Less than four weeks from today, Avengers: Endgame will finally hit theaters around the world and bring us what will undoubtedly be an epic conclusion to Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Avengers: Infinity War ended with what may very well be the greatest cliffhanger in any movie from our generation, and people are dying to see how the Avengers will respond after Thanos completed his life 's mission and wiped out half of all life in the known universe with a single snap of his fingers. Will the remaining heroes finally defeat the mad Titan? Will they find a way to travel back in time and resurrect their fallen comrades as well as everyone else who turned to dust when Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet? Only the actors and production team involved with making Avengers: Endgame know for certain, but a flurry of leaks and spoilers have given us a pretty good idea of what to expect.
It;s not like the future Pro Football Hall of Famer hasn;t appeared in a WWE ring before. Gronkowski technically made his in ring debut at WrestleMania 33 where he ;helped; his good friend Mojo Rawley win the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. In fact, not long after Gronkowski;s announcement Sunday night, the WWE congratulated Gronkowski on his historic career while tweeting out a video of his WrestleMania appearance. Congratulations go out to @RobGronkowski on his retirement from the NFL and a fantastic career pic.twitter.com NN7pEEifbv mdash; WWE (@WWE) March 24, 2019 If Gronkowski and the WWE were going to do business again, this certainly would be the time of year to strike a deal. Gronkowski;s announcement came exactly two weeks before WrestleMania 36 which will take place at MetLife Stadium, a venue with which Gronkowski is very familiar. It;s also worth noting the aforementioned Rawley has seen a slight uptick in screen time in recent weeks, which might be a total coincidence unless it;s not. With ;RAW; at the Garden on Monday night, it won;t be long before we get some answers. Thumbnail photo via YouTube WWE copy; 2019 NESN
Jupiter, the ”king ” of planets in our solar system, is a hostile place you definitely wouldn 't want to visit. The gas giant is a swirling mass of storms that stretch hundreds of miles deep, and the larger storms on the planet like the Great Red Spot are large enough to swallow Earth several times over.Despite its volatile nature, and the fact that nobody really knows what lies deep within the planet, Jupiter is still one of NASA 's favorite photography targets because it 's just so beautiful. Now, NASA is showing off a new, enhanced image snapped by the Juno spacecraft, and it 's pure eye candy.
At this point, it 's fair to say that the release of AirPower mdash; Apple 's long anticipated charging mat mdash; is imminent. Just a few days ago, newly unearthed data strings in the most recent iOS 12.2 beta revealed some big changes to the portion of iOS responsible for wireless charging. And earlier today, a brand new marketing image for AirPower was discovered on Apple 's AirPods page on the company 's Australia site.The new image was originally unearthed by Twitter user Michael Bateman and can be seen above. It 's also worth noting that The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that Apple, at long last, approved AirPower for production.
When the iPhone X was first released in 2017, opinions of the notch at the top of the display were mixed. Some people loved the new design and some people hated it. Graphic designers began to create wallpapers for the handset that allowed people to effectively hide the notch since the background in that area of the screen was black. But then, someone created a wallpaper that was the exact opposite: instead of trying to hide the notch, it showed off the notch by tracing a thin line around the entire perimeter of the display. It looks fantastic and it remains one of the most popular wallpapers on Apple 's notched iPhones. You can see the original wallpaper right here.
Building a robotic vehicle that will eventually travel to another planet is a complicated undertaking. With just one NASA rover, Curiosity, currently roaming around on Mars after the death of Opportunity, the much hyped Mars 2020 mission takes on even more significance.Getting it right means testing, tweaking, testing, tweaking, and then testing some more, and NASA just published a new behind the scenes look at the intense trial process the rover 's on board computers have to endure. Tucked away inside a cleanroom at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's Spacecraft Assembly Facility, the 2020 mission 's hardware was tasked with landing on a simulated Martian surface that exists only in the spacecraft 's complex computer brain.
Building a robotic vehicle that will eventually travel to another planet is a complicated undertaking. With just one NASA rover, Curiosity, currently roaming around on Mars after the death of Opportunity, the much hyped Mars 2020 mission takes on even more significance.Getting it right means testing, tweaking, testing, tweaking, and then testing some more, and NASA just published a new behind the scenes look at the intense trial process the rover 's on board computers have to endure. Tucked away inside a cleanroom at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's Spacecraft Assembly Facility, the 2020 mission 's hardware was tasked with landing on a simulated Martian surface that exists only in the spacecraft 's complex computer brain.
It 's been an interesting and unusually busy week thus far for Apple. In the span of a few days, Apple unveiled a brand new iPad Air and iPad Mini along with a revamped iMac lineup. What 's more, there are now rumblings that Apple may release a refreshed iPod Touch later in the week. With Apple seemingly on a hardware release binge, there 's a good chance the company is getting some of its relatively minor hardware announcements out of the way before its special event next week.Though Apple 's special media event mdash; which will kick off next Monday mdash; will reportedly focus on media related endeavors, there is also a chance we might see some new hardware in the form of AirPods 2 and, believe it or not, the long delayed AirPower charging mat Apple originally unveiled all the way back in September of 2018.
Well, that certainly didn 't take long Just a day after NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine alluded to the possibility of flying the new Orion crew capsule 's first experimental trip around the Moon using a pair of commercial rockets instead of NASA 's own Space Launch System which is still in development, he 's issued a new statement assuring everyone that the SLS is still a major part of NASA 's future.In a new memo sent to all NASA employees and contractors, Bridenstine clarifies his statement and reassures everyone that NASA still very much anticipates the SLS rocket platform to be its next big thing.
The Galaxy S10 is the hottest Android phone in town right now, a phone that brings over a brand new design, as well as a series of novel features that were not available on previous Galaxy S or Note models. However, Samsung has been playing catch up in many ways with the Galaxy S10 series, as almost all these new features were available on other Android devices. The Infinity O OLED screen, the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, and support for 1TB of flash are unique Galaxy S10 features. But we already saw 7nm processors, triple lens cameras, and reverse wireless charging on other devices mdash; the Huawei Mate 20 deserves extra credit here, beating the Galaxy S10 to market with these technologies by several months. And Huawei will soon launch a brand new Galaxy S10 challenger, one that 's supposed to bring over several interesting updates.
Is the hardware honeymoon over at Google? That 's certainly one interpretation of reports that have emerged from within the company suggesting Google seems to be trimming its product portfolio, or is about to. This despite the fact that the tech giant has enjoyed some degree of hardware success thanks to products like its Pixel smartphones and smart speakers that compete against Amazon 's dominance in that market.Nevertheless, Google has begun reassigning employees away from is tablet and laptop division. Business Insider cites ”several people familiar with the matter ” in a piece noting that dozens of Google hardware and technical program managers have been told to find new jobs with the company.
An upcoming spacewalk at the International Space Station will feature two female astronauts for the very first time. NASA didn 't specifically plan it as an ”all woman spacewalk, ” but things just kind of shook out that way, and as NASA 's ranks are inching closer to an even split between male and female astronauts, some are wondering about how that might affect upcoming trips to the Moon and eventually Mars.When NASA 's Apollo missions sent mankind to the Moon things were a lot different for women in NASA and, put simply, the agency was overwhelmingly male. Today, women make up 34% of active NASA astronauts, and while that 's still well short of half, it 's a lot closer than it has been in the past.
You may be waiting for Android Pie to reach your mobile device, but the next major Android update is already around the corner. And Google may drop the first Android Q beta as soon as Monday according to a discovery. Furthermore, the Android Q beta will be available on even more devices that Android P, a Googler confirmed.
Anyone who dreams of seeing humans travel to Mars will be happy to hear that NASA just offered a detailed update on the progress of the vehicle that could get us there. The Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule are both ”coming together, ” according to NASA.NASA offered a rough timeline of when it expects to actually see the two spacecraft head skyward, with an unmanned test flight tentatively scheduled for 2020 and a manned mission around the Moon slated to take place by 2023.
NASA has been quite pleased with the progress of the InSight lander mission, with just about everything going as well as could be expected. A smooth launch, easy flight to Mars and impeccable landing on the Red Planet 's surface had NASA feeling pretty upbeat, but Mars can be unforgiving.The lander, which recently deployed listening tools to monitor the inner workings of the planet, began its efforts to dig into the dusty soil late last week, but things aren 't going nearly as smoothly as InSight 's engineers had hoped.
After what seems like an eternity thanks to months of leaks and rumors, Samsung 's new Galaxy S10 family of phones will finally be released this Friday. You can read our full in depth Galaxy S10 review if you want to learn everything you need to know about the new phones, but suffice it to say they are by far the best new Android smartphones money can buy right now. Last year 's flagship smartphone lineup from Samsung was boring and uninspired. The Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9 , and Galaxy Note 9 all recycled Samsung 's old designs from 2017 and failed to introduce any compelling new features. Samsung 's smartphone sales took a huge hit as a result, but the company clearly learned its lesson because the 2019 Galaxy S10 lineup rights all of the wrongs from 2018.
For as exciting as the roll out of 5G is, the unfortunate reality is that it 's going to be a while before most people will be able to take advantage of the blazing fast speeds it will provide. Not only are we seeing a somewhat staggered release of 5G enabled smartphones, it 's going to take some time for carriers to expand 5G coverage in a meaningful way. Just this week, for example, T Mobile CTO Neville Ray revealed that the carrier 's first big push into 5G coverage won 't happen until the second half of 2019. Even then, T Mobile 's 5G coverage will only blanket 30 cities at the start.The good news, at least for T Mobile subscribers, is that the network isn 't planning to use the roll out of 5G as a means to increase its data plans.
The very first privately funded mission to the Moon is already underway, with the Beresheet spacecraft taking off this past Friday. The mission, which is the first lunar mission for Israel and the only one ever to be backed by private investors, was going along smoothly until a still unexplained computer glitch threw the spacecraft 's engineers for a loop.According to SpaceIL, the startup behind the mission, the spacecraft was scheduled to perform a maneuver that would further its path towards the Moon, but something went wrong. Just before it was supposed to make its move, the spacecraft 's computers unexpectedly restarted, cancelling out the commands and keeping the Beresheet lander on its already established orbit.
It was just a few days ago that NASA announced it had cleared SpaceX 's Crew Dragon for a test launch and docking opportunity with the International Space Station, and the day is rapidly approaching. March 2nd, this coming Saturday, SpaceX will finally have a chance to prove that its crew capable spacecraft can safely leave the Earth and head to the orbiting laboratory.Now, NASA has taken a good look at the forecast for the big day and seems very optimistic that weather won 't be getting in the way of SpaceX 's opportunity. In a new blog post, NASA says there 's a solid 80 percent chance that favorable weather will allow the launch to go off as planned.
Getting the daily weather forecast for your area is something that countless people do every single morning, but Earth 's weather systems aren 't the only kind of weather that could have a dramatic impact on your life. Space weather mdash; that is, the ebbs and flows of particles around Earth, much of which comes from our Sun mdash; will likely play a big role in humanity 's future, and understanding it could be vital to our survival as a species.To that end, NASA has approved funding for a project called the Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE for short. The $42 million mission will launch in Summer 2022 and will study specific features in Earth 's atmosphere to better understand the impact of space weather on our planet.