Photo credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)
Astronomers have tracked thousands of exploding stars over the years yet a handful stand out for their extreme brightness. Data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now delivered a direct answer for one of those rare cases and changed how scientists view these events.
Monday evening at Katie’s Woods Park in Grapevine a silver Cybertruck eased down the boat ramp and entered the waters of Grapevine Lake. Jimmy Jack McDaniel sat behind the wheel with two visitors from Germany along for the ride. He had tried this before with success or so he later told officers. This time the water proved too much.
Entry to the ‘Las Vegas Bunker House’, also known as the ‘Las Vegas Underground House’, starts in an ordinary garage attached to a two-story house that looks like any other on a quiet street near the Strip. From there stairs take you straight down through solid ground into a completely different realm. Built back in 1978, this place cost ten million dollars to create and has stayed almost untouched since then, its main living areas sealed off from sunlight and weather.
Google’s DeepMind built this new Omni model family from the ground up as one unified system that handles text, images, audio, and video together. Instead of bolting separate tools onto each other, the network reasons across whatever you feed it and produces a single, consistent output. The first practical result arrives right now in the form of video generation, and the early examples already feel like a quiet shift in how quickly ideas move from head to screen.
Solo video work often means juggling a phone, a gimbal, and constant checks on the screen. DJI built the Osmo Mobile 8P to fix exactly that problem by adding a small detachable monitor called the FrameTap. Snap it off the handle and the screen mirrors the phone’s live view while staying connected over Bluetooth. Creators can step back ten meters, tap to select a subject, or nudge a joystick to adjust framing and zoom without ever touching the phone itself.
photo credit: Nate Edwards | BYU
Last month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a team of BYU engineers sent their hand-built machine around a ten-mile course and recorded a result that still seems impossible on paper. Their vehicle covered the distance using barely a thimbleful of ethanol and returned 2,145 miles per gallon, enough to carry the same amount of fuel from Provo, Utah, all the way to New York City.
Long journeys highlight how quickly your phone can drain, with all those maps, images, and texts eating away at the battery like there’s no tomorrow. The INIU power bank, priced at $19.79 after coupon is automatically applied at checkout (was $33), comes to the rescue, packing 20,000mAh into a body measuring 2.8 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches and weighing only 11.1 ounces. Tuck it into a jacket pocket or side compartment, and it will sit quietly until you need it.
People type questions into Google dozens of times a day, often in short bursts that barely scratch the surface of what they want to know. Starting today, that simple white box on the homepage looks and behaves differently, and the change feels long overdue after twenty-five years of almost no movement.
Huy Vector turned a childhood obsession with the Fallout games into a working smartwatch that looks and feels like it came straight from the vaults. The finished piece sits comfortably on the wrist with a simple leather strap, yet every detail echoes the classic Pip-Boy design from the series. Green text scrolls across a small screen against a black background, vital signs appear in the familiar retro font, and the whole thing runs on everyday parts anyone can order online.
Nintendo just dropped a new mobile game called Pictonico, and it turns everyday photos into a nonstop stream of short, goofy challenges built around the faces staring back at you. Available on iOS and Android starting May 28, the title comes from the same studio behind the WarioWare series, and that shows in every quick burst of action. You open the app, grab shots from your phone library or fire up the camera for fresh ones, and the game spins them into dozens of tiny experiences where your friends and family take center stage. No photos leave your device. Nintendo never sees them.