More from Victor Tangermann (Page 91)

All American journalists working for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post have been expelled from China.

China Bans Journalists From Major US Newspapers

By Victor Tangermann

A team of security researchers bought a German armed forces laptop for only 90 euros ($99) on eBay that contained classified military information.

German Military Laptop With Classified Data Sold for $100 on eBay

By Victor Tangermann

A creative group of elementary school graduates decided to have their graduation ceremony inside Minecraft since schools are out until spring.

Isolated by Coronavirus, Schoolkids Hold Graduation In Minecraft

By Victor Tangermann

According to Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller, e-commerce giant Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 people to "keep up with crush of orders."

Amazon Seeks to Hire 100,000 Workers to Keep Up During Outbreak

By Victor Tangermann

TikTok told its moderators to suppress videos created by "ugly," poor, or disabled people to be posted on the platform's "For You" section.

TikTok Tried to Suppress Videos by Users It Deemed Ugly, Poor

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is taking many precautionary measures to ensure that the coronavirus outbreak doesn't have a chance to spread among its employees and astronauts.

NASA Worried Astronauts Could Spread Coronavirus on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.

Scientists Discover 139 New “Minor Planets” in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma pledged last week to donate half a billion COVID-19 coronavirus testing kits and one million face masks to the US.

Chinese Billionaire Ships 500,000 Coronavirus Testing Kits to US

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astrobiologists claim that organic molecules discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover could be evidence for early life on Mars.

Scientists: NASA Rover Has Found Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

According to Ars Technica's Eric Berger, Musk had a stern word with his engineers over a Starship prototype exploding over the weekend.

Elon Musk Was Pretty Pissed When His Starship Prototype Exploded

By Victor Tangermann

Early Monday morning, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a link to a video showing a Starship prototype exploding in a massive cloud of gas.

Elon Musk Tweets Vid of Starship Crumpling Up Like a Soda Can

By Victor Tangermann

Major culture events and locations are shutting down as the coronavirus outbreak is sweeping the entire globe.

Coronavirus Closures: Here’s All the Art, Music, Sports Going Dark

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers are creating their own coronavirus maps to infect users with malware, stealing sensitive data including credit card numbers in the process.

Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Maps to Spread Malware

By Victor Tangermann

Tinder has cancelled the international release of its apocalypse-themed in-app video-slash-hookup-game called "Swipe Night," as TechCrunch reports.

Tinder Cancels Its Apocalypse-Themed Game Due to Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

The Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Corportation rolled out a disinfecting robot to clean subway trains using "vaporised hydrogen peroxide."

Hong Kong Is Using Robots to Disinfect Subway Trains

By Victor Tangermann

The drive-thru coronavirus test station is finally making its way to the US after South Korea perfected the method over the last couple of weeks.

Medical Centers Are Opening Drive-Thru Coronavirus Testing Stations

By Victor Tangermann

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang argued that the coronavirus outbreak proves that we should be supporting people by paying them a basic income.

Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang: Coronavirus Outbreak Proves We Need Basic Income

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese company Bauhutte has come up with the perfect solution to surviving a 14-day quarantine: a $1,200 gaming bed concept.

You Literally Never Have to Get Out of This $1,200 Gaming Bed

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.

Science & Energy

Fragment of Planet That Hit Earth May Be Buried Inside Moon

By Victor Tangermann

"Unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the moon or a city on Mars."

Elon Musk: My Main Goal Is to Get Humanity to Mars Before I Die

By Victor Tangermann

A number of airlines are being forced to operate near empty "ghost flights" after the coronavirus outbreak caused demand for airfare to plummet globally.

Advanced Transport

As the Coronavirus Rages, Airlines Fly Near-Empty “Ghost Flights”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have discovered a strange star that oscillates only on one side, causing it to be distorted into a teardrop shape.

Scientists Discover “Peculiar” Teardrop-Shaped Star

By Victor Tangermann

New York governor Andrew Cuomo has a wild idea to tackle a hand sanitizer shortage: use prison labor to make more of the stuff.

New York Is Using Prison Labor to Make Emergency Hand Sanitizer

By Victor Tangermann

Driverless delivery vehicle startup Neolix is raking in new customers as cities in China are under full lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Adorable Self-Driving Vans Are Disinfecting Roads in China

By Victor Tangermann

Italy Imposes Nationwide Travel Restrictions as Death Toll Soars

Italy Imposes Nationwide Travel Restrictions as Death Toll Soars

By Victor Tangermann

A number of cruise ship passengers are catching cabin fever as they're trapped on board the Grand Princess due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Passengers Fought Over Rotten Food on Quarantined Cruise Ship

By Victor Tangermann

The French ministry of health had to declare on Sunday that "no, cocaine does NOT protect against COVID-19," in a post on Twitter.

French Government: No, Cocaine Doesn’t Cure Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, a Canadian basic income pilot project from 2017 was a huge success, with people living healthier, more productive lives.

Universal Basic Income

Given Basic Income, People Kept Working and Got Healthier

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, lettuce grown in space isn't just delicious, it's just as nutritious and safe to eat as boring-old Earth lettuce as well.

Science & Energy

Good News: Space Lettuce Is Safe to Eat, Good for You

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers created tiny "nanodrills" that were able to cut themselves into the cells of worms and plankton. They could even cure skin diseases.

Brutal “Nanodrills” Can Kill Tiny Living Worms and Water Fleas

By Victor Tangermann

"Bubbles of nothing," extra dimensional holes, could cause the universe to consume itself from inside out, according to a group of phycisists.

Science & Energy

Theoretical Holes in Spacetime Could Swallow the Entire Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Airbnb is encouraging hosts to buy smart "party prevention" devices that can cost over $100 in an attempt to stop parties that could get out of hand.

Airbnb Wants Hosts to Buy “Party Prevention” Devices

By Victor Tangermann

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Goodyear debuted a futuristic tire concept on Tuesday called ReCharge that has the ability to regrow its tread using a special liquid compound capsule.

Advanced Transport

This Futuristic Tire Concept Regrows Its Tread by Popping a Pill

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material to build robots that is so light, it can float on water.

Science & Energy

Scientists Want to Build Robots out of Floating Liquid Metal

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped more than 1,000 images, which teams back on Earth composed into a 360 degree Martian landscape panorama.

Science & Energy

NASA Mars Rover Snaps Glorious 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama

By Victor Tangermann

Banks across the globe are sending thousands of their staff home to help keep their business going while the coronavirus outbreak is taking its toll.

Bankers Are Installing Screens at Home to Keep Wall Street Running

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Voyager 2, currently in interstellar space billions of miles from Earth, has recovered from a serious glitch it experienced in late January.

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Recovers from Glitch 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Bored teens are posting memes, dances, and jokes on TikTok about their experiences of being quarantined during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Bored Teens Are Posting on TikTok About Being Quarantined

By Victor Tangermann

The CDC is advising people to get ready to have a break from regular life in response to the coronavirus outbreak and to stay away if you're ill.

CDC: Get Ready to Stay At Home For a While

By Victor Tangermann

An environmental group filed a lawsuit last week against big plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much plastic is being recycled.

Anti-Coke Lawsuit: “Plastic Is Set to Outweigh Fish in the Ocean”

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study using data collected by the ESA, the Milky Way is being warped as it's slowly colliding with a smaller neighboring galaxy.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Something Is Warping Our Entire Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Tech conglomerate Honeywell just dropped the hammer: By the middle of 2020, they'll be releasing the most powerful quantum computing machine in the world.

Quantum Physics

Honeywell: We Are Beating Everyone’s Ass at Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an unexpected discovery, spotting a black hole emitting a massive cloud of X-rays some 30,000 light years away.

Science & Energy

NASA Probe Exploring Asteroid Accidentally Snaps Black Hole Image

By Victor Tangermann

Many health practitioners have argued the government's efforts to test patients for COVID-19 in the US have fallen far short of expectations.

It’s Incredibly Hard to Get Tested for Coronavirus in US

By Victor Tangermann

According to a genetic analysis, the coronavirus might have been circulating in Washington state over the past six weeks spreading person-to-person.

Scientists: Coronavirus Has Been Spreading In U.S. For Weeks

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a room full of U.S. Air Force generals last week that "the fighter jet era has passed." Remotely-controlled drones are the future.

Elon Musk Tells Air Force General That Fighter Jets Are Over

By Victor Tangermann

A whistleblower has come forward, claiming that the Trump administration helped spread the deadly COVID-19 outbreak inside US borders.

Whistleblower: US Gov May Have Helped Spread Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Michelle Kunimoto, an astronomy student, has discovered 17 new planets, including an Earth-like one that could host life, using data from NASA.

Science & Energy

Student Discovers 17 Planets, One of Which Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

Over the last decade, MIT bionengineering professor Angela Belcher has been conscripting millions of zombie viruses to build battery parts.

This MIT Scientist Is Building Batteries Using Modified Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

YouTubers behind the account "The Hacksmith" have built a half-scale Cybertruck that is so powerful, it can win against a Ford F150 in a tug of war.

Advanced Transport

Watch a Half-Scale Cybertruck Beat a Ford F-150 in a Tug of War

By Victor Tangermann

A Facebook post by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine shows a research station in antarctica covered in "raspberry snow."

Science & Energy

Bright-Red “Blood Snow” Is Falling From the Sky in Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

A mysterious video that claimed China would be sending 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help deal with a locust invasion went viral on Chinese social media.

Science & Energy

Expert: China is Not Deploying Duck Army to Devour Locusts

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have started analyzing data collected by China's Yutu-2 Moon rover's ground-penetrating radar. They found mostly Moon dust.

Science & Energy

Chinese Rover Discovers It’s Sitting on 39 Feet of Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers determined that an exoplanet called K2-18b is capable of holding liquid water at habitable conditions.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Conclude Massive Exoplanet Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has learned that Boeing did not perform a "full, end-to-end integrated test" of its astronaut-ferrying Starliner spacecraft with the Atlas V rocket.

NASA: Boeing Skipped Crucial Software Test of Starliner Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle-1" (MEV-1) docks with a Inteslat 901, a communication satellite that's been in orbit for a lengthy 18 years.

World’s First: Spacecraft Docks to Commercial Satellite In Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

Special modified human stem cells were able to control blood sugar levels in a demonstration involving diabetic mice by secreting insulin.

Diabetic Mice “Cured Rapidly” Using Human Stem Cells

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at Penn State just confirmed the existence of G 9-40b, a gigantic super-Earth only roughly 90 light years from Earth.

This Gigantic Neptune-Sized Exoplanet is Incredibly Close

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, the internet was intentionally shut off more than 200 times in 33 countries in 2019, affecting tens of millions of people.

Governments Shut Down the Internet Hundreds of Times in 2019

By Victor Tangermann

Iran health ministry confirmed today in an interview that the country's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi has tested positive for COVID-19.

Iranian Health Minister Plays Down Virus Outbreak, Then Catches It

By Victor Tangermann

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