The ancient humans are believed to have used bone tools one million years ago
Scientists in Tanzania have found a cache of animal-bone tools that are more than 1.5 million-year-old. They found 27 bones in Tanzania that have been honed into sharp tools almost 40 cm long. The findings suggest deliberate production of bone tools happened much earlier than previously thought, thereby pushing back the manufacture of bone tools by a million years.
Blue Ghost private glider has reached the moon
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission on Sunday made history as the first private cislunar (lander) to land on the Moon. “We want to thank NASA…for entrusting in the Firefly team,” Firefly Aerospace’s Chief Technology Officer Shea Ferring said. The company’s two-metre-high cislunar will carry a drill and a ‘planetvac’ to scoop the lunar dirt, among other experiments.
The first images of Blue Ghost are on the lunar surface
NASA has successfully landed its Blue Ghost mission on the Moon, making it the second private mission to land on the Moon after Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus last year. Blue Ghost is a lunar lander designed for human exploration, with a drill and a ‘vac planet’ to scoop the lunar dirt. This is also the first time a private mission has landed on the Moon.
The ThinkBook Flip has a folding display
Lenovo showcased a 13-inch laptop concept with a screen that flips and folds to turn it into an 18-inch laptop with a 4:6 aspect ratio. Lenovo’s Smart ForcePad trackpads can be used as an app launcher and serve as a number pad or button for your mic. The touchscreen OLED display also folds over the top of the lid.
The Photography Focus is a review ofXiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra
Xiaomi has released its new 15 Ultra flagship, which has a quadruple rear camera setup. It has the same one-inch Sony LYT-900 sensor as last year but has ditched the variable aperture. The main camera uses a fixed f/1.63 approach and has a 4.3-inch periscope lens, which uses a 1-inch sensor and a fast f/2.6 maximum shutter speed.
6 years of software updates is what’s going to come to the affordable Galaxy A36 and A26
Samsung has announced the availability of its new Galaxy A36, A26 and A56 smartphones in the US on March 26. All three devices have Gorilla Glass Victus+ for better scratch and shatter resistance, first employed on phones like Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 series from 2022. The devices will ship with Android 15 and will be available in a range of colours.
GPT- 4.5 is not a frontier model according to Openai
OpenAI has announced that it will release GPT-4.5, its newest AI model for writing, programming, and problem-solving, on February 31. OpenAI added that the model is not a frontier model but its largest LLM. “It is OpenAI’s largest LLM, improving on GPT-4’s computational efficiency by more than 10x,” OpenAI said in an internal document leaked ahead of its announcement.
The laptop 12 could inspire a new life into portable PCs
Framework has announced a new PC and a laptop,’Laptop 12′ and’Framework Desktop’ respectively, that will be “fully modular”. The Laptop 12 is a budget laptop that doesn’t lookawful, is fully modular and doesn’t on the performance and display. The Framework Desktop features an AMD Ryzen AI Max processor, a 8060S integrated GPU and between 32 GB and 128 GB of RAM.
The Starlink is keeping modern Slavery Compounds online
A Chinese human trafficking victim has told police that he was forced to use Starlink as a mobile phone to contact his family. The victim told police that he had worked at a fraud company and was in the Myanmar-Thailand border region. Police have yet to find any evidence of any crimes against the victim and he is currently in Myanmar.
Single-cell histone modifications are used for embryo tracing
Embryos were incubated with 0.5 g H3K27ac (for the early 2cell stage) or 0.5 g H3K27me3 (for all six developmental stages) in 100 l antibody buffer and barcoded with 3 g ml–1 PAT-T5-2 and 3 g ml–1 PAT-T7-2 in 100 l high- salt Dig-wash buffer at 4 C for 1 h. Cells were fixed in 4% PFA for 15 min, blocked in 3% normal donkey serum with 0.3% Triton X-100 in PBS for 1 h at room temperature.