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Learn how NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers are exploring different chapters of the Red Planet’s ancient history. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/ESA/University of Arizona/JHUAPL/USGS Astrogeology Science Center NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have captured two 360-degree landscapes that highlight how the missions are revealing details of the Red Planet’s formation, watery past, and potential for life. Located 2,345 miles (3,775 kilometers) apart from each other on Mars — about the distance from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. — both rovers are exploring areas that are billions of years old. But as the nearly 15-year-old Curiosity reaches ever-younger terrain in the foothills of Mount Sharp,…

When I sat down for my interview with two people from Valve, engineer Jeremy Slocum and designer Lawrence Yang, to talk about the company’s upcoming Steam Controller, I had one important question to ask: Why couldn’t I see the controller’s battery life in Steam when connected wirelessly? They laughed before Yang explained that players will be able to see the battery life when the controller ships. That feature just wasn’t available to me in the current Steam beta branch. I nearly ended the interview there, as my one major question had been answered, but figured folks like you (and my…

There’s something deeply relaxing about chucking on a solid pair of headphones, listening to some good music and cleaning muck off structures and vehicles. Not in real life, though. Heavens, no. PowerWash Simulator 2 lets you do that without having to deal with any actual muck — as long as you’re regularly cleaning your keyboard or controller, anyway.You’ll soon be able to carry out powerwashing jobs in six more locations, all of which are in a galaxy far, far away. In the game’s upcoming Star Wars expansion, you can visit the likes of Tatooine and Hoth to clean the Lars…

Elon Musk spent his Friday reposting criticism of competitors after the launch of the XChat app, a standalone messaging option for X users. “Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage all have serious security problems,” read a message Musk reposted, in part. “XChat is the only secure, encrypted messaging app.” Encryption experts I spoke with in the lead-up to this launch expressed cautious skepticism about XChat’s execution and defended other communication platforms, like Signal, as solid choices.One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing X account to log in and start messaging. “I’m a little suspicious of that,…

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science! Volunteers with NASA’s citizen science projects have tested chili pepper plant varieties to grow in space, monitored active regions on the Sun, and analyzed data from experiments on how life adapts to the low-gravity, high-radiation environment of space. Participation does not require citizenship in any particular country – you only need…

Pokémon Champions had a rough launch earlier this month, with fans criticizing its small roster, laundry list of bugs, and the fact that it didn’t include certain Pokémon that were shown in trailers at launch. Despite this, the game will persist as The Pokémon Company plans on using Champions as its official platform for competitive play, so hopefully it improves over time. Despite it all, game director Masaaki Hoshino defends the game as it currently exists, warts and all, saying that the team “tried to do [its] best.” In an interview with Eurogamer Germany (translated by Eurogamer), Hoshino said he…

Here’s something most Nissan X-Trail owners don’t think about until they’re stuck in a downpour on the motorway with spray coming off every truck around them: their wiper blades are probably well past the point of doing their job properly. It’s not an exciting topic. Nobody’s writing about it on car forums. But wiper blade failure is one of the most common and most quietly dangerous maintenance problems on Australian roads – and the 2023-2025 Nissan X-Trail T33 is a particularly clear example of why getting the right blades matters more than most people realise. This piece covers what’s actually…

Amazon has brought another high-profile podcasting name into its fold after agreeing to a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey. Her podcast will expand to two episodes a week starting in July and it will be available across the likes of Prime Video, Amazon Music, Fire TV channels and Audible. New episodes will still hit YouTube and other podcast platforms, according to Variety.Winfrey will stick to the same format she’s been using on YouTube since starting a podcast channel there at the end of 2024. It will feature interviews with authors, celebrities and others in the public eye.In addition, Winfrey…

The losses pile up Victor told Ars that “there were a few players for a few days” but that “the economy was dead in about two weeks.” That was particularly disappointing, he said, because he had spent $10,000 on a high-end Legacy Conglomerate plot after playing an early demo of the game at 2023’s Galaverse 2 show in Malta. In the end, Victor said he earned “less than $100” from that plot, mostly by loaning his deed to other players. Including his spending on Gala’s other games, Victor said he is “down seven figures total… Fortunately, I’m not destitute, but…

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project scanned the Moon with their own telescopes and sent their videos to scientists to share what they saw from Earth. “We were incredibly grateful for the videos people submitted,” said Impact Flash project lead Ben Fernando, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The locations and brightness of flashes observed by different instruments at different locations together can help constrain the nature and origin…