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NES Graphics Upgrade Revives Nintendo’s Abandoned Plan for Extra Layers and Colors

By Bill Smith June 22, 2026

Original NES hardware shipped with a graphics processor that handled everything through a single chip and a set of strict rules. Backgrounds stayed flat. Sprites capped out at eight per horizontal line. Colors came from a fixed palette with tight limits on how many could appear together on screen. Nintendo built in four extra pins on that processor and left them grounded, effectively locking away a path to more complex visuals. One modder recently put those pins to work and gave the console a second graphics processor.

Webb Packs Every Chapter of Star Formation Into One Striking Orion Image

By Jackson Chung June 22, 2026

Tucked behind the familiar glow of the Orion Nebula sits a stretch of space where new stars are taking shape right now on an impressive scale. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a northern section of the Orion Molecular Cloud 2, known as OMC-2, which forms part of the larger Orion A complex roughly 1280 light years from Earth.

Epic’s E1000 AX Turns a Fast Turboprop Into One With Real Backup Brains

By Bill Smith June 22, 2026

Epic Aircraft builds single-engine turboprops that move fast and carry serious loads for their size. The newest version, the E1000 AX, keeps every bit of that performance edge while folding in deeper Garmin automation than the company has used before.

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Ultra Comes Into Clearer View Through Recent Leaks

By Jackson Chung June 21, 2026

Recent video renders from a well known Apple leaker along with strings found in the first iOS 27 developer beta have supplied the clearest picture so far of the foldable iPhone Ultra that Apple has in development. Multiple reports now refer to this model as the iPhone Ultra and describe it as the new flagship that will sit above the regular Pro versions in the fall lineup.

Why Robots Still Can’t Pick Up an Egg and How ABB Outlines Their Fix Using Human-Generated Touch Data.

By Jackson Chung June 21, 2026

Engineers have watched robots master welding seams and pallet stacking for decades. Success on those jobs rarely translates when the task involves something fragile and slightly different every time. An egg in a carton or on a counter represents the exact kind of object that exposes the limits. Too much force cracks the shell. Too little lets it slip. Slight variations in shape, weight distribution, or surface texture throw off systems built around fixed gripper designs or basic vision.