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Event Horizon: A Q&A With the EHT Scientists Who Captured Images of Sagittarius A*

by Jessica Hall — by Jessica Hall Researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have revealed the first direct image of Sagittarius A* (abbreviated Sgr A*, pronounced “sadge-ay-star”), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. EHT project scientists made their dramatic reveal in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world. The…

Sgr A

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Event Horizon: A Q&A With the EHT Scientists Who Captured Images of Sagittarius A*

May 10

DJI Mini 3 Pro Review: Setting a New High Bar For Travel Drones

by David Cardinal — by David Cardinal DJI is continuing to push its families of drones higher up the food chain with more features at higher prices for each revision. The new DJI Mini 3 Pro is no exception. It is a massive upgrade from the Mini 2, with a substantial price bump to…

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DJI Mini 3 Pro Review: Setting a New High Bar For Travel Drones

May 6

Museum Uses $10,000 of Video Equipment to Make GoldenEye 007 Multiplayer Even Better

by Ryan Whitwam — by Ryan Whitwam This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Almost 25 years ago, a little game called GoldenEye 007 came out on the Nintendo 64. The game had a stupendous single-player mode based on the 1995 Bond movie of the same…

Golden Eye

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May 3

US Military’s Next-Gen Fighter Expected to Cost Hundreds of Millions Each

by Ryan Whitwam — by Ryan Whitwam This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The , Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II is the US military’s current top-of-the-line fighter aircraft, but its history of cost overruns and technical issues has made it a poster child for government waste…

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US Military’s Next-Gen Fighter Expected to Cost Hundreds of Millions Each

May 2

The Apple M1 Ultra Crushes Intel in Computational Fluid Dynamics Performance

by Joel Hruska — by Joel Hruska This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s surprisingly hard to pin down exactly how Apple’s M1 compares to Intel’s x86 processors. While the chip family has been widely reviewed in a number of common consumer applications, inevitable differences…

Apple

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Apr 20

NASA ‘Holoported’ a Surgeon Onto the ISS

by Adrianna Nine — by Adrianna Nine This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Thomas Pesquet, European Space Agency)As it’s wont to do, NASA has taken the stuff of our sci-fi dreams and made it reality. …

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Apr 19

A Helicopter Will Try to Catch a Rocket This Week

by Adrianna Nine — by Adrianna Nine This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Rocket Lab)Tomorrow a private aerospace company will attempt to snatch its own rocket booster out of mid air using a helicopter. Southern California-based Rocket Lab builds and launches a variety of…

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Apr 15

James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Operational Temperature, Just Shy of Absolute Zero

by Ryan Whitwam — by Ryan Whitwam This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It seemed like there was a new bit of news on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) every few days earlier this year, but we haven’t heard as much from the revolutionary…

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James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Operational Temperature, Just Shy of Absolute Zero

Apr 12

Rumor: AMD’s RDNA3 GPU to Feature Seven Chiplets

by Josh Norem — by Josh Norem This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. As we head into spring flowers are starting to bloom, and Twitter is also beginning to blossom with fresh GPU rumors. So far there’s been a lot of reporting on Nvidia’s next-gen…

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Rumor: AMD’s RDNA3 GPU to Feature Seven Chiplets

Apr 8

Paramount Announces Obscenely Expensive Star Trek NFTs

by Ryan Whitwam — by Ryan Whitwam This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Since its inception, Star Trek has been about exploring the final frontier — boldly going where no one has gone before. Paramount, which owns the Trek IP, has now appropriated that language…

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