Airlines from Bahrain and Japan just threw their weight behind a plane that looks nothing like the ones filling today’s skies. At the Farnborough Air Show this week, Gulf Air signed a letter of intent for an undisclosed number of JetZero Z4 aircraft, locking in preferential delivery slots for the early 2030s. Japan Airlines followed with a formal support agreement that puts its operational teams inside the design process from the start.
Sixteen million light-years away, in the constellation Canes Venatici, sits a spiral galaxy that refuses to look ordinary. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently delivered a composite view of Messier 94, also catalogued as NGC 4736, that layers high-energy X-rays over a ground-based optical photograph. The result shows a bright central region wrapped in a tight ring of intense star formation, with the whole structure set against a softer outer disk that stretches farther than early observers realized.
Samsung now sells two book-style foldables side by side. The regular Galaxy Z Fold8 starts at $1,899.99. The Z Fold8 Ultra opens at $2,099.99 for the 256GB model and climbs to $2,699.99 for 1TB. That $200 jump lands the Ultra in rare air for a phone that still has to fold in half. The question is simple: does the extra money buy enough to matter?
Rezvani Motors has taken a Lamborghini Huracán and rebuilt it into something far more extreme than the factory Sterrato ever managed. Called the Dune, this California-built machine keeps the mid-engine V10 layout and all-wheel-drive hardware while adding a supercharger, serious ride height, and a full carbon-fiber body designed to handle dirt, sand, and rocks.
Most people do not need a phone that can render complex games at max settings or shoot cinematic video. They need something that answers calls without lag, holds a charge through a full day of texts and maps, and costs little enough that losing or breaking it does not ruin the month. The Moto G Play 2024, priced at $99.99 (was $150), aims squarely at that reality.