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Voyager 1’s Archaic Onboard Computers Are Stuttering
Humanity’s most distant spacecraft is glitching out—again—and engineers are having quite a diffitcult time solving the problem. Voyager 1, what are we going to do with you? The issue is with the 46-year-old Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), one of its three onboard computers. The FDS collects data from Voyager’s science instruments and takes…
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The Easiest Way to Check What Laptop You Have (And Why That’s Important)
Here’s how to find it.
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NASA Engineers Have Figured Out Why Voyager 1 Was Sending Garbled Data
Earlier this year, the Voyager 1 spacecraft — over 14 billion miles from Earth — started sending NASA some wacky data. Now, engineers with the space agency have identified and solved the issue, and no, it wasn’t aliens.
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Dell Unleashes a Monster with New XPS Desktop
Dell’s new XPS desktop is a whopping 42 per cent bigger than its last one, but it’s definitely prettier (and more of a beast).