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International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Thomas Pesquet has dropped his latest video offering a closer look at the key modules that make up the orbiting outpost. This time Pesquet shows us around the U.S. Lab, also known as Destiny, which launched to the ISS aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2001. The French astronaut shot the video tour (below) using a 360-degree camera. This means you can follow him around the module by moving your smartphone or, if you’re watching on a PC, dragging the picture using a mouse. Highlighting the module’s importance, Pesquet describes the U.S. Lab as “the beating…
Apple has big plans for the MacBook Pro in 2021 with a redesign expected to turn the 13in model into a 14in MacBook Pro and a new version of the 16in MacBook Pro. There are many more new features coming to the range, including a more powerful version of Apple’s M1 chip – the M1X – and new mini-LED screen technology. It also seems that Apple will also correct old mistakes with the new MacBook Pro models with the return of MagSafe and the disappearance of the Touch Bar. These changes have been rumoured for some time, and following the…
Apparently longer battery life, a variable 120Hz refresh rate (on the Pro models), and improvements to the rear cameras are not enough to get consumers excited about the iPhone 13 series. A survey conducted of over 5,000 iPhone users by phone trade-in site SellCell reveals that a whopping 64% of the respondents find the 2021 iPhone 13 lineup “not very” exciting or “not at all” exciting. Only 23.2% of those surveyed said that they plan on upgrading to the iPhone 13 line while 76.8% responded with a flat out “no.”Only 14.4% of 5,000 consumers surveyed found the new iPhone 13…
The leading online mobile games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects Digital, returns on November 15-17 for its ninth edition with a fresh focus on everything that’s new and exciting in the mobile game space and beyond.Where is the money being made in the world?What are the new trends in game design?How has the pandemic affected our industry?Who are tomorrow’s gamers?What do the metaverse, transmedia and digital convergence mean for your business?Let’s venture on this journey together.We’ve run 30 Connects events now since 2014, but just because you’re familiar with the format, don’t think you’ve seen it all before.Pocket Gamer Connects…
When Facebook users had finished mocking the company over its calamitous global outage on Monday, October 4, many apparently flocked to rival apps in order to get back in touch with friends and family. The six-hour outage — caused by configuration changes to Facebook’s routers that prevented its computer systems from communicating in the usual way — also impacted Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, which Facebook also operates. With billions of people affected, tens of millions of users made a beeline for rival messaging app Telegram, according to Pavel Durov, the startup’s CEO and founder. “Yesterday Telegram experienced a record increase…
Facebook says the root cause of its outage Monday involved a routine maintenance job gone awry that resulted in rendering its DNS servers unavailable, but first the entire Facebook backbone network had crashed.To make matters worse, the loss of DNS made it impossible for Facebook engineers to remotely access the devices they needed to in order to bring the network back up, so they had to go into the data centers to manually restart systems.That slowed things down, but they were slowed down even more because the data centers have safeguards in place to make tampering hard—for anybody. “They’re hard…
The company points the finger of blame at itself and says that the outage started when Facebook engineers were working on “routine maintenance.” In a blog post written by the firm’s VP of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, the executive says that the company is trying to learn from the outage so that it doesn’t get repeated.Facebook’s outage cost Mark Zuckerberg billions of dollarsJanardham adds, “This outage was triggered by the system that manages our global backbone network capacity. The backbone is the network Facebook has built to connect all our computing facilities together, which consists of tens of thousands of miles…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) enjoy regular meals just like the rest of us, though the microgravity conditions mean that dinnertime in space is a little different to how it is on terra firma. Current ISS astronaut Megan McArthur this week shared a video showing a recent dining session with her fellow space travelers, with the footage revealing a lively atmosphere as everyone comes together to eat and share stories. “Looking forward to another Saturday in with good friends, good laughs, and good space food!” McArthur tweeted alongside the video. Looking forward to another #SaturdayIn with good friends,…
Far Cry Primal – probably not anyone’s favourite (pic: Ubisoft)The Wednesday Inbox hopes there’ll be more Mii Fighter costumes for Smash Bros. Ultimate, as one reader agrees Banana Mania is a disappointment. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk A good CryI was a bit shocked to read that Far Cry 6 is out this week, I assumed it was at least a month away as I’ve seen very little advertising for it and not really heard anyone talking about it. This surprises me as the previews seem to be positive and I always assumed the series was…
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