Darkness swallows the apartment building as the Category 5 hurricane slams the coast in Netflix’s Unhinged. The electricity goes out, the stairwell locks, and Ava soon realizes she’s sharing the space with something far more dangerous than wind and rain. Her only way to contact anyone who can help her is through the device that most people carry with them wherever they go.
The Apple Watch Series 11 [GPS 42mm], priced at $279 for Prime Day (was $399), retains the same slim profile, while the always-on screen is clear even in direct sunlight. The battery now lasts nearly two full days on a single charge, allowing for less time plugged in and more time on the wrist, where it should be. Health tracking runs silently in the background and sends useful signals such as irregular beats or blood pressure changes without requiring any additional steps or complicated configuration. When paired with an iPhone, the watch handles calls, messages, and apps with ease, and the 5G option keeps everything responsive even when the phone is in a bag or another room.
LineShine reached the top of the latest Top500 ranking this week. The machine, installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, delivered sustained performance of 2.198 exaflops on the standard High Performance Linpack benchmark.
This week, Slate Auto began collecting pre-orders for their highly anticipated electric pickup. The base two-seater model costs $24,950 before the destination fee(s). Production is ramping up at the assembly plant in Warsaw, Indiana, with customer deliveries scheduled in the fourth quarter of this year. The company now has over 180,000 reservations from consumers who have made previous deposits. Pre-orders now need a non-refundable $300 payment.
Light from a galaxy that lived just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang traveled more than 12 billion years to reach us. Astronomers examining long Hubble exposures of a deep sky field spotted something they had not expected to see at such an early time. The galaxy, cataloged MXDFz4.4, sent out ultraviolet radiation strong enough to change the gas in its immediate surroundings from opaque to clear.