Victor Tangermann

  Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. The bizarre event, which experts suggest was caused by a thunderstorm, led to nearby beaches being flooded with massive pieces of sharp fiberglass, leading to outrage among local residents. Fishermen were furious, accusing the company behind the wind […]

  In a 2021 interview with Fox Business, former president and convicted felon Donald Trump blasted Bitcoin, calling it a "scam" that should be regulated "very, very high." "The currency of this world should be the dollar," he said at the time. "And I don't think we should have all of the Bitcoins of the […]

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  In an unmistakable case of irony, KnowBe4, the developer of a security awareness program, hired a remote worker — who turned out to be a North Korean hacker. The company hired the software engineer after they had passed through four separate video interviews and cleared background checks. But shortly after the worker was sent […]

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the billions of dollars being invested in AI, an overconfidence that could result in a massive bubble. As the Washington Post reports, investment bankers are singing a dramatically different tune than last year, a period marked […]

  For many years, scientists have wondered if we could be living inside of a simulation. It's a tantalizing theory, popularized by the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix" — could humans be the pawns trapped inside of a much larger virtual reality that they're not in control of? What if there was a way to find […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's on-and-off-again partner Claire "Grimes" Boucher has come out in support of the mercurial entrepreneur's estranged, transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. "I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," the musician tweeted late Thursday evening. The news comes shortly after NBC News published an exclusive first interview with the 20-year-old, who […]

  The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to […]

Spare Seats The return date of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft over seven weeks ago, keeps getting pushed back. Engineers have been hard at work investigating several helium leaks that officials discovered after the pair arrived at the station, affecting […]

A viral text-to-video AI generator developed by Runway was trained on copious amounts of pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, according to a gigantic internal spreadsheet obtained by 404 Media. Last month, the company's Gen-3 Alpha video generation tool drew huge amounts of attention, with publications (including yours truly) lauding the photorealistic clips it […]