Nintendo’s official Pro Controller is still somewhat expensive for a full-size wireless pad. PowerA’s Enhanced Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch, priced at $35 (was $70) answers that with an officially licensed Bluetooth gamepad that keeps the familiar button layout, adds two programmable buttons on the back, and runs for up to 30 hours on a built-in 900mAh battery.
Wave Race 64: Recompiled is out as a native Windows and Apple Silicon build, and it treats Nintendo’s 1996 jet-ski racer with unusual care. You still supply a legal dump of Wave Race 64 USA Rev A, also called v1.1. The project never ships the ROM. Once that file is accepted by the launcher, the game’s own MIPS code runs as a compiled C program instead of through a full console emulator. Championship, Time Trial, and two-player races all boot, save records to emulated EEPROM, and play at speed.
Radia just handed its giant cargo plane a second job. WindRunner started as a flying warehouse for 105-meter wind turbine blades that no highway, rail line, or existing freighter can take in one piece. On September 9 the Boulder company said that same 356-foot airframe can carry fully assembled rockets, boosters, and oversized satellites, and it will argue the case next week at the Air and Space Forces Association conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
Researchers at MIT built ShiftLens so a printed chemical bottle can turn red and show an exclamation mark while its cap sits loose, then switch to green with a checkmark the moment you screw it down tight. The same printed surface can flip a door plaque between “Please Come In” and “Meeting in Progress,” run a flame animation across a lampshade, or let each square on a tic-tac-toe board display an X, an O, or nothing at all.
Mustafa Muhibullah did not set out to name a new class of object. He was a University of Alabama graduate student working through public Chandra X-ray Observatory files that other groups had already used. In the softest sliver of those files, sources lit up and then disappeared as soon as the energy cut moved a little higher. Artifacts were the first suspicion. Stacked exposures and careful cleaning left something real.