Month: November 2021
NASA delays ambitious human lunar landing to 2025
NASA is pushing back its target date for returning humans to the Moon, now eyeing a crewed lunar landing in 2025 instead of 2024 as originally planned. NASA blames the delay on recent lawsuits over contracts for the agency’s lunar lander, as well as changes to the scope of some…
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Unity to pay $1.6 billion for The Lord of the Rings VFX maker Weta Digital
Unity, which makes the popular Unity game development engine, announced an intent to acquire the tools, pipeline, technology, and some engineering staff from Weta Digital, which is perhaps best known for its work on the The Lord of the Rings movies. Weta Digital was co-founded by LOTR director Peter Jackson…
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Ecobee’s new home security service has a professional monitoring option
Ecobee now gives you the option to pair its smart home monitoring devices with a professional security service. With the company’s new Smart Security service, which replaces the Haven service it formerly offered, you can enable 24/7 professional monitoring (which is still in beta) for an additional $10 / month…
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Huawei Mate 40 Pro to be rebranded by TD Tech to possibly sell in the US
The Huawei Mate 40 Pro may finally come out in the US, but under a different name. A report claims that TD Tech will release a virtually identical version of the phone with its own brand name stamped on the back – possibly as a way to sell units without…
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Black Friday laptop deal: Apple’s MacBook Pro M1 gets $199 slashed off price
Black Friday laptop deals are coming in hot, and we’ve just spotted a special sale on Apple’s powerful MacBook Pro M1. Right now, Amazon has the MacBook Pro M1 for just $1,099.99 when you apply the additional $99 coupon at checkout. That’s a total savings of $199 and the lowest…
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MSI will outfit its gaming PCs with Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs and Nvidia’s RTX 30-series
MSI is best known for its wide assortment of gaming laptops, and it’s looking to beef up its gaming PCs with Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards. MSI revealed three new gaming PCs: MEG Aegis Ti5 12th, MEG Trident X 12th, and Aegis…
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