Solid State Logic Enters Audio Interface Market

On January 13th 2020, before the start of winter NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants), Solid State Logic or SSL announced their entry, into the entry level audio intrface market, with the release of the SSL 2 and SSL 2+.  Solid Stae Logic is more well known for the high end mixig consoles found in many professional recording studios around the world. In this instance, they are giving music makers of all strip an opportunity to add that SSL sound to their productions.

The SSL 2, is aimed at a more personal setup, such as a solo artist or singer songwriter might perfer. It offers two inputs and two outputs and a single high end headphone output. The SSL 2+ is geared more toward the musician who may want to collaborate with others. It offers the same two inputs and out puts, but also adds an additional headphone output, an independent monitor mix, and MIDI in and out. Both interfaces operate using USB C and at 24bit/192kHz resolution.

Each interface ships bundled with the SSL Production Pack, which inclues the SSL Vocal Strip and Drumstrip plugins, Ableton Live Lite, Native Instruments Hybrid Keys and Komplete, Pro Tools Lite, and 1.5 GB of samples from Loop Cloud. Each interface has a "Legacy 4k," button on the input channels that's there to give the users audio an anolog quality that's inspired by the SSL 4000 console. The SSL 2 sells for $229.99, while the SSL 2+ is priced at $279.99.
 

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Parker Solar Probe

On December 4th 2019, NASA announced that its Parker Solar Probe has begun to send back data about the sun. Passing within 15 million miles, the Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft from Earth to fly so close. The first findings sent back by the probe have revealed activity going on within the sun's atmosphere, or corona. The data has shown that there are reversals in the sun's electromagnetic fields and anomalies occurring in the particle that make up the solar winds.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched in August of 2018. It was built to withstand temperatures of more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Amazon's First Grocery Store

On November 11th 2019, Amazon announced that it will open what it is calling its "first grocery store". Amazon says that its new store will not feature its cashierless technology. What its new store will offer, is a new product line that will feature a different variety of products at lower prices. The first location is expected to open in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles. Amazon intends to make the new offering an alternative to its Whole Foods chain.

Google Introduces Sycamore Quantum Computer

On October 23rd 2019, Google announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing. With the use of their new 54 - qubit processor, named Sycamore, their quantum computer successfully completed a problem in 200 seconds. Google says that such a feat would have taken a super computer 10,000 year to solve. Google's quantum computer uses qubits as opposed to the 1s and 0s of a classical computer. This allows the data to exists in multiple states

Th use of quibits offers the quantum computer greater speed in solving complicated computations. However, Google's rival, IBM says that its super computer can run the same computation in 2.5years as opposed to 10,000 years.

Virgin Orbit Aiming For Mars

On October 9th 2019, Virgin Orbit announced that it would soon be launching its first satellite into orbit in November of 2019.The bulk of Virgin Orbit's business will involve lifting satellites into low Earth orbit. The ultimate goal of the Virgin Galactic sibling is to send cubesats to Mars by the year 2022. The company plans to use an air launch rocket called LauncherOne, which will be attached to a modified 747 known as Comic Girl.

Chinese Rover Discovers Strange Gel On Moon

On August 17th 2019, Beijing Aerospace Control Center released a statement regarding it's Yutu-2 lunar rover. The rover which is currently exploring the far, or "dark side," of the moon, has discovered a strange gel like substance inside an impact creator. Images from the Yutu-2's cameras that were taken on July 28th 2019 revealed a material at the bottom of the creator that did not appear to look the same as the soil from the surrounding area.

Yutu-2's drive team decided to investigate the find, and sent the rover back to get a closer look at the material in the creator. Upon its returned to the creator, Yutu-2 used its Visible and Near Infrared Spectrometer (VNIS), to do an analysis. The results of the analysis are not yet known, but researchers believe that the material is most likely some type of glass that might have been produce by the high heat that was produced at the time of the meteorite impact.