Published on: 2025-05-11 09:22:46
Protoplanetary Disks Are Smaller Than Expected In astronomy, the first thing you see may be the least typical. A case in point: ‘Hot Jupiters.’ A few prescient souls, among them Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes in their novel Encounter with Tiber, speculated about gas giants that survived incredibly tight orbits around their star, and when asked about this in the 1990s, Greg Matloff ran the numbers and confirmed to his surprise that there was a theoretical case for their existence. Let me quote Matl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 08:46:31
As it turns out, “thrift shopping” in Japan via the internet can be both very enjoyable as well as very dangerous. In this series of posts, I’ve been examining various optical media I’ve obtained from Japan, both in-person and online, and they just keep on coming as the listings are refreshed and more products get put up for sale. It’s been an amazing trip “back-in-time” but also an opportunity to share some of the fun and beauty of older optical discs. TDK DVD+R 4x UV-Guard The first disc in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 11:42:00
Facepalm: Those who still own DVDs or have movie collections from the 2000s should check them for Warner Bros. logos and see if the discs have rotted. Unfortunately, many affected titles aren't available in other formats, and the company cannot replace all of them, increasing the risk of many classic movies and TV shows becoming lost. Film collectors recently discovered that potentially hundreds of Warner Bros. DVDs released between 2006 and 2008 have become unplayable due to laser rot. The com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 13:09:58
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. If you, like me, still have your DVD collection hanging around, now is a good time to dust off your DVD player and make sure they haven’t succumbed to disc rot. That’s because many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely, the company acknowledged in a statement to JoBlo in an article upd
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 01:52:00
The big picture: Although the Trump administration just announced a one-month delay on most imports from Canada and Mexico, the eventual resumption of tariffs on Mexican goods could significantly impact the production of physical video games. This unintended consequence may compound the challenges already expected to slow the gaming industry due to existing tariffs on Chinese imports. Analysts predict that a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico would substantially affect the U.S. ret
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