics and Devices

Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Man to Eat Cake With Knife and Fork

By Victor Tangermann

A massive cloud of yellow gas took the lives of at least 13 people after a crane accidentally dropped a chlorine gas tank onto a ship at a Jordanian port.

Science & Energy

Huge Cloud of Toxic Yellow Gas Kills 13

By Victor Tangermann

It's been an entire week since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has last tweeted. Which begs the question: where the hell is Elon Musk?

Elon Musk Is Missing

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's offices are literally not equipped to handle the recent influx of workers, with parking spots and desks becoming difficult to come by.

Tesla Demanded Workers Come Back to Office, Then Realized It Didn’t Have Enough Desks

By Victor Tangermann

A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli military technology startup Camero-Tech has unveiled a device that it claims could allow soldiers to literally "see through walls," Insider reports.

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

By Victor Tangermann

Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, is suing Ryder Ripps, an outspoken NFT critic who minted his own collection of Bored Ape clones.

Yuga Labs Files Furious Lawsuit Against Guy Minting Copies of Bored Apes

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Show Off “Wearable Muscles” You Can Strap on to Get Way Stronger

By Victor Tangermann

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.

Startup Says It’s Honing in on Simple Solution for Practical Fusion Power

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, SpaceX has managed to lift and place its Super Heavy rocket booster onto its launch pad using its "chopsticks"-wielding launch tower.

SpaceX Finally Lifts Super Heavy Booster Using Giant Robot Arms

By Victor Tangermann

18-year-old Ricky da Luz, for instance, figured out people go absolutely hog wild over physical representations of their Bored Ape NFTs.

Teen Makes $700,000 Selling Action Figures of Bored Apes to Adult Children

By Victor Tangermann

The US Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that will have devastating effects for roughly 40 million women and girls.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Right to Abortion, in Horrifying Public Health Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Space weather experts are monitoring a growing sunspot that's pointing straight towards Earth, USA Today reports — but there's "no need to panic."

Scientists Say “No Need to Panic” as Sunspot Pointed at Earth Doubles in Size Again

By Victor Tangermann

In her new book," former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver has some juicy details about the early days of Elon Musk's rocket venture SpaceX.

Elon Musk Reportedly Started SpaceX After Russian Engineer Spat on Him

By Victor Tangermann

As predicted, the US Food and Drug Administration has ordered e-cigarette maker JUUL off the US market, a notable turning point in the regulation of vaping.

US Government Bans JUUL

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

Photographer and astronomer Andrew McCarthy has shared a stunning new image he took of the International Space Station transiting in front of a sunlit Moon.

Amazing Shot Captures Space Station Flying Directly Across the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A startup claims to have created a solid-state battery that can allow an EV to cover 400 miles and then recharge from 10 to 80 percent in just 15 minutes.

Advanced Transport

Startup Says Amazing New Battery Lets EVs Drive 400 Miles, Recharge in 15 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's latest launch of its Falcon 9 rocket tinted the night sky a terrifying shade of red, The Washington Post reports, visible in long-exposure images taken by astrophotographers.

SpaceX Accused of Coloring Night Sky Red for Several Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

Canada has announced it is banning "harmful single-use plastics" to "keep them out of the environment," becoming the latest jurisdiction to do so.

Science & Energy

Canada Bans Single-Use Plastics, Including Bags and Straws

By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug Administration is getting ready to boot the popular e-cigarette company out of the US market, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The FDA Is Reportedly About to Shut Down JUUL

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a new way to cause objects to levitate using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology.

Virtual Reality

Scientists Are Getting Better and Better at Levitating Objects With Sound Waves

By Victor Tangermann

Reporter Kevin Collier had a bizarre encounter at this year's NFT NYC conference — not with rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr, he says, but a lookalike.

NFT Conference Allegedly Hires Snoop Dogg Impersonator to “Drum Up Excitement”

By Victor Tangermann

A long-running human trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing could prove to be a highly effective way of treating two rare blood disorders.

Patients Treated With CRISPR Still “Cured” Three Years Later

By Victor Tangermann

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

By Victor Tangermann

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have created a wriggly "odd wheel" robot that can spontaneously roll up an incline.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Wheel That Can Roll Uphill

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's Progress cargo spacecraft had to perform an unplanned engine burn to avoid debris left behind by one of the country's own satellites.

Russia Forced to Dodge Space Debris From When It Blew Up Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

A new voice app allows anybody's voice to sound exactly like Morgan Freeman in real time, an impressive and powerful example of AI-powered technologies.

Artificial Intelligence

New App Makes You Sound Like Morgan Freeman in Real Time

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists made a big splash, announcing they had received "suspicious signals." But they're likely the result of radio frequency interference.

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO and self-described "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk has reportedly fired several employees at his space company, who critized him.

Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Fires Employees for Criticizing Him

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the very first time, months after announcing plans to buy the social media network.

During Business Meeting, Elon Musk Suddenly Starts Talking About Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Blockchain Guy Struggles to Explain a Single Practical Use for Web3

Blockchain Guy Struggles to Explain a Single Practical Use for Web3

By Victor Tangermann

A new video shared by Estonian robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics shows an autonomous tank blowing up cars and other targets.

Alarming Footage Shows Robot Battle Tank Blowing Up Cars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Employees Slam Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior in Open Letter

SpaceX Employees Slam Elon Musk’s Bizarre Behavior in Open Letter

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists scanning for signs of life say they've found "suspicious signals" that could point toward extraterrestrial civilizations.

Science & Energy

Chinese Scientists Say They May Have Detected Signal From Extraterrestrial Intelligence, But Probably Not

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese and US scientists have put their reputation on the line by claiming a narrowband signal could be a sign of extraterrestrial life.

Potential Alien Signal Coming From Direction of Earthlike Planet, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off the latest view of the space company's Starship spacecraft — and it's enormous.

Elon Musk’s New Photo Shows Staggering Size of SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

An over-the-air software update temporarily turned one Lucid Air owner's luxury EV into an expensive lump of steel and aluminum.

Advanced Transport

After Software Update, Error Warns EV Owner “Vehicle May Not Be Drivable”

By Victor Tangermann

It's no secret that Tesla can be lacking in the quality assurance department — and there are no signs of that changing any time soon.

Tesla Fan Appalled at Wretched Condition of Tesla He Just Bought

By Victor Tangermann

A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.

Science & Energy

Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver

By Victor Tangermann

NASA really doesn't want SpaceX's Starship to blow up on the launch pad at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Reuters reports.

NASA Afraid SpaceX’s Rocket Will Explode and Blow Up Other Stuff Near It

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, "Starship will be ready to fly next month," an exciting new update after years of delays and governmental red tape.

Elon Musk: “Starship Will Be Ready to Fly Next Month”

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."

Artificial Intelligence

Transcript of Conversation With “Sentient” AI Was Heavily Edited

By Victor Tangermann

Binance is bracing itself for a class-action lawsuit filed against it in a California court about misleading investors over a "stable" stablecoin.

Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Binance Misled Investors Over “Stablecoin”

By Victor Tangermann

The Federal Aviation Administration has released its long-awaited environmental assessment into SpaceX's Starship launch program.

FAA Demands Changes Before SpaceX Can Launch Starship to Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese scientists have analyzed asteroid dust collected the by the country's Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found "clues to the origin of life on Earth

Japanese Scientists: This Asteroid’s Samples Contain “Clues to the Origin of Life”

By Victor Tangermann

Actor Seth Green has been reunited with his pet Bored Ape NFT less than a month after losing it to an anonymous scammer, BuzzFeed News reports.

Family Guy Actor Pays Huge Ransom for Stolen Bored Ape

By Victor Tangermann

If the latest reports on social media re to be believed, Tesla may have scrapped its safety score requirements for the Full Self-Driving beta.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Reportedly Giving Full Self-Driving Beta to Basically Anybody Now

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Office of Inspector General has released the final audit of the agency's efforts to build the Mobile Launcher 2 — and it doesn't pull any punches.

Scathing Report Admits NASA Is Years Behind Moon Landing Schedule

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and "slightly sweaty" robotic finger that is covered in a pink layer of living skin.

Scientists Create Robot “Finger” With Living Skin That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

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