Apple put a new Mac Mini M6 on the market in late September, and by the first week of October the base model was already cheaper. Amazon has the entry version at $779.99, down from the $899 list price, as part of the October Prime Day run. That is the first cut on a machine that only just reached stores, and it lands on the configuration most people will actually see: 16GB of memory, 256GB of storage, and the standard M6 chip.
Astronomers filed a strange spectrum of the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 in 1999 and left it there. Hubble had recorded roughly 100 chemical features that no catalog of the time could name. The star itself is the bare core of a low-mass sun that burned through its fuel, shed its outer layers, and settled into a compact remnant. At about 35,800 degrees, with a cooling age near five million years, it is still young as white dwarfs go, and still hot enough to strip gas from anything orbiting close in.
Google Japan marked October 1 with the fifteenth entry in a running series of keyboard proposals from the Gboard team. The date is a small joke on its own. Read as 101, it points at the old full-size layout with a number pad, and the team has used that reading since the company retired its April Fools posts in 2021. This year’s object is called Gboard Conveyor Belt Version, and the name matches the hardware.
Zac Builds wanted a Game Boy Color that still looked like the 1998 handheld and behaved like something you would actually carry in 2026. His latest project walks through that job on a working donor board, the one part he treats as non-negotiable. Almost everything else can come from current reproduction kits, so a battered shell and a tired screen do not end the project.
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Retail assets that reached Android Headlines yesterday put a name and a face on a tracker Google has been circling for months. Fitbit Edge is the label on the listings, and the hardware reads as the next step after the Charge line, which last saw a full update in 2023.