Anyone who wants private AI tools can now carry them on a flash drive that works across computers. Portable Local Studio from Tech Jarves packs image generation, chat with language models, speech-to-text conversion, and text-to-speech into a single folder that launches without installing anything on the host machine.
Sir Peter Beck stepped into the open cockpit of a Jetson One on a California field and rose into the air with little more than a single four-axis joystick in his hand. The founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, the man who built the Electron rocket that has flown dozens of successful missions and who is now developing the larger Neutron vehicle, had come for a test hop in the single-seat electric aircraft. What followed was a short, controlled flight that left him calling the experience a revelation.
In December 1994, Apple stood on a stage in Tokyo and introduced Pippin as a licensed multimedia platform built around a stripped-down Macintosh. Bandai, already deep into toys and children’s entertainment, signed on as the first manufacturer. The plan called for a living-room box that could play CD-ROMs, connect to early internet services, and run a simplified version of Mac OS without forcing families to buy a full computer. Apple would supply the design and collect modest royalties. Bandai would handle the hardware, the packaging, and most of the financial risk.
Most games that recreate Hill Climb Racing borrow libraries, engines, or at least a full operating system. CodingWalaXD went the other direction and wrote the whole thing in raw x86 assembly that starts the moment a computer powers on. The finished binary occupies precisely 1,024 bytes, two ordinary disk sectors, and boots straight into a scrolling side-view race with a car, rising hills, fuel cans, coins, and the familiar risk of flipping over.
Holiday travel season arrives with packed airports, delayed flights, and the constant risk that a checked bag ends up on the wrong carousel or a set of keys slips between seats in a rental car. A 4-pack of second-generation AirTags, priced at $69.99 today (was $99), addresses those ordinary losses by attaching a small disk to each important item and then reporting its location through Apple’s Find My network of nearby phones and tablets.