Giant radio telescope sees Artemis 2 astronauts on Orion flying around the moon. ‘There are 4 people in those pixels.’

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The U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) and an image of the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft taken by the telescope. (Image credit: Data credit: JPL & NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO. Photo credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/J.Hellerman) Here’s a unique view of NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission. A giant radio telescope in West Virginia tracked Artemis 2Continue Reading

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One of my new year resolutions was to spend more time on homelab, local AI and smart home automation. I am slowly getting into this stuff and thought of sharing my (mis)adventures and experiences, especially when I encounter some issue and manage to fix it. One such incident was whenContinue Reading

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A new version of Broadcom’s free virtualisation software VMware Workstation Pro is out with been support Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. VMware Workstation Pro 26H1, along macOS counterpart VMware Fusion Pro, both support the latest long-term support version of Ubuntu as host OS (what the software runs on) and a guest OSContinue Reading

I tried a skinny RTX 5080. It fixed the worst thing about flagship GPUs

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Modern high-end graphics cards are ridiculous. Incredible performance and awesome features, but also extra demanding when it comes to power draw and physical size. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, for example, is a gigantic card—especially non-Founders Editions—and the RTX 5080 isn’t far off. Even last-generation flagships like the RTX 4090 and AMD’s Radeon RX 7900XTX areContinue Reading