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NASA is launching a rocket on Sunday to study a 20,000-year-old supernova

A sounding rocket toting a special imaging and spectroscopy instrument will take a brief trip to space Sunday night to try and capture as much data as it can on a long-admired supernova remnant in the Cygnus constellation. Its target, a massive cloud of dust and gas known as the Cygnus Loop or the Veil Nebula, was created after the explosive death of a star an estimated 20,000 years ago — and it’s still expanding.

NASA plans to launch the mission at 11:35 PM ET on Sunday October 29 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment, or INFUSE, will observe the Cygnus Loop for only a few minutes, capturing light in the far-ultraviolet wavelengths to illuminate gasses as hot as 90,000-540,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s expected to fly to an altitude of about 150 miles before parachuting back to Earth.

The Cygnus Loop sits about 2,600 light-years away, and was formed by the collapse of a star thought to be 20 times the size of our sun. Since the aftermath of the event is still playing out, with the cloud currently expanding at a rate of 930,000 miles per hour, it’s a good candidate for studying how supernovae affect the formation of new star systems. “Supernovae like the one that created the Cygnus Loop have a huge impact on how galaxies form,” said Brian Fleming, principal investigator for the INFUSE mission.

“INFUSE will observe how the supernova dumps energy into the Milky Way by catching light given off just as the blast wave crashes into pockets of cold gas floating around the galaxy,” Fleming said. Once INFUSE is back on the ground and its data has been collected, the team plans to fix it up and eventually launch it again.

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HTC is launching the U23 Pro 5G on May 18th

You could be forgiven for thinking that it’s April Fool’s Day Part 2 but it really isn’t, HTC is actually launching a new phone on May 18th. Really. The news comes directly from HTC who posted a teaser image on its Twitter account revealing the May 18th announcement. The phone in question is called the […]

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It’s official – Oneplus is launching its first Android tablet on February 7th

Having trademarked the OnePlus Pad moniker in July 2021, we now have confirmation that OnePlus will launch its first Android tablet alongside the OnePlus 11 on February 7th. What’s more, the brand even teased an image of the OnePlus Pad on its blog, showing off the design of its rear panel which could divide opinions. […]

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Five months after launching, Android 13 is running on 5.2% of devices

In the past five months we’ve seen smartphone brands update their handsets to Android 13 as well as launch new models running this latest version of Android out of the box. While the likes of Samsung are leading the charge when it comes to issuing OS updates, there are other brands such as Motorola that […]

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New Xiaomi phones are launching on July 4 with (hopefully) amazing cameras

Xiaomi is launching the 12S, 12S Pro, and 12S Ultra on the 4th of July. These will be the first Xiaomi flagships developed with Leica imaging.
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Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots today in Los Angeles

Uber Eats is launching not just one but two autonomous delivery pilots today in Los Angeles, TechCrunch has reported. The first is via an autonomous vehicle partnership with Motional, originally announced in December, and the second is with sidewalk delivery firm Serve Robotics, a company that spun out of Uber itself.

The trials will be limited, with deliveries from just a few merchants including the Kreation juicery and organic cafe. Serve will do short delivery routes in West Hollywood, while Motional will take care of longer deliveries in Santa Monica. "We'll be able to learn from both of those pilots what customers actually want, what merchants actually want and what makes sense for delivery," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch.

Uber will apparently charge for the deliveries from Serve. However, autonomous vehicle deliveries in California require a permit that Motional reportedly doesn't possess, so it appears that customers won't be charged for deliveries from their vehicles, for now. In addition, human operators will take control when near the drop-off locations "to ensure a convenient and seamless experience for customers," a spokesperson said. 

Serve's robots, meanwhile, will mostly be able to operate autonomously, but remote operators will take control in certain cases, as when crossing a street. 

Customers within specific test zones will have an option to have their food delivered by an autonomous vehicle and can track it as with a regular delivery. When the food arrives, they'll be able to unlock the vehicle with a passcode to obtain their meals, either from a Serve cooler or the backseat of a Motional car. "The hope is that [the trials] are successful and that we learn over the coming months and then figure out how to scale," Uber's spokesperson said. 

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The OnePlus 10 Pro popped up to space ahead of launching in Europe and North America on March 31st

First launched in China back on January 11th, the OnePlus 10 Pro is finally set to make its official debut in North America, European, and UK markets on March 31st. Before then, OnePlus sent its newest flagship 38,000 meters into the stratosphere to take some stunning photos of the horizon with its Hasselblad color-tuned camera. […]

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Samsung isn’t launching a new Exynos chip on November 19 after all

Samsung isn’t launching a new Exynos chip on November 19 as previously assumed, the company clarified in response to speculation.
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A new leak says theOnePlus Nord N10 5G and Nord N100 are launching in the US on October 26

We all know that the OnePlus 8T is being announced on October 14th sporting a 120Hz Ultra-smooth display and a fancy glass rear panel, but it seems that the brand is launching a couple of more affordable phones in its new Nord series less than two weeks later. Dubbed the Nord N10 5G and Nord […]

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Motorola One Fusion Plus specs leak, launching Q2 in India and the US

Motorola’s One series has been a successful mid-range collection for a while and specifications have leaked about the upcoming Motorola One Fusion Plus. The often reliable tipster Evan Blass recently tweeted about the new series’ existence, the Motorola One Fusion and One Fusion Plus, code named Titan and Liberty respectively. 91mobiles now has specs to […]

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‘Call of Duty: Warzone’ is a free battle royale game launching tomorrow

As expected, Activision has announced Call of Duty: Warzone, a brand new free-to-play battle royale based on its popular first-person shooter franchise. If you already own a copy of Modern Warfare, you'll be able to play the game starting tomorrow at…
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Leak points to OnePlus 8 series launching with wireless charging

Ever since the OnePlus 6 launched back in 2018 sporting a glass rear panel, fans have wondered why wireless charging wasn’t present. It’s a theme that has continued through multiple launches culminating in the recent OnePlus 7T back in October. With the rumor mill having started up already for the OnePlus 8, a new leak […]

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MediaTek is launching an affordable 5G chip on November 26

Taiwanese (mid-range) chip maker MediaTek has been on a roll lately, announcing their G90 series of gaming chips back in July with a new 5G chip about to drop at the MediaTek Summit on November 26. The company’s upcoming 5G chips will cover both high-end and mid-range devices with prices starting at around $ 300. That’s […]

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HTC is launching a phone with Android Oreo… in 2019

HTC honestly just had a run of bad luck that knocked them off the Android mountain, but some of their recent decisions make it hard to feel bad for them. Case in point, the brand new Exodus 1s that’s running Android 8.1 Oreo in 2019. What? Not only is this brand new phone running an […]

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The Morning After: Listing ‘basically everything’ launching with Disney+

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. We spent most of yesterday watching Disney's Twitter account spam everything (we mean everything) that'll be live on Disney+ when it launches soon. Seminal works like, er, The Secret of the Magic Gourd, Million…
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Huawei’s Harmony OS-powered Vision TV is now launching internationally

Huawei’s latest and greatest smart TV is soon launching in Europe after debuting its new operating system and other features in China earlier in 2019. Huawei first announced its plans to launch a new, somewhat-Android-based operating system many months ago during the initial targeted Presidential US trade ban against the Chinese mega-corporation, and only finally […]

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Huawei Mate 30 is ‘going full circle’ and is launching on September 19th

Huawei’s latest flagship is officially confirmed to be only two weeks away, and it is set to debut Huawei’s latest silicon and circular camera hardware. Huawei‘s P-series has been seeing most of the spotlight for the company these days, however their true flagship full of all the features and the introducer of new technologies remains […]

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Leaked roadmap points to multiple TCL-branded smartphones launching in the next 12 months

TCL might not be a brand that you are totally familiar with but it’s America’s most popular TV manufacturer, as well as being the licensee of some house-hold smartphone brands such as BlackBerry and Alcatel. Thanks to a leak by Evan Blass detailing the company’s roadmap, it seems that the brand is prepping to launch […]

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It’s official: Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 is launching on August 7

It’s that time of year where we endure a steady drip-feed of leaks and rumors about the next edition of Samsung’s Galaxy Note series of smartphones. Recent leaks point towards Samsung launching two variants of the Galaxy Note 10 range consisting of a regular and a Plus model. We have one less thing to wonder […]

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Huawei launching great new midrange 7nm Kirin 810 chip in the Nova 5

Huawei is gearing up to launch their new budget Nova 5 to show off their far more interesting new Kirin 810 which looks to be an excellent new mid-range chipset. Huawei has been producing and exclusively using their own in-house HiSilicon Kirin mobile chips for a good while at this point, and while the flagship […]

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Is the Pixel Watch really real and launching this year??

We’ve heard plenty of rumours for a Google Pixel Watch dating back well into last year, however newly uncovered patents suggest the new wearable could actually exist and be launching this year. Ever since Google announced Android Wear way back in 2014 there have been murmurs of the company releasing their own exemplary smartwatch, however […]

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LG is planning on launching a phone with an attachable second screen

LG has a few concepts in its graveyard of ideas, including small secondary displays and external modules. Both of those ideas have been wiped from their current crop of flagships, but it looks like they’ll be reviving both ideas in one swoop, whether or not that’s a good idea. The device will reportedly feature a […]

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Samsung and Micron launching UFS 3.0 storage and LPDDR5 in the next two years

Qualcomm just held a 4G/5G summit in Hong Kong and the head of mobile memory product planning for Samsung, Jay Oh, said that new United File Storage (UFS) products will launch in the first part of 2019. UFS 3.0 will replace the current standard, UFS 2.1, and come in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB storage variants. UFS […]

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Google denies launching optimized version of Maps for China

Google's presence in China has increased marginally in recent times, but those excited about a rumoured optimized version of Maps for the country will be disappointed to learn the claims are untrue. Earlier this week Japan news site Nikkei reported t…
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YouTube Remix is set to be Google’s third music streaming service, launching early 2018

I know what you are thinking; the world needs yet another music streaming service. For so long we’ve been limited to choosing between Spotify, Tidal, Google Play Music All Access, Apple Music, Pandora, YouTube Red, and the other ones we don’t have space to mention. As you can see, Google already has two music streaming […]

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Samsung is launching a contest to produce games for its India-oriented Tizen Store

The best way to encourage participation? By turning everything into a competition, of course. Tapping into the human penchant for contest, Samsung has launched its Tizen App Challenge.

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