Beats 360 Over-Ear Headphones Reveal

Beats 360 Puts Swappable Cushions and a New Acoustic System on a $350 Over-Ear Pair

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Beats 360 Over-Ear Headphones Reveal
Beats finally put a price and a ship date on the over-ear headphone it has been teasing for months. Beats 360 costs $349.99, with preorders open today from Apple, Amazon, and other retailers in more than 100 countries, and units arriving in stores Thursday, September 24. Four core colors ship first: Black, Cloud, Pink, and Sky. Each pair arrives with matching Performance Knit ear and headband cushions, plus a woven ripstop case that lets the cups twist flat for travel even though the headband itself does not fold.

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Virtual Machines on CD VMWare

VMware Ready to Run CDs Packed Working Linux Virtual Machines Onto Discs Handed Out at Linux World 2000

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Virtual Machines on CD VMWare
Viewer David from Virginia Beach mailed Michael MJD a pair of forgotten promotional CDs he picked up at Linux World 2000, and those discs still hold complete, ready-to-boot virtual machines of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and SuSE Linux. VMware handed them out as marketing pieces that let Windows users try popular Linux distributions without hunting down ISOs or partitioning a hard drive. Each disc carries VMware 1.0.1 for Windows NT and Windows 2000 plus the Linux host version, a short readme, and a compressed virtual disk image already configured with a working guest OS.

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BBC Towards Tomorrow 1967 Humans Robots Co-Exist

BBC’s Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished

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BBC Towards Tomorrow 1967 Humans Robots Co-Exist
Opening a BBC ‘Towards Tomorrow’ special first shown on December 28, 1967 is a warning that mankind may already be obsolete. Population growth, pollution and a planet slipping out of human control could finish the job even without nuclear war. Intelligent machines might have to take Earth off our hands, the narration says, if only to keep life going after we have made a mess of it.

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Pokemon Sleep NOT A HOTEL Poke Ball Hokkaido Japan

NOT A HOTEL Builds a Giant Sleepable Poké Ball on Tomakomai’s Lakeshore

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Pokemon Sleep NOT A HOTEL Poke Ball Hokkaido Japan
NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep have set a glossy red and white sphere on a wooded lakeshore in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, about an hour south of Sapporo, and opened it for a short run of overnight stays. The guest room is a three meter sphere, close to ten feet across, formed from two molded acrylic hemispheres so the finished object reads as a life size Poké Ball sitting among trees with lake water just beyond the glass. Promotional nights run in brief windows from October 8 through 18, 2026, timed to the franchise’s 30th year and the third anniversary of the Pokémon Sleep app.

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