Victor Tangermann

Ultimate Egg Drop Space startup Varda Space Industries has shared a gorgeous video of one of its space capsules blasting through the Earth's atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound. The full five-minute clip shows the capsule floating in outer space, with glinting stars far in the distance. At one point, you can even […]

Lunar Carnage NASA's historic return to the lunar surface was marred by a series of obstacles, both physical and software-related. The Odysseus lander, built by Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines and contracted by NASA, touched down near the Moon's south pole last week, becoming the first commercially built lander to survive the trip. But instead […]

  Stranded influencers sheltering inside poorly constructed tents in the Bahamas eating sandwiches out of styrofoam containers. Crying children being offered grocery store lemonade inside a dirty warehouse in downtown Glasgow, Scotland. While it may not sound like these two seemingly disparate groups of people have much in common, they both fell victim to fraud, […]

  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole lurking in one of the most ancient corners of the universe. Astronomers suggest the vermilion black hole was the result of an expanding universe just 700 million years following the Big Bang, as detailed in a paper published this […]

  Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD or Blu-Ray — but can hold a whopping 1.6 petabits of data, or around 200,000 gigabytes. That's enough data to store over 40,000 DVDs, or over […]

  Over the weekend, organizers of what was described as a "Willy Wonka Experience" in Scotland duped unsuspecting parents into attending a truly depressing event using clearly AI-generated marketing materials. The $44-a-ticket experience turned out to fall well short of the fantastical landscapes dreamed up by an AI, with cheap-looking, larger-than-life objects sparsely populating a […]

  Google has had a terrible week. Last week, its recently renamed Gemini AI engine started spitting out unexplainable pictures of racially diverse Nazis, confounding the entire internet with its historical inaccuracy. "Our tuning to ensure that Gemini showed a range of people failed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range," Google […]

After around a decade of extremely secretive development, Apple is officially giving up on building an electric car. Sources with insider knowledge told Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that the tech giant was canceling the project codenamed Titan, affecting almost 2,000 employees. According to the report, COO Jeff Williams and the project's VP Kevin Lynch informed the […]

  In the early 2000s, Steven Jones operated a collection of porn websites, netting him half a million dollars a month. Those revenues quickly started drying up with the emergence of free, ad-supported porn streaming websites like Pornhub. But as the Washington Post reports, thanks to the advent of AI porn engines, Jones has found […]

Mighty Morphin Asteroid In September 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos, a landmark test to see whether we can divert potentially dangerous space rocks in the future. The collision was powerful enough to knock Dimorphos off its trajectory, releasing copious amounts of dust and […]