⚫️ NASA supercomputer video plunges you into a black hole 📱 Apple's refreshed iPad Pro is its thinnest ever device 📺 Walmart's Google-powered streaming box is now available 🎸 Peter Jackson's restored Let It Be doc lands today 🧩 New York Times shares growing Wordle archive | |
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NASA supercomputer video depicts plunge into supermassive black hole | Fortunately there's little chance of Earth ending up in one anytime soon
| NASA has used the used the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation to create a 360-degree video that gives an idea of what it would be like to plunge into a supermassive black hole, Live Science reported. The project took five days for Discover to complete, while a regular laptop would have needed more than a decade. Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, helped to create the visualizations. He said he simulated two different scenarios, "one where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate” ... | |
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Apple finally refreshes iPad lineup | The new 13-inch iPad Pro is just 5.1 millimeters thick, making it the slimmest Apple device ever | Apple has launched the first new iPads since 2022. An online event on Tuesday revealed two updated iPad Pros and two iPad Airs, with both models in 11- and 13-inch sizes, CNET reported. For the updated Pro model, Apple skipped the M3 chip, making the top-end tablet the first Apple device to get the M4. It’s also the first iPad to get an OLED display. The Pro starts at $999 for the 11-inch model, and $1,399 for the larger version. The new iPad Air gets the M2 chip and comes in Starlight, Space Gray, and also new blue and purple finishes. The 11-inch version costs from $599 and the 13-inch version starts at $799. Apple also overhauled two of its popular iPad accessories ... | |
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Walmart’s Google-powered streaming box/smart speaker combo is available to order | It costs $50 and features Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and more
| Walmart has started selling its new “Pro” Google TV streaming box/smart speaker set. The Onn 4K Pro Streaming Device from Walmart’s in-house brand costs a shade under $50 and offers features such as Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, HDR, and a remote, The Verge reported. It also comes with a microphone incorporated into the set-top box that functions like a Nest Mini with Google Assistant, so you can ask the Onn 4K Pro to perform a range of tasks like firing up a YouTube video or managing smart home tech. Wireless networking superior to that of the aging Chromecast with Google TV device is also part of the package ... | |
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Peter Jackson's restored Let It Be documentary available starting today
| Director will be hoping the movie is received as warmly as his Emmy Award-winning docuseries The Beatles: Get Back
| The Beatles’ original Let It Be documentary was released in 1970 and “looked like a portrait of the Beatles breaking up,” according to Variety, while the reworked version “looks like the first rock 'n' roll reality show — and a vision of them coming together.” To create the restored version now on Disney+, acclaimed director Peter Jackson has deployed the same technological tricks used in Get Back to make the old documentary appear “sharper, brighter, [and] more alive, without betraying the original film.” Let It Be hasn’t been officially available since the 1980s, so this will be a real treat for fans of the legendary band ... | |
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NYT Games launches a Wordle archive with access to more than 1,000 past puzzles
| If you still can’t get enough of popular game, this is excellent news
| The New York Times' Games platform has started offering access to more than 1,000 Wordle puzzles from its archive, TechCrunch reported. “Starting today, we’re rolling out the Wordle archive on mobile and desktop, followed by the Games app in the coming weeks,” the media giant said. Completion of the rollout to everyone subscribed to Games and All Access will likely take a couple of months, it added. It said that opening up its archive will allow fans of the popular game to “catch up on the puzzles they may have missed, solve them at their own pace, or simply enjoy more of the game they know and love” ... | |
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