Photo credit: Yuri Beletsky via Harvard
A team of astronomers has captured something amazing: a picture of a baby planet, still growing, nestled in a gap in a disk of gas and dust around a distant star. WISPIT 2b is a protoplanet 5 times the mass of Jupiter and 5 million years old, which is nearly 1000 times younger than Earth. It orbits star WISPIT 2, 437 light years away and this is a first. A planet has never been seen forming in one of these ring shaped gaps, confirming a long held theory about how planets affect their surroundings.
In a plain cardboard box delivered to a Parisian flat is the ROG Xbox Ally X, a shiny black slab of gaming goodness that ASUS and Microsoft have been teasing for months. The delivery label says September 30, 2025, 16 days before the real October 16 launch date. For one Redditor, this is an early Christmas present.
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A Tesla Model Y has been spotted near the company’s Texas Gigafactory and it’s not the sleek, feature-packed crossover we’re used to. This is the Model Y Standard, a stripped down version designed to bring Tesla’s electric SUV to a wider audience. The $7,500 federal EV tax credit is no longer available so Tesla’s timing couldn’t be better.
A new Model Y is being produced in a quiet corner of the Giga Berlin factory. The car drives itself around the campus, past machinery, stops at a Supercharger and parks in the outbound lot.
Flip the brass power switch and the Marshall Acton III springs to life like an old friend ready for a late night jam. This is the smallest of the Marshall home speakers and weighs in at over 6 pounds and 10 x 7 x 6 inches. The black version with woven front grille and modest script branding looks like the guitar amps of yesteryear. At $199.99 (was $299.99), it’s definitely a fair price for what you get.
A computer mouse on your desk looks innocent, right? Researchers Isaac Tunney, John Bass and Alexis Lussier Desbiens at the University of California, Irvine, found out a secret about high-performance mice: they can hear you. Not just the clicks and scrolls, but your own voice, picked up by the tiny vibrations of your desk. This is called Mic-E-Mouse and turns a regular peripheral into an unexpected eavesdropper in an age where everyday devices can also be spies.
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Leaked photographs of what appears to be the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 have surfaced, and prototype units have a similar design with some noticeable differences from the Pocket 3.
Aviation has always been about scale, from the barnstormers who flew biplanes in the 1920s to the Cold War giants that redefined heavy lifting. Radia, a Colorado-based startup, has entered the fray with the WindRunner, a cargo plane that takes scale to new heights. This monster, 109 meters from nose to tail (longer than a football field) will carry loads no other aircraft can. Radia engineers started drawing it out in 2016 with a simple question: how do you move enormous wind turbine blades to remote locations without breaking up highways or rivers? The answer is in their hangar-sized drawings, a four-engine jet designed for one big job, with a few extras along the way.
