Saturday, September 16, 2017

Gale Crater Could Have Hosted Life and other top stories.

  • Gale Crater Could Have Hosted Life

    Gale Crater Could Have Hosted Life
    NASA’s Mars Curiosity may have tasted a mountain, found an Egg Rock, and discovered water on Mars, but the little rover that could have found evidence that Mars once held life in the Gale Crater. The results were recently published in the journal, Science that stated that Mars could have hosted many living organisms. Curiosity landed in the Gale Crater in 2012 and since then has examined the rocks inside and out to find out if the Red Planet ever held life. With its state-of-the-art instrument..
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  • Monument Valley 2 Revealed: Ustwo Developers, Apple CEO Tim Cook Discuss Surprise Sequel

    Monument Valley 2 Revealed: Ustwo Developers, Apple CEO Tim Cook Discuss Surprise Sequel
    David Phelan Philip Schiller shows the new App Store with Monument Valley 2 front and centre. Oh, at last, I can tell you about this. Journalists are essentially gossips, we love to share news, faster than the next big-mouth can spill it. Back in February I visited ustwo games in London, makers of the remarkable Monument Valley, a dazzlingly beautiful puzzle game where you must guide Princess Ida through a series of impossible buildings and landscapes. But I was told that the new Monum..
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  • HP gets in on the external GPU hype with a pretty, large box

    HP gets in on the external GPU hype with a pretty, large box
    Alongside the announcement of a bunch of gaming computers today, HP is introducing a series of accessories so that it can try to sell gamers the entire package. That includes two displays, a gaming mouse, a mechanical keyboard, and an external GPU ...
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  • Planet is 'hotter than most stars'

    Planet is 'hotter than most stars'
    Image copyright NASA/JPL-Caltech Image caption Artwork: The planet, named KELT-9b, orbits its star about 650 light-years from us Scientists have found a hellish world where the "surface" of the planet is over 4,000C - almost as hot as our Sun.In part, that’s because KELT-9b’s host star is itself very hot, but also because this alien world resides so close to the furnace.KELT-9b takes just two days to complete one orbit of the star.Being so close m..
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  • Apple Offers External GPU Enclosure to Developers As Valve Opens Door to VR Mac Gaming

    Apple Offers External GPU Enclosure to Developers As Valve Opens Door to VR Mac Gaming
    Apple announced a new version of its Metal graphics technology during Monday's keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference. As part of macOS High Sierra, Metal 2 will officially support external GPUs, allowing any Mac with a Thunderbolt 3 port to benefit from graphics hardware powerful enough to run demanding virtual reality applications and games. The native VR support in macOS High Sierra also opens up the possibility for Mac owners to hook up VR headsets to their computer for the first ..
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  • Google just fixed an annoying freezing bug with its Pixel phone

    Google just fixed an annoying freezing bug with its Pixel phone
    Google today released its monthly security update for Pixel and Nexus devices. The security patch is rolling out over-the-air and can also be downloaded directly if you're not one for waiting. In addition to bolstering the security of its devices ...
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  • Apple updates MacBook line with new Intel processors

    Apple updates MacBook line with new Intel processors
    Apple has announced updates to its entire MacBook line at WWDC, giving its laptops more powerful specifications in the form of the latest Intel chips. As had been previously rumored, last year's MacBook Pros are getting Intel's Kaby Lake processors, as ...
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  • WWDC 2017 keynote: Taking it all in

    WWDC 2017 keynote: Taking it all in
    In the movie The Princess Bride, after a series of exciting events, swordmaster Inigo Montoya is asked to explain what has happened since the film’s hero was rendered unconscious.“Let me explain,” he says. “No, there is too much—let me sum up.”When it comes to explaining the WWDC 2017 keynote, I feel a lot like Inigo Montoya. This was a packed two-plus hours that would probably run three-plus hours in the Director’s Cut edition. There were enough Easter eggs in the “additional f..
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  • WWDC 2017: Apple Announces HomePod Speaker to Rival Amazon's Echo

    WWDC 2017: Apple Announces HomePod Speaker to Rival Amazon's Echo
    “You don’t have to know what any of that is; just know that it sounds incredible,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, who added that HomePod would be priced at $349.Although Apple appears to be trying to make up ground on Amazon and Google, the primary casualty may be Sonos. That company offers a wireless multispeaker system that allows users to listen to music throughout the home, similar to HomePod’s ability to chain together speakers. The big question, though, is whether the intell..
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  • Everything Sony Told Us About the Future of PlayStation

    Everything Sony Told Us About the Future of PlayStation
    Pull your gaze from Nintendo's bedazzling Switch for a moment and consider Sony's now widespread PlayStation 4. Console sales have in general outperformed the most buoyant analyst and pundit prognostications. Not merely because of Nintendo's overnight dark horse, or its scarce as hen's teeth NES Classic. Sony's PlayStation 4 is having some belt-notching moments of its own.Sony now says its flagship games platform has sold-through—meaning to buyers and not just stores—close to 60 million units wo..
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