Researchers in Japan have finished building the world’s first wooden satellite. Called LignoSat—a reference to lignin, wood’s chief organic polymer—the satellite represents a potential solution to the space industry’s growing debris problem.Space junk is such a pervasive problem that it’s becoming more space junk and tricking people into believing they’ve …
Read More »Rolls Royce unveils first electric vehicle
She is known to the world as the Spirit of Ecstacy. She is also called the Silver Lady, the Flying Lady, and Eleanor, to those on a first-name basis with her. And for more than 100 years, she has stood atop the bonnet of each Rolls Royce since before the …
Read More »AMD's First Chiplet GPU for Mobile, the RX 7900M, Debuts in the Alienware m18
AMD has officially added a new flagship RDNA 3 mobile GPU to its stable. The Radeon RX 7900M is the world’s first chiplet-based mobile GPU—and its arrival is a bit of a surprise, as there were no indications AMD would battle Nvidia for mobile supremacy in this hardware generation. The …
Read More »Intel 14900K and 14700K Raptor Lake
Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake refresh is due in October, so we’ve officially entered the “pre-launch leaking” season now that it’s August. Today we have our first actual benchmarks of the top two SKUs, the Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K. Though the results are underwhelming, their poor performance is likely …
Read More »Webb’s First Raw Saturn Images Have Arrived
We live in interesting times, which are often more tragic than boring ones. It’s not all gloom and doom—we live at a time when the James Webb Space Telescope has just come online, and it could explore distant corners of the cosmos for another 20 years. NASA has also used …
Read More »First Android 14 Beta
Google released the first developer preview of Android 14 several months ago, and at the time, we advised most Android fans to wait until the beta to dive into the next version of Android. That time has come right on time—the first beta release of Android 14 is now available …
Read More »Acer’s First E-Bike With AI
PC manufacturer Acer has unveiled what it calls the world’s first smart bike, the ebii. The company bases that distinction on integrating AI features not previously seen in an electric bike. It’s not just PR spin; it includes collision detection warnings, GPS tracking, and an intelligent control box that learns …
Read More »Space Telescope Confirms First Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope was not designed exclusively to hunt for exoplanets like NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but it can still make vital contributions to our understanding of these distant worlds. NASA has announced that Webb just confirmed its first exoplanet, a world known as LHS 475 …
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Read More »Vivo X90 Pro Plus
Qualcomm announced its next flagship mobile processor just a few days ago, and Vivo is wasting no time while the new chip is still top of mind. The Chinese smartphone giant has announced the new X90 Pro Plus, the first smartphone to ship with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It …
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