Tips and Tricks

The Ingenuity helicopter could make aviation history on Mars. NASA / JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series on the red planet. NASA hopes to achieve “the first powered, controlled flight on another planet” on Monday, April 19 Helicopter ingenuity tries to flee over Mars. If you want to watch the memorable flight, here’s how you …

Your state may have money or property due from you. Sarah Tew / CNET Does your state have unclaimed money or property that belongs to you? A government agency may have a forgotten bank account, a cash refund or settlement, the contents of an abandoned safe, an unfilled cashier’s check, a money order, an insurance payment, wages, stocks and bonds, …

The 2012 Lyrid meteor shower captured by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station. NASA Meteor season is back with the annual Lyrid meteor shower. The first three months of most years represent a relatively dry period for night sky watchers, as not much usually happens between the Quadrantid meteor shower early January and the Lyrids. The Lyrids are …

It’s been a long and frustrating journey for consumers who have struggled to buy the Xbox Series X or Series S since their release five months ago. While major retailers such as Amazon, Target, Best Buy, GameStop, Newegg, and Walmart are seeing more and more inventory declines, consoles continue to sell out almost immediately. Unless you happen to be sitting …

Tax day is May 17, but this year is anything but typical. Sarah Tew / CNET You have another month file your tax return for 2020, which should now be expected on May 17 instead of April 15. There are plenty of reasons to act now rather than delay until the last minute. Your 2020 adjusted gross incomefor example, you …

Student loan waivers may be in the works. Sarah Tew / CNET Currently, students in the US have an accumulated total of $ 1.71 trillion in loan debt, putting them second in consumer debt behind residential mortgagesPresident Joe Biden made forgiveness of $ 10,000 in loan debt per student part of his election campaign, but members of Congress are urging …

Here are two ways to keep an eye on your tax return and refund status with the IRS. Sarah Tew / CNET With less than a month to go until the end of this year tax season, you want the status of your Tax return and refund 2020 with the IRS, once you have filed. The IRS has two ways …

Justin Duino Early October 2020, Peak Design, a company known for camera bags and accessories, announced a new ecosystem of mounts, chargers and even a wallet connected with magnets and launched on Kickstarter. Now the company says it should delay delivery of its May to August target. The timing couldn’t have been better or worse depending on how you look …

Some Californians get an incentive payment of $ 600 or $ 1,200 from the FTB, along with the third check from the IRS. Sarah Tew / CNET Californians eligible for the payment started receiving their state’s stimulus check last week. This first wave of Golden State incentive checks for up to $ 600 per person goes directly to bank accounts …

NASA If all goes to plan, humans will return to the moon during NASA’s 2024 Artemis mission. And thanks to a $ 2.9 billion contract, they will descend to the lunar surface in a SpaceX human landing system. NASA granted SpaceX the exclusive contract, although it initially planned to include Dynetics and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in the project as …