1. LG TVs at CES 2026: A stunning Wallpaper set, glorious Micro RGB colors and a better Gallery TV  Engadget
2. LG Rolls Out Its W6 Wallpaper OLED TV With Ultra-High Brightness  CNET
3. Details leak about LG's next flagship TV upgrades — expect boosts to brightness, anti-reflection tech and more  TechRadar
4. LG Wallpaper OLED TV is back and now it’s completely wireless (and actually affordable)  Tom's Guide
5. LG’s Wallpaper OLED TV returns to CES, and it’s wafer thin  The Verge

1. Lockin's everlasting vein-recognizing smart lock doorbell cam combo is peak CES  Engadget
2. My Favorite CES Product Might Be This Ingenious Wireless Smart Lock  CNET
3. Lockin’s New Smart Locks Never Need Recharging Thanks to Infrared Light  Gizmodo
4. Lockin’s new vein-scanning smart lock has a video doorbell and recharges wirelessly  The Verge
5. Lockin Debuts First-of-Its Kind Optical-Charging Smart Lock with Eternal, Zero-Maintenance Power at CES 2026  Yahoo Finance

1. Plaud launches a new AI pin and a desktop meeting notetaker  TechCrunch
2. My CES 2026 Secret Weapon? This New Wearable AI Note-Taking Pin From Plaud  CNET
3. Plaud updates the NotePin with a button  The Verge
4. Plaud's latest AI wearable has a button for flagging key moments  Engadget
5. Plaud Desktop Captures Your Virtual Meetings Without the Bot Awkwardness  The Gadgeteer

1. I just want to keep unfolding the Samsung Z Trifold  The Verge
2. [Interview] ‘I Came to Korea for This’: A Journalist With 1,800 Phones on Galaxy Z TriFold  samsung.com
3. Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Hands-On: Way Better Than I Expected  Gizmodo
4. Samsung’s First Trifold Phone Is Expensive and Half-Baked  Bloomberg.com
5. Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold: Specs, U.S. release date, reviews  Mashable

1. Subtle releases ear buds with its noise isolation models  TechCrunch
2. The Subtle Voicebuds use AI to transcribe your words below a whisper, or in very loud spaces (like the CES show floor)  Engadget
3. Subtle Introduces Voicebuds - Reinventing Earbuds for Personal Voice Computing  Yahoo Finance
4. Subtle's AI Earbuds Challenge AirPods With Voice Dictation  The Tech Buzz
5. Subtle Launches Voicebuds with Advanced Voice Isolation for Clearer Calls  Букви

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden), NGC 4388 is a resident of the Virgo galaxy cluster. This enormous cluster of galaxies contains more than a thousand members and is the nearest large galaxy cluster to the Milky Way.

NGC 4388 appears to tilt at an extreme angle relative to our point of view, giving us a nearly edge-on prospect of the galaxy. This perspective reveals a curious feature that wasn’t visible in a previous Hubble image of this galaxy released in 2016: a plume of gas from the galaxy’s nucleus, here seen billowing out from the galaxy’s disk toward the lower-right corner of the image. But where did this outflow come from, and why does it glow?

The answer likely lies in the vast stretches of space that separate the galaxies of the Virgo cluster. Though the space between galaxies appears empty, this space is occupied by hot wisps of gas called the intracluster medium. As NGC 4388 moves within the Virgo cluster, it plunges through the intracluster medium. Pressure from hot intracluster gas whisks away gas from within NGC 4388’s disk, causing it to trail behind as NGC 4388 moves.

The source of the ionizing energy that causes this gas cloud to glow is more uncertain. Researchers suspect that some of the energy comes from the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole spins gas around it into a superheated disk. The blazing radiation from this disk might ionize the gas closest to the galaxy, while shock waves might be responsible for ionizing filaments of gas farther out.

This image incorporates new data, including several additional wavelengths of light, that bring the ionized gas cloud into view. The image holds data from several observing programs that aim to illuminate galaxies with active black holes at their centers.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Veilleux, J. Wang, J. Greene

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Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods that occurred on both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission.

The panoramas were captured at 4:15 p.m. on Sol 4,722 and 8:20 a.m. on Sol 4,723 (both at local Mars time), then merged together. Color was later added for an artistic interpretation of the scene with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. The resulting “postcard” is similar to ones the rover took in June 2023 and November 2021. Adding color to these kinds of merged images helps different details stand out in the landscape.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Microorganisms and Spaceflight

Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and risks related to microorganisms, including infectious disease, allergens, environmental and food contamination, and the impacts of changes in environmental and human microbial ecology aboard spacecraft. The team includes certified medical technologists, environmental microbiologists, mycologists, and biosafety professionals.

The JSC Microbiology laboratory is a critical component of the Human Health and Performance Directorate and is responsible for addressing crew health and environmental issues related to microbial infection, allergens, and contamination. This responsibility is achieved by operational monitoring and investigative research using classical microbiological, advanced molecular, and immunohistochemical techniques. This research has resulted in a significant number of presentations and peer-reviewed publications contributing to the field of Microbiology with articles in journals such as Infection and Immunity, Journal of Infectious Disease and Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Nature Reviews Microbiology, and Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

Fun Fact: Microorganisms display unexpected responses when grown in the spaceflight environment compared to otherwise identically grown microbes on Earth.

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Keeping Crew-members Safe

As a functional part of the Crew Health Care System and in support of Environmental Control and Life Support Systems engineers, the Microbiology Laboratory team defines requirements, coordinates and analyzes microbial sampling, and analysis of air, surface, and water samples. These environmental samples, including preflight and in-flight samples, re-analyzed to ensure that microorganisms do not adversely affect crew health or system performance.

Microbiologists also serve as team members when anomalous events occur that might affect crew health or life support systems operations. Spaceflight food samples also are evaluated preflight to decrease the risk of infectious disease to the crew.

Technology and Hardware

• ABI DNA sequencer
• Illumina MiSeq desktop sequencer
• Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION DNA / RNA sequencers
• Agilent Bioanalyzer
• VITEK 2 Microbial Identification
• ​Space analogue bioreactors

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