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At 9 AM Wednesday morning SpaceX successfully tested the launch abort system for its new commercial crew capsule, which is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. Everything went as planned, and you can watch the replay of the event here:
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A couple years ago, NASA and DHS unveiled a portable radar unit
based on technology used to detect alien life on distant exoplanets. This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home—to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped save 4 men trapped under earthquake rubble in Nepal.
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It’s a good day for point-and-click fans. After the news that you can now play Grim Fandango Remastered on your morning commute, it seems like the ’90s classic Myst is getting its own TV series. According to Deadline, a drama series that explores the…
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SpaceX completed the first crucial test of its pad abort system for a crewed version of its Dragon space capsule.
The post Watch SpaceX’s First Test of Its Astronaut Bailout System appeared first on WIRED.
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Currently, Microsoft’s Xbox One allows users to watch live TV, but the system itself does not support recording functionality. Instead, that process is handled by your existing cable box. But that’s going to change–and maybe soon–according to Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott.
Sources told Thurrott recently that the Xbox One will receive an update–likely this year–to include TV DVR functionality. Thurrott didn’t have anything more to say on the matter, but we’ve followed up with Microsoft asking for more details.
Thurrott’s report comes after Microsoft confirmed that Windows Media Center will not be included with Windows 10 due to "decreased usage."
"Of course, many Media Center fans actually use the product to record and watch TV shows via Media Center PCs in the living room," he explained. "Microsoft’s solution for this need will apparently be the Xbox One."
Windows 10 launches this summer as a free upgrade for existing Windows users. It will arrive first on PC, followed by other platforms–including Xbox One later down the road.
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Microsoft has detailed a new DirectX 12 API feature that can provide an increase in game performance by using integrated GPUs alongside dedicated graphics cards.
The feature, called Multiadapter, provides the option to draw resources from a motherboard’s integrated GPU as well as the standalone graphics card at the same time.
"Before Windows 10 and DirectX 12, all the performance potential from the second GPU goes unused," Microsoft’s Andrew Yeung explained on the DirectX Developer Blog. "[Now] application developers can use every GPU on the system simultaneously."
"We recognized that most mixed GPU systems in the world were not making the most out of the hardware they had," it continued. "We set out to enable separable and contiguous workloads to be executed in parallel on separate GPUs."
Microsoft explained the advantage Multiadapter provided by using postprocessing as an example: "Virtually every game out there makes use of postprocessing to make your favourite game visually impressive; but that postprocessing work doesn’t come free," the company said.
"By offloading some of the postprocessing work to a second GPU, the first GPU is freed up to start on the next frame before it would have otherwise been able to, improving overall framerate."
The announcement comes weeks after speculation suggesting that DirectX 12 could allow PC users to harness the power of multiple GPUs from different companies, such as AMD and Nvidia. While the Multiadapter feature is similar in principal, it appears that it only applies to mixing an integrated GPU with a graphics card. It is not clear whether DirectX 12 will allow users to mix graphics cards.
Nvidia recently announced it is bundling The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight for free with its GTX 970 and GTX 980 graphics cards.
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