Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The first time Marlon Brando saw Tetiaroa in the early 1960s, all he could make out was a “slender pencil of land” on the horizon in the South Pacific. Later, during a break from filming Mutiny on the Bounty, he hired a fisherman to ferry him to the atoll and realized […]
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation. This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
In this visualization, the LEXI instrument is shown onboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which will deliver 10 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) payloads to the moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of […]
Was that light in the clouds a drone, an alien, or maybe just a really tech-savvy pigeon? It’s hard to tell when you’re staring into the night with the naked eye, and phones aren’t much better. Have you seen the quality of most nighttime videos? Woof. Whether you’re searching the skies for first contact or […]
In 2025, Pinterest manifestation boards are out, and sprawling declarations of success and artistic visions written in all caps are in. After all, it worked for Charli XCX. On her private Instagram account, the musician revealed the mission statement she created for Brat in 2023, one year before the blockbuster album was released. The post […]
In his presidency’s final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently
Buying Coffee with Crypto: A Simple Act Upending the Banking System. getty Imagine buying your morning coffee or shopping online with cryptocurrency—no banks involved, and your funds safely deposited on the blockchain that has replaced your bank deposit. This isn’t a distant dream; it’s happening now. Crypto wallets let you store and control your money […]
Hilariously, almost all the third-party integrations the company launched—DoorDash, Uber, Midjourney, and more—are being retired, so those functions just don’t work. (Not that they really worked before.) The scroll wheel is less janky, and the interface improvements are welcome. For example, you can now press and hold the push-to-talk button and scroll up or down […]
Blackmagic has announced that its URSA Cine Immersive commercial camera for shooting high-quality 3D immersive video is now available to preorder “direct from Blackmagic Design Offices,” with the first deliveries going out in early 2025. The camera, which could enable more immersive content for the Vision Pro, costs $29,995 — or a mere 8.6 Vision […]
Finding the perfect holiday gift for the adventurer in your life isn’t always easy. Socks? Boring. A multi-tool? Predictable. Enter these 4K night-vision digital binoculars for $99.99 (reg. $169) — a gadget so cool it might just make you the holiday MVP. Just be sure to purchase it before December 15 to make sure it […]
