Victor Tangermann

  NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have spent almost half a century traveling through outer space. The probes, which launched less than a month apart in the summer of 1977, have survived a lot, from dwindling power supplies and grimy thrusters to near-fatal software glitches. Voyager 1, in particular, which is currently floating through space some 15 billion miles away, […]

Former president Donald Trump is desperate for some much-needed cash to keep his presidential bid going. Over the weekend, Trump reportedly met with multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk, alongside a handful of Republican donors, to keep up his charade. According to the New York Times's sources, however, Trump is still hoping to meet one-on-one with Musk. […]

Google-backed AI company Anthropic has released Claude 3, its latest set of AI large language models (LLMs) rivaling those being developed by OpenAI and Google. The company's latest LLM comes in three flavors, depending on the number of parameters. A new chatbot called Claude.ai is powered by Claude 3 Sonnet, the company's mid-range LLM. A […]

  European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating in the continent. As the Times reports, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is warning that as of January 2026, automakers will have to include physical controls to achieve […]

Down Detected Practically every single website owned by Facebook parent Meta is currently down for at least tens of thousands of users, as of Tuesday morning. That includes Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, as reported by Downdetector. The outage appears to even affect several Google services, including YouTube. As Variety reports, users are experiencing […]

Cracked Dragon Over the weekend, three NASA astronauts and a Roscosmos cosmonaut launched on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, the eighth official crew rotation mission involving the spacecraft. That's despite ground control spotting a small crack forming on the seal of the Crew Dragon's hatch during countdown, a scary discovery […]

Moon Tipper Over the last two months, two separate Moon landers have successfully survived the harrowing journey down to the lunar surface — but didn't stick the landing, and falling on their face as a result. Last month, NASA's Odysseus lander, built and operated by Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines, kept moving sideways after making […]

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has found that recycling e-waste is a literal goldmine. The researchers have devised a novel way to extract precious metal from electronic waste, a sustainable method that is based on a byproduct from the food industry. The team found that protein fibril sponges, protein-rich byproducts from […]

  Just days after Waymo was cleared to officially launch robotaxi services in the city, an unhoused man was arrested after attempting to steal one of its self-driving cars in downtown Los Angeles. In a statement, the LAPD said that Vincent Maurice Jones, 34, climbed into the white vehicle just after it had dropped off […]

  Tesla fan and Phoenix-based lawyer Matthew Chiarello had a terrifying experience with his recently purchased Cybertruck. "Love Tesla and my Cybertruck but 'catastrophe [sic] failure' with steering and brakes while on a road trip with wife and toddler," he tweeted, sharing a picture of his truck being loaded onto the back of a flatbed […]