256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Prime Day Deal

256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Smartphone for $834 and 5 More October Prime Day Tech Deals (Part 2)

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256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Prime Day Deal
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro in the 256GB version, priced at $834 for Prime Day (was $1,100), pairs that storage with 12GB of memory and a Tensor G6 chip built on a 3-nanometer process, inside a glass and aluminum body that measures about 152.7 by 71.9 by 8.4 millimeters and weighs 204 grams. A 6.3-inch LTPO OLED panel runs from 1Hz to 120Hz at 1280 by 2856, with a peak rating of 3600 nits and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the front. Three rear cameras handle the photos: a 50-megapixel main sensor at f/1.7, a 48-megapixel ultrawide at 123 degrees, and a 48-megapixel periscope at 5x, with 8K video from the rear and a 42-megapixel camera up front. A 4,850mAh battery charges at 30 watts on a cable, reaching about 55 percent in 30 minutes, and at 25 watts on a magnetic Qi2.2 pad. Android 17 ships on the phone, with seven major OS updates on the schedule, and an ultrasonic fingerprint reader sits under the screen. IP68 covers dust and a short dip, with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and ultra-wideband for the connections.

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EarthBound SNES Native PC Port Widescreen

Phase Distorter Puts EarthBound on PC With Widescreen Views and CRT Filters

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EarthBound SNES Native PC Port Widescreen
Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo can now walk Onett on a desktop, and the program that takes them there shares a name with the time machine Dr. Andonuts built for the end of the game. Phase Distorter, written by a developer going by TheRunaway5, is an unofficial native port of the 1994 Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound and its Japanese release, Mother 2. Version 0.2.1 went out on October 4, 2026, as a development build for Windows and Linux, and write-ups followed within a couple of days.

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Gemini North Pa 30 Medieval Firework

Gemini North Reveals Pa 30 as the Firework a Medieval Sky Once Held

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Gemini North Pa 30 Medieval Firework
Photo credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Rodriguez
Eight separate records from Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic observers place a new star in Cassiopeia between August 4-6, 1181. It stayed visible for 185 days, long enough for court astronomers to log it during the Genpei War in Japan and the reign of Henry II in England. One of only five Milky Way supernovae people recorded before telescopes existed, that guest star faded and left no obvious wreck for modern catalogs to claim.

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