If you have a teenage family member or friend, you may be familiar with FIRST Robotics, but maybe not with DJI’s RoboMaster competition: Imagine FIRST times 10. RoboMaster pits teams of University students against each other, each fielding six custom robots designed and built according to certain specs and rules. DJI’s S1 is a simplified, scaled-down, version of one of the “standard” robots that you might see in RoboMaster. Unboxing a DJI RoboMaster S1 The S1 comes in a few dozen pieces, with a graphical set of instructions for assembly. I’d place the difficulty as being a little harder than putting a LEGO robot together, and less stressful than assembling an Ikea desk.
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Saturn’s moon has a lot in common with Earth, but it’s also extremely alien. It’s one of the only objects in the solar system aside from Earth with a thick atmosphere, a toxic organonitrogen haze. It has permanent bodies of liquid on the surface like Earth, but they’re liquid hydrocarbon instead of water. That doesn’t explain the perplexing “bathtub rings” around Titan’s seas, though. New experiments on Earth suggest those rings could come from . Titan’s thick atmosphere makes it difficult to survey the surface, but the Cassini probe spent a lot of time spying on Titan’s largest moon.
If you are looking for a big TV with tons of extra features, then today’s first deal will interest you. This model comes with LG’s high-end 4K TVs offer some of the best features found on a 4K TV, and its 70-inch size is sure to impress anyone that sees it. LG’s large format 70-inch TV features a native 4K resolution and support for HDR10 to create vibrantly colorful images on-screen. It also comes equipped with LG’s WebOS software and ThinQ technology to enable numerous smart functions such as voice commands. This TV is typically fairly expensive at $1,499.99, but today you can pick it up with a $200 gift card included from Dell for just $899.99.
T-Mobile has been talking about 5G for as long as the other US carriers, but it hasn’t had any official 5G launch plans until now. The carrier will launch in a handful of cities on June 28, and there will be a single 5G device available to take advantage of the new network. T-Mobile will launch the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G on the same day for a predictably high $1,300. The Galaxy S10 5G started as a Verizon exclusive several months back, but it was the only carrier with any appreciable 5G coverage at the time. It then expanded to AT&T and Sprint.
The 2020 Hyundai Palisade will shake up the midsize SUV market. It is a superbly crafted land cruiser for people who want a mausoleum-quiet cabin, USB jacks up the wazoo, automated highway driving, power folding seats in back, trailer towing, off-roading, and the big grille you can’t avoid on most new SUV designs. The Hyundai Palisade runs $33,000 to $47,000 and first shipments reach dealers the last two weeks of June. Drawbacks are modest: The base model, Palisade SE, lacks the blind spot detection standard on the other trim lines and detracts from an otherwise-solid safety package. Infotainment will take some trial-and-error learning.
Bill Gates is, by any standard, a successful retired businessman — one of the most successful businessmen to ever live, by any traditional metric of wealth or impact on the world. For better or worse, Windows functionally powered the majority of the consumer PC revolution, particularly during the internet-fueled boom days of the late 1990s and early 2000s. But according to Gates, his biggest mistake was in failing to see the threat Android presented, and missing the mark when it came to ensuring that Microsoft continued to dominate phones the way it had dominated in mobile. In an interview with Village Global, a VC firm, Gates what he views as his biggest miss.
Scientists have achieved a new first, capturing footage of a giant squid in the waters off the coast of the United States. It’s only the second time a giant squid has been captured swimming alive and on video. Dr. Edie Widder, the founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association, was part of the team that filmed both the 2012 squid and this most recent observation. She invented a camera system, known as MEDUSA, designed to film underwater using primarily red light — light that deep sea creatures typically can’t see. The MEDUSA system deploys on a tether up to a mile long and also incorporates a lure intended to replicate the bioluminescence of a jellyfish, a favored prey of squids.
The dream of the mythical Microsoft Courier may not be dead after all. Microsoft is reportedly working on a dual-screen tablet device that could debut as soon as next year. The device will allegedly have dual 9-inch displays with a 4:3 aspect ratio and . According to IHS Markit, Microsoft calls the device “Centaurus” internally, but it will be part of the Surface brand when it launches. In addition to the dual screens, Centaurus will have Intel’s latest 10nm Lakefield system-on-a-chip and could support either LTE or 5G connectivity. Centaurus won’t run the same you’ve known and tolerated on touchscreen devices in the past.
