19 percent gen-on-gen IPC vs 10th gen desktop CPUs sounds great—but the verdict is out on the importance of the “up to” hedge, or the impact of reduced core count in the i9 CPUs. Intel Intel shows some fairly modest wins over Ryzen 9 5900X in some of its “RUG” workflow tests—but they lean heavily […]
Intel Intel has launched its latest desktop PC chips having had to retrofit some of its recent semiconductor designs to work on older transistor tech to deliver the processing power required. The stopgap effort has consequences for both the speeds and heat they produce. The US firm claims the Rocket Lake chips deliver a 19% […]
Heading into Saturday’s much-anticipated engine test of NASA’s massive moon rocket, the space agency said repeatedly it was confident the test would be successful as it worked toward the rocket’s first flight by the end of this year in a quest to return astronauts to the lunar surface. But during a private briefing Tuesday morning, […]
NASA fired the four engines of its towering Space Launch System rocket for the first time Saturday after a decade of development, but the engines were cut off well short of the intended duration, a sign that something went wrong. NASA had been hoping to fire the four RS-25 rocket engines for eight minutes, but […]
Intel’s 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will be team blue’s answer to AMD’s Zen 3 chips, and they’re going to be an interesting bridge between technologies as Intel continues to iterate on its 14nm process. They are the follow-up to last year’s 10th-gen Comet Lake chips, which officially debuted in the spring. Rocket Lake has […]
It was a historic moment for SpaceX, which became the first private corporation to launch people into orbit, and for NASA, which has struggled to regain its footing after retiring the Space Shuttle in 2011, leaving the U.S. no option but to rely on Russia to ferry its astronauts to space for as much as […]
NASA’s is preparing to launch astronauts from American soil, with an American rocket and spaceship, for the first time in nearly a decade. SpaceX plans to launch the astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, on May 27 through a Commercial Crew Program mission called Demo-2. Gwynne Shotwell, the president and COO of SpaceX, told Business […]
Intel’s new Xe graphics architecture may soon arrive as an integrated desktop graphics solution for its upcoming Rocket Lake-S processor. With Rocket Lake-S rumored to launch later this year, barring any development or production delays caused by current uncertainties surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, we could see Intel’s integrated Gen 12 graphics, which are based […]
If you didn’t already know it, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos isn’t just sitting at home all day counting his billions. He’s also keeping a close eye on Blue Origin, the private space company that he set up two decades ago. It’s already performed multiple tests of its New Shepard reusable rocket system that it plans […]
Rocket Lab When you think of rocket launches, you probably think of huge companies like Boeing or SpaceX manufacturing massive rockets like the Starship. But Rocket Lab is taking the opposite approach: instead of building bigger rockets with larger payloads, it’s making rockets that are smaller, lighter, and more affordable. We spoke with company founder […]
Daredevil “Mad Mike” Hughes died on Saturday, February 22, after an accident during the latest launch of his homemade, steam-powered rocket near Barstow, California. Hughes had already piloted his rocket to several thousand feet in a successful test launch in 2018, but Saturday’s effort, which was being filmed for a new Science Channel series called […]
SpaceX Elon Musk tweeted out two new photos showing how work on SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype is coming along. The commercial space company expects to fly the ship to the moon and hopes to use it to help establish a colony on Mars In a tweet posted on Tuesday and captioned with “Droid Junkyard, Tatooine” […]
[embedded content] If everyone’s favorite Marvel symbiote Venom was a clock, what would it look like? That may sound like a riddle, but it’s not. It’s a Kickstarter campaign. Simply called Ferrofluid Clock, it’s an analog desk clock in which the hour and minute hands are made of an oily dark magnetic liquid, called ferrofluid, […]
SpaceX has pretty much perfected the art of landing a 40-meter-tall, 20-ton booster back on terra firma. Now it’s honing its skills for catching the nose cone, too. It’s all part of the private space company’s effort to build a reusable rocket system aimed at cutting the cost of space travel. Earlier this week, SpaceX […]
[embedded content] It wasn’t so long ago that talk of bringing a rocket back to Earth in a controlled landing elicited facial expressions ranging from confusion to incredulity. And then along came SpaceX. Now another company is aiming to replicate SpaceX’s ability to reuse rockets for multiple launches, though it’s working on a rather different […]