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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT app for iOS, bringing most popular AI chatbot to iPhones
Tekken 8 is bringing back a character first seen in Tekken 3, and one who debuted in an add-on
Scientists Discover 62 More Moons Orbiting Saturn, Bringing Total to 145 Moons
So while Jupiter remains the largest planet orbiting our sun — and shaped our solar system with its gravitational bulk — nonetheless the New York Times reports that “the fight over which planet has the most moons in its orbit has swung decisively in Saturn’s favor.”
This month, the International Astronomical Union is set to recognize 62 additional moons of Saturn based on a batch of objects discovered by astronomers. The small objects will give Saturn 145 moons — eclipsing Jupiter’s total of 95. “They both have many, many moons,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. But Saturn “appears to have significantly more,” he said, for reasons that are not entirely understood.
The newly discovered moons of Saturn are nothing like the bright object in Earth’s night sky. They are irregularly shaped, like potatoes, and no more than one or two miles across. They orbit far from the planet too, between six million and 18 million miles, compared with larger moons, like Titan, that mostly orbit within a million miles of Saturn. Yet these small irregular moons are fascinating in their own right. They are mostly clumped together in groups, and they may be remnants of larger moons [150 miles across] that shattered while orbiting Saturn. [The article suggests later they may have been destroyed by collisions with other moons, or by impacts from asteroids or comets.]
“These moons are pretty key to understanding some of the big questions about the solar system,” said Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the deputy project scientist on the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter. “They have the fingerprints of events that took place in the early solar system.”
The growing number of moons also highlights potential debates over what constitutes a moon. “The simple definition of a moon is that it’s an object that orbits a planet,” Dr. Sheppard said. An object’s size, for the moment, doesn’t matter.
The leader of one moon-discovering group told the Times there’s “potentially thousands” of moons around Saturn and Jupiter.
And at least a few of the moons are circling Saturn in the opposite direction…
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Chong Xie: Bringing Innovative Fascia Training to New York
Xbox exec hints at bringing features like Quick Resume to Windows gamers
During a launch event for the Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC, Roanne Sones, the head of Xbox devices, discussed how the device is “making us think differently about the experiences” for gaming on Windows PCs.
Specifically, she called out how today’s consoles let you quickly resume a game and said the ROG Ally pushes Microsoft to think about that for PCs as well: “How do we think about integrating this into the Windows platform?” Another focus is on making it easy to immediately pick up where you left off, moving from gaming on a PC to a session that’s ready to go on this kind of handheld.
Sones has made similar comments before, as my colleague Tom Warren points out. During another ROG Ally event in April, she discussed working with…
Google is bringing YouTube to more cars, starting with Polestar
Google announced Wednesday at its I/O event that all cars with Google built-in will have YouTube available, starting with Polestar vehicles. The expansion of YouTube’s availability comes as more new vehicles today feature high-tech infotainment systems that promise to add new levels of convenience and entertainment to the lives of drivers and passengers. What that often […]
Google is bringing YouTube to more cars, starting with Polestar by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
INTERVIEW: Lies of P developer explains why it’s bringing the famously Italian Pinocchio all the way to Paris
It’s a pretty wild year in the world of third-person action games, huh? Hi-Fi Rush popped out of nowhere and took the world by storm, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor managed to capture the hearts of many due to slick combat in spite of sketchy performance issues. But you know, it’s only May, and there’s still one game I’m pumped for. Lies of P.
Lies of P was announced a while back, roughly two years ago, and ever since it has stood out as an interesting spin on the Souls-like formula. After playing it myself at GDC this year, I wanted to find out more about how the game plans to set itself apart from the competition.
“We wanted to create a setting that players would have not experienced in any other game, and we wanted to present it in a way that was completely different from what we knew before,” writes project director Ji Won Choi.
Amnesia: The Bunker’s new gameplay video is bringing big Alien: Isolation-but-WW1 vibes
Frictional Games are releasing the next entry in their hit horror series later this month – May 16th – with Amnesia: The Bunker, taking their signature stalks through the dark into a World War One setting. That date’s creeping up very soon, and we now have our first extended look at gameplay down below.