More from Victor Tangermann (Page 57)

A 24-year-old man from Bethesda, Maryland decided to take some extreme measures to get his hands on the $400,000 worth of cryptocurrencies owned by his father.

Man Drugs His Father’s Tea to Steal $400,000 in Crypto

By Victor Tangermann

A team of chemical engineers at MIT have created a new material that they claim to be stronger than steel — but still as light as plastic.

Science & Energy

MIT Creates Material Stronger Than Steel But as Light as Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have modified a Supra that can perform sick drifts around a racetrack — without a driver.

Self-Driving Vehicles

The Fast and the Autonomous: Self-Driving Cars Can Drift Now

By Victor Tangermann

Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

Connecticut police arrested Wilfred Gonzalez after they found he was allegedly tracking a victim's car using an Apple AirTag, according to news reports.

Man Caught Planting Apple AirTag on Ex Girlfriend’s Car to Stalk Her

By Victor Tangermann

An oil production and storage ship exploded off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday morning. The condition of the ten crew members on board is still unclear.

Science & Energy

Huge Oil Tanker Explodes Off Coast of Africa

By Victor Tangermann

People are actually debating how to pronounce the moniker "NFTs." The Verge thinks it should be "neft." We disagree.

Debate Rages Over How to Pronounce “NFT”

By Victor Tangermann

An American white hat hacker managed to disrupt the internet connection of North Korea — while wearing pajamas, eating chips, and watching "Alien."

Hacker Wearing Pajama Pants Brings Down North Korea’s Entire Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Climate researchers are warning extreme heat present in the Earth's oceans passed the point of return turn — eight years ago.

Environmental Catastrophe Passed “Point of No Return” Eight Years Ago, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

An iconic bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam will soon be partly demolished so that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' super yacht can pass through.

Jeff Bezos Demands That Historic Bridge Be Taken Apart So That His Superyacht Can Pass Through

By Victor Tangermann

After years of exploring options, NASA has finally decided on how it wants to retire the International Space Station.

International Space Station

NASA Announces Plans to Destroy the International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Victor Glover sat down for a chat with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise to prepare him for what it's really like to spend time on board the ISS.

Astronaut Warns Tom Cruise About Appalling Smell on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has agreed to recall almost 54,000 of its cars because a recent "Full Self-Driving" software update allowed them to perform a "rolling stop."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Says It’s Updating Self-Driving Cars to No Longer Break the Law

By Victor Tangermann

An Israeli AI company claims it can create a model of a face using DNA that can then be fed into a facial recognition system, a highly dubious claim.

Startup Slammed for Saying It Can Reconstruct Faces From DNA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is finally making moves to boot up its James Webb Space Telescope, according to a NASA statement — a historic moment.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s Booting Up the Mighty James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

North Korea has reportedly test-fired several big missiles, sending back photos from space taken by a camera installed on one of the missile's warheads.

North Korea Launches Missile Into Space, Releases Photo of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Leadership at Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, has been an absolute disaster, according Fortune.

Former Employees Say Elon Musk Was an Absolutely Terrible Boss

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, what they're dubbing the "quantum apocalypse."

Experts Warn of “Quantum Apocalypse”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with Australian website Finder, two Ubisoft VPs tried to explain why gamers should care about NFTs and embrace them as the future of gaming.

Gaming Exec Says His Customers Are Idiots For Not Understanding How Great NFTs Are

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet — for the second time.

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Flies Through Tail of Comet

By Victor Tangermann

In an unhinged Twitter tirade on Thursday, Musk argued that "if you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny."

Elon Musk Goes on Paranoid Rant About Vaccines

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook-now-known-as-Meta is attempting to sell off its ill-fated cryptocurrency project the Diem Initiative, according to Bloomberg.

Facebook Is Reportedly Trying to Sell Off Its Botched Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious celestial object that is releasing massive bursts of energy at astonishingly regular 18 minute intervals.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by “Spooky” Object Sending Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover did a little shimmy to loosen yet another pair of pebbles blocking its sample collection instrument.

Mars Rover Does “Twist on One Foot” to Shake Off More Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers was able to get a panoramic view of almost 1,000 of mysterious filaments at the center of the Milky Way.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Weird “Strands” at the Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

A Washington, DC-based lobbying group representing a number of auto industry heavyweights, is abandoning the term "self-driving,"

Self-Driving Vehicles

Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term “Self-Driving”

By Victor Tangermann

Analysts expect 2022 to be a financial boon for Tesla — and that means its CEO Elon Musk could net billions of dollars in stock awards.

Bad News, Your 401K Is Tanking, Good News, Elon Musk Is About to Make Bank

By Victor Tangermann

A recently leaked video shows a full walkaround of an early prototype of Tesla's Cybertruck including its absurdly gigantic windshield wiper.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Mocked for Excessively Enormous Windshield Wiper in Leaked Video

By Victor Tangermann

The United Arab Emirates has announced a total ban on flying consumer drones anywhere within the country after last week's deadly attacks in Abu Dhabi.

UAE Bans Drones After Drone Used in Attack on Oil Facility

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's original factory in Fremont, California has been able to push the envelope so much, it has become the most productive auto plant on the continent.

Tesla Is Absolutely Spraying Out Cars

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the gene-hacked pig heart beating during the historic operation earlier this month, surgeons used a drug cocktail that includes cocaine.

The Pig-Human Heart Transplant’s Secret Weapon? Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

Swedish eVTOL startup Jetson is hoping to bring a $92,000 personal flying vehicle dubbed the Jetson ONE to market, a drone you can literally sit inside of.

Advanced Transport

This Personal Hover Bike Looks Pretty Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

China claims to have built the "world's largest quadruped bionic robot," a gigantic "mechanical yak" that can carry over 350 pounds at a shambling 6.2 mph.

China Builds Giant Walking Military Robot

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully ejected several pebbles obstructing its sample collection system since taking its sixth sample in December.

NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Shakes Off Obstructing Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers are warning that SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites could interfere with their ability to spot asteroids careening past Earth.

SpaceX Satellites Disrupting Ability to Spot Killer Asteroids, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered the people of Tonga Starlink internet access after the island nation was ravaged by a volcano blast.

Elon Musk Offers Starlink Internet at Volcano Disaster Site, Then Hesitates

By Victor Tangermann

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.

Metaverse “Rave” Shows People Standing Perfectly Still With Zero Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.

Science & Energy

A Mass Extinction Has Already Started, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Getting a closer look at interstellar rock 'Oumuamua could forever change the way we understand the universe around us, scientists argue.

Scientists Propose Mission to Catch Up With Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Parallel Systems, founded by a team of former SpaceX engineers, wants to allow autonomous shipping containers to zip along railroads.

Advanced Transport

Former SpaceX Engineers Build Electric Train Car That Doesn’t Need a Locomotive

By Victor Tangermann

A new supercut video demonstrates that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that Teslas will drive themselves next year — every year since 2014.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch Elon Musk Promise Self-Driving Cars “Next Year” Every Year Since 2014

By Victor Tangermann

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.

Guy Quits SpaceX, Creates Pizza Making Robot That “Dumped Melted Cheese Everywhere”

By Victor Tangermann

The volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, the force of the explosion was more than 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Science & Energy

Tonga Eruption Was 500 Times Stronger Than an Atomic Bomb

By Victor Tangermann

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued by Possible Sign of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning that there may not be enough people to populate Mars if global birth rates keep dropping.

Elon Musk Warns There Soon Won’t Be Enough People Left to Populate Mars

By Victor Tangermann

US airlines are warning that cutting-edge C-Band 5G technologies could force the industry to its knees, The Guardian reports.

Advanced Transport

Airlines Warn That New 5G Tech Could Mess Up Planes’ Ability to Fly Safely

By Victor Tangermann

The first gorilla suit Mark Kelly sent his twin in space exploded in 2015 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was lost in a massive fireball.

Astronaut Says First Gorilla Suit He Tried to Smuggle Into Space Blew Up in Fiery Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than we originally anticipated.

Science & Energy

The Earth’s Core Is Cooling Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A COVID-19 testing sites chain called The Center for COVID Control has reportedly told every customer they are negative. Now they're shutting down.

COVID Test Startup Accused of Telling Every Single Person They Were Negative

By Victor Tangermann

A "decentralized autonomous organization" called CityDAO was hoping to turn 40 acres in Wyoming into a crypto city — but they got hacked.

Hackers Plunder “Cryptocurrency City” That Had Promised “Dank Memes”

By Victor Tangermann

Just over a month after an MIT professor warned of "slaughterbots" being used by civilians, Vice is now reporting that cartels are using them to drop bombs.

Video Appears to Show Drug Cartel Using Drone to Bomb Enemies

By Victor Tangermann

Man Performs Cringey Vaccination Rap at City Council Meeting

Man Performs Cringey Vaccination Rap at City Council Meeting

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that astonishingly both men and women looked more attractive to study participants when most of their face was obscured by a mask.

Study: Face Masks Make People Look More Attractive

By Victor Tangermann

Not everybody was impressed by KFC's latest plant-based chicken offerings.

Science & Energy

KFC’s Fake Chicken Isn’t Quite as Disgusting as Everybody’s Saying

By Victor Tangermann

Autonomous driving startup Nuro has come up with a delivery vehicle that has a giant external-facing airbag in case it ever hits a cyclist or pedestrian.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Has Giant Airbag for When It Accidentally Plows Into Pedestrians

By Victor Tangermann

A group of 270 doctors and educators have signed a letter calling on Spotify to start moderating misinformation, particularly on the Joe Rogan Experience.

Hundreds of Medical Experts Sign Letter Condemning Joe Rogan

By Victor Tangermann

Beanie Babies collectors are still going nuts over the little animals, but this time, some of them hoping to turn them into NFTs — what else?

In Proof That Irony Is Dead, People are Trying to Make Beanie Babies NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Wordle, a popular word-guessing game that skyrocketed in popularity this month, was immediately ripped off by a different developer called Zach Shakked.

Guy Who Shamelessly Ripped Off Beloved Word Game Issues Apology

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is officially fully deployed, but it's not out of the woods just yet, because of space junk.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Space Debris Will Definitely Slam Into the James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Phil Libin, founder of note-taking app Evernote who grew up in the Soviet Union, says that Meta's Metaverse is like communist propaganda.

CEO Born in Soviet Russia Says Metaverse Is Just Like Communist Propaganda

By Victor Tangermann

David Colombo, a 19-year-old IT specialist, claims to have uncovered a software vulnerability that allows him to take control of 25 Teslas around the world.

Hacker Claims to Have Seized Control of Teslas Around the World

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent study, the globe's oceans experienced another record year in 2021 — "the hottest ever recorded by humans."

The Oceans Are Now Hotter Than at Any Point in Recorded History, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, a team of US surgeons have transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a living human — a huge milestone.

Doctors Transplant Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Into Living Human Patient

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is seemingly leaving the decision to have cars perform "rolling stops" up to its drivers when it comes to its infamous "Full Self-Driving" software.

Tesla FSD Appears to Ask Drivers Whether It Should Break the Law

By Victor Tangermann

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