NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman laid out an ambitious and expensive vision for returning humans to the Moon and keeping them there. The plan carries a $20 billion price tag and is focused on building a permanent base capable of supporting long term operations rather than short visits. It also signals a broader cultural shift at the agency, moving away from decade long timelines and toward getting things done in months.
Super Nintendo games looked right at home on the CRT televisions of the era, but modern flat panels are a different story entirely. Most retro upgrade options still rely on aging analog signals or external converters that introduce lag and soften the image in the process. The SuperSwitch HD takes a different approach, pulling a clean digital signal directly from the console itself and delivering it straight to your display.
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Few pieces of furniture have earned a place in both design history and everyday luxury quite like the Eames Lounge Chair. The Wall Street Journal recently got a rare look inside the MillerKnoll factory in Zeeland, Michigan, where every authentic example is still assembled by hand, walking the production floor from raw wood all the way through to finished chair and making it very clear why each one carries a price tag somewhere between five and ten thousand dollars.
Computer hardware prices continue to rise, making it tempting to use every trick in the book to save money while piecing your own system. Savvy builders who know their business have discovered a processor that strikes the perfect combination between all-day performance and a price that is surprisingly fair considering the current market. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500, priced at $79 (was $159), features six cores and twelve threads, as well as a boost clock of 4.2 gigahertz.
Wall hacks have been a staple of multiplayer games for as long as anyone can remember, but Nick from the YouTube channel Basically Homeless decided to see how close he could get to building one in real life. Using relatively affordable off the shelf equipment, he set out to detect movement on the other side of a wall using nothing but radio waves, and what he ended up with is the kind of thing that would feel right at home in a spy thriller.
Arm has spent more than three decades providing the blueprints that other companies use to build chips, but the company has now stepped into territory it has never occupied before. The Arm AGI CPU is its own processor, designed in house and built specifically for data centers running the most demanding AI workloads. It is a significant departure from the role Arm has played throughout its entire history.
Anyone who has spent eight or more hours wedged into an economy seat over the middle of the Atlantic knows exactly how the second half of that flight feels. The legs start to protest, sleep refuses to come, and the hours stretch out in a way that no amount of in-flight entertainment can fully fix. United Airlines is taking a swing at that problem with the new Relax Row, and it might just be the most welcome change to economy class in years.
Satellites rarely bother photographing each other as they speed by in space, but one did on March 18th, and the result is a shot that no one should have been able to capture: a glimpse into the International Space Station that appears almost insane. The image you see was taken above Argentina and depicts two NASA astronauts hanging out outside (literally) and the station suspended against the top of the atmosphere, where the sky is thin blue.
Gamers have long been searching for a computer that can be slipped into a coat pocket and used to complete tasks, a dream that now appears to be within reach due to a creative designer who wrapped a Razer Edge tablet within a custom 3D printed shell.
In the year 185, sky watchers in China noticed a guest star that flared brilliantly enough to be visible during the day for weeks before disappearing. That brief flash turned out to be a white dwarf star breaking itself apart in a Type Ia supernova. Centuries later, its memory is preserved in the faint form of RCW 86, a gigantic shell of blazing gas speeding outward at millions of miles per hour, by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission.