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The SLIM lunar lander unexpectedly sprung back to life after hibernating during the freezing lunar night, sending a signal back to Earth more than a month after ending up face down on the Moon.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonOn Monday, Japan’s space agency revealed that it reestablished communication with its lander. Yes, breaking this into two sentences can improve clarity and readability. The team behind the mission sent a command to SLIM and, amazingly, received a response from the lunar lander on February…

In the world of tiny houses, where every square inch counts, French company Baluchon is pushing the boundaries. Their latest creation, the Ellèbore, challenges conventional layouts by flipping the script – quite literally. Let’s dive into the details of this intriguing tiny home.CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The Ellèbore exterior (Baluchon) (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)The upside-down approachBaluchon’s mission is…

After nine days of sitting on its nose on the lunar surface, Japan’s upside-down Moon lander has finally found power. The “moon sniper,” as the lander has been called by many, landed on the lunar surface on January 20, marking the most precise lunar landing yet. However, something went wrong, and it was quickly powered off, as the solar panels were facing away from the Sun.Thankfully, though, Japan designed the lander to be able to power off and then back on if it were able to get enough of a charge. The result?…

Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has been resurrected, over a week after the probe ran out of electricity following its troubled lunar touchdown on January 20th, leaving it upside-down and its solar panels pointing in the wrong direction. On Monday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that communication with the SLIM spacecraft had been re-established, and operations to hunt for clues about the Moon’s origins had resumed.JAXA had predicted that a change in sunlight direction could…

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Company shared the first image of its lander on the lunar surface, revealing that the spacecraft touched down on the moon upside-down. It’s a remarkable recovery for the spacecraft, which experienced an “abnormality in the main engine” that affected the landing orientation when it was just 50 meters above the lunar surface, JAXA said in an update Thursday. Despite this abnormality — which resulted in the spacecraft’s solar panels being unable to charge, because they are not oriented…

Terraria developer Re-Logic has released the Labor Of Love patch, which adds a host of content including new items, an overhaul to melee, an upside-down world seed, and the ability to transform into a wolf. The patch was released earlier today (September 28), and Re-Logic’s Labor Of Love patch notes reveal that it’s an extensive update for the 2D game. Acknowledging melee’s “reputation for being underwhelming and a bit of a struggle to use,” Re-Logic explains that “many melee weapons have seen numerical improvements in…

One of the most powerful and fascinating forces of nature is born of storms: great cracks of light that part the sky, flicking vast amounts of electricity into the surrounding atmosphere, cracking into the ground whenever it reaches it.  Or that's how we typically think of lightning.But the phenomenon has another manifestation, only relatively recently revealed: sometimes, it erupts upwards from the clouds, lashing into the stratosphere in a tremendous blue 'jet' of electricity.Little is known about this phenomenon; it's…

We've seen a car-top bike rack that uses electric suction cups before, and we've also seen a rack that carries the bike upside-down. Fovno's new ES-H1B, however, combines both features in one unusual product.The system consists of two suction cups that are clamped onto either end of the handlebars (while the bike is still off the car, right-side-up), a third suction cup that's strapped to the seat, and a suction-cup-equipped electronic control box. All four components are linked to one another via pneumatic hosing.Once…