Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's on-and-off-again partner Claire "Grimes" Boucher has come out in support of the mercurial entrepreneur's estranged, transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. "I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," the musician tweeted late Thursday evening. The news comes shortly after NBC News published an exclusive first interview with the 20-year-old, who […]

  The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to […]

Spare Seats The return date of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft over seven weeks ago, keeps getting pushed back. Engineers have been hard at work investigating several helium leaks that officials discovered after the pair arrived at the station, affecting […]

A viral text-to-video AI generator developed by Runway was trained on copious amounts of pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, according to a gigantic internal spreadsheet obtained by 404 Media. Last month, the company's Gen-3 Alpha video generation tool drew huge amounts of attention, with publications (including yours truly) lauding the photorealistic clips it […]

Trapped Gases NASA has released a new visualization that shows copious amounts of carbon dioxide swirling around the Earth's atmosphere. The video shows how concentrations of the gas move across the planet, driven by wind and atmospheric circulation, from January through March 2020. The level of detail is truly astonishing, allowing us to "zoom in […]

  NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft on June 6, over a month and a half ago. And the space agency still has yet to issue a return date as engineers are still poring over the data, investigating a number of thrusters […]

Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]

Smashing Records For the second day in a row, the Earth shattered its record for the hottest day ever recorded. On Sunday, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) found that our planet had set a new record, averaging 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit on average across the globe. Just a day later, the institution announced […]

Free Snacks CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind last week's epic global computer meltdown — according to some, the largest IT outage in history — is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as a form of apology. It's a hilariously inadequate mea culpa for a slip-up that cost Fortune 500 companies more than […]

Surfing star Kai McKenzie lost his leg after encountering a ten-foot great white shark off the coast near Port Macquarie, Australia earlier this week. After a wave carried him back to shore, an off-duty police officer used a dog leash as a tourniquet to stem the bleeding and save his life, according to the local […]