OpenAI has quietly pulled the plug on Sora, announcing the shutdown on social media this morning with a brief thank you to everyone who used the app to create and share videos. The company acknowledged the decision would disappoint many users but offered no explanation for it. Sora launched last September as a mobile app built around a video generation model of the same name, and its run has come to an abrupt end less than a year later
Amazon has just completed the acquisition of Fauna Robotics, the New York based startup that has been quietly developing a compact household humanoid called Sprout. The team of around 50 is folding into Amazon’s Personal Robotics Group, though Fauna will continue to operate under its own name as an Amazon company, though financial terms were not disclosed.
Security cameras can be a real money pit because you have to deal with wiring, batteries that need to be replaced on a regular basis, and membership fees that add up every month. What if I told you there’s a way to bypass all that hassle for less than $60? The TP-Link Tapo SolarCam C402 Kit accomplishes exactly that, and at full price, it’s typically a good deal. When it is on sale (like now), you can get it for about $40.
Electron Impressions has built a reputation for pushing physics equipment well beyond its intended purpose, and their latest experiment takes things further than most. The team placed a fully grown potted Venus flytrap, open traps and all, directly in the path of a linear accelerator to find out what high speed electron beam radiation actually does to living tissue, and whether the plant’s famous snapping mechanism would have anything to say about it.
Customers walking into a McDonald’s near Shanghai’s Science and Technology Museum got more than they bargained for. Behind the counter stood a row of humanoid robots dressed in the familiar red and yellow uniform, looking every bit like they had stepped straight out of a McDonald’s advertisement and ready to greet anyone who walked through the door.
Matt from Creative Geekery knew from the moment he spotted the cockpit in a Project Hail Mary pre-release trailer that he was going to have to build it. The layout of those buttons and panels hooked him immediately, and despite having almost no reference material to work from, he set about recreating the feel of it using parts he already had around the house. What came out the other side looks like it belongs on a spaceship.
Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area can soon expect groceries and other home items delivered to their door by a large drone. Alphabet stated that Wing will expand its delivery service beginning March 24th, 2026, which has been a long time coming. Previously, this type of delivery was being tested on the Google campus in Mountain View. Office supplies were being zapped into employees’ offices, and they were frequently asking when this sort of stuff will reach their own houses. Wing is now making good on that promise by offering a residential delivery service to customers around the Bay Area.
Jay Leno climbed into the cab of a Tesla Semi, settled into the center seat, and eased the truck forward with a fully loaded trailer in tow, right there on the tarmac outside his garage. The 500 mile range variant, and by all accounts it felt planted and composed from the moment it started moving, even with another Semi trailing behind it.
Plenty of old handhelds spend their retirement gathering dust in a box somewhere, and this Game Boy Advance was no exception. Abandoned, completely dead, and sporting a screen that had burned out from years of neglect, it was not an obvious candidate for a comeback. Odd Tinkering took it apart piece by piece anyway, worked through every problem methodically, and brought it back to life with a handful of modern upgrades that breathe new life into the hardware without losing any of what made it special in the first place.
Photo credit: Red Bull Racing, Zero-G BTS stills by Denis Klero
By the end of the 2019 season, Red Bull Racing set numerous world records for fastest pit stops. However, as expected, the team was still eager to push itself to new heights, literally. They decided to put their skills to the test in a completely new setting, or more specifically, changing an F1 car’s four tires while floating around in the center of an aircraft.