Month: April 2021
Watch NASA’s mission control track the first flight on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is slated to attempt the first-ever powered flight on another world at 3:30AM ET on Monday. The twin-blade rotorcraft will try to ascend 10 feet above ground and hover in place for 30 seconds while cameras on NASA’s Perseverance rover record the historic attempt from a distance.…
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PS5 DualSense charging station: it’s out of stock – but you can win it today PS5 DualSense
The Sony PS5 DualSense charging station is in stock for only a few minutes of a time whenever we see it for sale at Walmart, Target and Amazon. It doesn’t last long, but there’s good news for at least three people. The TechRadar PS5 restock tracker efforts have yielded three…
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New Trailers: Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad, Resident Evil, and more
I finished This is a Robbery, and I won’t spoil the ending but if you’re thinking there will be a huge reveal at the end, well, you might be disappointed. What I found interesting throughout the four-part series was how the storyline relied on the voices of newspaper reporters who…
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Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
Authorities in Texas say two people were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and burst into flames, Houston television station KPRC 2 reported. The cause of the crash, which happened at about 9PM local time in Spring, Texas (near Houston), is…
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Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it?
TechCrunch has spilled much digital ink tracking the fate of VMware since it was brought to Dell’s orbit thanks to the latter company’s epic purchase of EMC in 2016 for $58 billion. That transaction saddled the well-known Texas tech company with heavy debts. Because the deal left VMware a public…
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Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO…
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