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SpaceX also has another rocket that will begin testing in 2016 – the Falcon Heavy. At some point in April, the 68-metre-tall monstrosity will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying the dreams of wannabe Martian colonists with it. The rocket is a pivotal part of Musk’s Mars colonisation plans, capable of lifting a whopping 53 metric tons into orbit. That makes it the most powerful booster in the world today, but rather less powerful than the huge Saturn V rocket that carried the Apollo programme to the Moon but was decommissioned in the 1970s.

"Getting people to Mars, however, requires more than just a rocket, and in 2016, SpaceX will continue testing version two of its Dragon capsule." That first Falcon Heavy flight may end up making history twice. It’ll carry a smaller, crowdfunded spacecraft called LightSail-1, equipped with a revolutionary propulsion system that lets spacecraft “sail” on the solar wind. The technology is cheap, has no moving parts or propellant, and may one day propel cargo around the solar system. A subsequent Falcon Heavy flight, later in the year, will carry another experimental rocket propellant mission along with a Deep Space Atomic Clock, crucial technology for navigating among the stars.

Getting people to Mars, however, requires more than just a rocket. In 2016, SpaceX will continue testing version two of its Dragon capsule, which will perch on the end of the Falcon Heavy. It’s a remarkable piece of technology, equipped with environmental-control touchscreens and an emergency escape system that should make manned launches far safer than they have been in the past. It can land, SpaceX claims, with the precision of a helicopter – and with recent progress it’s not out of the question that the capsule’s uncrewed maiden voyage may take place before the end of the year.

Still used by specialist equipment manufacturers and electronics hobbyists today, RS-232 was one of the most versatile interfaces in computing.Embodied in the same DB25 connector as the Centronics, it was more commonly encountered in the less cumbersome DB9 format, enabling PC users to endlessly confuse it with the VGA port instead of the parallel port.Long story short, the iMac ditched it, everyone else ditched it, people moaned for about five minutes and then moved to USB. Good call, Apple. You still didn’t invent USB, though. From some of the earliest prototypes, tablet devices always had styluses, including Apple’s Newton – championed by John Sculley, the man who ousted Steve Jobs – and the rival PDAs that emerged in the 1990s. In 2002, the first Microsoft-based tablet PCs appeared with styluses.

By total coincidence, Steve Jobs had a personal hatred of styluses, commenting soon after the launch of the stylus-free iPad: “If you see a stylus, they blew it.” By refining multi-touch capacitive displays to the point where they could form the basis of a mobile device – the iPhone – Apple killed the stylus by making it unnecessary.Nobody at Apple was ever brave enough to mention styluses to Steve Jobs again, but even he might grudgingly admit that the iPad Pro’s Pencil makes styluses interesting after all.The Microsoft Lumia 950 is Microsoft’s first Windows 10 smartphone. That alone makes it a big deal. And if you’re a fan of Windows phones, skip the next two paragraphs, because I’m about to say something you’ll probably get angry about.

Let’s get this out of the way at the very start – this isn’t a phone anyone but dedicated Windows fans are going to buy today, tomorrow or next week. For most people, Windows 10 Mobile simply isn’t currently a practical alternative to the Android handsets or iPhones.In a couple of years, though, who knows? Based on what I’ve seen so far of Microsoft’s new smartphone, I’d say the future, if not completely rosy, at the very least looks interesting.The reason for this, of course, is the new Windows 10 Mobile OS for smartphones, which we’re seeing – on a new device – for the very first time here. What’s the difference between this and the old Windows Phone 8.1?Visually, not an awful lot. The two share a familiar navigational structure. The vertically scrolling and customisable grid of Live Tiles remains in place, as does the Store, the Action Center pull-down menu and the alphabetical list of all apps off to the right of the main homescreen.At the very bottom of the screen you’ll find the familiar trio of navigation soft keys: back, home and search. Holding down the back button pops up the multitasking view, where you can manage, launch and terminate your recently used apps. Even Cortana works in a similar way, although fortunately there’s been a big shakeup in what she can do, including the ability to write and send email from scratch, and the core voice recognition system itself seems vastly improved as well.

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The rest of the differences are subtle, yet multifarious and mainly behind the scenes. The homescreen is more customisable than before, and looks far more modern. You can, for instance, now add a background image, whereas Windows 8.1 only allows background images behind the tiles.The Action Center shortcut keys, which run across the top of the screen when you bring it up, can be expanded at a tap, adding a further two rows of toggles. Notifications themselves can now be acted upon directly. In fact, if you’re using Windows 10 on a laptop right now, this looks identical to the Notifications Center found in the bottom right corner of the desktop.

That gives you a clue as to the central thrust of Windows 10 Mobile. Microsoft’s stated aim is to create a consistent look and feel across all devices – phones, laptops, desktops and tablets – and to a certain degree, they’ve succeeded. Launch the settings menu on the Lumia 950 and you’ll experience a feeling of déja vu: the styling, icons, even the headings are the same.The key to this is Microsoft’s Universal apps architecture, which underpins everything. The Settings menu and Action Center, therefore, don't just share the same look, but also the underlying code. And the same goes for the core preloaded apps: the Store app, Mail, Calendar, Photos and the mobile versions of Office are all Universal apps and work the same across all device types.

In a practical sense, that makes a lot of sense. In the future, developers will only have one app to develop, and will only need to expend all that effort once. They’ll have only one code set to maintain, saving on ongoing costs, and that might well convince some companies that it’s worth investing a bit more in the Windows platform at last.As yet, though, there’s not much evidence of the concept taking off. Hats off to Microsoft for getting its own apps off the ground, but there isn’t much evidence of third-party development work so far. At the demo, I was shown Audible, BBC Store, Guardian and Economist, and promised that Netflix and Instagram were on the way, but beyond this, the pickings are slim.

The Universal app concept clearly works, though. Initial impressions are that the Photos app is effective, as are the Mail and Calendar apps, and the Microsoft Edge browser works as advertised as well. However, the Office apps do feel a bit kludgy on the phone, in particular the Ribbon menu that’s been relocated to an expanding section at the bottom of the screen.The most interesting and intriguing feature of Windows 10 Mobile, however, is Continuum. Plug a video adapter into the Lumia 950’s USB Type-C port and you’ll be able to hook your phone up to any monitor or TV and use it like a desktop PC. All you need to add is a Bluetooth keyboard to complete the package. A mouse isn’t strictly required, since the screen of your the phone transforms into a multitouch trackpad – and a rather effective one at that.I was also able to get it to work with an Apple Type-C to VGA adapter, albeit at a rather coarse resolution. You need an HDMI or DisplayPort adapter to run at 1080p. Microsoft’s £79 Display Dock is the best way to connect, however. This solidly built, palm-sized chunk of metal and electronics, is equipped with three USB ports, plus HDMI and DisplayPort video outputs - and makes the job of connecting your phone to your monitor much easier.

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