Bugatti just handed its most extreme track machine a completely different life. The Destrier takes the carbon-fiber monocoque and full 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 from the Bolide, removes every wing, every extra vent, and every aerodynamic add-on, then shapes what remains into something built for looking at as much as driving. It stands exactly one meter tall. That is lower than any other road-going Bugatti has ever been.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory just finished a punishing test campaign on a piece of hardware smaller and lighter than most people would expect for a Mars mission. In July, engineers put a flexible, fabric-based radar antenna through the equivalent of more than two full prime missions of hard landings on the Red Planet. The antenna came through with its signal strength intact.
Waiting at the gate stretches on forever when all you have is a phone screen and whatever free Wi-Fi the airport offers. Once the plane doors close, that same stretch of hours can feel even longer. A proper PC game library sitting in your hands changes the entire equation, and the Lenovo Legion Go S, priced at $667 (was $850), is built exactly for that kind of mobility.
In the summer of 1997, Apple was running out of time. Cash on hand covered maybe ninety days of payroll. The company had burned through nearly two billion dollars in losses over the previous two years. Market share had collapsed. Talent was walking out the door. Rivals openly suggested shutting the whole thing down and returning the remaining money to shareholders. Steve Jobs had just returned after a twelve-year exile and the place he came back to felt exhausted.
Caviar has spent years turning ordinary phones into rolling gold sculptures that draw stares on any street. Now the company has set its sights on Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses and named the result Odyssey. Only twenty-four pairs will ever exist, a number chosen to match the books in Homer’s epic. Each one leaves the workshop with hand-worked metal, black enamel, and a charging case wrapped in genuine alligator leather.