Jack Scarlett opened the first episode of Top Gear Tech by walking into a finished production Tesla Semi eight years after the 2017 reveal. A small pilot fleet reached customers in late 2022. Those trucks and later units have now logged about 17 million test miles that fed the version now leaving the line.
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Sony shipped the SMC-70 in September 1982 as its first real microcomputer, first in the United States for office work and then in Japan on December 1. Most people walking past a gray-and-silver slab that year would have assumed it belonged to NEC or Sharp. Few realized the company that made Trinitron sets and Walkmans had just entered the personal-computer business with a Z80A running at 4.028 MHz, 64 KB of user RAM, and Sony BASIC already sitting in ROM.
Apple’s foldable has soaked up most of the oxygen this season, which is convenient if you already live inside iOS. Anyone who would rather keep Android, DeX, and three live apps on one slab still has a clearer answer: Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, priced at $1,799.99 (was $2,100), the first book-style Fold to carry the Ultra badge and the first to pair that badge with a camera and battery that finally match the price.
Red Bull staged Max vs 100 on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, as the largest go-kart race ever run, lining 101 identical karts on a purpose-built layout at Silverstone designed by race director David Terrien. Max Verstappen started 101st with a simple brief: catch and pass every driver ahead of him inside 30 laps or 75 minutes. Once the rear of his kart drew level with the front of another, that driver was out for good. The 100 people in front of him were athletes, content creators, streamers, journalists, and fans, most of whom had seen the track only in Tuesday practice plus one qualifying lap. Dutch Formula One journalist Jacky Martens took pole. YouTuber Zac Alsop and Red Bull Ford Powertrains technician Lewis Osler sat near the front with him.
REWA Technology posted one of the first teardown videos of the iPhone 18 Pro hours after the phone reached stores, working on the physical SIM version rather than the eSIM-only models sold in the United States and a few other markets. That choice matters because the SIM tray model carries a slightly smaller battery than the versions without a tray. The unit they opened weighs 209.3 grams and looks almost identical on the outside to last year’s phone, so older cases still snap on without trouble.