Apple has asked Samsung Display to develop micro OLED panels in an effort to diversify its supply ahead of next year’s launch of its widely rumored AR/VR glasses, claims a new report. According to The Elec, Samsung Display has received requests from several of its customers to start developing the microdisplays, including Apple, Meta, and…
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Today, NASA unveiled the first full-color image taken by the agency’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a pivotal moment for the deep-space observatory that marks the beginning of its first year of transformational science. The incredibly detailed image — a deep field of some of the most distant galaxies…
Enlarge / A vial containing Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at a vaccination center. (credit: Getty | SOPA Images) The type of COVID-19 booster dose you get later this year could depend on where you live. Vaccine maker Moderna is working up two omicron-targeting boosters for different countries. If the company’s plans pan out, it will…
Yeah, get right in there, buddy. Battlecreek Coffee Roasters / Unsplash Everybody knows smells can evoke vivid memories. You might hear a tune and struggle to place it, or see a face and not quite be able to summon the corresponding name, but catch a whiff of meat cooking on a distant grill and your…
Nanoracks and Tokyo-based space startup Gitai are teaming up for a second technology demonstration on the International Space Station, a mission that could bring the Japanese startup one step closer to commercializing its autonomous in-space robotics. The two companies will be testing Gitai’s autonomous robotic system dubbed “S2,” which will operate outside Nanoracks’ Bishop Airlock,…
A popular anonymous social app called NGL has now topped 15 million global installs, according to new data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, released today. The app, which is now one of a handful of unregulated and potentially problematic anonymous apps targeting teens, has been swiftly climbing the charts since its December 2021 launch….
For Amanda D’Ambra and Joan Zhang, the idea of starting and co-founding an eating disorder care startup was personal: Both struggled with an eating disorder, along with other mental health issues, and received treatment — a treatment they hope more people will be able to access. D’Ambra and Zhang previously worked in digital health spaces…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. By the time you read this, we’ll be less than 24 hours away from the release of the first images captured by James Webb Space Telescope. In this issue: CAPSTONE loses, then reestablishes, communication with Earth Rocket Lab offers next-day shipping to space News from Virgin Galactic, SpaceX…
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The James Webb Space Telescope is one of NASA and the space community in general’s most exciting missions in the past decade, and the enormous observation platform’s first image, of distant galaxies actually behind our neighboring galaxies, was just revealed to the public on a stream hosted by none other than President Biden and Vice…