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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will fly on Mars for the first time on 8th April

Back on 18th Feb, the Mars Perseverance Rover made a crazy but deadly landing on the red planet. They finally succeeded in landing the rover including the ingenuity helicopter. Now, we may be just over two weeks away from the first powered flight by an aircraft on an alien world. Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on the red planet NASA’s 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which landed on the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, could make its first flight as early as April 8, agency officials announced today (March 23). That pioneering liftoff will be the…

You can now buy Tesla cars using Bitcoins

Tesla Inc will accept payments for its vehicles through the cryptocurrency Bitcoin confirmed the company’s chief executive officer Mr. Elon Musk in a tweet today. The shift comes as the company invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin earlier this year and follows through on the commitment that it made in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which disclosed the decision. “You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin,” tweeted Musk, who was officially made the “Technoking of Tesla” this month. People outside the U.S. will be able to buy a Tesla with bitcoin “later this year,” Musk said,…

OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro launched in China, 65W charging, 50W wireless charging, Hasselblad Cameras, 120Hz Displays, and More

The wait is finally over; after months of leaks, teases, and rumors, the OnePlus has finally lifted the curtains off the OnePlus 9 series, and both devices, as we have guessed, are amazing in every sense of the way. If you were holding your upgrade plan because you wanted to wait for the OnePlus devices, now is the time because both the devices are as impressive as they get. OnePlus warmed up the crowd a few weeks ago by announcing its three year, $150 million partnership with legendary camera maker Hasselblad. Hasselblad cameras flew on Apollo 11 to the moon,…

Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 860, 2019’s Overclocked 855+ in 2021. To be featured on the Poco X3 pro

The same way that the Snapdragon 870 is an overclocked 865+, the 860 too is an overclocked 855+. Rebranding of older chips with new names is Qualcomm’s way of reusing an older node on a flagship 8xx chip numbering scheme. Qualcomm eventually released the 860 today packed deep inside the Poco X3 Pro! The million dollar question is, why would Qualcomm rebrand older chips especially one that is 2 years old? The reason is… LG recently launched the LG Velvet on the Snapdragon 845 node, one from 3 years ago. But there was a shortage of Snapdragon 845 devices, so…

Finnish astrophotographer took around 1250 hours and 12 years to create a 1.7 Gigapixel of the milky way

Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio spent 1,250 hours over the course of about 12 years creating a single image that reveals the magnificent beauty of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Back in 2009, Metsavainio began this project, which is a 1.7-gigapixel mosaic of the Milky Way. It took him twelve years to get the whole picture which is around 100,000 pixels wide and has 234 individual mosaic panels stitched together.. The resulting image (which you can see below) captures the entire galaxy, speckled with about 20 million of the Milky Way’s roughly 200 billion stars. All images below are clickable for…