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Hours After Liberating Malevelon Creek, Helldivers 2 Players Spot Enormous Cloaked Ships Over Automaton Worlds – IGN
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Emily Blunt Says She’s “Appalled” Over Resurfaced Video Showing Her Call Server “Enormous” – Hollywood Reporter
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‘It makes an enormous difference’: Warren Buffett revealed the simple ‘trick’ to earning a fat retirement nest egg — here’s what it is and how to pull it off – Yahoo Finance
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An enormous Martian cloud returns every spring. Scientists now know why.
A cloud longer than California streaks across Mars’ ruddy cheek. It looks as though an impressionist painter loaded his palette knife with white and scraped a line across the canvas as far as the oily paint would travel.
This is not what astrophysicist Jorge Hernández Bernal first saw in 2018 when the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera(Opens in a new window) — affectionately known by the European Space Agency as the Mars webcam(Opens in a new window) — posted a new picture. To the average eye, it was grainy and inscrutable, with the resolution of a standard computer camera circa 20 years ago. But Bernal, who was studying Martian meteorology at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, immediately recognized the shadow as something else: a mysterious weather phenomenon happening on the Red Planet.
It wasn’t until researchers looked at the cloud with better equipment that Mars revealed the cloud in all its sprawling glory. The team dug deeper into photo archives, and discovered it had frequently been there. It was there through the aughts, and it was even there during NASA’s Viking 2 mission(Opens in a new window) in the 1970s.
A low-resolution camera on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe first captured the enormous cloud in 2018.
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The secret had been knowing when to look for it.
“There were people thinking ESA was faking it,” Bernal told Mashable. “It was a bit hard because I was really young at the time [of the discovery], and I was on Twitter trying to speak to people.”
Bernal and his team published their observations in 2020, dubbing it the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC for short. With the cloud spanning 1,100 miles, scientists believe it could be the longest of its kind in the solar system. That work was followed with a second report, recently published(Opens in a new window) in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, revealing just how the volcano makes this extraordinary cloud, alone in an otherwise cloudless southern Mars that time of year.
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“There were people thinking ESA was faking it.”
How scientists discovered Mars’ long cloud
For decades, the icy cloud arrived at sunrise on the western slope of Arsia Mons(Opens in a new window), an extinct volcano. The once lava-spewing ancient mountain is about 270 miles wide at the base and soars 11 miles into the sky. It dwarfs Mauna Loa, the largest Earth volcano, which is about half its height.
The curious case of the gigantic cloud is how it escaped notice for so long. But some of the spacecraft around Mars, such as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are in orbits synchronized with the sun, meaning their cameras can’t take pictures until the afternoon. By that time, the fleeting cloud, which lasts only about three hours in the morning, is already gone.
The Mars Webcam wasn’t originally meant for science. Its purpose was to provide visual confirmation that ESA’s Beagle 2 lander(Opens in a new window) had separated from the Mars Express spacecraft in 2003. In hindsight, the space agency is glad it decided to turn the basic camera back on(Opens in a new window).
A simple camera not even intended for science on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft photographed the enormous cloud.
Credit: ESA
Just as southern Mars experiences spring, the cloud grows and stretches, making a wispy tail like a steam locomotive, over the mountain’s summit. Then, in a matter of hours, the cloud completely fades away in the warm sunlight.
For a young scientist working on his doctorate degree, the natural wonder became a sort of muse. While the realist in him said that recreational space travel is impractical — perhaps even unethical given the world’s climate problems — he couldn’t help but try to draw what the cloud might look like from the ground.
“I keep imagining how it would be for a little civilization to have this huge cloud every year at the same time, like maybe the solstice is something for them like a coat,” he said, smiling. “This is the imagination part.”
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Why Mars’ Arsia Mons makes the gigantic cloud
So what makes this strange, stringy cloud?
For starters, it’s not smoke billowing from a volcanic eruption. Scientists have long-known the volcanoes of the Red Planet(Opens in a new window) are dead. Rather, it’s the so-called “orographic effect:” the physics of air rising over a mountain or volcano.
The researchers ran a high-resolution computer simulation of Arsia Mons’ effect on the atmosphere. Strong winds whip at its foot, making gravity waves. Moist air is then temporarily squeezed and driven up the mountainside. Those drafts blow up to 45 mph, forcing the temperature to plunge by more than 54 degrees Fahrenheit. This allows water to condense and freeze at about 28 miles above the volcano’s peak.
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“I keep imagining how it would be for a little civilization to have this huge cloud every year at the same time, like maybe the solstice is something for them like a coat.”
The enormous Arsia Mons cloud returns year after year in Mars’ springtime for about 80 days.
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For about five to ten percent of the Martian year, the atmosphere is just right(Opens in a new window) to make the cloud, with the dusty sky helping moisture cling to the air. Too early in the year and the air would be too dry, according to the team’s model. Too late in the year and the climate would be too warm for water condensation.
But though the scientists’ simulation was successful in forming the cloud under Arsia Mons’ unique conditions, it could not replicate the cloud’s lengthy tail. Scientists say that’s the biggest question of the moment — a mystery that could be solved with spectrometers, devices on spacecraft that identify the kinds of particles in a substance. A closer study of the cloud’s water ice might give researchers more clues.
“I would like to see this cloud with my eyes, but I know where my place is,” Bernal said. “Sometimes we think of space like a utopia. I am happy looking at it from [Earth, through] my spacecraft.”
Enormous ‘Swiss cheese’ bubble surrounding Earth mapped in incredible new images
An enormous,1,000-light-year-wide “superbubble” surrounds our planet. Now, astronomers have made the first ever 3D map of its magnetic field.
The gigantic structure, known as the “Local Bubble,” is a hollow blob of diffuse, hot plasma enclosed by a shell of cold gas and dust along whose surface stars form. It is just one of numerous hollows found in the Milky Way — making our galaxy resemble an enormous slice of Swiss cheese.
Superbubbles are shock waves from the death throes of multiple massive stars, which in their final acts explode in enormous supernovas that blast out the gas and dust needed to birth new stars. As time passes, other stars, such as our own, wander inside the cavities left behind by these explosions.
Related: Earth is at the center of a 1,000-light-year-wide ‘Swiss cheese’ bubble carved out by supernovas
Despite having some insight into superbubble formation, astronomers are still unsure how these giant bubbles evolve through interaction with our galaxy’s magnetic field, and how this impacts star and galaxy formation. To find out more, a team of astronomers, working at a summer research program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, charted the Local Bubble’s magnetic field.
“Space is full of these superbubbles that trigger the formation of new stars and planets and influence the overall shapes of galaxies,” Theo O’Neill, who at the time was an undergraduate student in astronomy, physics and statistics from the University of Virginia, said in a statement. “By learning more about the exact mechanics that drive the Local Bubble, in which the Sun lives today, we can learn more about the evolution and dynamics of superbubbles in general.”
The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is filled with a magnetic field that gently steers stars, dust and gas into mind-bending structures such as gigantic, bone-like filaments. Astronomers are unsure what gives rise to galactic magnetic fields. The Milky Way’s magnetic field, though considerably weaker than Earth’s, permeates throughout our galaxy and deep its outer halo, subtly influencing the formation of everything around it. However, as the magnetic field’s force is weak compared with the force of gravity, and it only acts on charged particles, astronomers have long omitted magnetism from their calculations. This makes sense in the short term, but over vast cosmic timescales, it could mean that their models are overlooking substantial effects.
“From a basic physics standpoint, we’ve long known that magnetic fields must play important roles in many astrophysical phenomena,” Alyssa Goodman, an astronomer at Harvard University who was one of the mentors for the research program, said in the statement. “But studying these magnetic fields has been notoriously difficult. Today’s computer simulations and all-sky surveys may just finally be good enough to start really incorporating magnetic fields into our broader picture of how the universe works, from the motions of tiny dust grains on up to the dynamics of galaxy clusters.”
To chart the magnetic field map, the astronomers used previous information from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope, which had inferred the rough boundaries of the Local Bubble from the concentrations of distant cosmic dust. With this in hand, the researchers turned to data from another ESA space telescope, Planck, which showed the faint microwave emissions of polarized light from the dust. As the polarization, or the direction of vibration, of the light is a key giveaway to the magnetic field acting upon the dust, the astronomers used it to stitch together the data points into a vast 3D tapestry of the superbubble’s surface.
The researchers note that to make their map they have made some big assumptions they will need to test — notably that the polarized dust lies on the bubble’s surface — but once they have fine-tuned its accuracy, they believe it could become an invaluable tool for studying star formation across our galactic backyard.
“With this map, we can really start to probe the influences of magnetic fields on star formation in superbubbles,” Goodman said. “And for that matter, get a better grasp on how these fields influence numerous other cosmic phenomena.”
CES 2023 Highlights: A Flying Car, Enormous TVs and a Laptop-Charging Bike
We’re live on the CES 2023 show floor in Las Vegas, and there is a lot to see. There’s tech that’ll hit store shelves this year, gadgets that are a few years off, and crazy concepts that may never become a reality. There are dazzling TVs, a range of robots and, yes, a flying car. CES is a good mix of hype and dazzling new tech, and we’re sifting through it all to bring you the highlights: the must-see reveals and most innovative new tech we spot.
We’ve gotten a good look into what companies like Samsung, LG, Intel, Nvidia and Dell have in store for 2023: beastly gaming rigs, an 8K projector and a futuristic concept device or two. Beyond this year, we’ve gotten the big news that Sony is making its own car, scheduled to hit the roads in 2026.
CES rolls on until Sunday, and we’ll update this list with all the major reveals. Consider this your TL;DR. If you read only one CES recap, make it this one.
A flying car is actually happening, for real this time
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We’ve been waiting on flying cars since at least the Jetsons, and we now appear on the precipice of realizing that dream. And by “we” I mean a company called Aska, which revealed its A5 flying car at CES 2023. It’s more than a concept: Aska has opened preorders for the $789,000 vehicle. At CES 2023, Aska cofounder Guy Kaplinsky said FAA approval for the A5 could happen “within a month.” Aska hopes to use the A5 to start a ride sharing service in 2026.
Read more: This $789,000 flying car could get off the ground faster than you think
Charge your laptop while you pedal
The eKinekt BD 3 bike desk is powered through energy created by your pedaling.
Acer
Treadmill desks are great, but the stationary bike desk is where the future of work-from-home calorie burning lies. Acer takes it a step further with its new desk-bike combo that also powers your devices as you go, making it the first bike desk of its kind to experiment with powering a whole workstation using kinetic energy. This gizmo is either an ingenious feat of multitasking or the unironic fruition of a Black Mirror episode.
Nothing but screens
The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i in its horizontal position.
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Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i is a triumph of screen real estate. Featuring two screens and multiple configuration options (stacked vertically or side-by-side with the Bluetooth keyboard, turning one screen into its own haptic keyboard or touchpad, etc.), the shapeshifting laptop also comes with its own origami-style stand and active pen for taking full advantage of the dual displays.
Read more: Best Gaming Laptops From CES 2023 So Far
Move over, Switch and Steam Deck
The Razer Edge is finally happening.
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There’s a new handheld gaming device in town. Coming Jan. 26, the long-teased Razer Edge could give the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck a run for their money. It’s more tiny Android tablet than Steam Deck copycat, but the specs are impressive, and the $400 price tag ain’t bad either. We’re keeping our eyes on this one.
Samsung’s 8K projector turns your
The Samsung Premiere.
Samsung
Big TVs are cool, but big projectors may be cooler. At CES 2023, Samsung demoed its Premiere projector, an ultra-short throw projector that can create an image up 150 inches diagonally on your living room wall. Ultra-short throw, or UST, refers to the distance from the wall. Instead of placing it at the back of the room, you put the Premiere right up against the wall, as the shot above shows. There are built-in speakers and Dolby Atmos to fill a room with sound as well as light. Read more about it here.
Sony’s first car is coming in 2026
Sony and Honda’s Afeela car.
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EVs are big business, and Sony wants in. The electronics giant is teaming up with Honda on a new brand of electric vehicle called Afeela. The Afeela logo appears on a narrow screen, or “media bar,” on the vehicle’s front bumper. This can also interact with people outside the vehicle and share information such as the weather or the car’s state of charge.
Unlike the car Sony showed off at CES 2020, all those years ago, this one is actually hitting the market. No word yet on pricing, but Sony said its Afeela car will hit North American roads in 2026. Japan and Europe will follow.
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This foldable also slides
Samsung showcased its display concepts at CES 2023.
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Samsung gave us a look at a tantalizing mobile device concept, the Flex Hybrid. As the demo above shows, the left side of the Flex Hybrid can fold, like the Galaxy Fold, while the right side can slide out to extend itself. It’s wild.
The concept comes courtesy of Samsung Display, not the Mobile arm of the South Korean megacorporation responsible for making and selling phones. But the press release touting the concept promised it’ll bring to CES “innovative OLED products of all sizes, small, medium and large, to provide a glimpse into the future of displays.” Samsung isn’t the only company tinkering with the future of phones — see TCL’s 2020 scrolling display — so watch this space for more flipping, folding and scrolling devices.
Read more: Why We’re Excited about Foldable Phones Again
A laptop in (glasses-free) 3D
Asus joins Acer for laptops with glasses-free 3D, but hitches its wagon to OLED instead of IPS.
Asus
Images leap off the screen of this Asus laptop — not literally, but close. Its OLED screen produces a 3D experience sans glasses, much like competitor Acer’s similar IPS version. The OLED screen matters because the technology promises a visibly crisper 3D rendering. Asus’s 3D panel, aimed at creatives, uses eye-tracking to produce the 3D experience.
The TV that puts all others to shame
As if a 97-inch OLED TV wasn’t enough, LG went and made it wireless.
LG
It’s the world’s largest OLED TV: LG’s 97-inch model was actually unveiled last year, but in 2023 it’s gone wireless. That means the world’s largest screen with the best picture that technology allows is now free of that ugly jumble of cords. We’ve been covering TVs at CES for years, and even we were surprised — CNET TV guru David Katzmaier was so impressed, he says LG is putting all other TVs to shame with this one.
Read more: Best TVs of CES 2023
$200 and under phones are getting really, really good
The TCL 40 SE, unveiled at CES 2023.
TCL
Between TCL’s 40 Series phone lineup and Samsung’s Galaxy A14 5G, CES 2023 is shaping up to be a breeding ground for affordable smartphones. Samsung’s $200 newbie is only a modest upgrade to last year’s A13, but it’s even less expensive and features an improved selfie camera. Meanwhile, the TCL lineup starts at $129, launching initially in Europe before coming to the US, and all three variants include a 50-megapixel main camera. All signs point to increasing manufacturer interest in the budget phone market.
Smartwatches want to know if you’re OK
The Citizen CZ Smart watch debuted at CES and will arrive in the US this March.
Citizen
Smartwatches to track heart rate, sleep quality and blood-oxygen levels abound, but Citizen takes it a step further with its CZ Smart watch, which also measures fatigue and alertness levels. It’ll even tell you your chronotype — that is, whether you’re a night owl or an early bird. It’s another sign that smartwatch makers are focusing more and more on measuring the way sleep and stress impact overall wellbeing.
BMW’s concept car doubles as your buddy
BMW’s i Vision Dee concept car.
BMW
Technology can be so impersonal. BMW’s i Vision Dee hopes to fix that. Using sophisticated AI, this concept car ditches the servant schtick of Siri and Alexa. Instead, it hopes to double as both your car and your friend. The i Vision Dee is an EV sports car with an exterior of 240 E Ink panels. You can use those panels to program a digital face into the car’s grille — because it’s an EV, the ventilation that grilles typically provide isn’t actually needed — or change the car’s colors at the click of a button.
The BMW i Vision Dee is for now just a concept, but some of its features will trickle out to BMW’s actual cars. BMW CEO Oliver Zipse said, for instance, that the AI-powered HUB technology the company put into the i Vision Dee will come to real cars in 2025.
The thinnest gaming laptop in the world
The Alienware x14 is the thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop.
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Alienware surprised us with four new laptops ahead of CES, including the Alienware x14, which the company said is the thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop in the world. Featuring a 2,560×1,600-pixel display with a 165Hz refresh rate, it’ll sell from $1,799 when it ships this winter. A bigger version, the Alienware x16, starts at $3,099. These laptops are for people who are willing to sacrifice some power for slicker designs.
Read more: Best Gaming Laptops From CES 2023 So Far
Invisible laptop touchpads
The LG Gram’s hidden trackpad lights up under your fingertips.
LG
LG showed off its new Gram Style laptop, which features a hidden touchpad that presents itself only when you touch the palm rest. The stealthy haptic touchpad lights up under your fingers when touched, showing you where to tap and drag to navigate the screen. It’s a neat detail we didn’t know we wanted.
A giant leap for PC gamers who also use consoles
Dell’s Nyx concept controller.
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Dell’s Concept Nyx gaming controller looks at first glance like just another third-party Xbox controller, albeit with some fancy lights. Alas, it’s more than that. The Nyx controller is tricked out with a bunch of hidden inputs, which multiply the functionality of the controller.
The idea seems to be to bridge the gap between a gamepad and a keyboard. PC gamers are able to use hotkey setups to have dozens of inputs, far more than the typical gamepad, which is often limited to the options presented by a d-pad. That means they can use a wider range of attacks in an MMO, for instance, or cycle between six or seven guns in a first-person shooter rather than the two or three that console gamers are often limited to.
Roku has entered the chat
Roku will now make its own TVs.
Roku
Roku announced it’s expanding into TVs, essentially competing with its own partnerships with more established TV makers such as TCL, Hisense and Sharp. The move has long been rumored and makes a lot of sense for the streaming device maker. Roku TVs will come with the brand’s Voice Remotes, which include the popular (and ever-useful) “find my remote” feature. Looks like LG and Samsung have some new competition.
Upgrades coming to your laptop’s brains
Intel’s 13-gen announcements tell us a lot about upcoming laptops.
Intel
Sleek displays and dazzling screens are nice, but often it’s the tech you don’t see that matters most. Intel unveiled a boatload of new 13th-generation processors, which will power a huge range of products and improve performance on a wide range of laptops.
Less abstract than chip performance are the upgrades they can yield. The new generation of Intel CPUs bring with them Unison, which lets iPhone and Android devices send and receive texts from your PC, as well as Thunderbolt 4, which among other improvements will set as a standard the ability to run two 4K external displays. Expect to see these features in product announcements over the next few days.
Then there was AMD’s press conference. Much of what the company touted was its pro-grade tech, like the AMD chips that were used to build Avatar 2’s visual effects. As far as products you can actually buy, AMD has partnered with HP for the Dragonfly Pro, a laptop designed for freelancers, and Lenovo for new Legion Pro gaming laptops. For PC gamers, AMD’s high-end Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 7950X3D processors are coming this year.
Cloud gaming, now in your car
Nvidia brings GeForce Now to your car.
Nvidia
Chief among Nvidia’s announcements are improvements to GeForce Now, its cloud gaming service, which allows you to stream games on laptops, phones and more. In short, the power of Nvidia’s GeForce 4080 GPU is coming to the cloud. If you subscribe to the premium tier of GeForce Now — henceforth known as GeForce Now Ultimate — you can now stream games at 240Hz, utilize ray tracing (which significantly improves how light is rendered in-game) and DLSS 3 (which uses an algorithm to boost frame rate while retaining image quality).
Plus, GeForce Now is coming to… cars. If your car has a screen on its dash, you can play while the car is in park. If there are screens behind the driver or passenger seats, those sitting in the back can game on the go. For starters, Nvidia is partnering with Hyundai, BYB and Polestar.