Mojave Air and Space Port sits in the high desert where the air stays dry and the runways stretch long enough for machines that refuse ordinary limits. On a recent morning there, a prototype Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric rolled into position under the shadow of Stratolaunch’s Roc. Six jet engines sat silent for the moment. The SUV waited between the twin fuselages of an aircraft whose wings span 385 feet.
Sitting for hours demands more than a basic seat. GTPLAYER’s gaming chair, priced at $85.22 (was $140), delivers real support and smart design on a budget that leaves room for better monitors or another controller. Built around a pocket spring cushion and linked armrests, it works equally well for marathon matches and full workdays.
Green light cuts through the Nebraska night as two men who should never share a car pull into a town that has already buried one body. Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, the veteran who has seen entire systems burn out, flips a power ring across the front seat to Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart and jumps from the moving vehicle before the wheels leave the road. Stewart catches the car with a construct that looks half-formed and half-desperate. That single sequence from the new Lanterns trailer, shown first in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, tells you everything about the series that arrives on HBO and HBO Max on August 16.
Italian engineers in Genoa just showed a humanoid that went from concept sketch to walking, sensing machine in half a year. Generative Bionics revealed Gene.01 at AMD’s Advancing AI event in San Francisco, presenting it as a ready platform rather than a distant laboratory project. The same team that showed a concept at CES in January delivered a complete, sensor-equipped robot by July.
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Monterey Car Week has a way of drawing out machines most people will never see in person. Next month one of the rarest modern McLarens will roll into RM Sotheby’s auction, and collectors already know the numbers. Lanzante built just four of these. This is the third. British specialist Lanzante took a track-only P1 GTR and turned it into something that can drive on public roads while looking like a 1997 F1 GT Longtail.