Hitting the Books: How NASA survived the Reagan era ‘Dark Ages’

Posted on 20/02/2021 by Engadget

This week, Americans celebrated the successful delivery of NASA's Perseverance rover to its destination on the Martian surface, marking the dawn of a new era of interplanetary exploration. However, when it comes to searching the solar system arou...

Ford’s Mach-E is a stylish and capable EV, but it’s no Mustang

Posted on 19/02/2021 by Engadget

When I was still a kid, my old man owned a 1965, sharkskin blue Mustang 289. Some of my favorite childhood memories involved spending our Sunday afternoons cruising around San Francisco in it. Now, nostalgia is a hell of a drug, so when I first la...

Yamaha’s YDS-150 digital sax puts practicality over performance

Posted on 19/02/2021 by Engadget

There’s a move perfected by middle school orchestra members — mainly clarinet players, in my experience — that emerges directly after a musician makes a jarring mistake during a performance. The player will stop and look down at their instrument in s...

What it takes to get a job building robotic Mars explorers for NASA

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

After a thankfully uneventful seven-month journey, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is set to safely reach the Red Planet and insert itself into orbit on Thursday ahead of deploying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter prototype that it’s been t...

I let an AI analyze my Spotify to find unsigned bands I might like

Posted on 17/02/2021 by Engadget

Andrson is a company with a music-matching algorithm designed to find songs that sound similar to ones you’ve already heard. Its product is, for now, aimed at making it easier for music labels to find would-be stars, but that’s not the only thing it’...

The short runtime of ‘WandaVision’ really is the best of both worlds

Posted on 16/02/2021 by Engadget

Episode six of Disney+ original WandaVision certainly kicked things up a notch. That should silence complaints that the show was moving at a crawl, but one reason it felt slow is that we get so little of it every week — the longest episode, number fi...

Lego’s Vidiyo music video creator is silly fun, and I love it

Posted on 16/02/2021 by Engadget

Vidiyo is Lego’s do-it-yourself music video maker, aimed at kids between the ages of seven and ten. It was created in collaboration with Universal Music Group, which has offered up around 60-second samples of big pop hits. Essentially, you buy minifi...

Hitting the Books: Why Travis Kalanick got Uber into the self-driving car game

Posted on 13/02/2021 by Engadget

If you thought rocket science was hard, try training a computer to safely change lanes while behind the wheel of a full-size SUV in heavy drivetime traffic. Autonomous vehicle developers have faced myriad similar challenged over the past three decade...

Soccer training in VR is quite a workout

Posted on 12/02/2021 by Engadget

There are several reasons why you may not be able to get outside to practice your soccers skills in front of a real goal. You could be carrying an injury, the weather might be too inclement, or there could be a global pandemic that’s caused public tr...

The future of diamonds is in recaptured CO2 pollution

Posted on 11/02/2021 by Engadget

Diamonds haven’t always been a girl’s best friend. Before the 1930’s, they were no more synonymous with weddings than opals, rubies and sapphires which had been routinely used in engagement rings for centuries. It really wasn’t until DeBeers -- the S...

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