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First helicopter flight to Mars postponed due to technical problem | NOW

First helicopter flight to Mars postponed due to technical problem |  NOW

The first alien helicopter will not be flying around Mars yet. The unmanned aircraft was scheduled to make its first short flight over the Red Planet overnight from Sunday to Monday (Dutch time), but it was postponed. A technical problem arose during a rehearsal. At the earliest, a new take-off attempt will be made next Wednesday. The first flight was …

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Monkey Learns To Play Pong With Only His Thoughts | NOW

Monkey Learns To Play Pong With Only His Thoughts |  NOW

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink shared a video of a monkey with a brain implant playing the game on Friday. Pong control with his brain. The goal is for paralyzed people to be able to control a computer or phone with their brains in the future. The video shows the nine-year-old Pager macaque. Six weeks ago, the monkey was implanted with …

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Be careful, this malware arrives on your smartphone via WhatsApp

Pas op, deze malware komt via WhatsApp naar je smartphone

Sneakily, the malware makes its way into WhatsApp on your smartphone. You should know that. Malware can find its way to your smartphone to the left or to the right. It is the manufacturers’ responsibility to protect your device with updates for the Software. But you too must stay informed to keep malicious parties out. In this regard, this new …

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First steps taken for Mars Heli flight, ‘success would mean breakthrough’

First steps taken for Mars Heli flight, 'success would mean breakthrough'

NASA has many the first in space marked, but flying a helicopter through the air on another planet has never happened before. That is expected to change this week, when the Mars Ingenuity helicopter takes its first flight. A true work of art in the ultra-thin atmosphere of the Red Planet, says planetary specialist Daphne Stam (TU Delft). To underline …

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WhatsApp gets a makeover with different themes

WhatsApp gets a makeover with different themes

WhatsApp was upgraded to its interface years ago and has been allowed to use the same theme ever since. WhatsApp has a dark theme, but you still get the same theme colors. A future WhatsApp update should change that, WaBetaInfo says. WhatsApp gets themes WhatsApp Currently has very limited customization options – basically you can only change the dark theme …

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Google: why Android sends so much more of your data than iPhones

Google: why Android sends so much more of your data than iPhones

Android phones send 20 times more data to Google servers than iPhones send data to Apple. This one study finding raised eyebrows in many people. But Google now says the figure, in fact, says little. Data hunger Our smartphones continuously collect data which is sent to Google in the case of Android phones, or to Apple in the case of …

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Microsoft Reaches Billion-Dollar AR Headset Deal With US Army | NOW

Microsoft Reaches Billion-Dollar AR Headset Deal With US Army |  NOW

Microsoft signed a multibillion-dollar deal with the US Department of Defense on Wednesday. The tech giant will be supplying screen-based augmented reality headsets to the U.S. military over the next ten years. The contract represents nearly 22 billion dollars (18.7 billion euros). The US Department of Defense has entered into a five-year manufacturing agreement, including an extension option. This could …

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Monster Hunter Rise Review – Buy, Budget, or Wreck?

Monster Hunter Rise Review - Buy, Budget, or Wreck?

Now is the time for Daan, Jelle and JJ: they can go wild with Monster Hunter Rise! The Switch game was released on March 26 and the men screened it. In this latest installment of the Monster Hunter franchise, you can get down to business taking down monsters and travel to new heights! Curious to know what Gamekings thinks about …

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