The now-defunct Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew over and snapped pictures in April 2022 of debris flung onto the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover’s landing capsule.No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn’t mean humans haven’t left their mark — literally. Since 1971 when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian surface with man-made junk, quite a feat from an average of 140 million-miles away. Broken spacecraft debris, parachutes, and rover tracks are just some of the ways our species has disrupted the foreign environment – not to…
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Humans have an innate desire to name things, but to be honest, we’re not always that good at it. Take climate tech: it’s a category of companies and technologies that, broadly speaking, seek to minimize or reverse our impact on the climate while also helping us adapt to its increasing changes. As terms go, climate tech is actually not bad since it defines the sector’s focus in two words. It’s certainly better than its predecessor, clean tech. It’s what startups that today fall under the climate tech banner would have likely called themselves just over a decade ago. It wasn’t…
December is, for many, a time for celebration and reflection. If you’re lucky enough to have downtime during this busy season, you might be looking for the perfect movie to fill it with. One of the best ways to pick a movie on a service like Amazon Prime Video, which has so many to choose from, is to pick a movie that you know won’t be there much longer. That’s exactly what we’ve done here. Steve Jobs is leaving Prime Video at the end of the month, and you should definitely make time for it before it does. The movie, which tells…
Love them or hate them, but robotaxis have certainly been making headlines in 2024. And beyond the glamorous, sci-fi-inspired marketing around Tesla’s recently unveiled Cybercab robotaxi, safety has remained, in one way or another, a recurring theme. Earlier this year, a survey revealed a majority of the U.S. public, or 68%, brought up safety concerns when asked what they thought about having self-driving vehicles (SDVs) on public roads. Yet within that majority, more than half either believe that SDV safety issues can be addressed or that SDVs will actually be safer than humans. Recommended Videos It’s no wonder then that…
We’ll show you how to get your ideal seat on the plane. What do you prioritize when booking your seat on a flight? Choosing your spot can be stressful, especially if you’re traveling during the holidays with a tight schedule and limited options. Do you want the window or the aisle? On a long flight, a window may be preferable for sleeping, but then what happens when you need to get up? Is it really worth awkwardly climbing over a whole row of people to go to the bathroom? I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who…
Apple, Samsung and other phone makers could have big things in store for next year. Like many things, smartphone launches are cyclical. Samsung usually kicks off the first quarter by introducing its new Galaxy S phones, while Apple debuts its new iPhones in September. That will likely continue to be the case in 2025, but there also may be a few surprises in store, if reports and leaks are to be believed. Apple and Samsung, for example, may shake up their approach with new “slim” models in 2025 that could be even thinner than the phones we know today. At the same…
This time last year, PlayStation had given us a roadmap for the brand’s direction moving forward. It made grand commitments to live-service titles, put heavy investments in a mobile initiative, and continued to launch new hardware. If one were to judge PlayStation’s 2024 on the rubric it set for itself, it would have been a failure. But that doesn’t tell the full story. PlayStation’s 2024 felt like a restructuring phase. On the software side, we saw PlayStation embracing young players again, a decision that netted it a big Game of the Year win. Behind the games, we saw even bigger…
There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development products like a wall-mounted smart home hub. According to a new report in Bloomberg, that strategy could also include a smart doorbell. In the wake of canceling its hyped car project, a hard setback with an iPhone subscription service, and delays with AI feature rollout, it seems Apple has found a new sweet spot for product development in the smart home segment. Apple is already rumored to be working on an iPad-like smart home device that will serve as…
Best Buy can still get you an Apple Watch Ultra 2 before Christmas and you’ll save $80 as well. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the most costly model in Apple’s lineup, and it’s one that comes with some high-end features as you might expect. That high price means that it’s always important to take advantage of Apple Watch Ultra deals when they pop up, and that doesn’t tend to happen all that often. And with Christmas now just days away, time is running out if you want to get your new Apple Watch before the 25th. Best Buy can currently get the…
When iOS 18.2 was released just over a week ago, it unlocked a lot of long-awaited features like Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and improvements to writing tools. Now it seems like another update could be just around the corner: version 18.2.1. MacRumors found evidence of the update in their analytic logs, a source that has supposedly revealed quite a few iOS versions before release. Given that this is a minor update, it isn’t likely to come with new features or anything groundbreaking. Instead, it will most likely be targeted at bug fixes, although no specific problems have been named. You…
