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Japan’s iSpace Is Set to Make the First Private Moon Landing
HAKUTO-R Mission 1 (M1) launched from Cape Canveral Florida on December 11 last year and officially entered lunar orbit on March 21. The craft is set to make a historic attempt to land on the surface of the Moon on April 25, and if successful, will be the first commercial mission to accomplish the feat. So far, only space agencies from the United States, the Soviet Union and China have successfully landed on the moon.The primary goal of the mssion is to prove that iSpace can safely land and deliver cargo to the moon, setting up for future missions. On board the M1 lander are two rovers — one from UAE's space agency called Rashid and the other from Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency named SORA-Q. The rovers will venture to unexplored locations on the lunar surface, studying the geology a...
CASETiFY Drops Third NBA Capsule Just In Time for Playoffs
With the NBA playoffs well on its way, CASETiFY is releasing its third collections with the league. Fans will be able to rep their favorite team with the new phone accessories gear. The third installment of the popular NBA x CASETiFY collection takes inspiration from the retro colors and Hardwood Classics designs of the NBA team jerseys. The drop features various teams currently in the playoffs including the Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors. The accessories collection features phone cases in CASETiFY's Impact, Ultra Impact, Clear and Bounce cases. The collection also features the limited-edition Texture case that features the design of the Larry O'Brien Trophy. Aside from the iPhone and Android cases, Apple Airpods cases repr...
The UK doesn’t want Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal, so what happens next?
/ It looks like Microsoft is gearing up for a long and difficult fight with regulators for its $68.7 billion deal. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Microsoft Microsoft is furious. Last week, a surprise decision from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) left its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard blocked in Britain, thanks to concerns about the future of cloud gaming. Microsoft president Brad Smith was awake at 2AM that morning hastily writing a response from across the pond, according to Bloomberg. He spoke to the BBC a day later and called t...
Apple’s AR/VR Headset Rumored To Feature Its Own External Battery Pack
Bloomberg's Apple insider Mark Gurman has revealed details of the tech company's upcoming AR/VR headset. According to Gurman, the headset is expected to be revealed at WWDC in June.While the unveiling of the headset appears to be set in stone, Gurman also revealed that the headset will feature two ports -- a USB-C port for data transfer, as well as a proprietary magnetic port for the attachable external battery pack. The headset, which appears to feature its own battery, is expected to provide two hours of battery life. With its own external battery pack, the headset is to be lighter, improving comfort and function for the wearer. However, the downside to having its own battery is that there will be a wire that trails out of the headset during use. The user is expected to carry around the ...
DJI Mavic 3 Pro Launches With First Triple Camera Setup
More than a year after DJI's flagship Mavic 3 was launched, the leading drone company now readies a refreshed "Pro" version. Reminiscent of Apple's strategy with the iPhone, DJI most notably adds an additional camera to the setup.Running with a triple camera system for the first time, the Mavic 3 Pro is as versatile as ever. A Hasselblad camera captures 12-bit RAW photos with a native dynamic range of up to 12.8 stops while videographers have up to 5.1K at 50 fps and 10-bit D-Log at their disposal. The Hasselblad is joined by an upgraded 166mm tele camera and an all-new 70mm f/2.8 medium tele camera.The drone has up to 46 minutes of flight time and a 15 km max transmission range with omnidirectional obstacle sensing. Highlight features include an auto-lock FocusTrack function and Advanced ...
The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
Verge Favorites Stream Deck fever has hit The Verge — here are some of the uses that we put ours to. Recently — this week, in fact — I purchased my first Stream Deck. Specifically, I decided to try the Stream Deck Mini, the smallest and most inexpensive model. Why? Because I saw how much fun many of my colleagues were having with theirs. The Stream Deck is a device that lets you program a series of physical buttons (and, in the case of the Plus, knobs) to perform a single task or a series of tasks on your computer or on your home’s smart devices. In other words, it lets you do something that usually demands several keystrokes — say, starting a new email, dropping in a template, and sending it to a specific contact list — with a single button press. Neat, right? Well, several staffers at Th...
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work
/ Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Getty Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. Hinton recently quit his job at Google in order to speak freely about the risks of AI, according to an interview with the 75-year-old in The New York Times. ...
MSCHF Launches Online Chatroom “Hot Chat 3000”
After launching a Tax Heaven 3000 dating simulator that files your income taxes, MSCHF is back with an online chatroom site titled Hot Chat 3000."MSCHF's creation has people in an absolute stir. Hot Chat 3000 uses advanced AI to rate a person's hotness and match them with someone equally hot or not to chat with," says the reporter in the trailer clip.Clicking into hotchat3000.com, users are asked to either take a photo or upload one from their library. The prediction server rates the attractiveness of a person on a scale of 1 to 10 based on their submitted photo, and users are only allowed to chat with others in their attractiveness range (e.g. 5.0-5.9). The large machine-learning model used for the site was trained by OpenAI. Trained on a dataset of 400 million image-text pairs, the mode...
Recordings of Full-Length Movies Are Being Posted on Twitter
To say Twitter has been in a state of volatility since Elon Musk's interest -- and eventual purchase -- of the platform is a gross understatement. It recently tossed its verification system out the door (after doing the same with many of its employees) and has continued its rollout of its paid membership plan, Twitter Blue. With blue checks disappearing left and right, the company is scrambling to turn a profit -- going so far as having Musk personally pay for the Twitter Blue subscription of various high-profile celebrities.The latest problem to surface? Recordings of full-length movies are being uploaded to the platform illegally. In December of 2022, Twitter experimented with new limits for its Blue subscribers by implementing a new 4,000 character maximum per tweet, an up to 60 minute,...
Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in May
Tech/ Twitter / Elon Musk calls it a ‘win-win for both media orgs and the public.’ We’ll see. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Full-time Twitter CEO and part-time Tesla enthusiast Elon Musk said on Saturday that users of his social media platform will be able to avoid media subscriptions and pay per article starting “next month.” Musk says that Twitter’s forthcoming “one-click” service “should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public” by allowing media companies to charge a higher per article price to...
The Stream Deck mastered the LCD key by making it peripheral
/ Button of the Month bonus: we made our own Stream Deck plugin for you! *:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0″> a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Left: a Photoshop layout. Right: a Quake layout with fewer keys used.a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The Stream Deck immediately pitched itself as a purpose-built tool right down to its name, giving you handy buttons to ...
