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I will unofficially update this website on random dates within any random time interval.

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

NASA Begins Planning Mars Sample Return Mission



NASA has sent numerous robotic explorers to Mars over the years, examining samples and surveying the fascinating geology of the red planet. Still, we could learn much more with Mars samples to examine in detail here on Earth.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

NASA Begins Planning Mars Sample Return Mission



NASA has sent numerous robotic explorers to Mars over the years, examining samples and surveying the fascinating geology of the red planet. Still, we could learn much more with Mars samples to examine in detail here on Earth.

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Analysts expect 20 per cent fewer Cyberpunk 2077 sales



Last week HEXUS reported upon Sony acting to remove Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store due to quality of experience issues. The gameplay on the older PlayStation 4 was reportedly particularly poor, but the game has been banished from the entire store for now.

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world



Let's be honest: 2020 sucks. So much of this year has been a relentless slog of bad news and miserable events that it's been hard to keep up. Yet most of us have kept up, and the way most of us do so is with the small handheld computers we carry with us at all times.

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Here Are a Bunch of People Getting the Covid-19 Vaccine



The emergency use authorization of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against covid-19 could mark the beginning of the end of a pandemic that has ravaged and terrorized the world for almost a year.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

DDoS attacks up 287 percent as online gaming and gambling become prime targets



A lockdown increase in online gaming activity has inevitably attracted attention from attackers, resulting in nearly 77 percent of cyberattacks targeting the online gaming and gambling industries in Q3 of 2020.

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Qualcomm Can Now Sell 4G Chipsets to Huawei



In the first major scaling back of the U.S. blacklisting of Huawei, the U.S. government is now allowing Qualcomm to sell 4G chipsets to the Chinese firm.

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