The Mac Mini M4 with 16GB of RAM as well as a 256GB SSD is still the best value for your money in 2025, desktop PC wise, and you can get one for $499 shipped today, originally $599. Don’t let its price fool you, the M4 chip anchors it with a 10-core CPU (4 performance, 6 efficiency cores), a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine, clocking up to 38 TOPS for AI tasks—outpacing the M2’s 15.8 TOPS. Product page.
Elliot Coll of The Retro Future recently stopped by a friend’s house to check out an incredible rare Nintendo Game Boy M91 kiosk that sat in a shop between 1989 to 1993 before it was relocated to someone’s home. Eventually, this piece of history made its way onto eBay and the ended up in the hands of a Nintendo fan.
Photo credit: C.R. O’Dell (Rice University), and NASA
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a hypersonic shock wave within the Orion Nebula, a star-forming hot spot about 1,344 light-years away from Earth. At its heart is a bow shock—a glowing, crescent-shaped arc of gas—carved out by a young star blasting material at hypersonic speeds.
Kyle Paul was inspired by Mark Rober’s viral video, where a self-driving Tesla famously plowed into a fake wall, to recreate the stunt. Unlike the former NASA engineer, he decides to perform the test using both a Model Y with Hardware 3 (HW3) as well as a Hardware 4 (HW4) Cybertruck.
The Unitree G1 snagged bragging rights as the world’s first side-flipping humanoid with a slick demo that gives Atlas a run for its money. This 4’2”, 77lb bot nailed a standing side flip—think cartwheel energy with a tidy two-foot landing, using its 23 movable joints, an 8-core CPU, 3D LiDAR and an Intel RealSense D435 depth camera to scope its world and stick that mid-air magic.
Photo credit: Sarang Sheth | Yanko Design
A future Apple Watch with two screens and cameras might be in the works, or at least according to a recently uncovered patent filing. More specifically, one that was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on March 20, 2025, titled “wearable electronic device”, from Apple’s Design Lead, Vladimir Krneta.
Photographer Danny Mcgee took the DJI Avata 2 FPV drone for a spin above Peru’s Catarata Gocta, one of the planet’s tallest waterfalls with a jaw-dropping 2,531-foot plunge. Tucked into a remote cloud forest, it’s framed by steep, green cliffs and swirling mist—a scene that feels straight out of a fantasy flick.
The KTC H27T13 27″ QHD 100Hz IPS computer monitor also works with game consoles, and you can get one for $92.99 shipped after clipping the on-page $40 off coupon as well as entering coupon code: 05DMKTC38, originally $139.99. This PC monitor rolls with FreeSync and G-Sync to keep screen tearing at bay, delivering a smooth vibe for work and casual gaming. With HDR and solid dynamic range in the mix, your visuals get a nice, ultra smooth boost. Product page.
Astronaut Dale Gardener’s untethered space walk to a stranded satellite took place during NASA’s STS-51-A mission, and it’s a fascinating story of human ingenuity and space exploration. Put simply, the mission involved deploying two communications satellites—Anik D2 and Syncom IV-1 (Leasat 1)—and then retrieve two others that had been stranded in low Earth orbit due to earlier deployment failures: Palapa B2 and Westar VI.
