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Pokemon Presents 2021
This morning The Pokemon Company held a Pokemon Presents event as part of their Pokemon Day celebration. The presentation opened with a 10-minute video that went through every Pokemon product in chronological order. They gave more details about New Pokemon Snap during the event and announced the heavily rumoured Sinnoh remakes (Pokémon Brilliant Diamondand Shining Pearl).and Pokemon Legends: Arceus. They also announced several in-game events celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pokemon.
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WWDC 2021
This week Apple is holding their annual developers’ conference WWDC, and the keynote (where they make most of the significant consumer announcements) was on Monday. They announced details about this year’s versions of each of their OSs and a few other things during the keynote. iOS FaceTime The thing that got the most attention during the iOS section of the keynote was FaceTime. IOS 15 FaceTime will start looking like a more conventional video communication platform because of features such as grid view and the ability to generate links to and schedule calls. The most prominent FaceTime feature announced was … Continue reading WWDC 2021
This Week In Tech – May 16, 2021
Matter IOT Standard SpaceX signs cloud services deal Google Cloud for Starlink FTC Comes Out In Favor Of Right To Repair Clubhouse for Android is in beta The Pentagon Might Nix JEDI After all OSIRISRex Is On It’s Way Home Chinese Rover Lands On Mars Google I/O starts tomorrow and I plan to post my article about it within a couple of days. Continue reading This Week In Tech – May 16, 2021
SpaceX Crew-2 Launch
On April 23rd, 2021 at 5:49 am, lifted off on a Falcon 9 numbered B1061.2 and in Crew Dragon C206.2, named Endeavour by astronauts Bob Benkhen and Doug Hurley. This was the first mission ever to use a previously flown booster and a previously flown capsule, being the first company ever to reuse both of the most vital components of the rocket. The crew of four consists of two American astronauts, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, one ESA astronaut, Thomas Pesquet, and one JAXA astronaut, Akihido Hoshide. This is the second spaceflight for Megan McArthur and Thomas Pesquet, and the … Continue reading SpaceX Crew-2 Launch
This Week In Tech – April 25, 2021
This week there’s been lots of Apple news, There’s a new Facebook data leak, the EU proposes AI regulations and, The IOC announces a new Olympic video games tournament. Also, there’s a new proposed privacy bill in the US, HTC Vive Air leaks and, more in the Other News section (with a new format).
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On Saturday, April 17th at 12:55 am, the Soyuz MS-17 capsule touched down on the steps of Kazakhstan after a 6 month long mission to the International Space Station. This is the second capsule in a flurry of four manned capsule events happening at the International Space Station, which started with MS-18’s launch and continued to this mission. The capsule brought down two cosmonauts, Sergey Rhyzikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and one NASA astronaut, Kate Rubins. Rhyzikov and Rubins were on their second missions while Kud-Sverchkov was on his first. All events all the way down to landing went off without … Continue reading Soyuz MS-17 Return
Rocket Labs’ Neutron Rocket reveal
A couple of weeks ago, Rocket Labs founder and CEO, Peter Beck, released a video of him sitting down, cutting, blending, and eating his own hat. This part of the video was a play on the idiom of eating your … Continue reading Rocket Labs’ Neutron Rocket reveal
Starship Development History
It has almost been two years since the first hop from Starhopper took place with Raptor SN2, but we have seen SpaceX move at a rapid pace to develop their Starship prototypes. Here’s a recap of every single prototype, what … Continue reading Starship Development History
This Week In Tech – March 7th 2021
Here are some of this week’s top tech stories: White House brings on Tim Wu as Tech Advisor Microsoft Ignite 2021 SpaceX’s Starship SN10 Launches Successfully Square acquires Tidal Google’s Privacy Sandbox Continue reading This Week In Tech – March 7th 2021
ThinkPad X1 Fold Review
The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold might just be the first step towards the future of mobile computing but definitely isn’t perfect. Continue reading ThinkPad X1 Fold Review
China’s Super-Heavy Lift Rocket Will Carry 100 Tons to the Moon
BY SCOTT ALAN JOHNSTON via Universe Todayavailable under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License China’s proposed next-generation rocket reached the final stage of feasibility studies this month. The planned launch vehicle, known as the Long March-9, will be capable of sending 100 tons to the Moon, and could see its first launch as early as 2030. Announced in 2018, the Long March-9 will play a key role in China’s long-term space ambitions. If all goes as planned, its first payload is likely to be a Martian sample return mission, and it would support China’s Lunar ambitions as well. Another … Continue reading China’s Super-Heavy Lift Rocket Will Carry 100 Tons to the Moon
