Whenever Doctor Who is ready to cast a new Doctor, the internet is always aflurry with wild suggestions and outlandish “leaks” that, more often than not, never play out as true. But as Doctor Who fandom looks toward the return of showrunner Russell T Davies—and the 14th Doctor arriving in time for next year’s 60th…
The supermodel told InStyle magazine she “loved alcohol” before deciding to change.
<img width="1280" height="720" src="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/webb1-1280×720.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Artist's impression of James Webb" loading="lazy" style="margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%" data-attachment-id="708627" data-permalink="https://www.slashgear.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-has-arrived-at-its-new-home-24708625/webb1/" data-orig-file="https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/webb1.jpg" data-orig-size="1440,810" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="webb1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
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The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its new home. NASA has confirmed the remote observatory successfully entered its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (aka L2) after one last course correction burn. The telescope’s primary mirror segments and secondary mirror have already been deployed, but you’ll have to wait until the summer for the first imagery. NASA will spend the next several months readying the JWST for service, including a three-month optics alignment process.
The L2 orbit is crucial to the telescope’s mission. It provides a largely unobstructed view of space while giving the spacecraft a cold, interference-free position that helps its instruments live up to their full potential. The JWST is expected to study the early Universe using infrared light, providing data that wouldn’t be available from an Earth orbit telescope like Hubble.
The arrival is also a relief for NASA. The stakes were high given the project’s $10 billion cost, of course, but it also proves that the space agency could successfully launch and deploy a sophisticated observatory far from Earth. And while they’re different devices, the JWST is widely considered the spiritual successor to Hubble — with the older telescope clearly in rough shape, expectations are particularly high for the new machine.
🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start #NASAWebb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2. https://t.co/bsIU3vccAj#UnfoldTheUniversepic.twitter.com/WDhuANEP5h
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) January 24, 2022
In 2015, new land emerged in the South Pacific, linking a pair of pre-existing islands, Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai. Hotel owner Gianpiero Orbassano visited the newly formed island, as ABC News reported at the time, and he, along with his son, proceeded to stroll the beaches and climb to the tallest point.…
A new French law says anyone with proof they tested positive within the previous six months is exempt from having to show a vaccine pass.
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” data-medium-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cables-1280×687.jpg” data-large-file=”https://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cables-1280×687.jpg” />AT&T’s symmetrical multi-gig fiber internet speed tiers are kicking off today in a wide variety of metro locations inside the United States, from Atlanta to two different Springfields. All told, as of today the updated fiber network is available in over 70 different towns and cities across the US (approximately 100, according to AT&T’s posted list on January 24, 2022). … Continue reading
Microsoft is finally bringing the original Surface Duo up to date… relatively speaking. As 9to5Googlenotes, the company has finally released its long-promised (and late) Android 11 upgrade for the dual-screen smartphone. The newer operating system is the main draw, of course, but you’ll also find a host of Surface Duo-specific improvements.
You can now play Xbox Game Pass cloud titles using an on-screen controller, for a start. OneDrive also has an “enhanced” dual-screen interface for viewing and editing photos. There are revised app drawer and folder designs with better drag-and-drop support, while the Microsoft feed and Start widgets have received updates. You can have the Surface Duo automatically span particular apps across both screens, and set preferences for answering phone calls when the device is folded. And if you prefer handwritten memos, you can click the top button on a paired Slim Pen 2 to open OneNote.
The upgrade will likely be welcome if you’ve been tired of living with Android 10 for more than a year. At the same time, we’ll understand if it still stings. Android 12 has already been available on other phones for weeks, and in some cases months — you’re still behind, even if the gap has narrowed. While it’s understandable that updates for such a unique phone would take longer, that won’t be much consolation if you were hoping to keep reasonably current.
Microsoft is finally bringing the original Surface Duo up to date… relatively speaking. As 9to5Googlenotes, the company has finally released its long-promised (and late) Android 11 upgrade for the dual-screen smartphone. The newer operating system is the main draw, of course, but you’ll also find a host of Surface Duo-specific improvements.
You can now play Xbox Game Pass cloud titles using an on-screen controller, for a start. OneDrive also has an “enhanced” dual-screen interface for viewing and editing photos. There are revised app drawer and folder designs with better drag-and-drop support, while the Microsoft feed and Start widgets have received updates. You can have the Surface Duo automatically span particular apps across both screens, and set preferences for answering phone calls when the device is folded. And if you prefer handwritten memos, you can click the top button on a paired Slim Pen 2 to open OneNote.
The upgrade will likely be welcome if you’ve been tired of living with Android 10 for more than a year. At the same time, we’ll understand if it still stings. Android 12 has already been available on other phones for weeks, and in some cases months — you’re still behind, even if the gap has narrowed. While it’s understandable that updates for such a unique phone would take longer, that won’t be much consolation if you were hoping to keep reasonably current.
Twenty-five years ago this week, Star Wars was officially changed forever. On January 31, 1997, 20th Century Fox released the Special Edition of Star Wars: A New Hope, with several additions that would become as controversial as anything in modern pop culture. And while it’s easy to remember the releases for the…
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