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Orbiting robots could help fix and fuel satellites in space

Enlarge (credit: janiecbros | Getty Images) For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface each 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing globe, it revealed melting glaciers in Greenland, the growth of shrimp farms in Mexico, […]

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Apple will randomize Mac serial numbers starting this year

Enlarge / The 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro running macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) According to MacRumors, Apple will completely change how the serial numbers for Macs are generated. The numbers will soon be fully randomized, meaning that users, IT managers, repair-shop technicians, and others will not be able to glean the same information from them that […]