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Tesla Opens Cybercab Orders for Personal Use at $29,990 With Required $299 Monthly Fee

By Bill Smith November 13, 2026

Select customers received invitations on November 13 to order Tesla’s two-seat Cybercab for personal use, with the order page listing a purchase price of $29,990 before taxes and an estimated delivery window of December 2026 in Austin, Texas. A non-refundable $1,000 deposit is due at order. One month of the Autonomy Subscription is included with the purchase. After that, the $299 monthly fee continues until canceled, and Tesla’s fine print states that both the subscription and regular vehicle maintenance are required to operate the car.

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 15 Sends Upper Stage to Orbit After Booster Recovery Abort

By Jackson Chung November 13, 2026

Friday evening light stretched across the Texas coast when SpaceX’s stacked Starship vehicle left Pad 2 at Starbase just after 4:47 p.m. Central. Thirty-three Raptor engines on Booster 22 lifted the full rocket clear of the tower under more than 18 million pounds of thrust, sending a long plume into the fading sky as the sun continued its drop toward the western horizon.

Garmin Instinct 3 Tactical Solar Smartwatch Survives Extreme Conditions With Weeks of Power Ready

By Jackson Chung November 13, 2026

Garmin built the Instinct 3 Tactical, priced at $349.99 (was $500), for people who need a watch that keeps working when conditions turn rough. This 45mm solar version pairs a fiber-reinforced polymer case with a metal-reinforced bezel for serious durability. The whole package meets MIL-STD-810 standards for heat and shock resistance and carries a 10 ATM water rating that covers swimming and diving. Solar models use a clear, sunlight-visible monochrome display with a two-window layout. A built-in LED flashlight sits on every model, offering multiple brightness levels and strobe modes for low-light work or simple tasks after dark.

Darth Vader’s Screen-Used Lightsaber Sells for Nearly $5-Million at Auction

By Bill Smith November 13, 2026

Darth Vader carried into the Cloud City and Death Star throne room confrontations. That figure establishes a new world auction record for any Star Wars collectible and for any screen-used prop from the franchise, clearing the previous overall mark of $3.875 million set by Tom Jung’s original poster painting for A New Hope and the $3.75 million July sale of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber paired with the severed-hand effects rig from the same Cloud City sequence.

Augmenting Smartwatch with a Rollable Tentacle Extends Daily Interactions from the Wrist

By Jackson Chung November 13, 2026

A standard smartwatch packs its functions onto a small round face that stays fixed in place all day, yet Ping-Jhao Hsu and Shan-Yuan Teng at National Taiwan University have added a mechanical tentacle that stays coiled underneath until the moment it is needed. Their prototype, shown as a demo at UIST 2026 under the name Augmenting Smartwatch with a Rollable Tentacle, keeps the entire assembly inside a 50 mm rounded casing that matches the watch diameter.