Tesla has made considerable progress toward fully autonomous vehicles, and its staff at Gigafactory Texas are clearly excited. Just the other day, they gathered around the first Cybercab to roll off the assembly line, a streamlined two-seater with no visible steering wheel or pedals, and Tesla even shared the moment on social media, complete with a congratulatory message from Elon Musk himself on the team’s excellent work.
Barnes & Noble has just released the NOOK Reading Tablet 8.7, a subtle reminder that e-readers are still very much a thing. This latest device, available in Seafoam Green and priced at $150, provides a clean Android experience geared to the activities you want to do on it, such as read books, periodicals, comics, or listen to audiobooks. With its cooperation with Lenovo, the new NOOK feels more like a companion for readers than a general-purpose tablet.
The Logitech G435, priced at $39.99 (was $79.99), the type of quiet disruption budget gaming headsets need, delivers incredible lightness combined with respectable wireless performance, all without breaking the wallet. Logitech prioritized comfort when creating the G435. The thing disappears on your head during marathon gaming sessions, weighing just 165 grams (or around 5.8 ounces).
A new trailer for Toy Story 5 has been released, and it’s apparent what the toys are up against this time: tech that is silently stealing their space in the room (and their owners’ hearts). Here we are, right back in Bonnie’s room, with old friends attempting to navigate a world that has mostly moved on.
Eight years have passed since the first stable release, and despite the fact that it took some time, you can now witness a fully developed, capable smartwatch operating system built entirely by volunteers with no paid personnel. AsteroidOS 2.0 is based on a full Linux distribution that has been specifically adapted to fit on your wrist, providing users with an alternative method to do things that does not require them to follow the regulations of those huge companies.
Rob Smith looked at the calendar last month, noting that February 14th marks 35 years since Lemmings dumped players into ludicrous puzzles on the Amiga. Green-haired creatures marched forward, oblivious to the dangers ahead unless you assigned them tasks such as building bridges or popping parachutes. Smith only wanted to produce an homage that caught one specific moment: the floater. That’s the little lemming that pops an umbrella and glides to safety in one piece. He created one that truly floats, supported by magnets that pull upwards from above.
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A new hands-on video has emerged, purportedly showing the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 in action, and it comes directly from a Malaysian store. The clip, provided by a local DJI outlet named DronesKaki in the Kuala Lumpur area, shows a customer messing with what appears to be a production unit.
A roll of Scotch tape can do some truly unexpected things, such as completely replacing a camera lens. Maker okooptics puts this to the test in a recent project, transforming an ordinary sensor into a functioning camera using only Scotch tape, smart rigging, and some math after the fact.
Hubble has just discovered one of the darkest galaxies known to exist. It’s named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2, or CDG-2 for short. This faint object is located in the Perseus galaxy cluster, around 300 million light years from Earth.
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As night falls over the Arabian Sea and India’s west coast, something remarkable happens. The fishing boats turn on their bright green lights to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel, with the glowing dots lighting up the black waters. From the dock or the beach, it’s just a normal sight, a bunch of ships doing their thing long after the sun has set, but up in the International Space Station, 259 miles above the earth, those same lights transform into brilliant streaks and bursts of color that compete with city lights for attention and, in some cases, appear much brighter than entire cities.