NASA Conducts Final Test on Mars Helicopter Before Launch NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is finally taking shape. The rover finally has a name — Perseverance, and engineers have wrapped up testing on the rover’s flying companion. The Mars Helicopter just spun its blades on Earth for the last time. When …

Loss of Smell and Taste Reported as Early Symptoms of COVID-19 Symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, typically include a dry cough, fever and shortness of breath. But evidence is beginning to emerge from other countries and now from the UK that sudden loss of …

Early Mars Had Multiple Water Sources, New Study Shows An analysis of two Martian meteorites — Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 — shows that Mars likely received water from at least two vastly different sources early in its history; the variability implies that Mars, unlike Earth …

Understanding source code, compressed code and compiled code       There are loads of coding for beginners resources out there, but often they don’t actually start at the very beginning. Here we’re going to look at common roadblocks encountered by beginners trying to learn to code. You may know that …

Setting up a Microsoft Audience ads campaign   Microsoft Audience Ads is the native ad platform within Microsoft Ads that allows PPC advertisers to expand their reach for whatever products or services they are trying to sell. You can find many articles out there saying how expensive native advertising can …

Crippled No Longer: Matlab Now Runs on AMD CPUs at Full Speed A few months ago, we covered how Mathwork’s Matlab software didn’t run workloads on AMD CPUs at full speed. These products use the Intel Math Kernel Library, which will only run fully optimized code on Intel CPUs. AMD …

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Goes on Sale April 6 for $1,000   Google has essentially owned the premium Chromebook market ever since it launched the first Chromebook Pixel way back in 2013. Now, Samsung is about to dive in with its Galaxy Chromebook, which it unveiled at CES 2020. Samsung has …

Scientists Decode Genome of Sterlet Sturgeon An international team of researchers from the United States and Europe has produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for the sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus), a small species of sturgeon from Eurasia. The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus). Image credit: Andreas Hartl. Sturgeons are among the oldest species …

NBA Draft May Be In August Now. As the NBA continues to try to salvage its season and figure out the upcoming event schedule amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, a new potential time frame for the 2020 NBA Draft has emerged. “Any scenario where the draft happens, it’s very …

More Then 50 Players Will Be Up For Grabs In NFL Draft. With just above three weeks remaining until the start of this year’s draft, the NFL has begun the process of inviting prospects to join them for virtual interviews that will air during the draft, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero …