Microsoft revealed a laptop back in May that still lacked a price and a ship date. On October 7, the missing numbers showed up. Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599, pre-orders are open now, and the first units ship on October 16.
Avery Flies spent roughly 200 hours sewing a nylon bag the size of a small bus, hung a barbecue burner under it, and flew the result around a park. The ship is called Pandora. Inflated, it runs 27 feet long and 11.5 feet wide, holds about 2,100 cubic feet of air, and leaves the ground on heat alone.
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.
Evan Monsma spent a few days in Indianapolis turning a broken iPhone 13 into something he calls CMOUNTIPHONE2, a phone that can take Canon EF lenses meant for a full-size DSLR. His earlier attempt had already put cinema glass on a wrecked iPhone. That mount was wood, a modified C-to-CS ring, and a bead of super glue. The glue let go. A heavier lens was always going to finish the job, so this round starts with metal.
Jaguar stopped building cars at the end of 2025 and spent the quiet months turning a polarizing concept into something a customer can order. On Tuesday in New York the covers came off the Type 01, a four-door grand tourer and the first production car on a platform Jaguar built only for itself. The name is a small piece of branding arithmetic. Type points back at older Jaguars, the zero stands for zero tailpipe emissions, and the one marks the first car of the new run.