This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Users investigating the Epic Game Store have come away with some concerns about how the code operates. Various posts at Reddit and Resetera have been filled with (self-acknowledged) amateur sleuthing/investigations on how the Epic Game Store works and how it behaves once installed. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and VP of Engineering Daniel Vogel have taken
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. SpaceX is on a roll lately. After completing the first full test of its crew-ready Dragon capsule last week, the company is on the verge of launching the interplanetary Starship on its first test flight. Before you send a spacecraft into space, you need to figure out how to get it back to Earth. The
The Tesla Model Y introduced late Thursday is everything Tesla has promised, and less. This is the smaller SUV in the Tesla fleet, a sibling to the Model 3 sedan. But: The cheapest Model Y will cost $ 40,200 with zero options, and it won’t be available for two more years. It’s so far off, you can’t even put down a $ 2,500 deposit today, let alone configure it. The
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Stars are heavy. Heavy things require more energy to move. Therefore, accelerating solar masses to roughly 568km/s (or 353 miles/s) requires a staggering amount of it. Scientists have typically believed that the handful of hypervelocity stars we’ve found — the term refers to stars moving significantly faster than the typical ‘background’ rate for stars in
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Robots are surpassing people in numerous areas, but the human hand is still superior. Robots have trouble picking up irregular objects. Now, a new grasper designed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) could give robots an edge. The origami “magic ball” gripper doesn’t try to imitate our hands, but it can still
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It might seem like we’ve been talking about the Space Launch System (SLS) for years, and that’s because we have been. NASA began this ambitious project in 2011, eventually settling on Boeing as the primary contractor for what will be the most powerful rocket in the world. It’s not ready to fly yet, and NASA
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia’s 2019 Turing GPU refresh schedule continues, this time with the launch of the GTX 1660. This slimmed-down Turing variant (without DLSS or RTX / DXR ray tracing) is aimed at the all-important midrange market, with an introductory price of $ 219. The GTX 1660 is also the first GPU from Nvidia to hit AMD’s midrange
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Opportunity rover has gone to a better place — Mars. Then about 15 years after reaching Mars, it shut down for good in the midst of a planet-wide dust storm. Before the plucky little rover passed on, it beamed back one final gift to the people of Earth: an awe-inspiring panorama of Perseverance Valley.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Blizzard announced that it would build classic servers in World of Warcraft, there were a lot of questions about how the company would roll that content out to players. Now, the company has answered them — and the resulting announcement looks very strong if you want to experience classic WoW in all its glory. World of
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The dream of resurrecting species like the woolly mammoth via genetic engineering is old enough that I remember reading articles about it in school 30 years ago. We may never be able to recover enough pristine genetic material from an intact woolly mammoth to make that approach feasible, but scientists working on the remains of
