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2023-08-25 14:01:59

The new top of the range from the Japanese brand will arrive in a few days, exactly one year following the release of the Xperia 5 IV.

The manufacturer will offer an online conference for the first day of the IFA in Berlin to officially unveil in detail its new smartphone Xperia 5 V. This will be the brand’s second top-of-the-range model to be released this year, following the remarkable Xperia 1 V.

A dedicated event

Several sources, including a Japanese site and the US Federal Communications Commission, reported very recently that Sony intended to unveil its Xperia 5 V exactly one year following the release of the Xperia 5 IV, on September 1st. The company confirmed the rumors by posting a short teaser video highlighting the photographic capabilities of its next smartphone. The video ends with the announcement of a launch event to be held online on Friday, September 1 at 9 a.m. local time.

Sony had launched its excellent Xperia 1 V last May and therefore comes with a 5 V model, as usual more compact. A smartphone sold cheaper too. Remember that the Xperia 5 IV model was sold for €300 less than the 1 IV, to reach €1,000.

Concessions ?

The price positioning of the Xperia 5 is regularly subject to debate, with prices easily reaching €1,000, which is generally €300 cheaper than the Xperia 1. This year once more, Sony plans to launch a powerful smartphone, but it might be possible to see a (small) drop in price. Indeed, a leaked video, published in July, showed us an Xperia 5 V with only two photo sensors instead of the usual three. There is no doubt that the manufacturer will have sacrificed the telephoto lens to keep only the main sensor and the ultra-wide-angle. A choice made to lower the price of the device?

We will find out soon enough. As we will actually find out what will hide under the shell of the smartphone. This should contain a SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the latest generation of processors from Qualcomm that equips most high-end phones released since the end of last year. If Sony really wants to lower the price of its Xperia 5 V, it would not be excluded either that we will ultimately find a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip.

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2023-08-25 10:50:00

Inter announced the launch of new features for the mobile recharge functionality present in the digital bank application. The news arrives with the aim of facilitating the entire experience of use for customers, as highlighted by the institution.

Among them is the possibility of scheduling the recharge recurrence, with the amount and period desired, without worrying regarding running out of credits. Another novelty is the inclusion of payment by credit card, which allows purchases even when there is no balance in the account.

According to Inter, the customer does not pay interest or fees when choosing the institution’s credit card to pay for the top-up. In addition, it is still possible to accumulate more points in Inter Loop, the digital bank card loyalty program.

Inter Loop points can be exchanged for miles, investback, cashback at Inter’s online shopping mall and cashback on the next invoice or directly on the account. Therefore, it can be a good option for those who recharge their cell phone with a certain frequency.

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Also according to the digital bank, a new navigation experience was introduced in the top-up section, with a practical visualization of favorite numbers and the last credit purchases made, all so that the customer can see the information more easily.

Finally, Inter promised that new types of recharges should arrive for the app in the next quarter. The objective is to expand the recharge center with prepaid plan options for pay-TV operators and public transport.

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2023-08-25 13:35:14

Bethesda’s upcoming space RPG Starfield won’t just be huge, with over 1,000 planets to visit and over 100 hours of gameplay. Then it might take a while before you want to start the second playthrough. When that time comes, though, there’s something to look forward to, as Todd Howard confirmed in an interview with GQ that Starfield will have NewGame+. Not only that, but the game’s NewGame+ will also have a “unique and exciting twist” that will incentivize multiple playthroughs. In the interview, Todd Howard also explained that Starfield only really felt good regarding a year ago, even though the game took eight years to develop: “I thought we’d find out sooner. This is the flow of the game. We reduce these clay blocks and make them better. But there is a kind of magic. Starfield is now only a week away from the closure of Blast, because players who have access to its premium version will be able to access it on September 1st game.
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2023-08-25 14:30:47

A Japanese rocket is due to take off on Monday carrying a small module to land on the Moon within four to six months, a new attempt following unsuccessful Japanese tests, while India has just succeeded in its first moon landing.

The take-off was initially scheduled for Saturday, then had been postponed to Sunday and now to Monday due to bad weather conditions expected this weekend at the launch site of the Japanese space agency (Jaxa) in Tanegashima (south-west of the country).

The project consists in particular in testing a high-precision moon landing technology, at a maximum of 100 meters from its target once morest several kilometers usually, with a small and light probe (700-730 kg).

Hence the name of this module, SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon), and its nickname of “Moon Sniper”.

Presentation of the SLIM or “Moon Sniper” module of the Japanese lunar mission launched in August 2023

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For mobile exploration robots, “navigating steep slopes and uneven terrain still represents a high level of difficulty. This is why it is important to succeed in landing (spacecraft, editor’s note) with high precision to allow a efficient exploration in the future,” explained Jaxa on its site.

In addition, the areas suitable for exploring the polar regions of the Moon “are limited to a very small area”, still notes the Jaxa.

In the event of a successful landing, SLIM will also have to carry out, using a multispectral camera, analyzes of the composition of rocks supposed to come from the lunar mantle, the internal structure of the Moon which is still very poorly understood.

The global race to explore the Moon is heating up following India successfully landed a spacecraft there on Wednesday; before it, only the United States, the Soviet Union and China had already successfully landed on the moon.

Russia has just failed in a new attempt, its Luna-25 probe having crashed on Saturday August 19 on the lunar soil.

several failures

Japan had already tried last November to land a mini-probe on the Moon which had been embarked on board the American mission Artemis 1. But communication with “Omotenashi” (“hospitality” in Japanese) had been lost shortly following its arrival. ejection into space, due to a failure of its batteries.

Undated photo released by Japanese start-up ispace on April 25, 2023 of the Moon taken by a camera mounted on the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander in lunar orbit

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And in April this year, a young private Japanese company, ispace, failed to land its Hakuto-R module, which probably crashed on the surface of Earth’s natural satellite.

“Moon landings remain a very difficult technology” to master, SLIM project manager Shinichiro Sakai told reporters on Thursday, expressing his respect for the success of the Indian mission.

The Jaxa H2-A rocket, which is due to take off Monday at 9:26 a.m. Japanese time (00:26 GMT), must also take a satellite called XRISM, an X-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission, into space.

The XRISM mission is the result of a collaboration between Jaxa, the American NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

“X-ray astronomy allows us to study the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. It holds the key to answering important questions in modern astrophysics: how the largest structures in the Universe evolve, how the matter of which we are ultimately composed was distributed throughout the cosmos, and how galaxies are shaped by massive black holes at their center,” explained Matteo Guainazzi, ESA project scientist for XRISM.

History of missions to the Moon, by country

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Jaxa must also bounce back with the dual SLIM/XRISM mission, because the space agency has experienced several resounding failures since last year.

After the failure of its small-sized Epsilon-6 launcher shortly following take-off last October, Jaxa indeed suffered two further setbacks in February and March of this year with its next-generation H3 launcher, which has still not failed a first mission.

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