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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe delivers sample of asteroid — and moves on to next target

GeekWire

(NASA via YouTube) Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now on course to rendezvous with another one in 2029. Rocket thrusters built at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash.,

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Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022

The Verge

We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” says Sean Lyndersay , a Microsoft Edge program manager. Microsoft is promising to support this IE mode in Edge until through at least 2029. The end of Internet Explorer has been a long time coming.

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