AYA Neo’s Retro Mini PC series are inspired by classic computers and game consoles

The company behind the AYA Neo line of handheld gaming PCs is branching out into compact desktop computers with retro-style designs. The upcoming AYA Neo Retro Mini PC AM01 is a small form-factor desktop that looks like a classic Mac computer, while t…

The company behind the AYA Neo line of handheld gaming PCs is branching out into compact desktop computers with retro-style designs. The upcoming AYA Neo Retro Mini PC AM01 is a small form-factor desktop that looks like a classic Mac computer, while the Retro Mini PC AM02 draws inspiration from classic game consoles like the […]

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Sonnensturm: Polarlichter über Deutschland

Ein massiver Sonnensturm vom 9. November 2023 könnte auch für Polarlichter über Deutschland sorgen. Sie sollten morgen Abend als schwacher, rötlich-violetter Schein zu sehen sein. Von Mario Keller (Sonne, Astronomie)

Ein massiver Sonnensturm vom 9. November 2023 könnte auch für Polarlichter über Deutschland sorgen. Sie sollten morgen Abend als schwacher, rötlich-violetter Schein zu sehen sein. Von Mario Keller (Sonne, Astronomie)

Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers

The plan is to add them to most Buc-ee’s travel centers, with 30 by the end of 2024.

The Buc-ee's logo superimposed on top of a rendering of a Mercdes-Benz charging site

Enlarge / Mercedes-Benz is launching a network of branded EV charging sites, and some of them are coming to Buc-ee's travel centers, so you can stock up on cake balls while you charge your EV. (credit: Mercedes-Benz/Buc-ee's/Jonathan Gitlin)

Fast electric vehicle charging is coming to Buc-ee's, the Texas-based travel center chain with a cult following. On Thursday it announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to build charging hubs at Buc-ee's travel centers along major transit corridors in the South and Southeast, including I-75 and I-95. The announcement says that "about 30" should be operational by the end of 2024, but that Mercedes plans to build charging hubs at most Buc-ee's locations.

Last week Mercedes revealed it is also partnering with shopping center operator Simon to bring Mercedes charging hubs to at least 55 Simon properties across the US and Canada.

Mercedes revealed in January it was getting into the EV infrastructure game with a plan to build out more than 400 charging hubs by 2027, under the Mercedes-Benz HPC North America banner. To do so, it partnered with ChargePoint, which provides EV charging solutions, as well as MN8 Energy, a solar and battery-storage company that will mean the Mercedes charging hubs will use entirely renewable energy to recharge their customers.

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Play Store: Google bot Netflix niedrigere Gebühren an

Damit Netflix exklusiv Googles Play-Store-Bezahlmechanismus nutzt, sollte die Gebühr nur 10 Prozent betragen – für Netflix hätte sich das aber auch nicht gelohnt. (Netflix, Google)

Damit Netflix exklusiv Googles Play-Store-Bezahlmechanismus nutzt, sollte die Gebühr nur 10 Prozent betragen - für Netflix hätte sich das aber auch nicht gelohnt. (Netflix, Google)

Frank Borman, commander of the first mission to orbit the Moon, has died

“The Earth looked so lonely in the Universe. It’s the only thing with color.”

NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders wave to onlookers aboard the USS <em>Yorktown</em> after splashdown to end the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon.

Enlarge / NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders wave to onlookers aboard the USS Yorktown after splashdown to end the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. (credit: NASA/AFP via Getty Images)

Frank Borman, an Air Force test pilot, astronaut, and accomplished businessman who led the first crew to fly to the Moon in 1968, died Tuesday in Montana, NASA said Thursday. He was 95 years old.

“Today we remember one of NASA’s best," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. "Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero. Among his many accomplishments, he served as the commander of the Apollo 8 mission, humanity’s first mission around the Moon in 1968."

Borman, joined by crewmates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, orbited the Moon 10 times over the course of about 20 hours. They were the first people to see the Earth from another world, a memory of "wonderment" Borman recalled decades later. Apollo 8 produced one of the most famous photos ever taken, the iconic "Earthrise" showing a blue orb—the setting for all of human history until then—suspended in the blackness of space over the charcoal gray of the Moon's cratered surface.

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