OQO Model 01 Tablet Windows XP 2004

OQO Model 01 Tablet Packed Full Windows XP Into the Smallest Computer of 2004

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OQO Model 01 Tablet Windows XP 2004
OQO, a small San Francisco startup, spent years downsizing the specifications of a complete Windows PC before releasing the Model 01 in October 2004, a feat of miniaturization measuring 4.9 by 3.4 by 0.9 inches and weighing only 14 oz. Behind the scenes, founders Jory Bell and Jonathan Betts-LaCroix had left larger companies to pursue a radical vision for an ultra-personal computer capable of delivering the full Windows software experience without the need for a special operating system or stripped-down software. Reviewers it the smallest full Windows XP computer on the market, and that claim was valid because nothing else at the time could fit a sliding keyboard, a color screen, and the full desktop version of Windows into a package that was scarcely larger than a regular PDA.

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ANYbotics ANYmal X Robot Dog Inspection Oil Gas Zones

ANYmal X Finally Puts Legged Inspection Robots Inside Explosive Oil and Gas Zones

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ANYbotics ANYmal X Robot Dog Inspection Oil Gas Zones
ANYbotics began shipping ANYmal X to customers this week, giving oil, gas, and chemical plants their first four-legged inspection robot certified to operate in areas where a single spark could ignite flammable gas. Equinor and DSM-Firmenich are among the first recipients. For years the Swiss company refined the machine through an early-access program that put units through hundreds of onshore and offshore missions with BP, Shell, PETRONAS, Petrobras, BASF, and SLB.

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James Webb Space Telescope Cat's Head Nebula Halloween 2026

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Haunting Cat’s Head Nebula Just in Time for Halloween

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James Webb Space Telescope Cat's Head Nebula Halloween 2026
Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Far beyond ordinary sight, a towering filament of dust and gas has taken on the unmistakable outline of a cat sitting with its back turned. Astronomers call the structure the Cat’s Head Nebula, a compact formation nestled inside the much larger Carina Nebula roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. Intense ultraviolet radiation and winds from massive nearby stars have spent ages carving the surrounding material, leaving denser pockets to resist the erosion and form the long, irregular pillar that now resembles a feline body, head, and downward tail.

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