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Impulse and Relativity’s window for launch from Cape Canaveral begins in 2024 and will last through 2029.Gif: Impulse & Relativity/GizmodoPrivate space companies Impulse Space and Relativity Space have announced an ambitious joint venture poised to be the first commercial mission to Mars, which will feature the launch of a payload as soon as 2024.A revived interest in space has private companies shifting their attention to Mars, and a new collaboration announced Tuesday between Impulse Space and Relativity Space could…

British star Adam Godley voices the advanced chimpanzee Pogo in "The Umbrella Academy." However, much of the motion capture for Pogo is done by actor Ken Hall, who also portrays the Temps Commission employee Herb. Prior to meeting Reginald Hargreeves, Pogo is an ordinary chimpanzee. In the 1960s, Reginald and Grace train Pogo to ride a rocket into space. After he's injured in the launch, Hargreeves uses a serum on Pogo that grants him a very abnormally high degree of intelligence. In the original timeline,…

Kena: Bridge of Spirits — out now on PC, PS4, and PS5 — is the first game for California-based studio Ember Lab, which was previously in the business of making animated shorts and commercials. No wonder then that the most successful thing about Kena: Bridge of Spirits is its character designs and animations. The titular protagonist Kena (voiced by Dewa Ayu Dewi Larassanti) feels like a Studio Ghibli heroine designed by way of Disney, Pixar, and Laika. Kena is accompanied everywhere by tiny cute little creatures who can be…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Celebrity This combination of photos shows actor Johnny Depp testifying at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., on April 21, 2022, left, and actor Amber Heard testifying in the same courtroom on May 26, 2022. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Article content After winning a headline-grabbing defamation trial last month, Johnny Depp is hitting out at ex-wife Amber Heard in a pair of songs with Jeff Beck. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet,…

Although it looks like someone mixed up the DNA for a deer and a fox, South America’s native maned wolf is neither. In fact, the animal isn’t even a part of the family that it is named after. Instead, the maned wolf is scientifically known as Chrysocyon brachyurus, a name that suggests it rests in a class of its own. Now, this unique creature’s existence is being threatened thanks to ongoing urbanization, as well as the use of its body parts in traditional medicine. Meet the deer-like maned wolf…

I have a seagull nesting outside my kitchen window. It seems quite chilled, so I’ve been playing some music to help it cope with impending motherhood. Which Flaming Lips album best complements the seagull birthing cycle? CleggatemyhamsterGosh, it’s hard to say, because not many of our albums are mellow all the way through. If I was a seagull, maybe I’d find The Terror comforting. It’s got a warm hum, a bit like a refrigerator. My wife is pretty mellow, so when she gave birth, we didn’t listen to anything specific. I’d put…

Retro game fans need to have a rummage through their collection as one super rare game is now worth £100,000. Retro gaming website PriceCharting, which tracks how the value of countess games have changed over time, have released their latest Hot Items list. This rounds-up the games which have increased in value the most during the past week, and there is one standout.The game that has increased the most in value in the past seven days is SNK's classic side-scrolling shooter Metal Slug.While you can get this classic game…

I've been a writer for nearly three decades. According to Grammarly, I average about 5 million words a year between non-fiction and fiction. Not only am I a tech journalist, but I'm also a novelist and a screenwriter (currently developing a new sitcom).One major difference between writing novels and screenplays, be they for television or film, is the formatting of the text. Within the realm of screenwriting, formatting is absolutely critical. If you want someone to look at your script, it better be formatted properly,…

A detailed, step-by-step guide to data cleaning in Python with sample code.Image from Markus Spiske (Unsplash)You have a dataset in hand after scraping, merging, or just plain downloading it off the internet. You’re thinking about all the beautiful models you could run on it but first, you’ve got to clean it. There are a million different ways you could start and that honestly gives me choice paralysis every time I start.After working on several messy datasets, here is how I’ve structured my data cleaning pipeline. If you…

Premium audio accessory maker Bowers & Wilkins just announced its new PX7 S2 headphones and they might just have what it takes to knock those AirPods Max off your head. While AirPods Max have all of those Apple smarts, there's sometimes no beating a great sound and that's what B&W is claiming to offer here. Priced at $399, these things are a little cheaper than Apple's offering and they come with all the features you'd expect for your money, too. Those features begin with 30-hour battery life — with USB-C…