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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has completed 28 flights after more than a year, but is now bracing for a harsh winter on the Red Planet. NASA needs to make an update before the helicopter can fly again. It is currently grounded by a sensor error. This is an error with the so-called inclinometer. It’s an important sensor for Ingenuity, …

The MacBook Air is being refreshed. Apple showed off its new laptop Monday night at the WWDC Developer Conference. The MacBook Air is one of Apple’s first laptops with a new M2 chip. Apple’s M2 chip is designed for new Macs. The processor should make computers faster, more powerful and more efficient. Apple showed off the new MacBook Air design. …

Keep memories of loved ones together and more opportunities to find your next Airbnb stay. These are the apps of the week. lalo The Lalo app aims to preserve your family history by saving memories with your friends and family. You can do this in the form of voice messages, videos, photos and texts. You can use Lalo to capture …

The NASA space agency lost contact with its MAVEN satellite in orbit around Mars at the end of February. After months, everything is working fine again, but the satellite was almost lost, said NASA researcher Shannon Curry. space.com† At the end of February, MAVEN encountered problems with instruments measuring the orientation of the satellite. As a result, the rotation of …

Uranus and Neptune have an incredible amount in common. Only their color is, for inexplicable reasons until recently, slightly different. And scientists have now discovered – somewhat to their own surprise – why. At the edge of our solar system are the two ice giants: Uranus and Neptune. And it could be twin brothers; they have about the same mass, …

The French Academy decided today to francize these game terms and others, according to news agencyAFP† The Academy is a secular organization dedicated to the preservation of the French language. The anglicization of French is a thorn in the side of the institute, which already indicated in February that it had several English terms in its sights. A decision by …

The Chromecast with Google TV appeared in the first countries at the end of 2020, but was not officially available in the Netherlands until now. Unlike the previous Chromecast, it’s not only possible to cast images from a mobile device to the TV, but its streaming services can be viewed directly through built-in apps. This new model comes with a …

Nvidia appears to be the first to release the top model of its next-gen RTX 40. According to leak @kopite7kimi the RTX 4090 will be the first Lovelace GPU to be released. The green camp is expected to make an announcement in mid-July. Rumor has it that the RTX 4070, 4080, and 4090 will all have a different GPU on …

Tesla has developed a battery that has a “very long life”. The nickel-based battery could last 100 years without losing the benefits of today’s lithium iron phosphate batteries. The battery in question should be placed in a location where a constant ambient temperature of 25 degrees can be maintained. Such conditions are somewhat difficult to imitate in practice. However, a …

Case maker Streacom has two new small form factor cases announcement: the DA6 and DA6 XL. These are ‘open frame’ cases, without side panels. The cabinets are largely made of a single continuous tube of 19mm thick stainless steel. A mini-itx motherboard can be mounted on two smaller tubes in the middle of the case. With universal brackets, everything can …