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A secret Chinese space plane found itself in orbit for the third time, and the launch of its American counterpart was postponed

Late yesterday evening local time, a Chinese secret unmanned spaceplane was sent into space on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. This is the third flight of the reusable vehicle, capable of landing on a runway on its wings. On the same day, the American X-37B spaceplane was supposed to take off into space, but the launch was canceled for technical reasons. Image source: NASASource: […]

Ingredients for the origin of life have been found in the geysers gushing out from under the ice of Enceladus.

A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini interplanetary probe has led to a surprising discovery. In the fountains of Saturn's moon Enceladus, molecules and compounds have been discovered that are capable of generating and abundantly supporting biological life as we know it. It's like finding a car battery instead of a watch battery, the scientists who made the discovery said. A plume of gas escaping from cracks on the surface of Enceladus. Image source: NASA/JPL-CaltechSource: […]

The openSUSE project sums up the results of the logo competition

The results of the competition to select new logos for the openSUSE project and the Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll and Kalpa distributions developed within it have been published. The winners were selected by public voting: openSUSE main logo openSUSE Tumbleweed. Three logos that showed very close results were recognized as winners. openSUSE Leap openSUSE Slowroll openSUSE Kalpa The logo replacement work is being carried out as part of […]

Starlink received a license to connect 2000 smartphones directly to communications satellites

As satellite communication technologies develop, it becomes available to ordinary users of cellular networks. According to Bloomberg, last Thursday the Federal Communications Commission issued Starlink a temporary license to test technology for direct communication between smartphones and satellites in the United States. The experiment will be conducted in partnership with telecom operator T-Mobile US. Image source: StarlinkSource: 3dnews.ru

Spotify now has an AI playlist generator based on text descriptions, but it’s not available to everyone

Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has begun testing an AI-based feature that creates playlists based on text descriptions. Discovered by TikTok user @robdad_, this innovation could radically change how Spotify users interact with music content. However, it is not yet known whether this feature will be available to all users. Image source: EyestetixStudio / PixabaySource: 3dnews.ru

Cruise to fire almost a quarter of staff amid accident scandal

As it became clear today, reductions in the personnel structure of Cruise will not be limited to nine managers. CNBC has learned of an internal mailing at Cruise notifying it of the need to lay off 900 employees, which corresponds to approximately 24% of its total workforce. Image source: CruiseSource: 3dnews.ru

Mozilla has launched a catalog of add-ons for the Android version of Firefox

Mozilla has announced the readiness of the infrastructure and add-on catalog for the Android version of Firefox. Firefox for Android is the first mobile browser to offer a full, open add-on ecosystem. At the beginning of November, by the time the catalog was launched, it was planned to adapt about 200 add-ons for the Android version of Firefox, but in the end the plan was exceeded and on the day of the official opening of the catalog for installation […]

Intel introduced Xeon D-1800/2800 and E-2400 processors for edge systems and entry-level servers

Along with the announcement of the fifth generation Xeon Scalable processors, Intel also updated the Xeon D and Xeon E model ranges. There are quite a lot of changes and innovations in the presented chips. Thus, the Xeon D lineup is traditionally divided into two branches: Xeon D-1800 and Xeon D-2800. Already the Xeon D-1700 and D-2700 series have been adapted to work in servers […]