Victor Tangermann

Have you ever caught your mind wandering during a particularly boring session at the gym that seems to drag on forever? As it turns out, there might be a measurable reason for that. Scientists have found that our perception of time slows down considerably when exercising, a fascinating finding that suggests we enter a perceived […]

Falling Behind Meta's Twitter killer Threads has had more daily active users in the US than Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter since at least December, according to estimates by data intelligence platform Apptopia. "Threads DAUs in the US passed X in December 2023 and it has not looked back," Apptopia's VP of research Thomas Grant told Business […]

As shares of former president Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock continue to plummet, Devin Nunes, CEO of parent company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), is accusing Wall Street of unfairly betting against the pump-and-dump scheme. As CNBC reports, Nunes claimed that the company's stock was the target of "unlawful manipulation" in a letter […]

I'm Still Alive Japan's first Moon lander just refuses to die. The spacecraft dubbed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has sent back yet another image three months after it landed upside down on the lunar surface. That means it has survived a third lunar night, just over two Earth weeks of freezing temperatures and […]

Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. While the generated clip, released by the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab last week, isn't actual footage recorded by a spacecraft, it's nonetheless a gorgeous rendition of what […]

Tesla has had a horrendous start to its "nightmare" year. During the company's earnings call on Tuesday, the company revealed that its net income was down 55 percent this quarter compared to the same period last year. Revenue also fell nine percent. In a desperate bid to stop the bleeding, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reneged […]

  Taser maker and police industrial complex contractor Axon has announced a new product called "Draft One," an AI that can generate police reports from body cam audio. As Forbes reports, it's a brazen and worrying use of the tech that could easily lead to the furthering of racial biases. That's not to mention the […]

  NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made a puzzling discovery while roaming the barren surface of the planet's Gale Crater: puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day. The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument detected spikes of the gas, sometimes spiking to 40 times the usual levels […]

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 […]