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It’s official, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which is currently the world’s largest digital camera, has been installed on the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Weighing nearly 6,200 pounds and measuring 5.5 ft (h) x 9.8 ft (w), the camera is literally the size of a small SUV, with a 3.2-gigapixel (3,200-megapixel) focal plane, making it the highest-resolution camera of its kind.
The 27″ Samsung ViewFinity S8 (S80D) Series 4K monitor can be used for productivity or gaming, and it’s being offered for just $179.99 shipped today, originally $419.99. HDR10 offers near-limitless hues and true-to-life color representation with deeper contrast for darker darks as well as brighter brights with 1.07 billion colors. Product page.
We may be decades away from artificial wombs, but one Australian man was able to leave St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney with a full titanium artificial heart from BiVACOR this past month. Officially called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH), this device basically replaces both ventricles of the heart, taking over the pumping of blood to the body (systemic circulation) and lungs (pulmonary circulation).
If SEGA released a Sonic the Hedgehog game for the original Game Boy in 1991, this is what it would look like. Gamers may already know that an official port was released in 2006 on the Game Boy Advance, but this fan game takes nostalgia to a whole new level.
SpaceX Crew-10, consisting of mission commander Anne McClain, mission pilot Nichole Ayers, and mission specialists Takuya Onishi of JAXA as well as Kirill Peskov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex-39A at 7:03 p.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 rocket.
It has only been a few months, but the MacBook Pro M4 is already old news, while the latest and greatest, or at least in terms of portability, is the MacBook Air M4. This iFixit teardown video reveals an easy to access battery and ports, but everything else is better left to professionals.
Now here’s a name you don’t hear often: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT). The company announced this week that they have completed the world’s first HyperPort feasibility study in Brazil. What did they discover? Well, just the transformative potential of the HyperPort system to meet Brazil’s growing shipping demands while promoting sustainable economic growth for starters.
There’s Evasive’s Honda S2000R, and then this showroom condition 2000 Honda S2000 with just 42-miles on the odometer selling for a hefty $95,200 at auction. Ms. Hedy Cirrincione purchased this vehicle new from Drum Honda in New York and it remained unregistered due to her already owning a red S2000 at the time as her daily driver.
Set for release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows (via Steam), Silent Hill f takes place in 1960s rural Japan, more specifically Ebisugaoka, inspired by Kanayama, Gero in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture. This marks a significant departure from the series’ familiar setting of the fictional American town of Silent Hill.