Ars has a guide to what’s going on with the new exploring metal guy today, the automated navigation system that will guide the rover to a safe landing, and a little bit about the first-of-it’s kind drone that will launch from Perseverance.
You can tune in to watch the status of the mission via NASA TV and elsewhere starting at 2:15PM/1415 EST.
A lot of things about the internet are sad these days. With the internet people can find their kind of people and that is how you end up with good things like people who like mechanical keyboards developing their own keyboard projects but you also get groups of white supremacists organizing to storm the U.S. Capitol or people spreading lies about elections to lead up to that kind of action. One good thing on the internet is Radio Garden, a website that aggregates internet-accessible real-world radio stations from around the globe onto a virtual globe directory that you can click through to listen to any of them by clicking on the station’s general physical location.
Maybe the only downside is that the Radio Garden has dynamic ads inserted before the remote radio station starts playing. It was jarring when I tuned into this station depicted above in Germany only to hear a Verizon ad in English clearly targeted at U.S. customers.
The mobile version of Radio Garden has one In-App Purchase to remove ads, but it’s only for removing interstitial ad graphics and not the audio ads. Unfortunately the app says the Radio Garden developers have no control over the audio ads. So, unfortunately the internet also let ad publishers and agencies get together for enhanced advertising. Which is why Facebook is now advertising to me and interrupting this German radio station to tell me how their ad programs are safe and definitely not completely evil.
The developers behind a previous Hello keyboard that went wrong for various reasons are working on a new iteration in the same spirit. This is the Hello, again inspired by the classic Apple M0110 keyboard layout.
Find out more about their project at this link. It’s currently in “interest check” status where people who are interested can submit feedback before Hello, again goes into the group buy phase.
Nintendo’s regular news broadcast, Nintendo Direct, aired today with plenty of new Nintendo Switch news. Here’s everything that was announced:
ePBT RamenStop is “a two-toned Katakana set themed around small ramen shops” in the group buy phase from the designer Plop from now until February 22nd via the Kono store and looks absolutely awesome. Estimated delivery is in 6-8 months and the set starts at $75 for the base kit.
