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The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual yet cool feat: successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar eclipses in space with its Proba-3 mission. This all comes down to precise formation maneuvering that enables the two-satellite system to create totality as needed, hence providing solar...
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Elden Ring Nightreigns launch has been a bit of a mixed bag. While sales on Steam have been strong, with the game climbing towards the top of the charts, it hasnt been a slam dunk with many players. The game is also experiencing technical problems that go beyond subjective disappointments with its gameplay...
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A rather new adaptive optics system dubbed Cona has just opened a new window into the mysterious world of the Sun's corona, delivering images of unprecedented clarity. This groundbreaking technology, installed at the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) in California and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was...
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Microsofts efforts to become a true multiplatform publisher, including bringing its games to PlayStation, has been paying off with increased sales. The company hopes that the momentum continues as it looks to bring over Senuas Saga:Hellblade II to Sonys platform. Especially as the game struggled to find an audience...
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The last few weeks have been more chaotic than Nintendo might have liked after fully taking the wraps off the Switch 2. The company was forced to delay the preorder date and there were doubts it would be able to stick to the price point it initially announced thanks to the fluid situation around tariffs. Gamers can...
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We expected many twists and turns in the ongoing legal tussle between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but today's news is pretty wild. Google, Apple, and Snap have all ripped Meta for its "egregious" handling of redacted slides in the ongoing trial.The companies have accused Meta of not blurring out or...
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So here's the thing, even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are officially in the rear view mirror (with record online spending this year, no less), it's not as though retailers are slowing down with the deluge of deals. And we don't mean crummy bargains that are largely bogus or otherwise not all that interesting...
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The closer we get to this year's actual Black Friday (November 29), the more early deals and bargains retailers are serving up. We're already seeing some big discounts, too, and not just minor price cuts. Whether you're a gamer or in need of an appliance upgrade for your kitchen, there's a good chance you can score a...
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About 41,000 years ago, Earths magnetic field briefly flipped in what is known as the Laschamp event. Now, a group of scientists using data from the European Space Agencys (ESA) Swarm mission have recreated the sound the event made, and it is sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood horror film.
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Astro Bot has managed to win a special place in the hearts of PlayStation gamers, due in part toall the nostalgia it manages to pack in. The game has alsowon over many critics to become one of the highest rated games up to this point in the year. Its a game that manages to blend solid, fun gameplay mechanics with nods...
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As we noted yesterday, Intel's partners are starting to roll out motherboard BIOS updates that include the promised microcode fixes for its Raptor Lake processors. These patches should hopefully keep intact CPUs from degrading any further, although processors that are already damaged will have to be replaced. We were...
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If you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD right now, your options are basically limited to drives based on Phison's potent E26 controller. We like Phison around here, but from a consumer perspective, it's always good to have competition. That's why we're excited about SK hynix's new PCB01 SSD -- it's a lightning-fast PCIe 5.0 drive...
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A new study has found that NASAs DART mission that slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid may not have had the impact once thought. The impact simulation study suggested that DART did not leave an impact crater; rather, it reshaped the entire body of the asteroid.
In September 2022, NASAs DART spacecraft...
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NASA was able to capture a striking image of a massive solar flare being emitted from the Sun on Thursday, which was so powerful that it caused a radio blackout in parts of the Americas. The flare, classified as an X2.8 flare, is the most powerful recorded since 2017.
According to reports, the explosion more than...
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Google has invested heavily in artificial intelligence research over the past decade, and it paid off when researchers developed transformer algorithms in 2017then it did nothing with it. Transformers are the underlying technology for all the fancy new generative AI applications. It was caught flatfooted when...
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Amazon has inked a deal with Blue Origin rival SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment of Project Kuiper, Amazons low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network. The company previously secured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which should be enough...
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Astronomers were recently amazed to find an aurora-like display some 40,000 kilometers above a sunspot. Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) detailed radio observations of the event that share characteristics with the auroral radio emissions...
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Fans of the iconic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game franchise had high hopes for the third installment, but critics and gamers alike are already ripping into it. Modern Warfare 3 picks up where the second left off with Captain Price and Task Force 141 facing off against war criminal Vladimir Makarov.
Many...
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One of the best upgrades you can do to your PC is undoubtedly adding a faster storage or system drive. We'd surmise that the first time users tried a fast SSD (NVMe or even SATA), they immediately could tell the difference from their slower spinning hard drive. While the internal storage train has brought us to...
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History's first ever fine for space junk has been issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Dish Network. This move is an early warning to other satellite operators that Congress is getting serious about space debris. Is it enough, however?
In an announcement this week, the FCC said that is had...
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Astronomers are slamming a massive low-Earth orbit communications satellite because it is brighter in the night sky than most stars. Astronomers are concerned that without some type of regulation on these extremely bright satellites, the effect could be detrimental to observing the stars from Earth and...
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Last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. The spacecraft's excursion through the CME gave scientists a new perspective on a 20-year-old theory about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, which could aid in future space weather...
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