Galaxy Watches can now tell the time on different planets

[ad_1] Last updated: April 2nd, 2024 at 15:45 UTC+02:00 Samsung has launched a new watch face for Galaxy Watch users who like to look up to the sky and wonder about our solar system. Samsung is doing justice to the ‘Galaxy’ moniker with the release of this new watch face, which was developed in collaboration … Read more

Engineers enlist NASA to send yet another time capsule to the moon — 24 sapphire discs will contain ‘the very essence of humanity’ printed over 170 billion pixels but who will read them?

[ad_1] NASA, in collaboration with a team of international scientists, researchers, designers, and artists led by French engineer Benoit Faiveley, is set to send another time capsule to the moon.  The project, titled “Sanctuary on the Moon”, is part of NASA’s ambitious Artemis CLPS program and enjoys the support of UNESCO and the patronage of … Read more

You can get a MacBook Air for $699 and a Dell XPS 13 for just $599 – is this the best time ever for laptop buyers?

[ad_1] Both the Apple MacBook Air and the Dell XPS 13 are outstandingly good premium laptops – and both are on sale for some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen currently. For example, Walmart currently has the Apple MacBook Air M1 for just $699, which isn’t just a record-low price but a whopping $300 … Read more

Microsoft’s repair-friendly Surface puts other laptop makers on notice – and it’s about time

[ad_1] Microsoft recently unveiled its upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, and while they’ll be initially targeted towards schools and businesses rather than regular consumers like you and me, the Redmond-based company has a new design ethos that will – hopefully – benefit everyone. Both new Surface devices have been designed from the … Read more

Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time

[ad_1] Climate change is starting to alter how humans keep time. An analysis1 published in Nature on 27 March has predicted that melting ice caps are slowing Earth’s rotation to such an extent that the next leap second — the mechanism used since 1972 to reconcile official time from atomic clocks with that based on … Read more

Eight years after launch, No Man’s Sky gets computer-generated space stations that are different each time

[ad_1] No Man’s Sky is still getting major updates. Developer Hello Games’ “Orbital” update, due Wednesday, adds procedurally generated space stations (so they’ll be different every time), a ship editor and a Guild system to the nearly eight-year-old space exploration sim. Up until now, space stations have been one of the few parts of No … Read more

Want to break the geekiest world record of them all? Here’s how engineers spent 75 days to calculate Pi to 105 trillion digits — just in time for Pi day

[ad_1] Engineers at StorageReview decided to do something incredibly geeky for this year’s Pi day (March 14 – 3/14) – beat their own record for calculating Pi. Considering that the previous record, achieved last year, was 100 trillion digits, the challenge was no mean feat. While – spoiler alert – they smashed the record, it … Read more

“Sleep happens” – it’s time to stop micromanaging your nights, says sleep specialist

[ad_1] When you think about how well you are sleeping, one factor that probably comes into it is the number of hours you’re clocking up each night. All of today’s best sleep trackers report this kind of data. But focusing on these numbers could be doing more harm than good, according to Angela Kondinska, a … Read more