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  Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission wrapped up last week when the sample container parachuted down in Australia. The mission certainly looked like a success at every step along the way, but the true test is whether or not it collected the sample it flew out there to get. Today, the Japanese …

  Intel’s John Bonini, Intel VP and GM of Client Computing Group Desktop, Workstations and Gaming, writes that Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake platform will debut in Q1 (other rumors say March), putting it about five months away. Beyond support for PCIe 4.0 and an emphasis on Intel’s continued ability to …

  Spotting exoplanets isn’t as simple as pointing a telescope at the sky and picking out the planet-shaped things. The worlds orbiting distant stars are too dim and tiny for that, but we can detect them with the help of planet-hunting satellites like TESS and the dearly departed Kepler. These …

  Micron has made a pair of announcements around next-generation memory technologies, HBMnext and GDDR6X. The latter will debut with the upcoming RTX 3090, which will offer 12GB of onboard RAM. There has been talk that Nvidia might bump high-end RAM capacities (and there’s no mention of an RTX 3090 …

  One of the best outcomes of Lisa Su’s tenure as CEO of AMD has been the company’s roadmap execution. Under her predecessors, AMD’s roadmaps were often more like a guidelines than an actual rule (to steal a phrase). According to AMD’s quarterly earnings call this week, however, the company …

Chicxulub Asteroid Caused End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction, New Study Confirms The end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago eradicated roughly 75% of the animal and plant species on Earth, including whole groups like non-avian dinosaurs and ammonites. Debate lingers over what caused this extinction, with intense volcanic activity in India’s Deccan …

OnePlus CEO Confirms a New Budget Phone Is Coming OnePlus has become one of the top smartphone makers in the world, and it got there by blazing a path through the “budget flagship” space. Each year, OnePlus makes its phones a little more expensive, which has left budget buyers feeling …

People liked their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices, except for the part where then had a tendency to burst into flames. Samsung went through two recalls last year as it attempted to salvage the situation, but in the end it opted to simply end sales of the Note 7. It …

A new study led by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) provides the strongest evidence to date that sharks arose from a group of bony fishes called Acanthodii (acanthodians, or ‘spiny sharks’). General view of the Doliodus problematicus specimen, showing the ventral part of the individual viewed in dorsal …

Stone Temple Consulting has published a new study supporting Google’s claim that it doesn’t use Chrome browser data for discovering new URLs for its search index. The test was pretty simple: They created a “couple of pages that Google didn’t know about,” then they had “a bunch of people visit …