It also means that Sony can reduce the size of the bezel and frame around the screen, giving more emphasis to the pixels and drawing your eye away from the physical size of the phone.

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While it will probably take at least another 20 years before Zubrin -- or anyone else for that matter -- makes it to the Martian surface, NASA and other space agencies are already drawing up plans for a voyage that will present astronauts not only with physical but also psychological challenges never faced by humans before.

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