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A NASA mission will soon be blasting off to investigate the Trojans, a lesser-studied group of asteroids in the outer solar system. The Lucy mission, named after the famed Australopithecus fossil which was key to understanding early human evolution, will be launching later this month and could help teach us about how the solar system formed. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lifted by crane into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. NASA/Kim ShiflettThe spacecraft has been brought…

Microsoft has announced sweeping updates coming to the Xbox games marketplace, Xbox Series X|S settings, and more as part of its efforts to improve the accessibility of its products.The company’s announcement started with game accessibility feature tags, “which will display the accessibility features available in each game so you can make informed decisions before you buy or download” them, are going to make their way to the Microsoft Store on Xbox.Microsoft said these tags will cover 20 accessibility features such as “Narrated Game Menus, Subtitle options, Input Remapping, Full keyboard support, and Single Stick Gameplay” that developers can include in…

“We believe that a thriving community is a company’s most valuable asset,” Community-led writes in its Declaration. “Community scales your business, resources and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels can’t. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Community is the beating heart of the business that keeps the rest of the team running.” It’s a matter-of-fact document, aiming to emphasize the importance of community in building a forward-looking startup, while highlighting the concept’s elasticity. But it leaves a lingering question: What, precisely, do we…

As the year draws to a close we’re treated to the usual flurry of high-end smartphones ahead of next-gen flagships. Those looking for one of the best phones in the business will undoubtedly have their eye on the Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max, Cupertino’s latest technological showpiece.While the design may have barely changed since 2019’s iPhone 11 series, Apple continues to pour its latest hardware and software innovations into the Pro Max. This year’s model looks particularly promising for videographers, thanks to its all-new camera and display capabilities. So come and check out what the latest iteration has to offer…

Google has decided not to replace traditional debit cards and checking accounts after all.The company announced in November 2020 that Citibank, BBVA, and other banks would offer new Plex apps built upon—and heavily integrated with—its Google Pay offerings. These apps were supposed to start reaching consumers who signed up for early access sometime in 2021.But those apps never arrived. Now The Wall Street Journal has reported that “a series of missed deadlines, along with the April departure of the Google Pay executive who championed the project, prompted Google to pull the plug on Plex” before it was ever actually introduced.Google…

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth. In order to get close to the planet, the spacecraft makes use of the planet’s gravity to make increasingly close approaches. It has already made one flyby of Earth and two of Venus, and this was the first of six flybys of Mercury. As the craft passed by, it snapped images of Mercury using the Monitoring Camera 3 on its Mercury Transfer Module, which captures images in black and white with a resolution of…

Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Attention gamers! There is a huge sale going on at Newegg right now. The “Gametober” event is bringing massive markdowns on some of the industry’s best gaming monitors and PCs. We’ve rounded up some of the best sales with the biggest discounts on top brands. Whether you’re looking to upgrade your existing PC or monitor, add a second machine to your line-up, or planning an exciting gift for your child or significant other, then you need to check out these killer deals. From Skyrim to Among…

343 Industries has detailed some of the accessibility features that have been added to Halo Infinite to make it a better, more inclusive game for as many players as possible when it launches later this year. The features were outlined as part of a recent Xbox Accessibility Showcase, which also announced wider improvements to accessibility across the Xbox platform. Paige Johnson, UX/UI producer at 343 Industries, explained that when it comes to accessibility in Halo Infinite, the team at 343 “knew we needed to be intentional about including the gaming and disability community, so that we weren’t being unintentionally exclusive.”“Inclusion is…

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“When we first said we should fold our phones, everyone laughed. The next time, when we said they should be water resistant, we were told it wasn’t possible,” Byengseok Choi, senior professional in Samsung’s Product Planning Group, said with a laugh. As the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 have since demonstrated, Choi’s critics were wrong. But getting there wasn’t easy. Digital Trends sat down with Choi, and two other members of the team responsible for toughening up Samsung’s folding smartphones, to find out how they did it. The team had to develop new materials, new processes,…