A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-10 mission successfully docked with the ISS at 12:04 am ET while the spacecraft were flying approximately 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The capsule, named Endurance, autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module.
Emily the Engineer wanted to really put her 3D printing skills to work. So, she decided to build a robot that can get a perfect score in Wii Sports Bowling. Those who’ve played the game know that the Wiimote is used to simulate the motions of real bowling, which makes the virtual game far more intuitive and immersive than just using a standard controller.
Photo credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA / A. Pizarro D.
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.
