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Beating incredible odds, Japan's SLIM lunar lander came back to life after surviving the intense dark and cold of the Moon's night. On February 25, JAXA confirmed that it had temporarily reestablished communications with the robotic spacecraft.Spacecraft have been landing on the Moon for over half a century, but very few have survived the dark and cold of the lunar night. When the sun sets and the 14-day night begins, there is no light for solar panels to charge batteries and the temperatures plummet to -208 °F (-133 °C).…

Japan's first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong…

If you have been waiting for a significant price cut on the PS5 - now might be your chance to jump on this price cut thanks to Sony. Sony has slashed the price of the PS5 Slim for the first time ever - you can now get £60 off the new(ish) console from £479 to £419.Sony has been hesitant to slash the price of the slimmer console since its release in November 2023 but it seems that the company is looking to get more eyes and hands on what is the most popular console in the UK.It also comes as there is set to be a slew of…

At a glanceExpert's Rating ProsCompact enough for travelSolid construction95W chargingConsNiche product for most usersNaming confusionLimited port outputOur VerdictSatechi’s Thunderbolt 4 Slim Pro Hub won’t be relevant to most users, as it simply splits a Thunderbolt 4 connection with a USB-A port as a bonus. But it puts out a hefty amount of power, which helps its case. Best Prices Today: Satechi Thunderbolt 4 Slim Hub Pro…

Against all odds, Japan’s more than a week after it plopped upside down onto the surface of the moon — but now, it’s gone dormant for the duration of the lunar night, and it may not be able to wake up again. The SLIM team from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, on Thursday shared the last image the lander captured at the moon’s Shioli crater before dusk, as night encroached. Lunar night lasts the equivalent of two Earth weeks and can get colder than 200 degrees Fahrenheit.Last night (1/31 ~ 2/1) we sent a command to switch…

Japan’s SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigation Moon, has entered a dormant mode on the Moon’s Shioli Crater, facing a 14-day lunar night with temperatures dropping below -200 degrees Fahrenheit.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonNight has fallen at Shioli Crater, and that means it’s likely the end of the line for SLIM. The lander has been placed into a hibernation mode from which it’s not expected to wake. But that doesn’t mean Japan’s space agency, JAXA, won’t try to revive the project in a couple of weeks.…

The HONOR V Purse is a very interesting foldable product. We first encountered this smartphone at IFA in Berlin last September. HONOR managed to surprise us with it, as the event was about the HONOR Magic V2. The HONOR V Purse was an added bonus that HONOR spent a lot of time talking about. Back then, HONOR said that there wouldn’t be a global variant of the phone, at least that was the company’s plan. I didn’t even think I’d have a chance to use the device after that event. Well, a couple of weeks ago, a package…

In a blink or you’ll miss it moment at the end of the January 2024 PlayStation State of Play stream, Hideo Kojima confirmed that he was working on a new “stealth espionage” game, due after Death Stranding 2. I know! All the Physint details we can muster Sony isolated the announcement with the brief view below from their YouTube channel, and most of it just involves talking about the reveal. We did get a bit of PR that we can glean some additional information from, even though it’s slim pickings. Kojima Productions has…

Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends While we can argue all day about which console is best, there’s one PlayStation 5 feature that no other system can claim: customization. On the original PS5, players could easily snap off the system’s faceplates and replace them with new ones. Sony would naturally keep that feature for its slimmer PS5 model, creating an entirely new line of console covers, starting with its Deep Earth Collection. I didn’t think much of that initially, considering that it was an expected feature.…

January 30, 20243 min readAfter a nine-day shutdown, the upside-down lunar lander received enough sunlight to power up againBy Gemma Conroy & Nature magazineThe lander was photographed upside down on the lunar surface. After being stuck without power for more than a week, Japan’s Moon lander has woken up and started snapping images of the lunar surface.On 28 January, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) re-established contact with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the slope…