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The Digital Creator Starter Pack: The Investments Critical to Instagram Entrepreneurship

Becoming an internet sensation wasn’t @Ethan.Uncurated’s plan, but with advertising experience, an aesthetic POV, and something to say, he blew up anyway.

Tech News By G/O Media Studios for Chase Dec 13

China’s Mission on the Moon’s Far Side Resumes After Recent Glitch

China’s mission exploring the lunar far side has now entered into its seventh lunar day, with the Chang’3 lander and Yutu 2 rover resuming activities despite a recent communication problem with a relay satellite. The lander and rover successfully awoke on June 27 after entering into hibernation mode back on June 9, reports the Chinese…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 28

China’s Lunar Mission Has Found Mantle Material on the Far Side of the Moon

Scientists in China have released an important first set of results from the Chang’e 4 lunar lander, revealing what appears to be material from the Moon’s mantle on its far side. There’s a surprising amount that scientists don’t know about our Moon—specifically the composition of its interior and how it came to look the way…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 15

China Plans to Launch Its Own Mars Probe Next Year

China’s space agency plans to launch a probe to Mars next year, following its recent successful landing on the Moon’s far side, according to a statement from one of the country’s prominent space scientists. The announcement came ahead of the meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, essentially a governmental advisory group of representatives…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 4

China Successfully Touches Down Chang’e 4, First Soft-Landed Craft on the Far Side of the Moon

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has landed the Chang’e 4 lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, Chinese media reported on Wednesday night (Eastern Time)—marking the first time that any known spacecraft has made a soft landing on the Moon’s more distant half. According to the Xinhua News Agency (a state media…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Jan 3

China to Launch Mission to Moon’s Far Side on Monday

China’s mission to explore the Moon’s far side is set to launch in part on Monday (Sunday in the US). As the Guardian reports: The Chang’e 4 relay satellite will be stationed about 60,000km (almost 40,000 miles) behind the moon and provide a communications link for a rover that is designed to land and explore…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 18

Some of the EPA’s Climate Change Pages Came Back, But They’re Missing Something

It’s been nearly six months since the Environmental Protection Agency unceremoniously axed its climate change webpages under the auspices of updating the site to reflect the Trump administration’s priorities. Given that the administration has proposed backing out of the Paris Agreement and has rolled back a slew of Obama-era climate regulations, you’d be forgiven for…

Earther Brian Kahn Oct 20

What China’s Yutu Rover Learned on the Moon

A team of scientists has finished analyzing rocks collected by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu in 2013 — the first geologic sampling effort to hit the Moon in forty years. The regolith is unlike any we’ve seen before, and it suggests that the Moon’s history is far more complex than we realized. The 1970s were…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Dec 22

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect of Apple’s upcoming redesign turns out not to be the size after all. It’s the apparent abandonment of ports. As Cupertino Whisperer Mark Gurman showed today, the rumored redesign isn’t just a matter of size. Apple…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 6

China Gets A Step Closer To Their Lunar Sample Return Mission

China’s Chang’e 5 test vehicle has successfully completed the most recent stage of its lunar return technology demonstration. Launched on October 24th, the spacecraft swung around the far side of the moon, snapped a gorgeous photo of home, and safely returned to Earth on Halloween. https://gizmodo.com/the-earth-and-the-moon-in-a-single-frame-1652534967 Top image: Chang’e 5 launch on October 24, 2014.…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 1

Crazy people change two wheels while driving the car

Why stop to change your tires when you can keep driving on two wheels and have your passengers go out the car to change them as you keep driving? Sploid reader Officer Mike posted a video similar to this on the comments. Apparently, this is something common in arab countries: It’s called hagwalah. SPLOID is…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Apr 21

NASA snaps a pic of China’s Yutu Rover from 93 miles overhead

China’s Yutu rover has been spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LRO). The 60-inch wide robot can be seen as a pair of white pixels just east of a 1,500 (450 m) foot impact crater. Thanks to the image, we now know Yutu’s exact location. Chang’e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains)…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 31

Watch China’s Chang’e 3 land on the Moon!

This weekend, China became the third country in history to put a spacecraft on the Moon with the soft-landing touchdown of its Chang’e 3 probe and deployment of the Yutu rover. Here now for your viewing pleasure is the footage of its picturesque lunar arrival. https://gizmodo.com/chinas-change-3-rocket-launch-is-one-of-the-sexiest-y-1474782565 https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-chinas-yutu-rover-is-doing-on-the-moon-1483746967 The video lasts six and a half minutes…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 16

Human Poop Is Killing the Coral

This is what coral is supposed to look like. The bad news is that a bacteria from human sewage is killing coral in the Florida Keys and making it look like this. The good news? The problem is fixable with a simple filter. But there’s more bad news. While Florida might be motivated to install…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Aug 19

The World’s Fastest SDXC Card Still Can’t Compete With Compact Flash… Yet

Delkin’s new 64GB SD card may well be the “fastest SDXC card in the world” and with respective read/write speeds of 95 MBps and 45 MBps, it’s not hard to believe. But at $540, who’s it for? $540 is definitely a pro-level price point but as it stands, SD cards are relegated mostly to consumer-level…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jun 29

Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On

Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. Students and faculty from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are getting ready to show off their newest SSD, “Moneta.” But Moneta…

Tech News Max Behrman Jun 3

Our Choice for iPad and iPhone

While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there’s no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore’s noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the electronic…

Climate Change Kyle VanHemert Apr 28

Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible

What do you do when your business model and way of life has been obliterated by the internet? Put up a bitchy sign, of course! I will say—it’s a clever little middle finger of a flyer. [via Consumerist]

Commerce Sam Biddle Apr 5

How to Change a Wheel Faster and (Almost) Painlessly

If you ever got caught with a flat—how about that—you know how much it sucks to jack up your car, especially in the middle of a storm, which is when these things usually happen. Fortunately, someone came up with a very simple solution to avoid the pain: Just get a scissor jack, any battery-powered drill…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 21

I took blurry 5MP phone pics of a girl, and I liked it

Last night, I joined the NY Giz team (and a throng of several hundred strangers) for a Microsoft-sponsored evening with Katy Perry. It was fun. But it was also clear that smartphones have distorted concerts forever. Is that good? On a technical level, the concert was no different from any other pop spectacle—flashing lights that…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 9

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The Digital Creator Starter Pack: The Investments Critical to Instagram Entrepreneurship

China’s Mission on the Moon’s Far Side Resumes After Recent Glitch

China’s Lunar Mission Has Found Mantle Material on the Far Side of the Moon

China Plans to Launch Its Own Mars Probe Next Year

China Successfully Touches Down Chang’e 4, First Soft-Landed Craft on the Far Side of the Moon

China to Launch Mission to Moon’s Far Side on Monday

Some of the EPA’s Climate Change Pages Came Back, But They’re Missing Something

What China’s Yutu Rover Learned on the Moon

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

China Gets A Step Closer To Their Lunar Sample Return Mission

Crazy people change two wheels while driving the car

NASA snaps a pic of China’s Yutu Rover from 93 miles overhead

Watch China’s Chang’e 3 land on the Moon!

Human Poop Is Killing the Coral

The World’s Fastest SDXC Card Still Can’t Compete With Compact Flash… Yet

Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On

Our Choice for iPad and iPhone

Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible

How to Change a Wheel Faster and (Almost) Painlessly

I took blurry 5MP phone pics of a girl, and I liked it

Musk Changes OpenAI Lawsuit So that If He Wins the $134 Billion, OpenAI’s Nonprofit Gets It

Pro-Iran Hackers Target Critical U.S. Energy and Water Infrastructure

‘She-Hulk’ Was Apparently One of Marvel’s Most Successful Shows

The World’s First Eye-Tracking Smart Glasses Are Intriguing and Unpolished

Noah Hawley Is Remaking ‘Terrified,’ Which Shouldn’t Happen

Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral

This Apple MacBook Pro Is Now Under $500 After 78% Off, Grade-A Refurb Deal (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Touch Bar)

Anthropic Launches ‘Project Glasswing’ to Stealthily Spot Cybersecurity Issues for Rivals

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HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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