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It’s Been A GREAT Week In Space Travel

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Started Writing: March 7 2019 (for understanding of wording. The update was written the date of posting.). Wow it’s been a busy week in space with the progress of SpaceX DM-1 and the test of the Crew Dragon (the first anerican manned spacecraft to be tested since the sun setting of the space shuttle). This was an unmanned launch so no one was on the craft. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NhKFBW3S8Pg The Crew Dragon successfully launched from KSC Launch Complex 39-A at 3:30 Sunday. Crew Dragon was carrying Ripley (an anthropimorphic test dumbie that has lots of sensors) and a few other science experiments. It’s rocket … Continue reading It’s Been A GREAT Week In Space Travel

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Apollo 11 Documentary Movie Review

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To preface this review was initially posted to my Letterboxd account (Jammer2001). I originally posted the review in multiple because I got a little bit more information from a review that I watched about an hour ago (I saw the movie a couple of days ago). Review I don’t know exactly what category this movie falls into, but it’s really good. This movie is a combination of the actual tapes from the mission and what seems to be re-enactment film from the days leading up to the launch and mission control. The launch footage was enhanced really well and it … Continue reading Apollo 11 Documentary Movie Review

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This Week In Tech 02/17-02/23/2019

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This week Samsung held their annual Unpacked event, there’s lots of space news, lots of gaming news, some Apple news, Ev is leaving Twitter and more, in the Other News section. Samsung Unpacked 2019 On Wednesday, Samsung held its annual Unpacked device announcement event. At the event, they announced more info about their long rumoured foldable phone that they showed off at SDC last fall. They also announced the Galaxy S10 and a few other products. Galaxy Fold The Galaxy Fold has a 4.6 inch AMOLED cover (phone) display and a 7.3 inch Super AMOLED inside (tablet) display. It also … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/17-02/23/2019

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This Week In Tech 02/03-02/09/2019

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This week There’s lots of Apple news, lots of Spotify mews, Lots of Samsung news and Apex Legends Apple Angela Arands leaving On Tuesday, Apple sent out a press release saying that Angela Ahrands is leaving the conpany. She is courently the VP of retail, her job was basically running Apple Stores. She will be replaced by Safari Updates In an update to safari announced this week Apple said that they are going to remove Do Not Track mode from Safari/ Spotify Podcasting Aquisitions On Wednsday, Spotify announced that they were aquiring two players in the podcasting business Anchor and … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/03-02/09/2019

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This Week In Tech 01/06-01/12/2019

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This week was CES, lots of space news, There’s a new Ring Doorbell security flaw, lots of Google news, Bell Canada may be tracking you, some great new in the Cambridge Analytica case, fake 5G, Samsung Unpacked event announced and, more in the Other News section. CES I know that CES was last week but I’m still working on a few articles about CES. Intel talked about their next-gen chips. Lots and lots of TVs were announced some of them with Google Assistant and Alexa. Space News Forming Black Hold Spotted For First Time On Thursday, Raffaella Margutti talked to Space.com … Continue reading This Week In Tech 01/06-01/12/2019

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Review Of Pokèmon Let’s Go

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I thought that I released this about a month ago. The Pokémon Let’s Go games are a great spiritual successor to Pokémon Yellow. It has also been updated with some great (and some not so great) new features and new gameplay mechanics, also some features taken from Pokémon Go. But the game has stayed true to Pokémon Yellow while improving on it Gameplay In general the Gameplay is really good. It’s a basic Pokemon game so there is not much to say. The game is a little harder than most recent Pokemon games (but I think that the earlier ones … Continue reading Review Of Pokèmon Let’s Go

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This Week In Tech 12/02-12/08/2018

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This week Austrailian anti-encryption bill passes, Waymo is commencing service, Lots of data breaches, The Game Awards awards lots of games, the YouTube Rewind was released, lots of Google/Alphabet news, Huawei CFO gets arrested in Vancouver, OSIRIS-Rex and, more in the Other News section. OSIRIS-Rex On Monday, NASA got OSIRIS-Rex into orbit of asteroid Bennu. It is there to study and collect samples from the asteroid and information about it. The mission also wants to get an idea of how the solar system formed. Huawei CFO On Tuesday, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States with charges of violating the US’s sanctions … Continue reading This Week In Tech 12/02-12/08/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/25-12/01/2018

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This week Marriotts Starwood reservation server was hacked. the first gene edited baby was born, USPS was hscked, NASA successfully lands InSight, lots of Google news, more on the Boring Company and, more in the other news section. The Hacks Marriott On Friday, Marriott announced that their Starwood reservation system had been hacked. In the breach they lost names, email addresses, passwords, social security numbers, passport information, credit card information and, possibly actual reservation information. The situation is interesting because the Starwood system was actually merged into Marriott system in August. USPS On Monday, the USPS admitted that they had … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/25-12/01/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/11-11/17/2018

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This week there’s been lots of Tesla,’ The Paris Calls, a Cloud Tax in Chicago, Valve rewards a massive bug bounty for a bug in Steam, Amazon HQ2, leaks, reports and, rumors, and more in the Other News section. Tesla This week Tesla made a couple of important announcments. Firstly, the Model S and Model X are getting a price bump. Also announced this week, Tesla is ending free Supercharging for new Tesla owners. Model S 75D now starts at $78,000 (up $1,000 from $77,000) Model X 75D now starts at $84,000 (up $1,000 from $83,000) Model S 100D now starts … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/11-11/17/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/04-11/10/2018

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This week there was lots of important tech news. Samsung held an event, the French may impose a Bitcoin tax, SapceX an a smaller version of the BFR, news about Disney’s streaming service, the Co-founder of VIne talked more about his new social network and, so much more in the other news section. Samsung Event On Tuesday, Samsung held their annual developer confrence SDC. At SDC they announced lots of new things. Also they announced that they are opening up an API for Bixby to developers. The final thing that was announced was the heaviy runored fodable phone, For more … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/04-11/10/2018