PlayStation 5: First details
Some of the first official details on Sony’s highly anticipated next-generation PlayStation are finally coming out. In a new interview with Wired, Mark Cerny, a lead system architect in Sony’s PlayStation group, discussed the upcoming system. Among the highlights: The new console will support higher resolution 8K displays, load games faster thanks to a switch…
Supersonic Engine Tech Passes Test
Efforts to build an aircraft engine that could travel many times the speed of sound are moving ahead following a successful recent demonstration. British aerospace company Reaction Engines tested its engine precooler system at its Colorado facility at conditions simulating travel at more than three times the speed of sound. The precooler, CNN noted, reduces the…
Panasonic Unveils Transparent OLED Concept
Panasonic unveiled a transparent OLED concept display. The transparent OLED display, which resembles a glass cabinet, is crafted from a wooden frame holding what appears to be a pane of glass. As such it blends naturally into any contemporary living space. However, the moment the device is switched on, it transforms into a vivid OLED…
Intel to combine Optane memory and QLC 3D NAND storage
Intel introduced Intel Optane memory H10 with solid-state storage. The device combines the responsiveness of Intel Optane technology with the storage capacity of Intel Quad Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND technology in an M.2 form factor. For more, check out this Intel press release.
Black Hole Image Makes History
First photo of a black hole has been released. The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based…
Engineering Students Scam Apple
Some engineering students scammed Apple out of nearly $1 Million. Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang were in the U.S. on student visas, and orchestrated a scam where they shipped counterfeit iPhones from their native China and then returned them to Apple, saying they didn’t work. In accordance with Apple’s warranty program, they were provided with…
Black hole may be coming within days
The darling of science fiction may just around the corner…the first-ever photo of black hole may be coming within days . We’ve seen countless illustrations and simulations of black holes in recent years but never an actual close-up photo of one. That could change Wednesday, when scientists will gather in six simultaneous press briefings around…
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Spacecraft will blast crater into asteroid
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will blast a crater into an asteroid to collect samples.Japan’s space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then collect underground samples for possible…
VP calls for moon landing in five years
My first thought was why, why do we need to go back? There are so many other space goals we have yet to attain. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for landing astronauts on the moon within five years, an accelerated pace that would aim to put Americans on the lunar south pole. For…