Month: July 2021

Home News Tech NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown its first mile on the Red Planet. The small chopper surpassed the 1-mile (1.6 km) mark of its total flight distance on Saturday (July 24) when soared over a rocky region called “Raised Ridges” at its Jezero Crater home. The sortie was the 10th and highest trip…

Home News Spaceflight On July 25, 1984, the Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to embark on a spacewalk, also known as an extravehicular activity (EVA). She spent three hours and 35 minutes doing welding experiments outside Russia’s Salyut 7 space station with her colleague Vladimir Dzhanibekov. They were cutting and welding metal and…

Home News Science & Astronomy An illustration of an asteroid or meteor striking Earth. (Image credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) Ancient “megaripples” as tall as five-story buildings are hiding deep under Louisiana, and their unique geology indicates that they formed in the immediate aftermath of the asteroid strike that killed the nonavian dinosaurs, a…

Home News Science & Astronomy Bezos shows the aviation glasses that once belonged to Amelia Earhart, which he took with him during the flight, at the post-flight press conference. (Image credit: Joe Raedle via Getty Images) Now that Jeff Bezos has reached the edge of space, does that mean the world’s richest man is an…

Home News Science & Astronomy (Image credit: © Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Krystofer Kim (USRA): Lead Animator) The earliest and most momentous epoch in the history of the universe released a flood of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time. Now, new research shows how future detections…

Microsoft surprised fans a few weeks ago with the Windows version we thought we’d never get. After several years of Windows 10, we’re finally moving up a digit to Windows 11. The new operating system isn’t just a cosmetic upgrade that brings over a new paint job. Microsoft has developed several new features for the…

Wireless speakers are all the rage. These days, there are dozens of AirPlay-enabled speakers out there that allow you to listen to music, podcasts, and more, straight from your iPhone. But they’re not all created equal. Some offer an inexpensive, portable experience. Others sit firmly in the midrange. Others still offer a more premium feel…

The final week of the month is a pretty big one for Netflix. For the week of July 25th, Netflix is adding new seasons of original shows Glow Up, Outer Banks, and Too Hot to Handle. We’re also getting Transformers: War for Cybertron: Kingdom, which is the final entry in the film trilogy. For licensed…

The next generation of Windows is coming. After leaks and rumors, Microsoft finally announced Windows 11 at a dedicated event in June, following a full leak of a developer build. The new operating system boasts a number of design changes, things like support for Android apps, and more. Currently, the operating system is only available…

During its latest quarterly earnings call, Netflix officially confirmed plans to bring video games to its service. Rumors about Netflix making games started spreading earlier this month after Bloomberg reported the company hired former EA and Facebook executive Mike Verdu to be the vice president of game development. Netflix eventually confirmed that report, and then…