Vega

Europe’s Space Agency to Debut More Powerful Successor to Its Vega Rocket

Vega-C is scheduled to launch from French Guiana in July.

A Celestial Journey Begins in This Excerpt from Shea Ernshaw’s Wilderness of Stars

The latest from the author of The Wicked Deep follows a teen astronomer hiding a magical secret.

AMD’s New RX 6000M GPUs Are Here to Pick a Fight with Nvidia

Previously, AMD didn’t really have mobile graphics cards that could properly take on Nvidia’s line of RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, but that changes today with the introduction of AMD’s new line of Radeon RX 6000M mobile GPUs. Based on AMD’s latest RDNA 2 architecture, the new RX 6000M line is comprised of three new mobile…

AMD’s Radeon VII Is a Great Gaming Card, But That’s Just the Beginning

AMD’s fighting competitors on all fronts. It’s battling Intel in the CPU space, with each company advertising more cores and tacking on more features to woo users (and manufacturers) away from the other. Yet its battle against Nvidia in the GPU space is different. While Nvidia comfortably dominates the high-end space, AMD has been content…

AMD’s New Chips Could Finally Offer a Good Alternative to Intel in Laptops

AMD buddy, we’ve missed you. A few years ago there was a genuine choice between laptops with Intel inside and those with AMD. Then Intel continued to update and improve its processors while AMD did not. It was a big bummer if you wanted options when picking out a laptop, and it was particularly painful…

Here’s A Thirty-Year History Of Getting Closer To Comets

Rosetta‘s lander Philae is warming up to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in just a few hours. It will be our first-ever attempt at touching down on a dirty chunk of ice in space. But how close have we gotten to a comet before? Up close and personal with the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from just…

No, this is not a deleted scene or an abandoned set from a science fiction movie. But you’re not far off. Actually, this colorful structure is the 50m tall, 1000-ton mobile launch gantry for ESA’s Vega launcher in French Guiana, as seen from the bottom looking up, captured by photographer Edgar Martins. [ESA]

Sleek Vega Tablet with Android 2.0, Touchscreen, and 3G Arrives Next Year

I’m psyched to see Android moving into tablets. Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-, 11-, and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier one” carriers in the first half of 2010. I hadn’t heard of ICD before, either: they’re actually based in the UK and Seattle.…

ESA Reveals Next-Gen Reentry Pod, Makes NASA’s Plans Look Kinda Low-Tech

This is ESA’s video unveiling of its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a test-bed for a next-generation reentry pod. The IXV is due to rocket aloft on Europe’s new small Vega launcher in 2012 and test out a range of systems for a “proper” future vehicle. Ditching the simplicity and limitations of the now old-fashioned conical-pod-with-heat-shield design,…

Microworks Vega: 20.1 Inches of Laptop Gigantism

When only the best and most outrageously-equipped laptop will do, check out the Microworks Vega with a 20.1 inch screen and the latest AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 CPU. Besides its absurdly large screen, you can equip it with just about anything available on notebooks, including a Blu-ray burner, EV-DO, GPS, a TV tuner, a…

The Vega Revealed: A UMPC-Like Device That Runs Windows XP

That mystery Korean UMPC we showed you a few weeks back has just been de-mystified. It’s called the Vega, and runs the full-blown Windows XP Operating System on it. Best yet, it costs about 700,000 Won ($700). https://gizmodo.com/new-umpc-from-korea-189188 The UMPC-like device has an AMD Geode LX800 CPU, Windows XP Home (bleh), 256MB of RAM, a…

New UMPC From Korea?

Mobility Today found a picture from an anonymous Korean tipster that seems to show a corner of a UMPC-like device. Is it an UMPC? Why does the picture say Windows XP? What’s the deal with “Pocket PC Vega” too? Weird. It’s going to be running an AMD Geode LX800 and have 256MB of RAM. August…