While scanning the skies, humanity has identified thousands of exoplanets orbiting distant stars. However, very few of them are at all similar to Earth. Now, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen reports a newly discovered exoplanet . We currently lack the technology to directly image , so we can only infer their presence via two methods. Astronomers either look for small wobbles in a star’s rotation caused by the gravity of planets or drops in brightness from our perspective on Earth, which indicates a planet has transited the star. Kepler used the latter method to identify more than 2,600 exoplanets, and that number will probably continue to rise.
NASA’s InSight lander touched down at Elysium Planitia on Mars in late 2018, and it has subsequently made history by taking the first seismic readings on another planet. However, the mission’s burrowing probe was stuck on the surface after the Martian soil proved less receptive than expected. NASA reports its plan of pushing the probe into the surface appears to be working — the instrument is finally below the surface. Its ability to tunnel deeper is unknown, though. InSight is a stationary lander rather than a rover like Curiosity or Perseverance, but it doesn’t need to go anywhere to do what it went to Mars to do.
Today you can grab one of Apple’s 2019 10.2-inch iPads from Amazon with a $79 discount. This makes Apple’s most affordable iPad even more so at just $249.99 for the 32GB version. Apple’s 2019 iPad features the company’s A10 processor that first debuted in the iPhone 7 at the end of 2016. Although that makes this tablet’s hardware a few years old, you get get the performance of this former flagship with a large high-def screen and with 32GB of storage space at a surprisingly affordable price. Right now you can get one from Amazon marked down from $329.00 to $249.99.
Ever since the pandemic began, there’s been a blatant conspiracy theory circulating in the media that 5G and coronavirus are somehow linked. This is scarcely new — LTE and 3G both went through their own periods of being declared unsafe and harmful to humanity — but that minor detail contains no predictive power where conspiracy theorists are concerned. As James Vincent , an increasingly unhinged fringe has begun targeting engineers directly rather than contenting themselves with setting 5G (and often, LTE) towers on fire. According to Mobile UK, there have been more than 200 documented instances of abuse towards telecoms engineers since March 30, with more than 90 arson attacks against mobile infrastructure.
Like other industry conferences, AWE (Augmented World Expo) 2020 went entirely virtual this year. Unlike conferences on, say, security or IT infrastructure, AWE and its companion VR Expo rely very heavily on in-person experiences. So in addition to moving all the main conference tracks to video, AWE did a large-scale experiment with “Side Events” held in various VR settings like AltspaceVR. There were far too many interesting talks, insights, and announcements to cover in a single article, but here are some of what I thought were the most interesting. AR/VR Business Should Be Gangbusters, but Probably Not Soon As always, along with various product introductions, keynotes consisted of speakers forecasting the future of the XR industry.
It’s easy to get cynical as an app buyer. With so many fly-by-night developers dropping dozens of half-baked apps for handling virtually any operation, you’re bound to run into plenty of apps, both free and paid varieties, that just don’t make the grade. If you’re a Mac user, then has thankfully done all that pre-screening for you. This collection brings together 11 apps, each closely vetted and including several award winners, all dedicated to a different aspect of priming your Mac — or you — to run at maximum efficiency. The crown jewel of the collection is Parallels Desktop, a top 15 app in the Mac App Store that effectively turns your Mac into a super machine.
Time is almost up for the classic Microsoft Edge browser that launched with Windows 10. After slowly deploying the new Chromium-based Edge over the past several months, Microsoft is rolling the browser out widely. If you’re on any recent build of Windows 10, the new Edge . Microsoft spent years trying to entice Windows 10 users to open Edge, going so far as to push “warnings” about Chrome’s battery life usage. In the end, Microsoft threw in the towel and announced its move to Chromium in late 2018. The first developer builds of Edge came just a few months after the announcement.
SpaceX is fresh of its that sent astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS), but it’s not taking any time off to celebrate. The company has just , and it did so with one of the “most reused” rockets in history. SpaceX has been successfully recovering Falcon 9 boosters for several years, allowing it to lower the cost of launches. While the NASA launch over the weekend relied on a shiny new Falcon 9 (complete with NASA worm logo), the most recent Starlink mission used a sooty refurbished rocket. The core (B1049) has survived four previous launches; two Starlink launches, a mission to deploy the Telstar 18V communication satellite, and a load of Iridium NEXT satellites.
If you’re looking to launch a new career as a web developer, you should probably consider Python as one of the first skills you should master as part of your new occupation. Because unlike other key programming languages, Python has morphed into a coding discipline with practical applications that stretch well beyond crafting a great web page. While more than half of Python users say they use it primarily for web development projects, almost 60 percent say their Python skills are , while 40 percent are employing Python to do cutting edge machine learning tasks. No matter why you use it, Python can put you on that can start with the training in , now
