Victor Tangermann

Out With the Old The International Space Station has been continuously hosting astronauts for 23 long years now — and its age is really starting to show in the form of cracks and leaks. Now, NASA is discussing how best to dispose of the station by the end of the decade. And the price tag […]

  YouTube has had it with you blocking the damn ads on its platform — and it's willing to make the experience as miserable as possible until you give up. As Business Insider reports, the company is encouraging viewers to turn off their ad blockers in their browsers or subscribe to YouTube Premium, which costs […]

A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is sending over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, alarming local authorities and wildlife conservationists. As the Washington Post reports, officials traced back the spill to near a pipeline operated by oil company Main Pass Oil Gathering, but it's unclear if it […]

  After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker. In a statement released late Tuesday evening, the company claimed that it had "reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO" — but with a reshuffled non-profit board, […]

We're still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday, a decision that has led to absolute carnage. Beyond some vague language accusing him of not being "consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities," […]

Staff Mutiny Once at the front of the AI race, OpenAI was the company to watch.  Then, last week happened. All hell broke loose when OpenAI's governing non-profit board fired CEO Sam Altman, leading the vast majority of employees to actively revolt, voicing their discontent on X-formerly-Twitter in the form of heart emojis in support […]

Why does it feel like everybody at OpenAI has absolutely lost their mind? In what's arguably turning into the hottest AI-related story this year so far, former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the rest of the company's non-profit board on Friday — as a reminder, it's only been three days — leading to […]

New Heights Around seven months of orbital pad upgrades, governmental red tape, and an extensive environmental assessment later, SpaceX has launched its second orbital attempt of its massive Starship rocket. The massive rocket roared into life at the company's launch site in South Texas on Saturday, with its Super Heavy booster helping it to reach […]

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune are shrouded in a frosty and swirling atmosphere of mainly hydrogen and helium. Neither planet features a solid surface, greatly complicating our efforts to explore them. Suspected liquid oceans are buried beneath thick layers of surface clouds, greatly obscuring their cores from our view. In fact, they're the two […]

Merry X-Mas We don't know how much Tesla's hotly-anticipated Cybertruck will cost, how far it'll drive on a single charge, or even how much stuff you can haul around in it. We're only two weeks away from Tesla's long-awaited delivery event of its stainless steel-clad pickup — and we still have far more questions than […]