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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is at work 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and as you can imagine, researchers have collected a lot of images of the universe in that time.

To really put Hubble's image library to the test, NASA has a tool on its website that allows you to plug in your birthday to see the image that Hubble snapped on that special day. Users can enter the month and date that they were born, and the tool will cycle through its library and present an awesome image that the telescope snapped.

The results of using the tool can be directly shared to Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest via buttons at the top of the image. In other Hubble news, the space telescope captured a wild image of a galactic game of "tug-of-war", you can check out that image here. If you are interested in reading more about Hubble, check out this link here.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and still, to this day, Hubble is shocking people around the world at its quality of images.

Hubble has snapped another awesome image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, which William Herschel first discovered in 1785. NASA states that the galaxy is 150 million light-years away from Earth and resides in the constellation of Virgo. The camera that took these images was installed by astronauts in 2009.

Hubble took this image using its Wide Field Camera 3, which is able to capture ultraviolet light, visible light, and infrared light. Due to its versatility, the Wide Field Camera 3 gives researchers a tonne of useful information about the cosmos and its many mysteries. If you are interested in reading more about this topic, check out this link here.

NASA has released an incredible image that shows the chaotic heart of our Milky Way galaxy with the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in the center.

The above image was captured by NASA's Chanda X-ray Observatory, and from looking at the image, we can see Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that is located at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* appears as a purple, and white blob in the center of the image, and around it are a variety of gasses.

Chandra used its captured the image with different bands of X-rays which appear as orange, green, purple, and then combined that with radio data. The image is actually comprised of 370 separate pointings of the telescope. If you are interested in reading more about this image or would like to look at similar images, check out this link here.

Japan is taking robot design and space exploration to a new level with a very peculiar robot design that resembles a culturally impactful movie character.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has partnered with Sony, Doshisha University, and Japanese toymaker Tomy to create the ball-shaped robot. The robot can transform from a ball into its "full" configuration that pops open a camera that is designed to take photos of the surface of the Moon.

The robot only weighs 8.8oz, and the control technology was developed by Sony while the design was done by Tomy and Doshisha. The robot has been under construction since 2016, with a study being released. However, the main construction and the involvement of Sony began in 2019 and 2020. Ispace will launch its lander and the exploration robot that looks similar to BB-8 from the new Star Wars movies in 2022. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as most of the other cryptocurrencies, took a large hit in price after the news of China's ban was announced and Elon Musks Tesla announcement.

Now, Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to seemingly comically agree with a Tweet from Blockfolio, a cryptocurrency portfolio tracker, who said that Musk should create a hot tub that generates its heat from mining Dogecoin. Elon Musk replied to Blockfolio's tweet by saying it's a "great idea", and as a result, the price of Dogecoin began to increase in value.

Here's what was said, "A hot tub that's heated by mining dogecoin. Elon Musk, I don't care how, just make it happen." Musk stated, "Great idea". Now, it's definitely not confirmed by any stretch of the imagination that Musk will build a hot tub that is powered by Dogecoin, but if he was going to it would probably be through The Boring Company - the company that released and sold 20,000 units of Not A Flamethrower. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed some details about how he and his team at SpaceX will be constructing the world's largest commercial rocket.

The information comes from a series of tweets from Musk, one of which was a reply he did on a picture of Starship's "thrust puck". For those that don't know what Starship is - Starship will replace SpaceX's current workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, and become the world's largest operational rocket once development is completed. The rocket is being constructed at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas.

Musk has said that Starship will use a first stage booster called 'Super Heavy', which will be what the rocket uses to exit Earth's gravity. Super Heavy is currently in development and uses 29 of SpaceX's Raptor engines with plans to increase the number of Raptor engines to 32 later this year. If all goes to plan, and improvements are made to the Raptor engines, Super Heavy will be able to generate a ridiculous 7,500 tons or 16.6 million pounds, or 234 metric tons of thrust.

The atmosphere of Mars is quite dry and thin, which is why its surprising when clouds form on the Red Planet.

Usually scientists find clouds forming around the equator of Mars, when Mars' orbit takes it furthest away from the Sun. To researchers surprise the Curiosity rover saw some clouds forming above it much sooner than first anticipated. The researchers saw cloud filled with ice crystals that caused the Sun's light to be scatter, which gave off some colors.

As you can probably imagine, discoveries such as this one have led scientists to a deeper understanding of how clouds form on Mars. So far, researchers understand that clouds that form on Mars typically sit an altitude of about 37 miles. However, the clouds that Curiosity managed to spot were much higher, which led scientists to believe that they are made of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

Xiaomi has just come back from the future, and unveiled its absolutely insane 200W wired charging technology for smartphones... yes, you read that right -- 200W wired charging.

Not only do they have 200W wired charging up their sleeve, but also 120W wireless charging which is equally as bonkers. The new 200W wired charging from Xiaomi on their in-house Realme X2 Pro smartphone and its 4000mAh battery can have it charged up from 0-100% in just 8 minutes flat... there are no words.

Hell, the 120W wireless charging can charge up the 4000mAh battery in just 15 minutes which will blow virtually every other fast-charging smartphone in the world over. Apple's latest flagship iPhone 12 Pro Max and Samsung's flagship Galaxy S21 Ultra don't even come close to that with their respective fast-charging technologies.

The new Battlefield shouldn't be too far away now, with Battlefield 6 leaker Tom Henderson saying EA's ambitious new first-person shooter will be set during World War 3.

In a new tweet, Henderson says: "Battlefield 1 - World War 1. Battlefield V - World War 2. #BATTLEFIELD - World War 3". Henderson thinks that the new Battlefield will "take place after Battlefield 4" with a "near-future setting" where WW3 sees the USA vs Russia, and you're an "elite unit hired by these superpowers".

I think at this point it doesn't matter where, or when the new Battlefield game is set... it just has to be a great, kick-ass Battlefield game. After the last few dismal entries, EA and DICE need this... more so, Battlefield fans and gamers in general need (and want) a great Battlefield game.

Intel has just unveiled its very first 5G modem with the new Intel 5G Solution 5000, a new 5G modem through its partnership with MediaTek and Fibocom.

The company announced the news during its all-virtual Computex 2021 keynote, with the new modem will offer up nearly 5x the speeds of a high-speed Gigabit LTE connection, with Intel teasing up to 4.7Gbps download speeds and up to 1.25Gbps upload speeds. If you can't get 5G where you are at the time, the Intel 5G Solution 5000-powered phone that you are using will fall back to LTE Cat 19.

Intel's new 5G modem will work with Windows, Chrome, and Linux systems so it will find Intel (5G) Inside of millions of designs over the coming years.

Samsung and LG have both kicked off production of super-high-end 120Hz displays for Apple's next-gen iPhone 13 smartphones.

Apple's higher-end iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max smartphones are said to get the higher-end 120Hz LTPO displays from Samsung, meanwhile, the regular iPhone 13 will have a display from LG and stay in the 60Hz club.

The new displays have the best Apple buzz words of course, which they're said to be more "technologically sophisticated" than the panels used on the current-gen iPhone 12 family of handsets. The move to LTPO technology will let Apple enjoy power savings, where it can individually light pixels up on the display versus the entire display. This will result in great power savings on the new iPhone.

The West Midlands Police Department thought they were busting an illegal weed operation, but instead found themselves discovering a bitcoin mining farm instead.

The operation was part of around 50 or so warrants for cannabis-related operations, but the authorities discovered a bitcoin mining farm. The regular themes between the two were discovered: heat and electricity consumption were sky high, if you'll pardon the pun.

The West Midlands Police Department explained: "We executed a drugs warrant on the 18 May at a premises on a #Sandwell industrial unit - and uncovered a cryptocurrency 'mine' that was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply".

We're in the middle of the greatest graphics card shortage of all time, and here we are teasing Intel's upcoming Xe-HPG gaming-focused card based on the Intel DG2 family of GPUs.

Intel's upcoming Xe-HPG PCB has been leaked, teasing what happens underneath of the board in its evaluation and testing phase. This is an engineering sample and will look nothing like the final retail cards will look like, and I'm sure they won't even look anywhere near as good as those concept images from when Chris Hook was running things.

Tom from Moore's Law is Dead teased the PCB, showing that it's quite a long card in its engineering sample form. There's plenty of details here, with this being the 512 Execution Units (EUs) version of Intel Xe-HPG, which will be joined by 384 EU and 128 EU versions of the card.

MSI is about to unveil its new GeForce RTX 30 SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition graphics card, which it will detail during its "Tech meets Aesthetic" event on June 1.

We might not all be in Taipei, Taiwan for Computex 2021, but the all-virtual Tech meets Aesthetic event will see MSI not just unveil its new GeForce RTX 30 SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition graphics card, but also fan-less X570 motherboards, new laptops, monitors, cases, peripherals, and more.

The actual "Tech meets Aesthetic" event website has references to the MSI products that are about to be announced, with VideoCardz spotting a listing for the SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition graphics card. Remember, NVIDIA will be launching its new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti on June 2... so we could expect a tweaked GeForce RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM 35th Anniversary Limited Edition graphics card.

Marvell is the first out of the gate to reveal the industry's first PCIe 5.0 SSD controller, the new Bravera SC5 supports PCIe 5.0 and NVMe 1.4b standards which offers up to an insane 14GB/sec of bandwidth.

PCIe 5.0 enabled SSDs will have 32GT/s of bandwidth to play with, up from the 16GT/s on offer with new PCIe 4.0 motherboards, and up from the 8GT/s we've been using for the last 10 years with the older PCIe 3.0 standard.

Thad Omura, vice president of marketing, Flash Business Unit at Marvell explains: "Bravera SC5 SSD controllers are first to market with innovative data center features that extend Marvell's flash storage technology leadership. We're working with the entire ecosystem to enable SSD vendors and Do-It-Yourself cloud service providers to deploy the most advanced flash storage solutions".

F*ck sake... the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AORUS Master graphics card costs $3300 right now... which is just, there are no words.

The stupid pricing on these cards was noticed by Momomo on Twitter, and shared on Twitter -- prices of MSI and GIGABYTE's upcoming custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards. The prices are coming from UK and European retailers Lambda-Tek and SkyTech.

The retailers have custom MSI GeForce 3080 Ti SUPRIM X, and a stack of custom GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Eagle + Eagle OC cards, Vision OC and Gaming OC, and then the flagship AORUS Master graphics card.

Techland just revealed Dying Light 2's December 7, 2021 release date, gameplay footage, and new details, but the devs still have lots of info to drop.

A bit ago Techland kicked off its new Dying 2 Know series that explores Dying Light 2's story, environments, characters, weapons, and more. One of the more interesting things was the new City Alignment System that lets you shape the in-game world based on your choices and who you choose to help.

There's more to come, though. The developers are currently collecting fan questions that will serve as the inspiration for Dying 2 Know Episode 2.

Battlefield leaker Tom Henderson has tweeted that the Battlefield Alpha "should be" dropping in July, with the announcement of the Alpha to take place during EA Play.

EA Play takes place a month after E3 2021, with EA Play kicking off on July 22 -- but Henderson notes that it could be an "Oh and the Battlefield Alpha is available to play right now" type of deal during the event. But my biggest question is, if Battlefield is in such good shape... this is awfully late for an Alpha of the game.

Another thing is that EA said in a blog post back in March, close to a full 3 months ago now, that Battlefield 6 was "tracking towards the franchise's earliest Alpha". EA Chief Studios Office Laura Miele said all the right buzzwords at the time, adding: "the gameplay is at an unprecedented scale, and we are taking full advantage of the technology in the next-gen consoles.

If you want the very best Chia coin crypto mining SSD, then look no further than the new Sabrent Rocket Plotripper Pro NVMe M.2 SSD.

Yeah... Sabrent has made a new SSD in the theme of AMD and its core-crunching Ryzen Threadripper CPU with its new Rocket Plotripper SSD. Sabrent is making two different SSDs here, with the Plotripper and Plotripper Pro, the regular Plotripper 2TB having 10,000 TBW (terabytes written) while the Plotripper Pro (in both 1TB and 2TB capacities) has 27,000 and 54,000 TBW, respectively.

Perfect for Chia coin mining.

Ubisoft's Far Cry 6 development team will answer community questions in a new Reddit AmA on Tuesday, June 1 at 3PM EST.

The Far Cry 6 reveal was plain awesome, and the game looks like a perfect whirlwind storm of FPS chaos, political revolution and guerrilla warfare, and next-gen gameplay. Everything we've seen so far looks pretty good--Guapo the pet gator, Chorizo the wheely-boy, all the makeshift weapons, the new Supremos backpacks that let you shoot mortar rockets from a rucksack, tons of vehicles (many of which have guns).

We still have questions. Lots of questions. What's up with monetization? Is there tons of crafting? What about co-op or PVP? How big is Yara? Three of Far Cry 6's top developers are jumping in answer your questions.