NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance now are targeting 1:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 3, for launch of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) with the International Space Station ready for the arrival of the Starliner spacecraft. NASA’s live launch coverage begins at 12:30 p.m. Docking is targeted for 1:37 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4. OFT-2, Boeing’s …
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Snapchat Launches New Ad Campaign to Maximize its Growth Momentum
The new ad campaign will run in various major cities and regions.
Pinterest Loses 24 Million Users as Lockdowns Ease and Physical Stores Re-Open Around the World
The numbers show a significant decline in users, though underlying ad performance remains solid.
Snapchat Shares New Insights into How Friends Connect in the App [Infographic]
The report coincides with International Friendship Day, which is being celebrated this week.
Twitter Adds New Spaces Sharing Options, New Search Tools to Improve Spaces Discovery
The new options will be important as Twitter moves to put more emphasis on its audio social option.
The Secret Of Retropolis review: a noir adventure in VR
Yesterday night I have tried The Secret Of Retropolis, a VR game inspired by LucasArts’s point and click adventures developed
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Gorilla Tag: High Intensity Fitness, Fun & Esports
Reject humanity. Embrace your inner ape. Become gorilla.
The mottos of Another Axiom’s Gorilla Tag, an immersive VR game created by Kerestell “Lemming” Smith, remind us that sometimes people just want to “be a little monke.”
The game itself is relatively basic.
nDreams Opening Second VR Studio Focused on Live-service Games
nDreams, the studio behind Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) and the upcoming PSVR exclusive Fracked, announced today it’s opening a second VR development studio called nDreams Studio Orbital, which will focus on creating games as a service for VR. nDreams Studio Orbital will be headed by Chris White, who previously worked as a senior product manager at FitXR, […]
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Update to NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 Mission
NASA and Boeing have decided to stand down from Friday’s launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Currently, launch teams are assessing the next available opportunity. The move allows the International Space Station team time to continue working checkouts of the newly arrived Roscosmos’ Nauka module and to ensure the station will be …
Space Station Stable After Earlier Unplanned MLM Thruster Firing
Following the docking of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), named Nauka, to the International Space Station at 9:29 am EDT, Russian cosmonauts aboard the space station conducted leak checks between Nauka and the service module. At 12:45 pm, the flight control team noticed the unplanned firing of MLM thrusters that caused the station to move out of orientation. …