Just before 5:00 p.m. EDT today, a SpaceX rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida and it will include a critical payload for the International Space Station. The SpaceX rocket will deliver an expandable habitat that can expand to five times the size of its compressed state after 45 minutes. NASA continues to test ways to expand living quarters in space in preparation for deep space missions.
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Following last week’s unveiling of the Model 3, Tesla is riding pretty high right now. And with good reason: The company managed to convince more than 325,000 buyers to put down $1,000 for a car that they likely won’t receive until 2018 at the earliest. Of course, the big question mark hovering over the company now is whether or not they can actually handle that level of production. While it’s undoubtedly encouraging that hundreds of thousands of consumers are eager to purchase the Model 3, its possible that interest may wane if some deliveries are pushed back until 2020.
Another issue surrounding the Model 3 is that its feature-set isn’t entirely clear at this point. Yeah, we know it’s a sleek car with fast acceleration, but many other important features remain a bit murky to say the least. For instance, when Musk first introduced the Model 3, he insinuated that Supercharging would be free. However, a closer inspection of Musk’s remarks revealed that Supercharging capabilities on the Model 3 would come standard, perhaps implying that Model 3 users might have to pay for Supercharging access.
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News reporters can be as professional as they come, but sometimes life has a funny way of turning what should otherwise be a serious segment into a comedic blooper. While we’ve covered news bloopers before (this compilation of 2015 missteps is certainly worth taking a look at), News Be Funny recently came out with an entirely fresh batch of bloopers that should be good for more than a few laughs ahead of the weekend.
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A Barbie doll sits innocently atop a workbench, unaware of the 100 tons of terror that are about to close in on it. Off camera, we hear a man with a Finnish accent say ominously that the doll is “beautiful… but [for] how long?” A motor starts whirring up and within seconds a hydraulic press closes in on the iconic toy and then… SQUISH.
This is the kind of wanton destruction that occurs on a regular basis at the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel that popped up last year and has since become a smash hit on social media sites like Reddit. As of this writing, the channel has more than 450,000 subscribers and its videos have been watched collectively more than 36 million times.
This week, BGR talked with the channel’s founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.
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If there’s one thing and one thing alone that you learn from the BGR Deals team, we hope it’s this: your cable company is ripping you off. Seriously, if you don’t purchase your own cable modem then you’re paying up to $120 (more, including taxes) per year in bogus modem rental fees that serve no purpose at all Your ISP doesn’t want you to know that you can save all that cash with one single purchase, but that’s why we’re here.
And right now, the Linksys Advanced DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (DPC3008) is back on sale for just $49.95 with free express shipping.
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A new report says that Apple was more willing to comply with the government in the past when it came to unlocking iPhones tied to criminal investigations, having gone as far as to help prosecutors draft the documentation that would force it to unlock a device.
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Earlier this week, Sony unleashed system software update 3.50 for the PlayStation 4. The addition of Remote Play for PC was certainly the highlight of the update, but given a few days to tinker with their consoles, gamers have found several other new features that weren’t announced before the update went live.
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This… is a pretty crazy deal. Samsung makes the best TVs in the business, hands down, and you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to upgrade your old set. Well, we’re not sure it gets any more perfect than this. For a very limited time, both Amazon and B&H are selling the Samsung UN50JU7100 50-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) for just $748 with free shipping.
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We’ve reached the end of another long work week but before you slip away into the darkness and escape for the weekend, we’ve got one last list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for you to enjoy. Today’s list features 11 premium iOS apps that are all free downloads for the time being, and they span a wide range of categories. You’ll also find even more freebies in yesterday’s post if 11 isn’t enough for you.
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