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Current Event PetroxHappy anniversary, Curiosity! NASA rover marks 8 years on Mars
NASA would be thrilled if its newly launched Mars rover ended up matching its predecessor's longevity. The agency's car-sized Curiosity rover celebrates eight (Earth) years on the Red Planet today (Aug. 5), less than a week after the Perseverance rover took flight toward Mars.
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7 days ago
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Is Coming To Steam, VR Support Coming Later This Year
Microsoft Flight Simulator will launch on Steam, and VR support is coming later this year as part of a free update. "Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC will support VR via the HP Reverb G2. This will be available later this fall," head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann revealed during a press briefing. In an accompanying post on the Xbox blog, it was announced that the game will be coming to Steam on launch day as well as Windows 10 and Xbox Game Pass for PC, which is currently...
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7 days ago
Current Event Petrox
Europe wants to investigate Google's $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, hot off CEO Sundar Pichai's congressional grilling
EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation into Google's $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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8 days ago
Expression Petrox
The Death of the Photo Studio
How GPT-3, your smartphone and Augmented Reality can disrupt a dinosaur industry.
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11 days ago
Current Event Petrox
Jibo social robot "reborn" and is coming back! - Personal Robots
Jibo, a social robot assistant with a “human touch” is still alive and now is getting a second life thanks to the acquisition by NTT Disruption. Jibo’s original company shut down in 2019, and the robot itself had to give to their owner an heartbroken message: “my server are shutting down and I’m going to cease my function soon” . But thanks to its infrastructure modular design and the great work of engineers Jibo continued to work everyday without any problems.
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11 days ago
Current Event Petrox
Local TV stations across US to air conspiracy theory on Fauci
Sinclair stations to run interview with Plandemic researcher who claims infectious disease expert created the coronavirus
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13 days ago
Current Event Petrox
Judge rules media outlets have to turn over images, footage of May Seattle protest that turned violent
A King County, Wash., judge on Thursday ruled five news outlets must turn over unpublished photos and footage from a May 30 Seattle protest for social and racial justice to the city's police department.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event Petrox
The superfast Ryzen-powered KDE Slimbook
I’ve had the privilege of testing and using the brand-new 15.6″ Ryzen-powered KDE Slimbook laptop for the past month. During that time, I worked with the Slimbook developers to perform …
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2 weeks ago
Current Event Petrox
Philly brewers made a craft beer to support Black Lives Matter. It's already sold out.
Local brewers collaborated on the Black is Beautiful beer at Callowhill’s Love City Brewing and all proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter Philly. The Black is Beautiful project was started by Weathered Souls Brewing Company, a Black-owned brewery in San Antonio.
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3 weeks ago
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Ex-wife or friend defecated in their bed in 'fitting end' to marriage, Depp tells court
Movie star Johnny Depp told London’s High Court on Friday that his ex-wife Amber Heard or her friend had defecated in their bed in what he described as a “fitting end to the relationship”.
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1 month ago
Expression Petrox
PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory
Robots carry on legacy of craftsmanship at little-known Kisarazu plant
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1 month ago
Current Event Petrox
Twitter engineers reportedly pushing to replace "master" and "slave" programming terms
The company is supporting the more inclusive language.
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1 month ago
Comment Petrox
Hiding out in the US the whole time???
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1 month ago
Current Event Petrox
People are microwaving library books and masks to kill COVID-19 — and that's bad
A book was returned to Kent District Library after it had been microwaved and burned due to the metal sensor located inside.
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1 month ago
Current Event Petrox
Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy? It's likely, NASA scientists find
Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system, might resemble some of the watery moons around Jupiter and Saturn. Though some of these moons don't have atmospheres and are covered in ice, they are still among the top targets in NASA's search for life beyond Earth. Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa, which scientists classify as "ocean worlds,"...