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SpaceX's Thursday Launch Enables Starlink's New Satellite-to-Cellphone Internet Service
"SpaceX has launched 20 of its Starlink satellites up into Earth's orbit, enabling direct-to-cellphone connectivity for subscribers anywhere on the planet," reports the tech blog New Atlas.
That completes the constellation's first orbital shell, following a launch of an initial batch of six satelli...
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Does the New 'Y2K' Comedy/Disaster/Horror Film Give the '90s the Ending It Deserved?
The new movie Y2K is either a comedy or a disaster/horror film, according to Wikipedia. The film "imagines a turn of the century where the machines don't just glitch or stop working," writes the Hollywood Reporter. "They go full homicidal." With a cast that includes 1990s icons like Alicia Silversto...
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Microsoft Discontinues Its $4,500 All-in-One Desktop, 'Surface Studio'
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog Windows Central:
Microsoft has ended production on the Surface Studio 2+, its ultra-premium all-in-one desktop PC designed for creatives and commercial customers. Starting at a whopping $4,500, the Studio 2+ was the ultimate Windows all-in-one wit...
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Is Valve Letting Third Parties Create SteamOS Hardware?
The Verge thinks Valve "could make a play to dethrone the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft." And it's not just because there's lots of new SteamOS hardware on the way (including a wireless VR headset and a pair of trackable wands, a Steam Controller 2 gamepad, and a living room console.
"Valve has a...
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New Nuclear Fuel Rods Endure 3,452F For 120-Day Test, Raising Hopes for Safer Reactors
Nuclear rods are traditionally clad in metal. But a U.S. energy company wants to develop a better, safer alternative that instead uses silicon carbide composites. Working with America's Energy Department, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems just completed a 120-day irradiation testing period sim...
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