Victor Tangermann

Forced Out Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon, mere miles from where logging companies were recently allowed to cut down trees. As the Washington Post reports, the Mashco Piro tribe remains one of the biggest communities that live without […]

Racing Ahead A 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport recently challenged a Tesla Cybertruck in a race around the Colorado National Speedway — and while the two vehicles differ dramatically on the spec sheet, you might be surprised by who won. Footage of the short race shows the Cybertruck effortlessly speeding forward, using its considerable edge […]

  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reaffirmed his plans to move the space company's headquarters from Hawthorne, California to its so-called "Starbase" in South Texas. In a tweet today, Musk noted his "final straw" — a law signed by California governor Gavin Newsom that protects children from having to disclose their sexuality or gender identity […]

Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk has thrown his full weight behind Trump in the upcoming presidential elections. And as far as the former president's recently announced running mate, Republican senator JD Vance, is concerned, the Tesla CEO is happy to welcome him with open arms. "Congratulations JD Vance!" Musk tweeted. "Excellent decision by Donald Trump." But […]

  Last month, NASA awarded SpaceX an almost $1 billion contract to develop a "US Deorbit Vehicle" that's capable of pulling the International Space Station out of orbit and have it burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. The aging orbital outpost's demise has been in the works for years now, with NASA hoping to destroy […]

  Last week, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket started unexpectedly accumulating substantial amounts of ice before experiencing what CEO Elon Musk later referred to as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," a tongue-in-cheek term of a mid-flight explosion. It was the first Falcon 9 failure since 2016, following a string of 344 successful […]

As experts continue to predict that AI will lead to the abolishing of millions of jobs, one company is taking matters to its logical conclusion by giving its "digital workers" — AI algorithms that were essentially assigned a job — employee records. In a press release last week, HR software company Lattice proudly pronounced that […]

Home Away From Home Since the Apollo missions over half a century ago, scientists have suspected that the lunar surface is riddled with an extensive network of tunnels. But despite our best efforts, they've been unable to once and for all confirm their existence — until now. Scientists at the University of Trento in Italy […]

  Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution want to dump 6,600 gallons of sodium hydroxide, otherwise known as caustic soda or lye, into the ocean off the coast of Cape Cod in an effort to slow climate change. The unusual plan will likely face significant headwinds, not just from US regulators, but from local […]