Back in March, the Trump administration declared that it was directing NASA to send humans back to the Moon no later than 2024. That’s an incredibly tight deadline for an agency with a budget that is nowhere near what it was (in adjusted dollars, anyway) when the Apollo missions made history, but Trump-appointed NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine bent over backward and promised it could be done.

Lots of people, myself included, were (and still are) highly skeptical that NASA can pull it off. Now, a new budget amendment proposal just surfaced that reveals how much more money NASA is going to need to even have a chance of fulfilling the Moon 2024 promise: $1.6 billion.

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NASA is asking for another $1.6 billion to fulfill the Moon 2024 promise originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 20:08:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A Samsung insider who is perhaps best known for sharing details about brand new phones well ahead of their official announcements is back teasing that some sort of breakthrough smartphone design is coming in the second half of the year. It’s unclear at this time whether he’s talking about a Samsung phone or not, but the leaker did say recently that Samsung will be among the companies to deliver this brand new design.

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Samsung insider teases breakthrough phone design coming in the second half of 2019 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 19:37:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Slowly but surely, Google has become a one-stop shop for everything travel related. Few sites (if any) offer a cleaner and easier approach to booking travel arrangements than Google, and now, a new travel portal for the web has made the process even easier. All you have to do to check it out is head to google.com/travel.

While most of the functionality of this travel hub was previously available through Google’s website, this unifies all of the various features and options into a single webpage where you can book flights and hotels, see all your upcoming trips, and scroll through all of the previous vacations and getaways from years past.

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Google’s new travel portal will improve the way you plan your trips online originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 19:06:52 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re still on the fence about subscribing to a streaming music service, wondering if you’ll actually consume enough tunes to justify paying at least $10 a month, Spotify is once again promoting its regular offer of a three-month subscription to its paid tier that will set you back just a dollar.

If you sign up before June 30, you can enjoy three months of Spotify Premium for only 99 cents – a deal that, we should note, doesn’t apply to anyone who canceled their subscription and would like to come back at this temporary rate. However, Spotify is offering a sweetener for those users by letting them come back for three months for just $10 total.

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Spotify is once again offering three months of Premium for 99 cents originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 18:35:39 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The saga surrounding Apple’s efforts to secure 5G chips for its 2020 iPhone lineup is nothing short of gripping, as illustrated by a new in-depth report published by The Information.

As you likely heard, Apple and Qualcomm this past April settled their longstanding patent dispute after more than two years of litigation. As part of the settlement, both companies agreed to a six-year license agreement that, among other things, will see Qualcomm provide chipsets for the iPhone for at least six years. Interestingly, Apple was compelled to settle with Qualcomm due to a series of issues surrounding Intel’s ongoing efforts to produce a 5G chip for forthcoming iPhone models.

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Apple-designed 5G modems won’t appear in new iPhones until 2025 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 18:04:55 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Switch is primed for a big holiday season with Animal Crossing, Pokemon Sword and Shield, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake, but yet another major release is right around the corner. Nintendo announced Super Mario Maker 2 during a February Nintendo Direct presentation, revealing that the Switch will be getting a true sequel to the Wii U classic, rather than a remake or a remaster, as many had assumed.

Nintendo showcased several of the new features and items that will appear in the sequel during the presentation, but on Wednesday, the company will devote an entire Direct to the new game. If you want to see everything Super Mario Maker 2 has to offer, just tune in to the stream embedded above at 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET.

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How to watch Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario Maker 2′ Direct live stream originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 17:36:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In March, a Boeing 737 Max 8 airliner operated by Ethiopia Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 people onboard. It was the second deadly crash of a 737 Max in just six months time, and it led to the grounding of every 737 Max plane around the world.

Now, as the investigation into the cause of the crashes is still ongoing, a recording obtained by CBS News indicates that pilots didn’t feel comfortable flying the planes even before the March crash. In the recordings, pilots from American Airlines can be heard grilling a Boeing official over the safety of the planes and the fact that they weren’t made aware of the stall-prevention feature that has now been linked to both deadly crashes.

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Pilots confronted Boeing about 737 Max issues before deadly crash in March originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 17:13:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung is still committed to an imminent relaunch of its super-expensive foldable handset. The one that was supposed to have been on the market by now but was yanked at the eleventh hour after high-profile reviewers and tech outlets found a slew of problems with the Galaxy Fold — which, it turns out, was unacceptably fragile for a device with a nearly $2,000 price tag.

We know Samsung is still committed to the device because the company keeps telling us so. And we also know the company is still committed because it’s racing to fix the sloppy work that dogged the first version of the Galaxy Fold to ensure that it’s finally ready for prime time.

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Here’s what Samsung is doing to fix the Galaxy Fold’s embarrassing mistakes originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 16:50:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Instead of spending $350 on new Bose wireless noise cancelling headphones, you can spend $55 and convert your old wired Bose headphones into wireless ones. Just pick up a Bolle&Raven Wireless Bluetooth Adapter for Bose QuietComfort 25 Headphones or a Bolle&Raven Wireless Bluetooth Adapter for Bose QuietComfort 15 Headphones on Amazon, depending on which model headphones you have. It plugs right into the headphone cord jack on your headphones and it blends in perfectly, so it looks like it’s just part of your headphones. Definitely check it out.

Bolle&Raven Wireless Bluetooth Adapter for Bose QuietComfort 25 Headphones (QC25): $54.95

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Bolle&Raven Wireless Bluetooth Adapter for Bose QuietComfort 25 Headphones (QC25): $54.95

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Save $300 by turning your wired Bose noise canceling headphones into wireless headphones originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 16:27:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A slump in productivity is coming.

Okay, that doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Winter is coming,” but for Game of Thrones fans, at least, the statement is no less true. Several million Americans, it seems, are planning to either be late, skip work completely or be less productive on Monday as a result of staying up to watch the last-ever episode on Sunday as the eighth and final season of the smash hit HBO fantasy drama draws to a close.

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Millions of Americans will skip work Monday or show up late because of ‘Game of Thrones’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 15 May 2019 at 16:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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