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Markiplier’s 13.5 Million Share Bet on GoPro

By Jackson Chung August 31, 2026

Mark Edward Fischbach, better known as Markiplier, now owns 13.5 million shares of GoPro Class A stock. That is 8.5 percent of the class, enough to make him the camera maker’s largest single public shareholder. A Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on August 20 lists the position as of July 13. He holds sole voting power and sole dispositive power over every share. Just him, listed as an individual, with a California address through his business managers in Encino. He certified he did not buy the stock to seize control or force a board fight.

Wild Card, Pokémon Hands the Next Movie to a Card Player and Mimikyu

By Bill Smith August 31, 2026

Seven years after Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle left theaters in Japan and later arrived on Netflix, a new feature-length animated film is finally on the calendar. Pokémon: Wild Card was unveiled August 30, 2026, during the closing ceremony of the Pokémon World Championships at Chase Center in San Francisco, then confirmed on Pokémon.com the same weekend.

RocXZoom Chases Birds at 45 mph From a 400-Gram Camera, is World’s First Robotic Extreme Zoom Camera

By Jackson Chung August 31, 2026

Four days into a Kickstarter run that ends September 26, FarseerTech’s RocXZoom has already pulled in about $249,628 from 344 backers against a $9,999 goal. Company copy calls it the world’s first robotic extreme zoom camera, and the hardware matches the slogan more closely than most crowdfunding pitches do.

Used Denso VS-050 Gets Transformed Into Badminton Robot That Serves Shuttlecocks for Practice

By Jackson Chung August 31, 2026

Denso VS-050 Badminton Robot
Badminton still needs two people, a net, and a pile of shuttlecocks that never last as long as the rally in your head. Travis Mitchell already played weekly. His kids had just gotten old enough to start learning. His wife once competed in women’s singles for Team USA and now runs a 15-court facility. A decade earlier he had already tried to build a launcher with a CR-10 printer and a cheap CNC router, then life got in the way. This time he wanted the machine itself to be more fun, so he bought a used Denso VS-050 industrial arm on eBay and spent about six months turning it into a court-side feeder.

PlotDrive Lets You Write a Floppy, Walk Away, and Then Watch the Printer Work

By Jackson Chung August 31, 2026

Lucky Bob handed Tech Tangents a beige lab box and a simple pitch. Printing is miserable. What if a job were as simple as writing a floppy? That box is PlotDrive, a CalComp serial and parallel print server that never needed Ethernet, a PC sitting idle, or a driver that still installs in 2026. You copy a file onto a 5.25-inch disk, latch the door, pick the file on a two-line LCD, and the machine streams the data out to whatever printer or plotter is plugged into the back.