NASA Administrator doubles down on humans landing on Mars by '2035'

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Oct 23, 2019 4:02 AM CDT

NASA has reaffirmed its stance on wanting to get humans across the stars and walking on the red neighboring planet, Mars.

NASA Administrator doubles down on humans landing on Mars by '2035'

According to Jim Bridenstine, NASA's Administrator, NASA plans on first achieving a successful Moon landing in 2024 and then moving onto Mars in 2035. Bridenstine sat down at a planel discussion at the International Astronautical Congress and said "If we are accelerating the moon landing, we are accelerating the Mars landing. I suggest we can do it by 2035."

The reason for Bridenstine to push up the Mars landing to 2035 from 2033 is because "We need to learn how to live and work in another world. The moon is the best place to prove those capabilities and technologies. The sooner we can achieve that objective, the sooner we can move on to Mars." Vice President, Mike Pence also spoke out at the panel and said that the United States' vision is to be a leader when it comes to space travel into the unknown, and that they are always willing to work with and help like-minded, freedom-loving nations.

Continue reading: NASA Administrator doubles down on humans landing on Mars by '2035' (full post)

80% of men and 69% of women use their phones while on the toilet

Jak Connor | Mobile Devices, Tablets & Phones | Oct 23, 2019 3:31 AM CDT

A new study has come out and measured the amount of people that are using their mobile phone while doing this business on the toilet, the numbers pulled in are quite surprising to say the least.

80% of men and 69% of women use their phones while on the toilet

According to a survey that was conducted by Bank My Cell with a sample size of 2,114 people, 80% of men and 69% of women use their phone on the toilet. It was also found that 90% of Millennial's use their phone in the bathroom while Generation X clocked in at 82%, and 57% for Baby Boomers.

The study also found that this behavior was more common in Android users than iPhone users with it being 12% more common in Android owners. The study was measured between June 1st and August 31st of 2018, and since it was a very limited sample size those numbers could of definitely increased as more and more people are picking up handsets. Interested in another cool study about phone use? Check out how smartphone typing speed is actually catching up to keyboard typing speed here.

Continue reading: 80% of men and 69% of women use their phones while on the toilet (full post)

US's nuclear weapon command FINALLY upgrades from 8-inch floppies

Jak Connor | Storage | Oct 23, 2019 3:03 AM CDT

Remember back when everyone was using floppy drives to store data? Well, while everyone else has moved onto USB's and other forms of storage such as SSD's and HDD's, the United States nuclear weapons deterrent has JUST upgraded from floppies recently.

US's nuclear weapon command FINALLY upgrades from 8-inch floppies

While it might be hard to believe that the United States military were still using ancient technology such as floppy drives, it was a reality. This was mostly due the security of data on the older drives, as explained by Lieutenant Colonel Jason Rossi, 595th Strategic Communications Squadron commander, "You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. It's the age that provides that security."

But now the time has come to upgrade, as the Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) are moving forward as apart of a $400 billion, 10-year program to modernize the United States' nuclear military technology. Recently nuclear weaponry is talked about quite a lot as most people are concerned with the sheer power the weapons can produce. If you are concerned about nuclear weaponry, here is an example of what can happen if a nuke was to hit a major city.

Continue reading: US's nuclear weapon command FINALLY upgrades from 8-inch floppies (full post)

DOOM 64 is now a pre-order bonus with every copy of DOOM Eternal

Jak Connor | Gaming | Oct 23, 2019 2:31 AM CDT

Back when Nintendo hosted their most recent Nintendo Direct event it was announced that they would be pairing DOOM 64 with DOOM Eternal as a pre-order bonus. Now things have changed.

DOOM 64 is now a pre-order bonus with every copy of DOOM Eternal

Fans of the DOOM series were a bit salty that only Nintendo Switch users were getting the DOOM 64 pre-order bonus with their copy of DOOM Eternal. But now Bethesda has changed their stance, giving ALL pre-order purchases of DOOM Eternal a copy of DOOM 64 no matter what platform.

DOOM Eternal pre-order will not only get a copy of DOOM 64, but also the "Rip and Tear Pack" which includes a DOOT Revenant player skin, Throwback Shotgun Weapon Skin, Cultist Base Master Level, a remix of the main game's Cultist Base Level and some other stuff. DOOM Eternal will be arriving on PC, Xbox One and PS4 on March 20, 2020.

Continue reading: DOOM 64 is now a pre-order bonus with every copy of DOOM Eternal (full post)

'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' raked in 6.5 million views in 3 days

Jak Connor | TV, Movies & Home Theatre | Oct 23, 2019 2:06 AM CDT

Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has taken off to a great success, as recent reports have shown that 6.5 million viewers have already seen the movie in just its first three days of release.

'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' raked in 6.5 million views in 3 days

According to Nielsen's SVOD Content Ratings, 40% of the people that tuned into the show which is 2.65 million viewers watched it on the first day of release. The ratings service also says that the majority of the people who watched the film were adults in the age range of 18-34, which equated for 1.08 million people. The second largest age range was between 35-49 years old, measuring at 738,000 people.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was an incredible compliment to Breaking Bad. It probably wasn't as good as Breaking Bad, but I don't personally think that was the films goal. El Camino felt as if it was more so an epilogue to Breaking Bad, and designed to not be anything close to how spectacular the shows finale was, but instead compliment it in a way that left viewers satisfied with the final concluding events of Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

Continue reading: 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' raked in 6.5 million views in 3 days (full post)

You can now lifetime store a dogs healthy stem cells for just $595

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Oct 23, 2019 1:33 AM CDT

Dogs are commonly known as mans best-friend, and if you have the choice to be able to take a small portion of your dog at its healthiest time, and then store it for future use, wouldn't you?

You can now lifetime store a dogs healthy stem cells for just $595

If you answer was 'yes', then don't worry because that option has just become available. A company called Gallant has just launched its new line of canine stem cell storage units. Pet lovers can now bring their dog into the vet for a regular check up while they are young, proceed with the normal check-up routine, and then get a quick stem cell remove for potential future use.

Gallant will be providing procedures for $395 with also a storage fee consisting of $95 annually or a one-time fee of $595 for lifetime storage. If the situation arises where you need to use the stem cells, pet owners will also have to pay the vet to acquire them. At the moment the procedures are currently only available for dogs, but cat owners should not be worried as Gallant has invested in a cat equivalent company who is investigating chronic kidney disease.

Continue reading: You can now lifetime store a dogs healthy stem cells for just $595 (full post)

Here's a list of the most valuable retro video games out there

Jak Connor | Gaming | Oct 23, 2019 1:04 AM CDT

As the years continue to move on, old games that were once thought of a new releases become more and more valuable. This is particularly relevant for those games that were released back in early 1990's.

Here's a list of the most valuable retro video games out there

A new study out of SafeStore that was published just last month has measured the price inrease of a selection of old retro videos and compared them to what they are worth today. The study shows percentage increases from the games' original prices to what they are going for now. This gives buyers an indication of what they potentially have stored away in their dusty old collections.

Some of the titles that have had their prices equated and their percentages measured are 1992's Sonic the Hedgehog, 1998 Metal Gear Solid, 1991 Street Fighter II, 1996 Pokemon Red and Blue, 1996 Super Mario 64, 1991 Super Mario World and more. If you are interested in checking out the image provided from the study, it's located in the entirety of this article. Not that long ago, a super rare Pokemon trading card worth $60,000 was lost in the mail, more on that here.

Continue reading: Here's a list of the most valuable retro video games out there (full post)

Borderlands 3: second highest-grossing PC game of September

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Oct 22, 2019 11:30 PM CDT

Borderlands 3 is doing extremely well for both developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K, with the biggest Epic Games Store exclusive killing it in September.

Borderlands 3: second highest-grossing PC game of September

According to SuperData's new worldwide earnings chart, Borderlands 3 was the second highest-grossing PC game of September, losing out to Dungeon Fighter Online. Borderlands 3 beat established money printers like League of Legends, World of Tanks, Fortnite, and Roblox.

There were 3.3 million copies of Borderlands 3 sold in digital versions in September 2019, so with each copy at $60 this means the game grossed $198 million in that 30-day period alone.

Continue reading: Borderlands 3: second highest-grossing PC game of September (full post)

Microsoft DreamWalker: walk around in real-life, but a VR location

Have you ever been walking to work, school, or just down the road and thought the real-world was too boring? Don't worry, Microsoft is working on something for that with project DreamWalker.

Microsoft DreamWalker: walk around in real-life, but a VR location

DreamWalker is a new project by researchers at Microsoft that sees users wearing a VR headset, as well as a backpack computer and a myriad of sensors. With the kit all installed onto your person, you can walk around in the real-world while viewing a totally different reality through a VR headset.

Don't worry about walking into something as there are a bunch of real-time sensing technologies in the DreamWalker VR system: the backpack PC, dual-band GPS sensor. two RGB depth cameras, and a "Windows Mixed Reality-provided relative position trace".

Continue reading: Microsoft DreamWalker: walk around in real-life, but a VR location (full post)

Samsung teases 'cutting edge' new Exynos SoC is about to launch

Samsung has teased its next-gen Exynos SoC ahead of its Samsung Tech Day in San Jose, California -- posting on the official Twitter account for Samsung Exynos. The company says this new chip will see mobile intelligence "take another leap forward".

Samsung teases 'cutting edge' new Exynos SoC is about to launch

The short video clip that Samsung teased is really just a short tease, with no details at all. We should expect it to be an AI-focused chip, but how much power will it really have? Samsung uses the #NextGenPower hash tag so we should expect something beefy... but the company has just launched its re-jigged Galaxy Fold, the larger-than-life Galaxy Note 10, Note 10+, and Note 10+ 5G handsets as well as plethora of Galaxy S10 handsets.

I doubt it will have any AMD technology inside of it given the recent Samsung + AMD team up that will see Radeon GPU technology inside of Samsung-made smartphones in 2021 and beyond. We will know more in the next 24 hours, so I'll keep you posted.

Continue reading: Samsung teases 'cutting edge' new Exynos SoC is about to launch (full post)