Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney spent months turning a mainframe curiosity into something that could sit in a bar and take quarters. Their 1971 creation, Computer Space, became the first coin-operated video game ever sold to the public. A rare two-player version of that same machine, finished in metallic green sparkle fiberglass and still working more than fifty years later, is now on the block at RR Auction with bids climbing toward an estimate north of $20,000.
Google spent this morning revealing the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, and the biggest news may be how carefully the company stayed the course. After months of speculation about radical redesigns, the new phone arrives as a careful refinement of last year’s model rather than a complete reinvention. It is lighter, a little thinner, brighter on both screens, and built to take more of a beating, all while carrying a higher starting price of $1,899.
Prop Department set a simple goal for a recent build: take a full-size Tesla Cybertruck and turn it into something anyone could drive from a distance. There is no driver in the seat, and there are no complex software overrides of the truck’s own systems. Instead, there are motors, linkages, and painstaking wiring that allow someone outside the vehicle to handle the steering, throttle, transmission, and brakes. The project belonged to WhistlinDiesel, whose videos often end with expensive machinery in pieces, so the finished truck needed to work well enough for a high-speed run that might not go gently.
Hyundai Motor Group has begun testing a pair of unusually thin robots that slide under cars, lift them by the wheels, and park them without any human help. The pilot is underway at Hillstate The Wave City, a large apartment complex in Siheung southwest of Seoul. Two sets of the machines will handle 53 parking spaces on the first basement level while the buildings wait for residents to move in next year.
Astronomers released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled this week. The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys catalog spans roughly three-quarters of the sky and holds nearly four billion stars, galaxies, black holes, asteroids and other objects captured across visible and near-infrared light. Its total resolution reaches 5.6 trillion pixels.