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NASA’s Europa Clipper will fly on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy

NASA’s Europa Clipper will start its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket built by SpaceX. NASA will pay SpaceX $178 million to launch the vehicle in October 2024. The Europa Clipper got the green light from NASA in 2015. It will fly by the moon 45 times, providing researchers with a tantalizing look at the icy world, believed to have an ocean lurking under its icy crust.
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Digitimes: AirPods 3 likely to launch alongside iPhone 13 in September

The long-awaited successor to Apple’s popular AirPods earbuds have been rumored and leaked in many forms at this point, but customers are still waiting for them to actually be released. A supply chain report from Digitimes indicates that production is ramping and the new earbuds should arrive alongside the iPhone 13 launch in the fall. Although last year the iPhone 12 series wasn’t unveiled…
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OxygenOS 11.0.9.9 rolls out for OnePlus 8T w/ regional software fixes

OxygenOS 11.0.9.9 is now rolling out for selected OnePlus 8T units in North American and Europe with some software tweaks to resolve some “known issues” and improve camera performance. The update was confirmed as rolling out over on the Official OnePlus Forums, but it’s not entirely clear why Indian variants of the 8T have been left out of this particular OTA run. However, the original…
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How to Make Custom Waterhouse Stops for Antique Lenses

For those who shoot with antique lenses but are missing Waterhouse stops, photographer Markus Hofstätter has put together a tutorial that shows a couple of ways that shooters can create their own. Older vintage lenses, such as Petzval ones, that don’t have an iris diaphragm instead use a set of what are called Waterhouse stops instead. Named after 19th-century astronomer and photographer John…
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