Monthly Archives: July 2020

NASA wants to learn how Venus and Earth diverged over time

NASA wants to send a mission to Venus. Proposed to launch in 2026, the mission Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy, or VERITAS, aims to investigate how Earth and Venus, which started in very similar ways, evolved to be very different today. “Venus is like this cosmic gift …

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Sony Xperia 1 II review: it’s a stretch

Sony’s new Xperia 1 II smartphone is specifically designed for one very specific thing: making your phone work a bit more like a standalone Sony Alpha camera. It takes a long time to arrive: Sony has made dozens of Xperia phones since its first phone in 2008, but so far …

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