Tag: prepping

China prepping for mission to bring back material from moon

Chinese technicians were making final preparations Monday for a mission to bring back material from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than four decades—an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more generally. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-china-latest-lunar-mission.html…

Airbnb Files To Go Public

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and comes after reports that the company was prepping an IPO filing this month. Those same reports indicated that…

SpaceX’s Starship SN4 Prototype Fires Rocket Engine For First Time

SpaceX’s newest Starship prototype has fired its engine for the first time, potentially paving the way for a test flight in the very near future. Space.com reports: The SN4, the latest test version of SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle, aced a “static fire” Tuesday night (May 5), lighting up its single Raptor engine briefly while remaining on the ground at the company’s…

Tuxedo’s New Manjaro Linux Laptops Will Include Massive Customization

Tuxedo Computers “has teamed up with Manjaro to tease not one, not two, but several” Linux laptops, Forbes reports: The Tuxedo Computers InfinityBook Pro 15…can be loaded with up to 64GB of RAM, a 10th-generation Intel Core i7 CPU, and as high as a 2TB Samsung EVO Plus NVMe drive. You can also purchase up to a 5-year warranty, and user-installed…

Google Built Its Own Tiny HDMI 2.1 Box To Jump-Start ‘the Next Generation of Android TV’

Google today announced that Android 10 is arriving on Android TV, and it’s about as bland of an update as they come. From a report: Primarily, it’s just the performance and security benefits of Android 10, without a single new user-facing feature. But at the bottom of Google’s blog post, the company hints at why: Google’s busy prepping for the “next-generation…

Regal Cinemas Readying Unlimited Ticket Subscription Program

Regal Cinemas is prepping to launch a new unlimited movie ticket subscriptions service at the end of July in the U.S. Deadline has the details: There will be three tiers of pricing, which work out to $18, $21 and $24 per month, each granting access to unlimited tickets (really). While the monthly price of AMC Stubs A-List movie ticket subscription program…