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Nissan’s 2027 Rogue Hybrid Puts e-POWER On American Roads For The First Time

By Bill Smith September 21, 2026

Nissan spent years selling e-POWER overseas before it finally landed on a U.S. compact SUV, and the 2027 Rogue Hybrid is the first American application of that third-generation series setup. Dual electric motors do all the driving. A turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine never turns the wheels. It only feeds a 1.67-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion pack and a generator so you refill at a regular pump and skip any charging cable. Combined output is 225 horsepower, with a 202-horse front motor and a 134-horse rear motor giving the crossover standard all-wheel drive and instant pull from a stop.

Last Cheater Standing Turns CrunchLabs Into Mark Rober’s Casino Where Engineers Build Devices to Beat the House

By Bill Smith September 21, 2026

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober filled his CrunchLabs warehouse with blackjack, poker, craps, and a roulette wheel, then invited a room of makers and YouTube builders to play for $10,000 destined for charity. Cheating was allowed. Getting caught was not. If a device showed up on camera or in a pit boss’s hand, it left the floor and the owner had to play straight. Whoever held the most chips at the end of the night took the cash. He called the event Last Cheater Standing, and he staffed it like a real floor: Science Bob as pit boss, a security lead named Bam, and 62 cameras running computer vision over every table.

Mac Mini M6 Hits Store Shelves This Week With New 2nm Speed in the Same Tiny Box and a Higher Asking Price

By Jackson Chung September 21, 2026

Apple’s smallest desktop computer reaches store shelves this week after early reviews that call the M6 model a fast, quiet machine that still fits in the palm of a hand. Reviewers who spent days with Mac Mini review units describe a familiar five-inch-square aluminum case that measures two inches tall and weighs about a pound and a half. That same compact shape from the last redesign lets the computer sit behind a monitor, tuck under a desk, or serve as an always-on box for light work and local AI tasks.

Luke Creatives Spent Eight Months Building a Voice Powered AI Soda Machine That Mixes Any Flavor You Can Speak

By Bill Smith September 21, 2026

Luke Creatives spent more than eight months on a soda machine that listens to a spoken request and mixes a drink from a bank of concentrated flavors. Ordinary fountain buttons give you one listed option. This cabinet aims at anything you can say out loud, from strawberry lemonade to a summer night, and it draws on roughly half a million possible mixes to do it.

Breaking the Surface, RMIT’s Floating Titanium Lattice Lets Water Through and Still Refuses to Sink

By Jackson Chung September 20, 2026

Photo credit: Sara Tan | RMIT
Researchers at RMIT University’s Centre for Additive Manufacturing have printed a titanium lattice that floats while remaining open so water can pass straight through. Lead researcher Dr Jordan Noronha and project leader Distinguished Professor Ma Qian worked with Professors Andrey Molotnikov, Milan Brandt and Martin Leary, along with partners at France’s Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Their hybrid starts with Ti-6Al-4V, an alloy that normally sits around 4.43 grams per cubic centimeter, more than four times the density of freshwater.