Victor Tangermann

Mind the Gap The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence, claiming Google Maps directions made the father of two drive his car off a collapsed bridge last year. Philip Paxson drowned after plowing his Jeep Gladiator off a bridge, and plunging 20 feet into a creek below on September 30, […]

Pink diamonds are incredibly rare and can sell for many millions of dollars. Scientists believe diamonds turn pink or red when tectonic plates collide with unusually strong forces, causing their crystal lattices to literally bend, as CNN reports. Now, researchers claim to have found a new way to source them, honing in on the geological […]

It's an open secret that generative AI is terrible at coming up with original and creative writing. In many ways, that's to be expected, given their inherent nature — they churn through the internet and remix what they've gobbled up in often nonsensical and uninspiring ways. To remedy the situation, some of Silicon Valley's biggest […]

  NFTs are officially on life support. According to a recent report by crypto platform dappGambl called "Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market," 95 percent of the tokens are practically worthless today. The company found that 69,795 of the 73,257 NFT collections analyzed have a market of zero Ether. In other words, […]

A team of researchers in Japan claim to have figured out a way to translate the clucking of chickens with the use of artificial intelligence. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed preprint, the team led by University of Tokyo professor Adrian David Cheok — who has previously studied sex robots — came up with a "system […]

Tesla Road Rage Guy A particularly aggressive Tesla driver, who was infamously involved in ten road rage incidents last year, has been sentenced to five years in prison, ABC 7 reports, a rare moment of justice that couldn't have come soon enough. The man, who has come to be known as "Tesla Road Rage Guy" […]

Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X-formerly-Twitter was apparently hacked today, NBC News reports, with the son of former president Donald Trump tweeting that his father had died. I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away," the account tweeted, as evidenced by screenshots obtained by NBC. "I will be running for president in […]

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink is officially looking for test subjects for its upcoming human trials. The six-year trial, which the company is calling the PRIME Study (Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface), is aimed at folks with quadriplegia due to spinal cord injury or ALS, according to an official announcement, laying the groundwork for […]

Dug Themselves a Hole Reporters at Irish TV station Virgin Media News broadcasted a breaking news segment about a "mysterious crater" at a local beach, which could be evidence of a meteorite digging itself into the sand, a "once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event." The smoking gun: a mysteriously charred rock placed in the middle of the almost […]

A pig kidney has survived intact inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of an animal organ continuing to function after transplanting, a procedure known as a xenotransplant. It's a promising sign that we could one day start relying on non-human organs, a possible answer to an ongoing organ […]