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How to Watch the Orionid Meteor Shower This Weekend
It's advisable to take a trip out of your city to find somewhere more remote as this will prevent the experience from being ruined by artificial lights. However, you don't want to focus on that spot in the sky since meteors close to the radiant tend to have short tails and are harder to see. "The best chance of seeing them will be in the early hours before dawn".
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Volvo's new Polestar offshoot blazing electric trail
Polestar 2, a smaller variant, will enter production after the Polestar 1 and serve as Volvo's first fully-electric vehicle. Volvo in July announced that every vehicle it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor . Plans call for construction to be completed by mid-2018, with Polestar 1 production to follow in mid-2019. Polestar has reworked roughly 50 percent of the car's structure, however, optimizing it for a sharp, agile ride befitting of a GT performance flagship.
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Amazon's Alexa comes to Moto Mods accessories
It's like an Amazon Echo , only in Moto Mod form on the back of your phone. The Moto Mod speaker houses four microphones so that it will be able to clearly pick up the user's voice when initiating a voice command. The Alexa speaker will be available for $150 U.S. (£99 in the UK) when it ships in November to those countries where Alexa has official support. It's also packed with a 1,530 mAh battery pack that's touted to last up to 15 hours, which means that users can keep talking to Alexa ...
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Apple's Self-Driving Car Caught on Video
Apple's self-driving cars have a new array of sensors, according to video tweeted by Voyage cofounder MacCallister Higgins on Tuesday. Now, a video of Apple's sensors mounted on top of an SUV was caught in the wild and uploaded to Twitter this Wednesday.
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Lego's newest set celebrates the women of NASA
The scientists featured in minifigure form with blocks representing their contributions are Mae Jemison , Sally Ride , Margaret Hamilton and Nancy Grace Roman . The set, which is comprised of 231 pieces, includes miniaturized versions of the Hubble, Space Shuttle, and various tools and instruments, and includes nameplates of all of the women.
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Four NU astronomers among the first to detect neutron star collision
A light-year is 5.88 trillion miles. For the first time, astronomers have observed a celestial event through both conventional telescopes and gravitational waves . Once the general area was spotted, LIGO spread the information to the astronomy community across the globe and within just a few hours of the detection, thousands of astronomers operating across about 70 ground-based and space-based telescopes started searching the sky .