Engineers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, working with colleagues at Waseda University in Japan, have added a working underwater capability to remote-controlled cockroaches. The insects already carry small electronic packs that let operators steer them through rubble and tight spaces. A new 3D-printed attachment now supplies oxygen so the same insects can keep moving when those spaces fill with water.
Nintendo confirmed this week that it will stop selling the original Switch, the Switch Lite, and the Switch OLED Model to retailers and on its own European store starting in mid-February 2027. The decision appears in an updated company FAQ that also covers battery changes across its current hardware lineup.
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Eleven million light-years away, Centaurus A has served as a favorite target for telescopes for good reason. It sits close enough for serious study yet displays features that hint at a far more dramatic history than its current appearance first suggests. A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, released to mark four years of science operations, brings that history into much clearer view.
A single chip bought on a whim during a late-night scroll turned into an excuse to rescue an old laboratory microscope and finally see what its silicon actually contains. The part in question is a Motorola MC68701, a microcontroller built in the early 1980s. It packs an enhanced 6800-family processor, 2 kilobytes of ultraviolet-erasable program memory, 128 bytes of RAM, a serial interface, a programmable timer, and 29 input/output lines all onto one piece of silicon. In its day that counted as a complete small computer in a single package, and it could even reach out to external memory to grow beyond its on-chip limits.
Recent checks on Apple’s supply chain point to a launch strategy heavy on anticipation and light on immediate stock. The company appears ready to show its first foldable handset, the rumored iPhone Ultra, in September, yet early buyers could face weeks or months of waiting lists and marked-up resale prices. This setup recalls past launches where demand ran far ahead of what factories could deliver right away.