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Many of the places NASA wants to send future crewed and uncrewed missions have an atmosphere, which is problematic if you want your payload to reach the surface in one piece. Entering an atmosphere from space, even a thin one like you’d find on Mars, requires a heat shield. NASA …

Paleoichthyologists in China have re-described Nochelaspis maeandrine, a species of large-sized eugaleaspiform fish that lived 415 million years ago (Devonian period). Life restoration of Nochelaspis maeandrine. Image credit: Dinghua Yang. Nochelaspis maeandrine was first described in 1987 from a nearly complete head shield found in the Xishancun Formation near Qujing …

According to new research reported in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the 10-mile- (16 km) high Martian shield volcano called Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity; the last volcanic activity there ceased …

Nvidia pushed a new update for its Shield streaming device yesterday, with a number of new features and enhancements. At CES, the company had announced a refreshed Shield TV, with Google Assistant integration, 4K streaming support, an updated Games application, a small, plug-in microphone that tethers to the Shield (allowing …

The Nvidia Shield Android TV box tries to emulate mainstream game consoles with game-streaming capabilities and an included controller. At CES, Nvidia announced it was pulling another common game console trick — the Shield is shrinking. The new Nvidia Shield is considerably smaller than the last one, and it has …

Rumours are circulating this week that NVIDIA may have cancelled the development of a successor to the NVIDIA Shield Tablet K1. Earlier this year specifications were leaked via an FCC filing that NVIDIA was developing a successor offering 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11ac Wi-Fi. However sources close to its development and …

At its re:Invent developer conference, Amazon today announced AWS Shield, a DDoS protection service for web apps that run on Amazon’s cloud computing service. AWS Shield is generally available today and is already turned on (for free) for all web applications that currently run on AWS — no action by …