Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built this machine years ago as a ground twin for the Perseverance rover. It sat in the Mars Yard outside Pasadena, rolling through simulated terrain while teams tested commands and fixes before beaming them to the real vehicle on another planet. No one planned for it to fly anywhere. Now that same hardware sits at the center of a serious discussion about placing a nuclear-powered rover on the Moon.
Ferrari answered requests from longtime customers who wanted more direct involvement with their cars. The 12Cilindri Manuale adds a physical gated shifter and clutch pedal to the front-engined V12 grand tourer while preserving strong performance and modern reliability. Ferrari will build only 1,499 examples worldwide. That exact number recalls the displacement of the company’s first V12 engine from 1947 and forms part of the car’s identity from the start.
Google released a new commercial that places several of America’s founding figures into a modern shared workspace. The spot runs roughly a minute and carries the simple tagline “Group project, but make it 1776.” It forms part of the company’s push around the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.
Martin never meant to spend a year and a half building anything nuclear. Another demanding task kept getting pushed aside, and the delay turned into something much larger. What began as avoidance became a complete fusor, a compact device that creates the conditions for atomic nuclei to fuse using straightforward electric fields instead of the enormous machines found in national labs.
Brian Watson has worked in games for more than four decades. He started at DMA Design on classics like Lemmings and later spent time at Sony on projects that included emulation work. During a talk at The Retro Collective museum in the United Kingdom, he brought along a prototype controller most people had never heard of and showed it to the room.