Mar 16
Netflix is testing ways to clamp down on account sharing, making it easier for those with borrowed profiles to create their own instead – for a fee.
Mar 16
The anticipated OnePlus Nord 2 CE Lite has popped up in multiple leaks, including in FCC documents and from industry sources. Here’s everything we know so far.
Mar 16
The Webb Space Telescope has passed a critical milestone in its commissioning phase, as mission controllers fully aligned the observatory’s primary imager.
Mar 16
A 6.5 foot space rock was hurtling toward Earth. Even though astronomers only caught sight of it two hours before impact, NASA is calling it a big success
Mar 16
Bethesda is back with more details about its upcoming game “Starfield,” offering fans some insight and looks at concept art in a new development log.
Mar 16
Come seeking adventure and salty old pirates, stay for a delightful crew getting in touch with their feelings. HBO Max’s Our Flag Means Death reimagines the myth of those dangerous scallywags in a series loosely inspired by the true story of Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby), the “gentleman pirate.”
Mar 16
For years, fans of George Miller’s Mad Max films have looked at another film on his to-do list, Three Thousand Years of Longing, as “The One Before Furiosa.” In every interview, Miller has always said he’s going to make Furiosa, but he wants to do this other movie first. Well, now, the first details about the film are…
Mar 16
Certain ticks in Georgia are carrying an emerging virus that can make people sick, new research shows. The study found traces of the Heartland virus, one of the most recently discovered tickborne germs in the U.S., in the state’s lone star tick populations. The virus found in these ticks appears to be genetically…
Mar 16
“The American economy is very strong and well-positioned to handle tighter monetary policy,” Fed chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.
Mar 16
Astronomers can breathe a little easier. NASA has confirmed the James Webb Space Telescope has passed checks and tests verifying its optical performance following a “fine phasing” alignment on March 11th. There also aren’t any critical problems or detectable blockages. Optical systems are performing “at, or above, expectations,” NASA said.
The fine phasing corrected alignment errors by using optical elements inside the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam science instrument. The mission team gauged the performance by aligning and focusing the telescope on a star. The technology is very sensitive — as you can see above, Webb captured galaxies and stars in the background despite the very bright star in the middle.
NASA expects to finish aligning the observatory across all instruments by early May or sooner. After that, the team will spend two months prepping the instruments for capturing and sharing the first practical images and data in the summer.
The milestones show not just that Webb survived the 930,000-mile journey to its observation point, but that the telescope’s novel segmented mirror design works as promised — particularly important given the $10 billion price tag, numerous delays and Hubble’s mounting problems. For the most part, scientists can now concentrate on how they’ll use Webb to study the early universe and other elusive aspects of the cosmos.
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