The history of civilian human spaceflight is brief, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is going to have to change that if he’s ever going to realize his dream of colonizing Mars. We’re not there yet, but SpaceX is taking a step in that direction announcing the . Musk is partnering with Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, who will ride the Dragon spacecraft along with three others for the “Inspiration4” flight. This isn’t only another rich person buying his way into space — Inspiration4 could also benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to the tune of a few hundred million dollars.
Nvidia’s Ampere arrived to much fanfare last fall before mostly vanishing from store shelves. In the aftermath of the launch, bot-users and resellers bragged about buying as many as 50 cards at a time. This kind of taunting struck a nerve with a lot of people. We know that scalping definitely caused problems for various products, but we haven’t had any idea how big those problems were, until now. Michael Driscoll, an Oracle Data Engineer, has put together a detailed method of tracking the movement of various products on eBay. He’s published his full data sets and written several reports on what he’s seen across the market these past 6-8 months.
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The updated, polished version of the original three Mass Effect games, dubbed Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, will launch on May 14. We now know more about the release, and how each game has been updated. The new Legendary Edition of the game isn’t a remake of the original trilogy, it’s a remaster. It doesn’t contain new content that wasn’t in the first three games and it doesn’t change the controversial ending of the third. It’s a visual and cosmetic overhaul with some additional improvements to standardize character creation. The game was developed for the PS4 and Xbox One and will run in backward compatibility mode on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
NASA is still officially planning to land humans on the moon as part of the Artemis program in 2024, but the latest developments at the agency make that timeline look increasingly unrealistic. After previously expecting to move forward with the development of commercial lunar landers this month, NASA has quietly Many observers expected this move based on the funding approved by Congress and the ongoing effects of the pandemic, but it’s still a disappointment for anyone who held out hope for a 2024 landing. Last year, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics won a total of $967 million from NASA to begin work on proposed lunar landing systems.
Ever since Apple launched the M1 it’s been clear that the CPU was going to be trouble for Intel and AMD. Apple has now published its own power consumption figures for the M1-based Mac Mini as compared with the 2018 Intel Mac mini refresh, and the Intel systems don’t compare very well. Apple’s on its own website look good against data published by independent reviewers. The 39W peak power consumption is higher than what reviewers measured, as is the idle power. Apple, in other words, claims higher figures than measured independently. This strengthens the likelihood that the evaluation was fairly done.
Google announced its Stadia cloud gaming service almost two years ago, but the company is already planning to shake things up. In a , Google says it will shut down its game studio and will instead rely entirely on third-party developers. Google adds that this is just part of a larger strategy to strengthen its Stadia partnerships, but this feels like the beginning of the end for Google’s fledgling game streaming platform. Stadia is in the same general category as GeForce Now and Microsoft xCloud: Instead of using local hardware like a PC or game console to render images, Stadia has powerful servers that do the hard work and then stream video of the gameplay down to your devices.
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