After 355 days aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth each a NASA document holder and a modified man. Though his run was not so long as Peggy Whitson’s 665 cumulative days spent in microgravity, Vande Hei’s accomplishment remains to be one of many longest single stints in human spaceflight — and makes him the topic of intensive analysis into the consequences of zero-gravity on people.

Though NASA’s Human Research Program has spent 50 years finding out the consequences of spaceflight on the human physique, the complete influence of long-duration house journey has but to be exhaustively researched. As humanity’s enlargement into house accelerates within the coming a long time, extra folks will probably be going into orbit — and going a lot farther — and the medical wants clearly improve together with this. Andrew Tarantola outlines the place the analysis is headed.

— Mat Smith

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It’ll demand “at least” 20 % zero-emissions gross sales by 2026.

Canada has outlined its Emissions Reduction Plan, which would require all new passenger automotive gross sales to be zero-emissions fashions by 2035. The authorities will step by step put stress on automakers, requiring “at least” 20 % zero-emissions gross sales by 2026, pushing steeply to 60 % by 2030. Officials did not say whether or not this utilized to a make’s product combine or just the amount of automobiles bought.

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First, the early adopters check the waters.

A Reddit consumer wrote to Craig Federighi, Apple’s Vice President of Software Engineering, to ask how iOS auto-updates work. Federighi responded, revealing that Apple step by step releases “new iOS updates by first making them available for those that explicitly seek them out in Settings, and then 1-4 weeks later (after we’ve received feedback on the update) ramp up to rolling out devices with auto-update enabled.” Generally, this implies it takes a number of weeks for iOS auto-updates to achieve everybody’s iPhone and, within the case of iPadOS, iPad.

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It’s fairly late.

Google has begun rolling out a brand new replace for its iOS YouTube TV app. Now each iPhone and iPad customers have picture-in-picture performance. To watch one thing in PiP mode, swipe up from the underside of the display. The video will robotically resize and transfer throughout your system’s show. You’ll should be operating iOS 15 or newer — and ensure your app is updated.

It’s taken its time: Apple’s cell working system has supported picture-in-picture performance on iPad since iOS 13 and iPhone since iOS 14. The characteristic has additionally been accessible on the corporate’s fundamental YouTube app since final 12 months.

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This is the second delay in as many months.

Intel’s lastly supplied a glimpse of its Arc A-series Limited Edition video card, which is arriving someday this summer time — sure, which means one other delay. There are not any specs or costs, sadly, however the double-height design and twin-fan cooling clarify this goals straight at avid gamers. Early Arc desktop GPUs are anticipated to assist a raft of recent options, together with hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI-based supersampling. It’s nonetheless too quickly to say if Arc desktop fashions will provide really aggressive efficiency. NVIDIA ought to ship its first Ampere Next-based GPUs (seemingly the RTX 40 sequence) later this 12 months, and AMD will comply with swimsuit with the Radeon RX 7000 sequence.

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