After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on July 23.NASA/Isaac Watson
NASA’s epic Space Launch System rocket, standing 322 feet tall when fully stacked, has recently been on an similarly epic journey — traveling from New Orleans to Florida via barge. The rocket began its journey more than two weeks ago, and having covered more than 900 miles has now arrived safe at the Kennedy Space Center.
The core stage was manufactured and assembled at the Michoud Assembly Facility, and had to travel to Kennedy to be ready for integration and testing ahead of the Artemis II test flight. It will be used to carry crew members on a 10-day journey around the moon and back, including NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman plus Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
“With Artemis, we’ve set our sights on doing something big and incredibly complex that will inspire a new generation, advance our scientific endeavors, and move U.S. competitiveness forward,” said Catherine Koerner, associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, when the core stage set off on its journey. “The SLS rocket is a key component of our efforts to develop a long-term presence at the Moon.”
Before the launch, however, there’s still a lot of work to be done to get the core stage ready for flight. It is now in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy, where it will be set into the mobile launcher — the platform that hooks it up to the ground systems — and integrated with the Orion spacecraft that will house the crew. In addition, the core stage need to have its twin solid rocket boosters and launch vehicle stage adapter added, and then the entire assembly will need thorough testing to ensure it’s ready to fly.
Artemis II is currently scheduled for September next year, following on from the Artemis I mission in November 2022 that saw an uncrewed version of the SLS and Orion capsule travel around the moon and back to Earth. That mission was a success; however, some components were damaged during the launch, and the launch of the first crewed mission was pushed back to accommodate more time for development and integration.
The long-term plan is to return humans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years in the Artemis III mission, tentatively scheduled for September 2026.
It took a few hours, but Star Wars Outlaws eventually began winning over our staff scoundrel Morgan Park when he got his hands on a preview build earlier this month. Despite an “unmistakable sluggishness to the action,” Morgan eventually found that as in previous Ubisoft games, “no one aspect is exceptional, but when it all comes together, I’m having a really good time.”
Apart from the obvious reason Star Wars Outlaws feels similar to other open world Ubisoft games—because it’s another open world Ubisoft game—there’s an even more direct connection. Speaking to GamesRadar, Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty said Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was one of his favorite AC games “without a doubt.”
Praising its “freedom of approach in a very large environment” and the “curiosity at its heart,” Gerighty told GR he would “pick up the phone” and ask members of Odyssey’s development team specific questions while making Outlaws. “Okay, how did you do this? What was too big for you? What was too long a distance for traversal?”
Odyssey wasn’t the only influence on Outlaws. Gerighty also told GamesRadar that “my biggest reference was Ghost of Tsushima, which is more on the Kurosawa side of inspiration than the Western, the John Ford side of the inspiration for George Lucas.”
Red Dead Redemption was another influence, because it treats “the world as a world, not as a checklist of activities that are repeated often,” Gerighty said. “But I think that Ghost of Tsushima, what I loved about it was this purity of having a player fantasy and really leaning into it.
“This is the story, the world, the character, everything fits together with the gameplay guiding everything,” he said. “That’s the fantasy of ‘you are a samurai ninja in Japan.’ That was one of the guiding lights for [Star Wars Outlaws].”
It’s not quite the same theme in Outlaws—as Morgan points out, Ubisoft and LucasArts have repeatedly called it a “scoundrel fantasy.” As far as its inspirations like AC Odyssey, RDR, and Ghost of Tsushima, we don’t have much longer to wait to see if their influence can really be felt in Gerighty’s open world. Star Wars Outlaws releases on August 30.
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While the gamified version of Lego Super Mario continues to expand with new and , more traditional Lego Sets inspired by the red plumber are somewhat rare. However, we can expect a new set featuring a caped Mario astride his trusty mount Yoshi to join the Lego Super Mario catalog on Oct. 1. The $129.99 set isn’t quite as cool as the or as iconic as the , but it still includes some fun features and surprises.
Image: Lego
Normally pre-orders of new Lego sets are exclusively available through, but this 1,215-piece set can also be reserved at Target ahead of the Oct. 1 launch.
This flat, pixelated Mario and Yoshi are based on the 16-bit versions as they first appeared in Super Mario World for the SNES. The base of the set features a small crank which, when turned, animates Yoshi’s legs and arms, while a dial behind Yoshi’s head animates his mouth and tongue. Also, just like the and sets, Lego Super Mario & Yoshi includes an action tag that provides unique reactions for , , or figures.
Qualcomm’s latest earnings report shows an 11% increase in revenue at $9.39 billion.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon highlights new AI PCs powered by the latest Snapdragon chips.
Qualcomm’s earnings follow Samsung’s, which reported year-over-year growth with sales of the Galaxy S24 series, which is partially powered by Qualcomm chips.
Qualcomm is expected to announce its new Oryon-powered Snapdragon chips later this year.
Qualcomm reported its fiscal year Q3 financial earnings, announcing $9.39 billion in revenue, an 11% increase in overall revenue compared to the same period last year.
Qualcomm’s growth was the result of a 12% increase in headset revenue of over $8 billion, highlighted by the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which launched on devices like the Galaxy S24 series and other flagship Android phones. Qualcomm CEO also highlights the excitement around new Copilot Plus PCs powered by Snapdragon chips, which went on sale starting in June.
“We are excited about the launch of our Snapdragon X Series solutions for PCs that deliver leading performance, unmatched power efficiency and personalized AI experiences,” Amon said in a prepared statement.
“This launch represents a significant milestone in our transformation from a communications company to a leading intelligent computing company.”
Qualcomm is also gearing up for the Snapdragon Summit later this year, where it will launch its next-generation chipset for smartphones, which will be powered by the same Oryon cores used in its Snapdragon X Elite chips for PCs.
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Several iPhone 16 Pro rumors have suggested that Apple will eliminate the Blue Titanium option that it used for the iPhone 15 Pro devices and replace it with a rose or gold color. Now, the latest claim is that the new color is actually bronze or has a bronze-like appearance.
According to the Weibo-based leaker “Fixed focus digital,” a new iPhone 16 Pro Max color resembles a “bronze hue,” while the surrounding frame has a titanium-like appearance. Earlier this month, another Chinese leaker suggested that the color code for the new iPhone 16 Pro color is simply “Rose,” not the previous “Rose Gold” color that Apple first offered back in 2015 for the iPhone 6S.
It could well be that the two claims are not contradictory and are in fact referring to the same color, but as seen under different lighting conditions. It’s worth mentioning that today’s leaker only mentions the iPhone 16 Pro Max in relation to the new color, but it is reasonable to assume that it will come to both Pro models. Other colors that the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are expected to be available in include black, white or silver, and gray or “Natural Titanium.”
Another rumor suggests that Apple plans to use an improved process for finishing and coloring titanium, which will result in a glossier look than the brushed aluminum finish of the iPhone 15 Pro models. The glossy finish could look much more like the stainless steel that Apple used in prior years, but it will be more resistant to scratches.
Apple typically releases its new iPhone series around mid-September, which means we are about six weeks out from the launch of the iPhone 16 series. Like the iPhone 15 series, this year’s lineup is expected to stick with four models, but with the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max handsets getting slightly bigger display sizes. You can learn about plenty of other rumored design differences and new features by following the link.
Apple today released iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, the sixth point updates to the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 operating system updates that came out last year. The iOS and iPadOS 17.6 updates come two months after the debut of iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5. iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Apple has also…
Apple is today providing developers with the first betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with the new software introducing an early version of the Apple Intelligence features. These new betas will be in testing alongside the current iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia 15 betas. Developers can choose whether to opt into the new betas with Apple Intelligence, or stay on the …
Apple today released new betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 for developers, introducing the first Apple Intelligence features. Apple Intelligence was previewed in June, and is Apple’s version of artificial intelligence. Not all of the Apple Intelligence features are available as of yet, but we’ve rounded up a list of what’s active in the beta. Note that iOS 18.1, iPadOS…
Apple typically releases its new iPhone series around mid-September, which means we are about two months out from the launch of the iPhone 16. Like the iPhone 15 series, this year’s lineup is expected to stick with four models – iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max – although there are plenty of design differences and new features to take into account. To bring …
Apple Intelligence will miss its initial expected launch date to give Apple more time to fix bugs, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. According to individuals with knowledge about Apple’s plans, the company now plans to start rolling out Apple Intelligence in software updates by October, arriving several weeks after the launch of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. This means that Apple…
How Much Does It Cost To Develop A Car Rental App?
Car Rental App Development Cost and Features:
In this digital age, on-demand mobile apps (Android/iOS) are gaining momentum across the global nations. Convenience in booking services and reliability in service delivery, service delivery apps such as food delivery apps, car rental apps cab booking apps, and package delivery apps are in traction.
Yes. Service delivery apps are becoming popular across diverse industries and car rental is one of them. Today, through this article, we would like to share a guide on how much it costs to create a car rental app like Ekar. Herein, will walk you through the must-have features of on-demand car rental app development and the factors that impact the mobile application development costs.
Firstly, let’s take a look at the benefits of car rental apps to end-users.
What Is The Purpose Of The Car Rental App?
Renting a car has never been easier, but online car rental booking apps made this possible in minutes. Car rental apps are mobile apps or responsive web apps that help end-users avail of self-drive car services or driver-assisted care rental services on-demand. Offering a range of Cars and allowing users to toggle between fuel options, hassle-free payment options, and door delivery of booked cars, Car rental applications provide quick and affordable rentals to users.
Moreover, pay-per-hour, pay-per-day, and pay-per-month like plans, and car rental apps are offering users convenience in choosing from multiple rental options to meet their desired travel needs. Transparent pricing, free-parking slots finding facility, 24/7 customer support, GPS navigators, location-tracking facility, and flexibility to hire a car with or without fuel are all a few cool features that are creating waves for Car Rental Apps demand worldwide.
Must-Have Features To Add In A Car Rental App Development
Features of a mobile application are core pillars that decide its success rate. Before commencing the development process, make sure to list the best features that deliver seamless experiences to users and derive great business value over time. Top mobile app development companies conduct thorough research on competitor apps, market opportunities, user preferences, and trends to create the best car rental app with the most useful features and functionalities.
Here are a few must-have features that you must integrate into a car rental app like Ekar development.
Must-have features of a Car Rental App development for users
Quick registration
Signup/login in simple steps
Social media login feature
User profile
Multi-language feature
Tracking available vehicles
Location pinning
In-app map integration
Customized ride options
Schedule pickups
Two-way authentication
Online payments
Ride history
Rebook vehicle
Push notifications
GPS navigators to track location in real-time and finding nearly parking slots
Features for driver module development of Car Rental Apps like Ekar Clone Development:
Signup and registration
Driver profile management
Bookings management (Pickup/Cancel/Door delivery of rented vehicle)
In-app map integrations for tracking destinations
Route optimization algorithms
Rides history
Payment history
Push notifications
Must-Have Features To Develop Car Rental App Admin Module
User Profile Management
Driver profile management
Vehicles management
Orders or bookings management
Payments management
Push notifications management
Rental or ride pricing management
Reviews and ratings management
The features and functionalities you selected will impact the final cost of a car rental apps. Ekar-like clone pap development needs certain features developed using Artificial Intelligence and IoT like cutting-edge technologies for ensuring remote monitoring, traffic monitoring, and driver behavior analytics, and vehicle performance monitoring etc. Adding such features will increase the development costs of car rental apps but take it to new heights.
Which Technology Stack Is Best for Car Rental App Development?
The technology stack you select for car rental app development plays a significant role that impacts performance, application scalability, responsiveness, user experiences, security, and overall decides its success rate.
Best programming languages for Car Rental App development on Android OS- Kotlin, Java
Most preferred programming languages for Car Rental App Development for iOS- Swift and Objective C
Programming languages for Cross-platform Car Rental App development- Flutter, Xamarin, and React Native
Frameworks used for Mobile App Development– Android for Android app development and iOS SDKs for iPhone app development
Database: MongoDB
Push Notifications: Twilio
Storage: AWS and Google Cloud
Payments: Third-party Payment Integrations
How Much Does It Cost For Car Rental App Development?
The cost to develop an Ekar-like car rental app development will range between $30,000 to $75,000. However, the development costs of a mobile app will depend on many factors such as features and functionalities, app development platform, and application type (native app development, cross-platform development, or hybrid application development.
Further, the cost of a car rental platform like Ekar will also depend on the tools and technologies used in the development process. Integrating car rental apps with advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence will offer several benefits, such as dynamic pricing, AI chatbots, license recognition, etc. It will increase the development costs of the car rental platform beyond $100,000, but automate the processes, and improve the operational excellence and experiences.
Moreover, mobile app developers’ location and their team size are also significant cost-impacting factors that determine the cost of car rental app development like Ekar. For instance, top mobile app developers in the USA and European nations will charge approximately $100-$150/hr, which is very high compared to the best mobile app development companies in India like budget-friendly markets.
The car rental app development cost will also depend on the post-launch services, including app maintenance and support. If you introduce your MVP into the market, you can save money to an extent, however, you must incur certain costs for updating features as per the user needs.
Are you planning to invest in car rental app development and have an idea?
As today’s market continues to be more dynamic, taking advantage of conversions to drive more revenue has become more critical than ever. If you want your company to stand out in such a competitive and cutthroat marketplace, the use of 3D product animation services is one of the best ways to showcase your products in ways that conventional videos, pictures, and text can never do. With the help of 3D product animations, you can present your products in the most interesting, consumable, and enduring way that will capture your audience’s attention and increase sales. This article explores how 3D product animation services can help your company with marketing and SEO.
What is 3D animation?
The 3D animation technique involves the creation of three-dimensional digital images that produce more depth and dimensions compared to 2D animation. Creating 3D animation videos includes layout, modeling, rendering, and animation. Common techniques include appearance modeling, texturing, and arena construction. The 3D models or objects are carefully adjusted to make an animation movement. Companies can take advantage of 3D animations in many ways, which include the following:
3D animations can produce interactive and fun games that promote the services or products of a brand.
Product demonstrations
3D animations can be used to show the functionality and features of a product in a way that is more engaging compared to plain text and images.
Sales presentations
During sales presentations, 3D animations can make products more engaging and interesting.
Training
It is also possible to use 3D animations to create more memorable and engaging interactive training materials compared to their traditional counterparts.
Virtual tours
3D animations can also help companies create more immersive virtual tours of their products to give customers a good idea of what and how it would be like to use them.
Brand awareness is a measurement used in marketing that gauges how much consumers recognize brands, their services or products, and the amount of knowledge they have about them. The awareness of consumers of the brand has to include positive perceptions of features that set the product apart from its competition. Among the biggest perks of working with 3D product animation services is the fact that they offer video content rich in detail. Most consumers claim they watch explanatory promotional videos to discover more about the service or product.
These product animations, including feature videos, give a detailed explanation of the product’s features. Installation and assembly videos present the process of setting up a product and all its functions. Meanwhile, how-to videos show how to use the item correctly. There are also break-apart and close-up videos that help retailers present the product’s characteristics in a photorealistic quality and highlight its unique design.
By utilizing the skilled expertise of 3D product animation designers, consumers can learn basic details regarding the products most entertainingly and conceivably. For furniture, for example, consumers can assess the quality of the design and recognize it better. This also allows a more educated buying decision that can lead to good feedback and fewer products returned.
Showcase products more effectively
Utilizing 3D product animation, you have the capability to, you can capture and showcase your products in the most captivating and enticing way possible. These animations can also help you present even the most complicated concepts concisely and clearly. Ideas can be communicated to the audience in such a way that they can comprehend with the help of voiceovers. This enables customers to view your products in the best light possible. You can also make a great impression at the same time. You can use unique visual effects to market your products more effectively.
Audience engagement
At this point, you might already know that the success of a product hinges significantly on your ability to justify its features, value, and price. By using 3D product and concept design firms to show the inside assembly, you can captivate your audience and distinguish your product from similar products available in the market. It can help you gain the trust of your target audience. Social platforms are the easiest and fastest way to interact and engage with potential customers.
This is why many companies pay close attention to them and are more willing to invest lots of money in their social media strategies. 3D product animation is ideally effective for promoting services or products on social networks. There are plenty of ways to use it on Facebook and Instagram. Marketers and retailers, for example, can publish 3D animation in ads and posts and upload videos to Facebook and Instagram Stories that include a direct link to the shop, complete with funny emojis and hashtags.
Aside from these, 3D product animation can also be used for contests to engage the current audience and capture the interest of new followers. This can also work with influencers, including Instagrammers and bloggers, who can make video reviews of products and include vivid video effects or 3D animations. It’s also impossible to overestimate the use of 3D product animation services for TV ads and promos.
Retailers and marketers can use 3D product animations to add professional voiceovers and nice music and use these as commercial video ads. On the other hand, it can also be included in a bigger video material, such as a review, interview, or comparison of several products. YouTube is social media’s leading purchase driver with over 2 billion viewers per day. This is why building a vast YouTube following is a game-changer for many retailers and brands. Since it’s a free platform, you only need creativity, effort, and time to develop relevant and unique content.
Aside from this, YouTube also promotes videos using recommendations that are automatically generated on the platform. All you have to do is learn a bit about SEO and algorithms to make things work. The option of paid ads is ideal for brands that want to speed up effective results.
Product explanation made easier
Companies only have as little as 8 seconds to grab customer’s attention. Considering how short people’s attention spans are, 3D product animation lets you explain your product in the fastest way possible. People are too busy to take their time to learn about a product. Therefore, you need to convey your message as quickly as possible. With 3D product animation and 3D product demo services, you can quickly capture your audience’s attention.
Online marketplaces are filled with listings with photos of products from different angles. However, these are still not enough to thoroughly examine the product. Today’s buyers expect sellers to have listings that use different visual materials, including 360-degree spins, detail and close-up views, videos, and more. The best thing about 3D product animations is that they don’t just show the product’s exterior design but also its interior, components, assembly, and inner structure. If marketers and retailers offer the chance to learn important details from a 3D animation video, buyers will likely trust the product and choose it over other offerings.
Improved shareability
3D product animations and videos can be used for different purposes, such as product websites, landing pages, showrooms, and newsletters. The fact that these are reusable and adaptable makes them good returns on investment. Since 3D product animations can produce content that promotes lead generation, you can also use 3D product animations for sales purposes. These are ideal for short content and can be tweaked to give them a more interesting touch. The expertise of 3D architectural animation firms come in useful for marketing and selling real estate.
The use of 3D product animations lets you highlight your offers and show off their unique features in the most effective way possible. The image can be expanded to zoom in on specific details and check how they work. Your audience can also get the chance to have a virtual experience of your product.
Getting started with 3D product animations
If you plan to hire professional 3D product designers, you can either hire a studio or internally. Unfortunately, hiring a full-time on-site 3D product animator often costs more because of payroll, medical benefits, etc. Your second option is to hire a studio to create 3D product animations for you at a fraction of the cost. Just make sure you work with 3D product animation services with experience with different industries and a stellar track record of successful projects.
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While “blown away” by the beach scenes in the first GTA 6 trailer, former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij thinks the forthcoming open worlder might underwhelm players hoping for a palpable technological update on GTA 5, which has been reworked and re-released extensively since its 2013 launch. This has less to do with GTA in itself, Vermeij says, than with the fact that changes in computing capacity today simply aren’t as dramatic as in the days of the very first PlayStation. It’s becoming rare, he suggests, that you see a “jump” akin to GTA going 3D.
I’m working on a Laravel V9.0 application where I need to import user data from an Excel file into a PostgreSQL database. I have set up the import functionality using the Maatwebsite Excel package. However, when I submit the form to upload the file, it redirects me to the default page of Laravel application, and I don’t see any import results or error messages(When im using Postman).
When i use blade.php view it returns Users imported successfully!.When i check the table in my postgresql i find it either empty or only one instance and it is null.
//UsersController.php:
public function importUsers(Request $request)
{
$request->validate([
'file' => 'required|mimes:xlsx,csv'
]);
Excel::import(new UsersImport, $request->file('file'));
return back()->with('success', 'Users imported successfully!');
}
//UsersImport.php
<?php
namespace App\Imports;
use App\Models\User;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\ToCollection;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\WithHeadingRow;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
class UsersImport implements ToCollection, WithHeadingRow
{
public function collection(Collection $rows)
{
foreach ($rows as $row)
{
if (empty($row['Matricule'])) {
continue;
}
User::updateOrCreate(
[
'matricule' => $row['Matricule'],
],
[
'id_badge' => $row['Badge'] ?? null,
'nom' => $row['Nom'] ?? null,
'prenom' => $row['Prenom'] ?? null,
'post' => $row['Departement'] ?? null,
'role' => $row['Role'] ?? '1',
'id_projet' => $row['Project Id'] ?? null,
]
);
}
}
}
//migration table for users:
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->unsignedBigInteger('id_projet');
$table->integer('id_badge')->unique()->nullable();
$table->string('matricule');
$table->string('nom')->nullable();
$table->string('prenom')->nullable();
$table->string('post')->nullable();
$table->enum('role',['0','1'])->default('1')->nullable();
$table->foreign('id_projet')->references('id')->on('projects');
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
Route::post('/import-users', [UsersController::class, 'importUsers'])->name('import.users');
//excel form:
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Firstly, let’s take a look at the benefits of car rental apps to end-users.
