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Reaching the moon usually takes days.  Here's why a Tokyo startup is instead giving its lander months after today's SpaceX launch

Reaching the moon usually takes days. Here’s why a Tokyo startup is instead giving its lander months after today’s SpaceX launch

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander on Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toy-like Japanese robot designed to roll up there in the gray dust . It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments …

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Cuba's informal market finds new space on growing internet

Cuba’s informal market finds new space on growing internet

By MEGAN JANETSKY, Associated press HAVANA — In the Telegram group chat, messages roll in like waves. “I need liquid ibuprofen and acetaminophen please,” one user wrote. “It’s urgent, it’s for my 10 month old baby.” Others offer medicine brought from outside Cuba, adding: “Write me in a direct message. Emoji’s spotted lists feature antibiotics, …

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AWS Think Big Space opens at JL Simpson Middle School

AWS Think Big Space opens at JL Simpson Middle School

Amazon Web Services’ newest Think Big Space in Virginia opened Thursday at JL Simpson Middle School in Leesburg. The AWS Think Big Space is an educational lab for students in the school and across the county that builds on the division’s existing computer programming that was first integrated in 2017. IT Division Supervisor Nicholas Grzeda …

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Immersive 'Space Explorers: The Infinite' boldly goes where no VR experience has gone before

Immersive ‘Space Explorers: The Infinite’ boldly goes where no VR experience has gone before

I can’t believe what I see. Hundreds of miles below me, the beautiful blue marble I call home is slowly spinning. As I soar, suspended in awe outside the International Space Station, the clouds and continents I’ve only ever seen from the ground become breathtaking, and my whole perspective of this mysterious planet is transformed. …

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Contrasting experimentation of the tactile space fabric at the exhibition

“Space Popular: Search History” is the fifth installment in MAXII’s “Studio Visit” series.

Alcantara and the National Museum of 21 Century Art (MAXXI), Rome have collaborated, once again, for the fifth edition of the museum Workshop visit series. Conceptualized by design historian and curator Domitilla Dardi, the initiative invites contemporary designers to present their perceptions in the context of the museum’s architectural collections. For this iteration of Workshop …

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Immortals of Aveum is a magical shooter from the minds behind Dead Space and Call of Duty

Immortals of Aveum is a magical shooter from the minds behind Dead Space and Call of Duty

The Game Awards is full of world premieres, but it’s rare that one is as different as Immortals of Aveum done from the start. The first trailer for the game appeared during the Thursday night show and revealed a vast fantasy battlefield with enough explosions, effects and combat to make a Call of Duty game …

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Cloud Computing News

Mangata Networks to create an engineering, manufacturing and space operations center in Scotland

Satellite cloud services company, Mangata Networks, has chosen Scotland as the location for its research and development activities as well as satellite manufacturing, space systems and core network operations. Over the next few years, up to 575 new jobs will be created as part of Mangata’s state-of-the-art engineering and operations center for the manufacture and …

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Ixion review: A complex management sim wrapped in a soulful space opera

Ixion review: A complex management sim wrapped in a soulful space opera

The Ixion magazine Ixion elegantly balances the dynamic play of a colony sim with a meticulously realized sci-fi grand narrative. Its perilous journey through a cold and dangerous universe is vivid and engrossing, though its complex routines sometimes obstruct its storytelling ambitions. Developer: Ramparts Studios Editor: Cassette sets Exit: December 7, 2022 On: the Windows …

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"What if we put it in space?"  Is the new must-have solution to Earth's problems

“What if we put it in space?” Is the new must-have solution to Earth’s problems

Dotted Yeti / Shutterstock.com In most space movies, the answer to every problem is usually to launch a slingshot around the moon or through a black hole. But here on Earth, we need to find more creative solutions to our problems, like lifting everything into space. This seems to be the first question asked when …

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Cuba's informal market finds new space on growing internet

Cuba’s informal market finds new space on growing internet

Q24N (VOA) Havana – In Telegram group chat, messages roll in like waves. “I need liquid ibuprofen and acetaminophen please,” one user wrote. “It’s urgent, it’s for my 10 month old baby.” Others offer medicine brought from outside Cuba, adding: “Write me in a direct message. Emoji’s spotted lists feature antibiotics, pregnancy tests, vitamins, rash …

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