Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Kenya’s first earth observation satellite was launched into space Saturday after two aborted attempts earlier in the week. The African country’s Taifa-1 was among the satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket’s launch had to be scrubbed twice previously due...
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Can You Buy Too Big of a PSU?
Corsair If you’re building a PC or upgrading components, you might be agonizing over what size PSU to buy and whether there’s any such thing as too much PSU. PSUs Don’t Default to Maximum Output The rating for a given PSU is its maximum load rating, not its default load just plugged in and turned...
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Truly Lossless Wi-Fi Headphones Are Here
News And they cost a fortune. @andrew_andrew__ Apr 15, 2023, 1:13 pm EST | 2 min read HED Technologies The quality of Bluetooth audio has increased over the last few years, largely thanks to high-bitrate wireless codecs. But as you may know, full-sized speakers often stream audio over Wi-Fi for increased reliability and lossless quality—why...
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The Mario Bros Have a Working Phone Number
News Call to hear a special message from Luigi! @andrew_andrew__ Apr 15, 2023, 12:34 pm EST | 1 min read Nintendo, Illumination, NBCUniversal It’s easy to forget now, but kids’ movies used to be accompanied by some very weird promotional campaigns. You may remember calling cartoon characters on the phone or fooling around with the Space...
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How to Remote View and Control an Android Phone
Andrew Heinzman / How-To Geek To fully control an Android device remotely from another Android device, the remote device needs the “AirDroid: File & Remote Access” app, and the controller device needs the AirMirror app. You can use the AirDroid website to remote control an Android device from a Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Linux computer....
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Scientists discover 1st ‘neutron-rich’ isotope of uranium since 1979
An example of uranium nitrate called uranyl with some uranium ore. (Image credit: RHJ via Getty Images) Scientists have discovered and synthesized an entirely new isotope of the highly radioactive element uranium. But it might last only 40 minutes before decaying into other elements. The new isotope, uranium-241, has 92 protons (as all uranium isotopes...
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How do we know how old Earth is?
A detailed image of planet Earth created from photographs taken by Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the new Suomi NPP satellite. Here we can see North America. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Earth is roughly 4.54 billion years old. In that time, it has seen continents form and disappear, ice caps expand and retreat,...
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How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga exploded on January 15, 2022—setting off a sonic boom heard as far north as Alaska—scientists instantly knew that they were witnessing history. “In the geophysical record, this is the biggest natural explosion ever recorded,” says Ricky Garza-Giron, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. ...
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George R.R. Martin spills the beans on HBO’s The Hedge Knight
If you buy through links on BGR, we may receive an affiliate commission. Learn more. In addition to confirming that HBO Max is dropping the “HBO” to become Max, Warner Bros. Discovery announced a slate of new content at the media event earlier this week. One series revealed at the event was a Game of...
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No asteroid impacts needed: Newborn Earth made its own water, study suggests
Contrary to a popular theory that icy comets or asteroids delivered water to a dry newborn Earth, the planet itself may have produced its earliest water supply, a new study suggests. This water would have stemmed from chemical interactions between an atmosphere rich in hydrogen, which researchers think enveloped the young Earth, and massive oceans...