Global fast food chain, McDonald’s, to celebrate this Lunar New Year in the metaverse in collaboration with award-winning, viral digital content creator Karen X Cheng. According to the press release, “Cheng, a longtime brand fan, is excited to bring her heritage and that of the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community to life in […]
For a Lunar New Year campaign, McDonald’s has collaborated with Karen X Cheng, a well-known digital content creator. Cheng’s work frequently goes viral and incorporates AI and AR, as well as a variety of cutting-edge technologies. The 30-second commercial is based on Cheng’s fond childhood memories of the occasion and includes a QR code call-to-action […]
The latest update for Diablo Immortal is around the corner, and it’s set to ring in the Lunar New Year with an event that will have players rewarded for their generosity. They say that the act of giving a gift is its own reward, and that is certainly true of the upcoming Tong-Shi’s Renewal event […]
South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon’s surface and Earth, the national space center said Tuesday. Danuri – a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy” – was launched on a SpaceX rocket from the United States in August 2022 and entered lunar orbit last month. Its […]
NASA is teaching artificial intelligence (AI) to use features of the lunar landscape to help future missions navigate across the Moon. The AI will compare views of the lunar surface with pre-existing topographic models of the Moon in order to pinpoint the user’s location down to within 30 feet. The system will act as a backup […]
A long exposure photo shows the path of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it launched the ispace mission on Dec. 11, 2022, with the rocket booster’s return and landing visible as well. SpaceX Japanese lunar exploration company ispace began its long-anticipated first mission on Sunday, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the venture’s lunar […]
Orion just made its final pass around the moon on its way to Earth, and NASA has released some of the spacecraft’s best photos so far. Taken by a high-resolution camera (actually a heavily modified GoPro Hero 4) mounted on the tip of Orion’s solar arrays, they show the spacecraft rounding the Moon then getting […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers “successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit,” the US space agency said on its […]
The Orion spacecraft made its first close flyby of the Moon on Monday 21 November, coming as close as 81 statute miles (130 kilometers) from the lunar surface. As the Artemis 1 mission’s uncrewed spacecraft flew past the far side of the Moon, Orion’s orbital maneuvering system engine fired for 2 minutes and 30 seconds […]