Victor Tangermann

Bon Voyage For the first time in five months, NASA's 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back usable data — all thanks to some "inventive sleuthing" by the mission's team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab. The probe, the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space alongside its twin Voyager 2, started sending back incomprehensible code […]

A team of resaerchers at a Berkeley-based startup called Profulent claim to have used generative AI technologies to edit human DNA. As the New York Times reports, the startup fed huge amounts of biological data into a large language model (LLM) to come up with new editors based on the groundbreaking gene-editing technique CRISPR, as […]

  It's been less than three months since Apple released its uber-expensive Vision Pro virtual reality headset — and the tech giant is seriously struggling to sell existing stock. As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, barely anybody is booking demos to try the $3,500 device out for themselves at stores. Sales have also gone "from a […]

Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have achieved a breakthrough, stumbling upon an entirely new force of nature that could help us develop propellantless rockets. As The Debrief reports, co-founder Charles Buhler, a NASA veteran, who has worked on a number of major programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and […]

Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have achieved a breakthrough, stumbling upon an entirely new force of nature that could help us develop propellantless rockets. As The Debrief reports, co-founder Charles Buhler, a NASA veteran, who has worked on a number of major programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and […]

  A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist. […]

  A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist. […]

Cloak Engaged Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup's eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard, can turn anything behind it into an indiscernible smudge by effectively bending the light around it. Now Invisibilty Shield is ready to follow up its […]

Cloak Engaged Remember the Invisibility Shield that launched on Kickstarter just over two years ago? The British startup's eye-tricking gizmo, which is roughly as flat as a piece of cardboard, can turn anything behind it into an indiscernible smudge by effectively bending the light around it. Now Invisibilty Shield is ready to follow up its […]

Empty Posts Thousands of Tesla employees were blindsided by the company's mass layoffs last week. Workers were left in the dark, only to find out they were fired once their keycards no longer allowed them to get into the office. And while Tesla has already garnered a reputation for less-than-stellar customer service, the situation is […]