Uranus, the solar system’s oddball, spins like a cosmic top 2.9 billion miles from the Sun, its pale blue glow faint. Long considered the coldest planet with an atmosphere, Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby showed it emitted no internal heat, unlike Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. A 2025 study by NASA and Oxford University says otherwise, and it’s changing our understanding of this weird gas giant.
Apple’s 15.3-inch MacBook Air M4, priced at $999, feels like finding a crisp hundred-dollar bill in an old jacket pocket. This laptop debuted in March and delivers a blend of performance, portability, as well as value that’s hard to beat.
Spotted near Tesla’s Giga Shanghai factory, a camouflaged budget Model Y, codenamed Project E41, is Tesla’s attempt to make electric driving more affordable. Targeting a $35,000 price point, this stripped down electric SUV sacrifices premium features to make electric driving accessible while keeping Tesla’s core tech.
When you hear the words Fornax constellation, science fiction movies may come to mind, and rightfully so, but around 50 million light-years away, is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1317. Hubble imaged it in 2025 to showcase its blue ring of young stars and help astronomers study galaxy evolution.
Allen Pan, a YouTube engineer with a love for retro projects, built an auto-trick skateboard for Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 promotion. This clever board automates tricks like kickflips so beginners can feel like pros.
Shane Wighton, the engineer behind the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here, has reinvented brownie baking with a pan that cooks brownies evenly from the inside out, getting rid of the chewy edges that spark debate among dessert lovers.
During the 1990s gaming boom, The 3DO Company wanted to redefine interactive entertainment with the Panasonic FZ-21, or 3DO M2, a planned successor to the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. Designed to compete with the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 through better processing and graphics, it never made it to homes as a console, instead found a life in commercial settings.
Sitting quietly on your desk, the Beelink SER5 Max 6800U, $299 for Prime members, is a mini PC with big capabilities, despite its compact form factor. With an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor, 24GB LPDDR5 RAM and 500GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, it can handle office work, gaming and more.
