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Early iPhone Duo Unboxing Videos Show Flat Packaging Ahead of Global Launch

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, has begun leaving boxes in private hands days before its Friday store arrival. A tech leaker channel called Kingmi Mobile uploaded two short clips on October 20, one of them focused on a 1TB Night Sky unit. Both run about two minutes and show the device coming out already open rather than folded shut. Packaging looks like any recent iPhone box aside from the extra length needed to hold the screen flat, and the units themselves carry Chinese text that suggests they left factories ahead of most retail stock.

Mysterious Blinding Lights Near Mount Whitney Reveal Reflect Orbital Ground Test for Space Mirrors

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Residents around Lone Pine, California, looked up one recent night and saw intense beams cutting across the desert sky near Mount Whitney. Cars pulled over. Phone cameras came out. Speculation ran from military exercises to something far stranger. Officials later confirmed the source sat on the ground along Horseshoe Meadows Road, where a California company had parked powerful spotlights for a controlled experiment.

Turning Ordinary Silicon Wafers Into Working Solar Cells With a Microwave Kiln

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Silicon wafers sit in online carts for a few dollars, plain p-type disks cut from larger crystal ingots and free of any factory patterns. A short score with a diamond or silicon-carbide scribe splits them into small squares a few millimeters across, then a rinse in isopropyl alcohol and distilled water clears the dust left by the break. Those squares already carry the positive side of a solar cell. The missing piece is a thin negative layer of phosphorus atoms driven a fraction of a micrometer into the surface so light can knock electrons loose and send them around a circuit.

Cranktown City Assembles Massive Backyard Satellite Ground Station to Capture Weather Data From Orbit

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Cranktown City spotted an eight-foot dish online and decided the usual starter kit of a small Yagi or a handheld weather dish simply would not do for a first serious look at signals coming down from space. What followed was a full-scale articulating mount planted on a large post set into a concrete pad, with a custom metal base fabricated underneath to hold the electronics that both receive the incoming radio and command the dish’s motion. That base carries a big metal gear driven by a wheelchair motor for the side-to-side azimuth sweep and a linear actuator that handles the up-and-down elevation, giving the whole assembly enough travel and speed to follow satellites as they cross the sky.

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL Still Delivers Bright Screens and Capable Cameras for Daily Use in 2026

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Google built the Pixel 10 Pro XL, priced at $849 today (was $1,200), as its largest phone in the 2025 lineup, measuring 162.8 by 76.6 by 8.5 millimeters and weighing 232 grams. An aluminum frame wraps around Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on both sides, and the whole package carries an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance. In hand it feels substantial without turning awkward for one-handed reaches or pocket carry. A 6.8-inch LTPO OLED panel fills most of the front, running at 2992 by 1344 resolution with a 120 Hz refresh rate that drops as low as 1 Hz when nothing moves. Peak brightness hits 3300 nits in short bursts and holds around 2200 nits for HDR content, which keeps outdoor text readable even under direct sun.