"Top Tech News and Hacks: July 9, 2023"

The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has finally made contact with its controllers after a long silence, allowing it to transmit data from its last flight. Ford is under investigation for pushing a software fix for a mechanical problem in their vehicles, rather than addressing the underlying issue. Harvard professor Avi Loeb and his team have recovered fragments of a probable interstellar meteor from the seabed, supporting his speculation about extraterrestrial technology. A Commodore SX-64 computer was successfully connected to a digital cinema projector using a retro gaming video adapter. Independence Day celebrations in the United States resulted in poor air quality due to fireworks.