Articles by Jester Valdez
Toyota Brings Back The Legendary Supra For 2020
The new 2020 Toyota Supra was announced at Detroit Auto Show on Monday, Jan. 14. It features a 335-horsepower engine with BMW engineering technology and eight-speed automatic transmission that can be shifted with steering wheel-mounted paddles.
China Already Planning Next Moon Mission This Year, Mars In 2020
Shortly after the successful landing of the Chang'e-4 probe on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3, China will launch the second of four planned moon missions by year-end. Spacecraft Chang'e-5 will collect samples from the near side of the moon.
Better Business Bureau Gives Epic Games A Failing Grade For Customer Service
Epic Games received an 'F' grade for customer service as it failed to address 247 out of 271 complaints filed in 2018. Most of these complaints pertain to problems on its customer service, refunds, exchanges, and even account hacking issues.
Study Conducted By LG Says Xbox Gamers 'Better' Than Their PC And PS4 Counterparts
Xbox gamers are superior in gaming compared to their PlayStation and PC counterparts based on LG's new research. Overall scores from the test showed that console gamers have the best reactions or twitchiness.
Bungie Parts Ways With Activision Blizzard Much To Investors' Chagrin
Bungie announced that it now owns full publishing rights and responsibilities of the franchise. The developer's decision to split from Activision would mean the latter's loss of a revenue stream.
Researchers Get To The Bottom Of Easter Island Mystery
A new study found that the locations of the megalithic platforms or ahu at Eastern Island in Chile are tied to the community's basic needs for survival. Whenever there are giant statues in an area, there are massive amounts of freshwater.
Ford Unveils New 2020 RWD-Based Explorer In Detroit
Ford unveiled the brand-new 2020 RWD-Based Explorer on Wednesday evening at Ford Field in Detroit. Starting at $33,000 price point, Ford 2020 Explorer goes on sale this summer.
Aging Hubble Spacecraft's Wide Field Camera Down For The Count
NASA confirmed that Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope is currently offline due to a malfunction. Teams are hard at work troubleshooting the glitch, saying that a system reboot might be needed to fix the error.
6-Year-Old Girl Wins Doodle For Google Contest
Google named the lucky winner for the 2018 Doodle for Google contest on its official YouTube channel. Sarah Gomez-Lane, a 6-year-old girl from Virginia. bagged the coveted prize of $30,000 college scholarship fund.
Oculus Rift Update To Bring Live VR Streaming To Facebook
The new Oculus Rift update will bring more people into their virtual world where anyone can ask to join one's VR social space. Oculus Home is a fun social hub to enjoy with friends and also to make a few new online friends.
AI Could Be Diagnosing Rare Illnesses From Facial Recognition In The Near Future
Using the Deepgestalt computer program, researchers have trained AI to recognize facial features, paving the way for early and cheap diagnoses. This revolutionary technology was developed by Yaron Gurovich and his team at FDNA, a biotechnology firm in Boston.
Geneticists Are Considering Creating A Spicy Tomato
New research suggests that tomatoes may be engineered to produce capsaicinoids using the latest gene-editing techniques. Capsaicinoids have important medical uses, specifically in the treatment of cancer.
Google Going Down Disney Theme Park Route With Massive 18,000-Square-Foot CES Booth
Google appeared to outdo itself at CES 2019 with an interactive ride similar to a Disney theme park for the participants. The tech company's massive booth will also feature a mini-restaurant, gumball machine, and more.
Wearable Sensor DFree Tells You When You Need To Pee
DFree, which stands for 'diaper-free', is specially designed for seniors and people who need to manage bladder control issues. About 500 million people around the world are affected by urinary incontinence.
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce RTX 2060 With A $349 Price Tag
The new NVIDIA RTX 2060 GPU delivers exceptional performance on modern video games. Its Turing's RT Cores and Tensor Cores enables PC gamers to run 'Battlefield V' with ray tracing at 60 frames per second.
NASA Shows Off Unique Mars 2020 Mission Rover Paint Job
Mars 2020 rover is slated to touch down on Mars in February 2021. About two years before the scheduled launch, NASA showed off the unique paint job involved.
Scientists Want To Use Swarm Of Small Satellites To Act As Giant Telescope
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel invented a cheaper and groundbreaking satellite imaging system. Called synthetic aperture systems, this technique will change how photographs are captured on space and on Earth.
Scientists Unveil New Type Of MEMS Switch That Make Phones And Power Lines More Durable
Researchers designed a new MEMS switch that extends the lifespan of phones and power lines. The three-electrode system is able to produce a strong upward force that curbs the damage on the device after consistent use.
Hy-Vee Pharmacies Change Policies To Help Stop Opioid Abuse
Hy-Vee pharmacies changed prescription policies to help combat the national opioid epidemic in the United States. According to the CDC, more than 47,000 deaths in 2017 werer related to opioid abuse, the highest number ever recorded in a given year.
Doctors Want To Use Smartphone Apps To Check Depression In Teens
Experts point their fingers to young people's depression and rising suicide rates to the heavy use of smartphones. However, those same devices might also be used to alleviate mental health crises among teens.
Cute Newfound Species Of Tree Frog Has Funny-Looking Claw
Hyloscirtus hillisi is the latest member in Hyloscirtus family of frogs discovered by biologists. These tree frogs can be found in nearby streams from Costa Rica to the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Scientists Look At Worms To Understand Longevity And Aging
LSI researchers used Caenorhabditis elegans or roundworms as a genetic model organism for studying aging. They found the cause of the physiological functional decline in tiny aging worms and how to delay the process.
Pros Say Wearable Tech Will Be A Big Fitness Trend Hit In 2019
In a new survey, experts revealed the top 20 big fitness trends for 2019. Although wearable technology dropped to no. 3 for 2018, it is now back to the no. 1 spot for 2019 while group training and HIIT rank second and third respectively.
Google Confirms Fuchsia Will Be Able To Run Android Apps
Google is clearly working on bringing Android Runtime environment to its new operating system called Fuchsia. Speculations suggest the tech company would officially announce Fuchsia this year.
Queen Guitarist And Scientist Brian May Releases Song About Ultima Thule Flyby
New Horizons now marked its historic visit to Ultima Thule, which is known as the most distant celestial body and the first small object in the Kuiper Belt ever visited by a spacecraft. Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May wrote a song as a tribute to the mission.
Scientists Having Hard Time Keeping Track Of Patients Who Have Undergone Gene-Editing Treatments In China
While gene therapy is yet in its early stages, scientists need to keep tabs of patients who have received gene-editing treatments. However, scientists in China were not keeping track of patients who had the experimental gene therapy that may trigger health problems later on in life.
SpaceX Looks Into Raising $500 Million For Ambitious Internet Service Project
Starlink, the ambitious internet service project of Elon Musk's SpaceX, will launch 12,000 satellites to bring better internet access to rural areas and developing countries. The aerospace company aimed to raise $500 million to finance the project.
Delta IV Heavy Rocket Launch Postponed Yet Again To 2019 Date
The Delta IV Heavy rocket will try again to launch on Jan. 6, 2019 from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The exact time of the liftoff has yet to be announced.
Electrical Fire Lights Up New York Sky With Eerie Blue Glow
A transformer explosion at a Con Edison substation lit up the New York sky with a strange blue light. Social media users took to Twitter to post videos of the event, suggesting it could be an alien invasion.
US Facing Drop In Life Expectancy But Massachusetts Breaks Trend
Americans can now only expect to live until the age of 78.6 on average, indicating a decline from 78.9 in 2014. Residents of Massachusetts, on the contrary, will reach 80 years and 8 months on average, an increase from 80 years and 5 months in 2015.
