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NASA scientists are still furiously trying to fix the main payload computer onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. But they may be closer to finding a fix.

NASA Says It’s Still Trying to Fix Damaged Hubble

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope experienced an issue with its payload computer, forcing scientific operations to grind to a halt over the weekend.

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Just Glitched Into Safe Mode, Whoops

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has made big progress towards building its first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy.

Elon Musk Shares New Pic of Giant Starship Rocket Booster

By Victor Tangermann

California-based startup Kernel is about to start shipping a $50,000 mind-reading helmet to dozens of customers across the US.

Neuroscience and Brain

Company Starts Shipping Its $50,000 Mind-Reading Helmet

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that virtual reality can affect the way a player senses time.

Virtual Reality

You Perceive Time Differently in Virtual Reality, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Jetpack pilot Richard Browning broke Usain Bolt's 100-meter record while wearing his famous "Iron Man"-like jetsuit, according to Guinness World Records.

Advanced Transport

Man Beats Usain Bolt’s 100 Meter Dash Record Using Actual Jetpack

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its "AmaZen," essentially a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to "focus on their mental wellbeing."

Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet”

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent CBC interview, retired astronaut Chris Hadfield shared his opinion on the recent emergence of "unidentified aerial phenomena" sightings.

Robots and Machines

Astronaut: If You Think UFOs Are Aliens, You’re an Idiot

By Victor Tangermann

Professor and astrophysicist Adam Frank is not impressed by recent reports of UFOs.

Robots and Machines

Astrophysicist Says Alien UFO Theories Are Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

China's first module of its upcoming space station makes use of ion drives, technology that could vastly cut down the time it takes to travel to Mars.

China’s New Space Station Is Powered by Ion Thrusters

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have recreated the conditions in Pluto's atmosphere in a lab to investigate what's behind the red spots observed by New Horizons.

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

According to a team of researchers, the existence of an extra dimension in space-time could explain the existence of dark mater

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

A new Change.org petition is politely asking Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos to please stay in space forever after he takes off next month.

Petition: Please Keep Jeff Bezos in Space Forever

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is having some serious issues with procuring parts for its Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines.

The Navy Says Its Nuclear Submarines Are Beat Up Pieces of Crap

By Victor Tangermann

After spending over two and a half years on the surface of Mars, NASA's Insight Mars Lander is looking a little worse for wear.

NASA’s Mars Lander Is Dying

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla just showed off its massive new supercomputer — and according to their numbers, it may just be the fifth most powerful one in the world, according to Electrek.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Built One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Train Its Self-Driving System

By Victor Tangermann

A new video going viral on social media shows a helmeted daredevil shooting through Times Square in New York City — while flying on a hoverboard.

Video Shows Man Flying Through Times Square on Giant Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Back in 2019, the folks behind the startup Furrion Exo-Bionics took their 9,000 pound mechanized suit called Prosthesis for a spin in the desert.

Robots and Machines

Watch Dudes Tow a Pickup With a Giant Mecha Suit

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials continued their crackdown on cryptocurrencies in the country, ordering banks to stop supporting any transactions involving crypto.

China Orders Banks to Stop Handling Crypto, Bitcoin Plummets

By Victor Tangermann

A video reportedly shows part of China's Long March 2F rocket lying in the middle of the field, leaking what appears to be nitrogen tetroxide.

Video Reportedly Shows Chinese Rocket That Smashed Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to tackle the steep hills of Mars.

Scientists Built a Walking Mars Rover That Can Climb Steep Hills

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy detonated 40,000 pounds worth of explosives right next to a a warship to make sure it can weather battle conditions.

Robots and Machines

US Navy Sets Off Giant Explosion That Registers as 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) simulated what happens when a satellite burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Watch What Happens When a Satellite Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a team of geologists found that our planet goes through a cycle of severe geological events — almost like clockwork.

Science & Energy

The Earth Suffers a Regular Cycle of Horrific Catastrophes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

China's authorities are increasingly cracking down on cryptocurrency mining practices, causing the price of graphics cards to plummet.

GPU Prices Plummet After China Cracks Down on Bitcoin Mining

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is starting to squeeze ads into the magical virtual reality environments enabled by its Oculus Quest VR headset.

Virtual Reality

Dystopian Marketers, Unite: Facebook to Start Dropping Ads Into VR Spaces

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian fusion energy company is set to break ground on a large-scale nuclear fusion demonstration plant in Culham, UK — and it's being funded by richest man in the world

Jeff Bezos Is Helping Build a Fusion Power Plant in the UK

By Victor Tangermann

Killer drones are already making airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report.

Robots and Machines

Academics: Ban the Killer “Slaughterbots” Before We All Die

By Victor Tangermann

Three astronauts successfully entered China's Tiangong space station on Thursday afternoon Beijing time, just hours after launching.

First Astronauts Arrive at China’s New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.

Bacteria Could Allow Us to Recycle Electric Car Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that a mysterious dip in the brightness of Betelgeuse was not the sign of an imminent supernova, but evidence of the creation of stardust.

Science & Energy

Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Dimmed Mysteriously, and Now We Know Why

By Victor Tangermann

Germany's minister of transportation Andreas Scheuer is reportedly in talks with Tesla about opening up its Supercharger network to other carmakers.

Germany Wants Tesla to Share Its Supercharger Network With Other Carmakers

By Victor Tangermann

The world's first flying race car has taken to the skies for the very first time, setting the stage for an entirely new kind of racing league.

Advanced Transport

Watch the World’s First Flying Race Car Take Flight for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers are shipping the world's most powerful magnet to the construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor called ITER.

World’s Strongest Magnet Could Help Make Fusion Energy a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

US regulators have rung the alarm bells over the recent rise in stablecoins, cryptocurrency tokens that have a fixed price and are backed by reserves.

US Regulators Are Terrified of Stablecoins

By Victor Tangermann

According to a shocking new report by the Associated Press, north of 1,900 firearms were lost by or stolen from the US military between 2010 and 2019.

US Military Admits That It Lost 34 Rocket Launchers

By Victor Tangermann

Despite last last minute warnings from the FAA, SpaceX went ahead and launched its first high-altitude Starship prototype in December.

Report: SpaceX Ignored FAA Warnings Before Massive Starship Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

Just weeks after news emerged Elon Musk paid zero dollars in federal income tax over several years, the billionaire has decided sell his last home.

Elon Musk: “Decided to Sell My Last Remaining House”

By Victor Tangermann

Tencent Robotics X Lab, a Chinese robot maker, has unveiled a terrifying new "novel wheel-legged robot" that can backflip using its tail.

Robots and Machines

Watch This Terrifying Segway on Steroids Backflip Using Its Tail

By Victor Tangermann

According to this researcher, if we ever make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we're unlikely to find a group of little green Martians.

Artificial Intelligence

Astronomer: Aliens Will Most Likely Resemble AI if We Ever Make Contact

By Victor Tangermann

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made

By Victor Tangermann

The White House's plane was grounded by cicadas. One particularly adventurous cicada managed to get a hold of POTUS Joe Biden.

Watch President Biden Get Attacked by a Brood X Cicada

By Victor Tangermann

Archeologists in Israel made an incredibly rare discovery in the ancient industrial zone of Yavneh, a central Israeli city: a 1,000 year old chicken egg.

Science & Energy

Archeologists Discover 1000-Year-Old Egg, Accidentally Break It

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is also planning to take a trip to Venus to get a closer look.

Europe Is Also Sending a Spacecraft to Explore Venus, a Blazing Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

After making Bitcoin legal tender, president Nayib Bukele wants to use volcano-based geothermal energy to mine the cryptocurrency.

New Facility Will Use Volcano to Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Victor Tangermann

Physicist Mark Buchanan argued we should be grateful for not having made contact with alien civilizations yet in a piece for The Washington Post.

Robots and Machines

Physicist Warns That Contacting Aliens Could End All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

China is set to launch the first astronauts to its new orbiting space station. A Long March 2F rocket rolled out onto the launch pad on Wednesday.

China Is About to Launch Astronauts to Its New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The secondhand market for electric vehicles has a sticky issue: it's impossible to figure out the health of any given electric car's battery.

Electric Vehicles

There’s a Huge Problem With Buying Used Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a stunning 360-degree panorama of its surroundings while parked at the "Van Zyl Overlook" in the Jezero Crater.

NASA Releases Breathtaking Panorama From New Rover

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has some strong feelings on the topic of space junk, as evidenced in a recent interview with CNN.

NASA Head Slams United States for “Shameful” Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

According to Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning, Bitcoin's drop could make a Bitcoin sale "mighty tempting, regardless of what Musk tweeted."

Tesla Accused of Secretly Selling Part of Bitcoin Hoard

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon was found to be selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards on its platform, as a senior researcher at a media watchdog discovered.

Amazon Caught Selling Fake COVID Vaccination Cards

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with CNN, NASA administrator Bill Nelson chimed in on the topic of UFOs ahead of the release of a long-awaited report on the matter.

NASA Head Says He’s Talked to Pilots Who Encountered UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA' Juno spacecraft took two stunning images of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede during a June 7 flyby.

NASA Spacecraft Takes Gorgeous Pictures of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are spreading that Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson will attempt to beat rival and Blue Origins CEO Jeff Bezos to space this summer.

Richard Branson Is Reportedly Racing to Go to Space Before Jeff Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.

There’s a Large New Coronavirus Outbreak in China

By Victor Tangermann

According to IRS data obtained by ProPublica, some of the wealthiest people in the world paid extremely little in federal income taxes over the years.

IRS Leak Shows Elon Musk Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2018

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of Anonymous — or, at least, of folks on the internet who claim to be associated with the hacktivist organization.

Elon Musk Mocks “Anonymous” For Threatening Him

By Victor Tangermann

Following recent reports that Apple is working with manufacturers to realize its first passenger vehicle, top managers are leaving the division in droves.

Advanced Transport

It Sounds Like the Apple Car Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A drone just refuelled a US fighter jet in midair for the first time, the US Navy announced today.

The US Navy Just Used a Drone to Refuel a Fighter Jet in Midair

By Victor Tangermann

Former president Donald Trump told Fox Business today that Bitcoin "seems like a scam" and that it only serves to undermine the US dollar.

Donald Trump Says Bitcoin Is a “Scam”

By Victor Tangermann

Author and conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf has been suspended indefinitely from Twitter after spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on the platform.

Twitter Bans Prominent Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Theorist

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new weight-loss drug for the first time since 2014.

Health & Medicine

FDA Approves “Game-Changer” Weight Loss Drug

By Victor Tangermann

Just two weeks after officially stepping down as Amazon's CEO on July 5, Jeff Bezos is ready for a vacation to the edge of space.

Jeff Bezos Says He’s Going to Space in About a Month

By Victor Tangermann

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