MRO has imaged more than 99% of Mars' surface.
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Compressive imaging offers the promise of lower-cost, more-flexible imaging solutions for physically demanding situations. It has been limited by long capture times, but a team at MIT is trying to change that by incorporating time-of-flight sensing into the process.
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SpaceX successfully reused its rocket. Plus, a newly proposed observational relationship between black holes, dark matter, and gravity. These stories and more, this week in space.
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Want to develop your very own apps, but don't want to go through the process of learning how to code for both iOS and Android separately? Well, Xamarin might just be what you're looking for -- a suite a tools that allows for cross-platform development with C#. If that piques your interest, you'll definitely want to snag these online courses that will show you the ropes of Xamarin.
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Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus, has left his position at Facebook after six months of social media silence.
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Intel held a technology day this week to discuss the future of its 10nm designs and to call for a new way of defining process nodes. 10nm is shaping up to be a significant advance, but it may be a few years before every market segment shares in the improvements.
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After its launch in 2018, SPP will make its way to the sun and complete 24 orbits as it studies the star.
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President Trump can't change other nations' stricter energy policies. If US automakers want to sell abroad, they're going to have to increase MPG and decrease emissions anyway.
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A new patch for Ashes of the Singularity gives AMD's Ryzen substantially improved performance. AMD, it seems, wasn't kidding when it said properly optimized executables could make a significant difference.
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LastPass is in the process of patching a security hole that could allow an attacker to execute remote code on your machine and access your passwords. Really, the worst possible scenario you can imagine.
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Looking ahead to the needs of lunar colonists, the ESA's artist in residence wants to build a temple and observatory near the south pole of the moon.
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In light of recent events, it's clear that neither governments nor giant corporations truly respect internet privacy. It's up to you to stand up, and take back your own privacy. And before you do anything else, you're going to want access to a VPN. Thankfully, the upfront cost is surprisingly low.
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Windows 10 Creators Update reviews have hit the web. We've rounded up the thoughts of multiple sites and condensed them into one article.
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The free-to-play model has expanded well beyond the PC and it's now an important part of the gaming ecosystem; here are our favorites on the PS4.
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Elon Musk shares more info as the Tesla Model 3 gets closer to launch.
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Sure, the Galaxy S8 and S8+ look a little different from their previous models, but what else has Samsung introduced under the hood, as far as bells and whistles are concerned? We dive in.
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Samsung announced its Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones this morning -- we dive under the hood and examine their features, similarities, and differences.
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You can visit it right now and get access to more than 140,000 NASA images, videos, and audio files.
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If you're in the market for a new ereader, today's sale from Amazon will definitely make your wallet happy. For Prime members only, Amazon is offering up big savings on three of the most popular ereaders. And even if you're not a current subscriber, you can try Amazon Prime for free, and still get in on the discounts.
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Microsoft says it's cultivated a legion of 10 million fans with the Windows Insider program. The company's bombastic claims to love its users don't pass the sniff test, and its promise of actually making changes based on feedback is a joke.
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If there was any doubt 2017 was the year of rounded corners, there isn't now.
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Razer has refreshed its top-end Razer Blade Pro with 7th-generation Intel chips and mobile THX certification.
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If you love to learn, check out the outstanding classes at Udemy. Thousands of online courses are being discounted today, so you can invest in a new skill -- even if you're on a budget.
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Amazon announced its intention to put the nation's cashiers out of work a few months ago, but it looks like they'll be getting a reprieve for now.
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Electric cars, trips to Mars, solar everything, underground tunnels -- and now apparently brain-computer interfaces? Elon Musk has had another bright idea.
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Later today, the House of Representatives will vote on a measure to functionally kill internet privacy. If you don't want that to happen, this is your last shot to stop it.
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A new paper claims that directed self-assembly could be key to patterning lines below 10nm, but line-edge roughness and manufacturing challenges still present substantial barriers.
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Microsoft is facing another class-action lawsuit for its upgrade practices related to Windows 10.
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Intel's new Optane cache drives, based on its 3DXPoint memory technology, are finally up for pre-order. Performance gains from adding a cache drive are impressive, and the drives themselves are quite affordable in absolute terms.
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After weeks of rumors, Samsung now confirms it will bring back the Note 7… sort of.
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The language developed by the AI agents at OpenAI, though still simple by our standards, represents an advancement beyond almost anything seen in the animal kingdom.
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If you're in the market for a powerful laptop that's priced reasonably, this 15.6-inch model from Acer is definitely worth checking out. With a full HD screen, a new Kaby Lake CPU, and zippy flash memory, it's a real bargain at just $550.
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GameStop's weak fourth quarter could lead to more store closures this year, as the company retrenches around profitable businesses and away from shrinking physical game and console sales.
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Blizzard's StarCraft: Remastered will ship this summer, while the original version of the game goes free as of March 30th. If you've never played it, now's your chance.
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Found: one enormous rogue black hole. Also, news from NASA, SpaceX and the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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A rocket set to launch next week from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida was flown by SpaceX last year.
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Earlier this week, Mass Effect: Andromeda launched to a somewhat muted response. Beyond the interface issues and lackluster animations frequently cited by critics, the Xbox One and vanilla PS4 suffer from performance issues as well. Now, we have a better idea of how well the PC version holds up.
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe this unusual situation is the result of the almost unfathomable energy released when two black holes collided.
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Dell has officially launched the first 8K monitor at $5000, but think carefully about pulling the trigger on this kind of display just yet.
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Cinema camera icon ARRI aims to leverage its digital imaging prowess into a pioneering all-digital surgical microscope.
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Comets, it turns out, are rather more active places than we thought. Scientists poring over photos by Rosetta and Philae have unearthed evidence of a spectacular landslide on 67P -- and we caught it in action
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The LHC, operating at unprecedented luminosities, has revealed a system of five "glue-like" particles that could help us to fill out a "periodic table" of subatomic particles.
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The last round of leaks covered the covert tools used by the CIA to exploit Android, Windows, and other platforms. This time it's Apple's turn in the spotlight.
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The Snapdragon 835 was shown off this week and it's a potent improvement over the Snapdragon 820 / 821 in many respects, though not in all of them. Despite debuting a new custom architecture for the Snapdragon 820 family, Qualcomm is moving back towards using semi-custom ARM cores instead for this round of products.
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Nintendo has corrected the "manufacturing variation" that led to the Switch's left Joy-Con not functioning properly. The company would really, really appreciate it if we didn't call this a design issue, much less a defect.
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The harsh Martian terrain has not been kind to the rover's wheels.
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Apple just doubled the basic storage on the iPhone SE, bumping it to 32GB while keeping the price the same, at $400. If you've wanted the phone's amazing battery life but balked at the 16GB basic storage option, this phone's for you.
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DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 have gone head to head in a multi-game matchup, but the results may not be quite what you'd expect.
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Cloud Imperium Games has announced it will move from DirectX 12 to Vulkan to simplify the API implementation across Linux and various versions of Windows.
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Samsung has produced an impressive tablet with the S3, but reviewers are concerned its high price isn't justified compared with the competition when it comes to overall productivity.
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With an off-the-shelf robotics toy and some inexpensive parts, Stanford researchers have used the LEGO Mindstorms platform as a springboard to create a liquid-handling robotics kit for kids and STEM classes.
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Are you a life-long learner? Then you're likely well aware of just how expensive courses and one-on-one training can be. The written word can never be a substitute for hands-on learning, but reading up on your interests will pave the way for an easier path forward. And with these free ebooks on TradePub, the barrier to entry here is extremely low.
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Farmers across the US are grabbing modified copies of tractor software from sketchy Eastern European websites to get around John Deere's draconian software restrictions.
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A new teardown of Nintendo's Switch confirms the system is based on a standard Tegra X1 processor, not the Pascal or customized architecture some fans speculated about.
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