You might still be digging for devices to connect to your Wi-Fi 7 router, but Qualcomm is already forging ahead. At Mobile World Congress this week, it showed off a new Wi-Fi 8-capable chip in the FastConnect 8800. It’s designed to provide the kind of extreme bandwidth and concurrent connection …
Read More »AOC Debuts World's First 1,000 Hz Gaming Monitor
If you want the world’s fastest gaming monitor, AOC may well have made it. The new 27-inch QHD monitor can do 500 Hz at 1440, or up to 1,000 Hz at 1080p, making it the monitor with the highest refresh rate in the world. Typically the best gaming monitors use …
Read More »Private Spacecraft to Boost NASA Telescope's Orbit for the First Time
NASA has announced that for the first time, it will contract out a private spacecraft to reboost one of its falling satellites: the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The observatory has spent the past 20 years searching for gamma-ray bursts. The commercial company will launch a new reboosting spacecraft in spring …
Read More »SpaceX Already Has Customers for Starship's First Flight to Mars
SpaceX has had a troubled year when it comes to Starship, with several notably explosive test flights. But that hasn’t stopped customers queuing up to pay for passage for when it is ready. The Italian Space Agency has become the first Starship customer, signing a deal to secure a spot …
Read More »Chinese Satellites Complete First High-Altitude Rendezvous for Possible Groundbreaking Refueling
Two Chinese satellites have completed what could be a first for in-space rendezvous and refueling efforts. They came together in a geosynchronous orbit and have since maintained a steady orbit together. Although unconfirmed, this is thought to be the first orbital refueling at such a height—the two satellites are currently …
Read More »Computer Model Offers First-Ever Detailed Look at Earth's 'Ignorosphere'
The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth’s atmosphere, from the weather that manifests in the troposphere and stratosphere to the vast amounts of heat absorbed by the thermosphere. Sandwiched between those layers, though, lies the mesosphere, an atmospheric region roughly 35 kilometers (22 miles) thick. …
Read More »World’s First Wooden Satellite Aims to Mitigate Growing Space Junk Problem
Researchers in Japan have finished building the world’s first wooden satellite. Called LignoSat—a reference to lignin, wood’s chief organic polymer—the satellite represents a potential solution to the space industry’s growing debris problem.Space junk is such a pervasive problem that it’s becoming more space junk and tricking people into believing they’ve …
Read More »Rolls Royce unveils first electric vehicle
She is known to the world as the Spirit of Ecstacy. She is also called the Silver Lady, the Flying Lady, and Eleanor, to those on a first-name basis with her. And for more than 100 years, she has stood atop the bonnet of each Rolls Royce since before the …
Read More »AMD's First Chiplet GPU for Mobile, the RX 7900M, Debuts in the Alienware m18
AMD has officially added a new flagship RDNA 3 mobile GPU to its stable. The Radeon RX 7900M is the world’s first chiplet-based mobile GPU—and its arrival is a bit of a surprise, as there were no indications AMD would battle Nvidia for mobile supremacy in this hardware generation. The …
Read More »Intel 14900K and 14700K Raptor Lake
Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake refresh is due in October, so we’ve officially entered the “pre-launch leaking” season now that it’s August. Today we have our first actual benchmarks of the top two SKUs, the Core i9-14900K and the Core i7-14700K. Though the results are underwhelming, their poor performance is likely …
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