ISS tests new garbage dump. New airlock will make it easier to throw garbage at the space station.

The private space company Nanoracks has together with NASA tested Nanorack’s airlock Bishop Airlock to get rid of garbage from the space station ISS. Until now, rubbish has been stored on the ISS while waiting for material transport vehicles to take it with them when they left the space station and later burned up in … Read more

Now Alexa can talk like dead people. Amazon’s smart assistant gets new functionality.

This week, Amazon is organizing the conference re: MARCH (Machine learning, Automation, Robots, Space) in Las Vegas, where they will show some news about the company’s upcoming products and services. Among the news that was presented was a new feature in Amazon’s smart assistant Alexa that lets this one speak in the same voice as … Read more

Fender and Mini open up worlds in metaverse. Stratoverse and MINIverse appear in Metas Horizon Worlds.

Yesterday, Meta announced that guitar manufacturer Fender and BMW’s brand Mini have built virtual worlds in Meta’s metaverse platform Horizon Worlds. The two companies are the two most recent in a growing number of companies and brands that have presented investments in metaverse recently. Fender’s virtual world in Horizon Worlds will be called Stratoverse while … Read more

Hasbro starts selling new lightsaber from Star Wars. If you want to fight as the Third Sister in Obi-Wan Kenobi.

If you are eager to expand your collection of light sabers, Hasbro has developed a new model that is being worked on and crowdfunding now. The new lightsaber is modeled after the weapon that Reva, also called Third Sister, uses in the latest Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi. It is a weapon with a circular … Read more

Is Dolby Atmos the future of music? We have listened and thought.

Dolby Atmos had its premiere already in 2012 in a cinema in Los Angeles, now 10 years later the technology is available in more than 6000 cinemas. But Dolby Atmos is not only used for movies, since a few years ago Dolby has also pushed the standard for music. Several services such as Tidal, Amazon … Read more

Microsoft is talking a little Metaverse. Is this what the future will look like?

During Microsoft’s inauguration of this year’s Build conference, the company’s CEO Satya Nadella talked a little more about the so-called Metaverse, the place where it is intended that in the future we will socialize and work virtually with each other. Nadella goes through what Microsoft Team could look like in a slightly more metaverse-adapted version. … Read more

Lego and Epic Games will build a metaverse. Where children should be able to laze around in a virtual world.

Lego and Epic Games now look to jump on the so-called metaverse through a new venture that the two companies presented together yesterday. It is about a kind of virtual world that is meant to entertain children in different ways. Lego and Epic Games are sparse with details about how it will all look and … Read more

CD Projekt Red talks a bit about The Witcher 4. And why they chose Unreal Engine 5 for it.

Last month, CD Projekt Red announced that they had begun developing a fourth game in the The Witcher series. Then it was also stated that it would roll on the Epic Games game engine Unreal Engine 5. In connection with Epic Games’ release of Unreal Engine 5 this week, CD Projekt Red told a little … Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 modders get the subway up and running. Take a tour of the Night City

CD Projekt RED once planned that Cyberpunk 2077 would have a functioning metro network where players could travel around Night City in a smooth way. This was abolished before the release, but the metro stations and rails were allowed to remain in the release version. Fortunately, there are modders that can complete functions and now … Read more

LG updates its OLED screens for professionals. Comes now also as a 27-inch

Earlier this year, LG introduced its OLED screens for professionals, now they are showing next year’s models. For the 2021 model year, there was only one size, 31.5-inch, now another size is added and it is 27-inch. The new models (32BP95E and 27BP95E) of course offer the benefits we have come to expect from OLED … Read more