Billionaire Jared Isaacman has successfully completed the first private civilian spacewalk in history as part of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew. After the Crew Dragon Resilience launched ) atop a Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from the historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Isaacman exited the capsule at about 6:48 a.m. EDT.
We’re not yet at the point where an autonomous Tesla vehicle can pick you up from just about anywhere, but supervised Full Self Driving (FSD) is now available. When this mode is activated, it still requires a fully attentive driver and will display a series of escalating warnings requiring a response, otherwise it will deactivate.
Apple AirPods Pro 2 are set to get a new hearing aid feature in the next iOS update. This isn’t just a novelty either, as the feature was clinically validated in a controlled, randomized study that evaluated the perceived benefit of the hearing aid and its custom settings compared to an audiologist-assisted setup.
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Kristina Dutton’s ‘Nanoscapes’ short film shows what butterfly wings look like under an electron microscope at up to 50,000x magnification. Butterfly wings are basically made of chitin, a fibrous substance that’s also found in the exoskeletons of most insects, and scales.
The all-new EF ECOFLOW River 3 Portable Power Station builds upon its predecessor and you can get one for $169 shipped after clipping the on-page $70 off coupon, originally $259. It comes equipped with 6 outlets, enabling you to charge 6 devices at once with an AC output of 300W. Product page.
Lexar’s new GOLD SD UHS-II and SILVER PRO SD UHS-II memory cards are the first to be made from 316 stainless steel. Since both are also IP68 rated, they can easily handle environments with water, dust, and even some bending, making them ideal for outdoor filming.
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom running on an NVIDIA RTX 4090 graphics card with the UltraCam mod and full ray tracing turns it into an entirely new game, or so we’d like to think. What is UltraCam? It’s basically a Freecam Mod for the game that includes animation capabilities, DFPS, FOV adjustments, resolution fixes, fog improvements and more.
