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Beyond gravity: Artemis 2 astronauts and the Formula 1 team discussed the secrets of making decisions on the fly
The two astronauts met with the Formula 1 teams to discuss making decisions at short notice. Reid Wiseman of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency will flyby the Moon on the Artemis 2 mission in November 2024. They spent October 22 at the US Formula 1 Grand Prix, where they talked to the teams about how to keep their race cars running during the races.
Wiseman will command a four-person crew, including mission specialist Hansen, mission specialist Christina Koch and NASA pilot Victor Glover, on the first manned lunar mission in half a century. These four astronauts will be the first people to ride on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft into space. If things go well, their mission will open up the Artemis program with manned lunar missions for years to come.
Both rockets and race cars are high-tech machines that require complex infrastructure and highly trained teams to keep them running. However, unlike the SLS rocket, Formula One cars such as the McLaren car can change significantly during a race – over a six-week period, the McLaren F1 car undergoes changes to 80% of its design, amounting to 18,000 parts.
“In Formula 1, if you stand still, you actually fall behind. It’s down to hundredths of seconds that add up, so everything in our race cars is data-driven,” said Zac Brown, McLaren Racing team leader.
In a post on social network X (formerly known as Twitter), Hansen noted the team’s ability to make difficult decisions quickly, and he also posted a photo of Wiseman at the start line.
We had a fascinating conversation with the McLaren F1 team about how they make complex and important decisions in a matter of seconds. This has a lot in common with how we interact with Mission Control on space missions.
The visit was public and took place during a busy month for the Artemis 2 crew. The team will soon begin training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which will include studying geological processes and documenting their time aboard the Orion spacecraft, as well as views of the Earth and the Moon. Medical training also continues – astronauts will soon take part in simulated rescue training with NASA and the US Navy.
In preparation for the Artemis 2 mission in April of this year, the crew already suited up on the launch pad as part of a launch rehearsal and conducted hands-on training for key mission phases on the Orion spacecraft simulator. Hansen and Koch also took part in geological training conducted by Gordon Osinski, a lunar morphologist who is part of the Artemis 3 landing support team and will assist the astronauts at Mission Control.
NASA also emphasizes that the astronaut crew will be more diverse than the previous Apollo program, which sent people to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s. Hansen will be the first non-American astronaut, Koch the first female astronaut, and Glover the first African American astronaut.
In addition to the ultra-cheap Smart 8 HD smartphone, Infinix also presented a whole line of budget models: Hot 40.
It includes the junior model Hot 40i, basic Hot 40 and Hot 40 Pro. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but the company says they’ll all cost less than $200.
Hot 40 Pro, as expected, looks the most interesting. There is a camera with a resolution of 108 megapixels, a 120 Hz screen, and 8/128 or 8/256 GB of memory. The device is also equipped with a 5000 mAh battery with 33-watt charging, Helio G99 SoC and a 6.78-inch Full HD+ display.
The Hot 40 is similar to the older model, but it has a screen with a frame rate of 90 Hz, is based on the Helio G88 and a 50 MP camera. The remaining parameters are identical.
The younger model Hot 40i is more different. The heart here is the less productive SoC Unisoc T606, the basic amount of RAM is 4 GB, although there is also a version with 8 GB, the screen here has HD+ resolution with a diagonal of 6.56 inches and supports a frame rate of 90 Hz, and charging power is limited to 18 W. Other parameters are the same as Hot 40.
It is also worth noting that all models received IPS screens.
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In 2024, Huawei will “rewrite industry history.” The company will release “advanced, innovative and revolutionary products”
For almost five years now, Huawei has been under strict American sanctions, and all this time the company has worked tirelessly. Now it may be time for a major push. At least the words of Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group, indicate exactly that.
At Huawei’s annual reporting conference, Yu Chengdong promised to rewrite the history of the industry and announced completely new revolutionary devices. The top manager said the following verbatim: “When the time comes, you will see how we can rewrite the history of this industry. I hope to continue to exceed everyone’s expectations and do what others can’t even think of, or what they can’t do, or even what they don’t dare do.” And we were not talking about some distant future, but about 2024.
There are no specifics yet. But one of the breakthroughs could be the release of our own single-chip systems with 5G support – very well-established insiders are talking about this. Moreover, SMIC is rumored to be preparing to produce 5nm SoCs for Huawei. If this really happens, it can be called a breakthrough for the entire period of Huawei’s existence under sanctions. And next year, new, and far from trivial, cars are expected to be released on Huawei platforms and with the proprietary HarmonyOS operating system.
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This ultra-cheap $75 smartphone offers a “premium” design and a 90Hz screen. Infinix Smart 8 HD unveiled
Infinix has announced the Smart 8 HD smartphone with a price of just $75. At the same time, the device is equipped much better than many smartphones priced at $100-120.
But it’s worth starting not even with this, but with design. As you can see, Infinix does not betray itself and even made an ultra-budget smartphone so that it stands out: the back cover seems to have a relief pattern. The company itself even uses the expression “premium design,” but this, of course, is on its conscience.
From a technical point of view, the device is not bad, and for such a price it is very good. It is based on the Unisoc T606 SoC, which scores about 240,000 points in AnTuTu 10. There is 3 GB of RAM, 64 GB of flash memory, a 13-megapixel main camera and a 5000 mAh battery. And the 6.6-inch screen with HD+ resolution also supports a frame rate of 90 Hz. In addition, there is an element that imitates the Dynamic Island of the iPhone.
It remains to add that the dimensions here are 164 x 75.6 x 8.5 mm with a weight of 184 g.
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