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Motorola Signature 27 Boasts Qualcomm’s Newest Chip and a 200MP Periscope on a US Flagship

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

Motorola used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit on September 22, 2026, to introduce the Signature 27, the second phone in this premium line and the first to take its name from the last two digits of the coming year. Company materials call it the most advanced handset Motorola has built, pairing the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 platform with a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto, Audio by Bang & Olufsen, and a cooling stack meant to keep that silicon from cooking itself during long AI, game, and video sessions. The phone is expected in markets worldwide later in 2026, including the United States, which sat out the first Signature.

Ancient’s Scanning Light Field Display Spins an 1884 Nipkow Drum Into Multi-Viewer 3D DOOM

By Bill Smith September 22, 2026

James Brown, the New Zealand maker better known as Ancient, has a habit of pulling forgotten display ideas out of history and making them do things their inventors never saw coming. His newest machine takes the Nipkow scanning drum that Paul Gottlieb Nipkow patented in 1884 for an “electric telescope” and turns it into a glasses-free light field display that several people can walk around at once. Each viewer gets a perspective-correct 3D image of the same scene, whether they stand close or far, left or right. Brown even ported DOOM to it.

Beats 360 Puts Swappable Cushions and a New Acoustic System on a $350 Over-Ear Pair

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

Beats finally put a price and a ship date on the over-ear headphone it has been teasing for months. Beats 360 costs $349.99, with preorders open today from Apple, Amazon, and other retailers in more than 100 countries, and units arriving in stores Thursday, September 24. Four core colors ship first: Black, Cloud, Pink, and Sky. Each pair arrives with matching Performance Knit ear and headband cushions, plus a woven ripstop case that lets the cups twist flat for travel even though the headband itself does not fold.

VMware Ready to Run CDs Packed Working Linux Virtual Machines Onto Discs Handed Out at Linux World 2000

By Jackson Chung September 22, 2026

Viewer David from Virginia Beach mailed Michael MJD a pair of forgotten promotional CDs he picked up at Linux World 2000, and those discs still hold complete, ready-to-boot virtual machines of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and SuSE Linux. VMware handed them out as marketing pieces that let Windows users try popular Linux distributions without hunting down ISOs or partitioning a hard drive. Each disc carries VMware 1.0.1 for Windows NT and Windows 2000 plus the Linux host version, a short readme, and a compressed virtual disk image already configured with a working guest OS.

BBC’s Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished

By Jackson Chung September 21, 2026

Opening a BBC ‘Towards Tomorrow’ special first shown on December 28, 1967 is a warning that mankind may already be obsolete. Population growth, pollution and a planet slipping out of human control could finish the job even without nuclear war. Intelligent machines might have to take Earth off our hands, the narration says, if only to keep life going after we have made a mess of it.