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Mac Mini M6 Hits Store Shelves This Week With New 2nm Speed in the Same Tiny Box and a Higher Asking Price

By Jackson Chung September 21, 2026

Apple’s smallest desktop computer reaches store shelves this week after early reviews that call the M6 model a fast, quiet machine that still fits in the palm of a hand. Reviewers who spent days with Mac Mini review units describe a familiar five-inch-square aluminum case that measures two inches tall and weighs about a pound and a half. That same compact shape from the last redesign lets the computer sit behind a monitor, tuck under a desk, or serve as an always-on box for light work and local AI tasks.

Luke Creatives Spent Eight Months Building a Voice Powered AI Soda Machine That Mixes Any Flavor You Can Speak

By Bill Smith September 21, 2026

Luke Creatives spent more than eight months on a soda machine that listens to a spoken request and mixes a drink from a bank of concentrated flavors. Ordinary fountain buttons give you one listed option. This cabinet aims at anything you can say out loud, from strawberry lemonade to a summer night, and it draws on roughly half a million possible mixes to do it.

Breaking the Surface, RMIT’s Floating Titanium Lattice Lets Water Through and Still Refuses to Sink

By Jackson Chung September 20, 2026

Photo credit: Sara Tan | RMIT
Researchers at RMIT University’s Centre for Additive Manufacturing have printed a titanium lattice that floats while remaining open so water can pass straight through. Lead researcher Dr Jordan Noronha and project leader Distinguished Professor Ma Qian worked with Professors Andrey Molotnikov, Milan Brandt and Martin Leary, along with partners at France’s Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Their hybrid starts with Ti-6Al-4V, an alloy that normally sits around 4.43 grams per cubic centimeter, more than four times the density of freshwater.

Tech Chap Runs the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Until the Screens Go Dark

By Jackson Chung September 20, 2026

Fresh iPhone 17 and iPhone Air owners are already asking the same thing. If battery is the only reason to spend more, do the new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max actually earn the upgrade. Tech Chap tried to answer that by running those two new Pros against last year’s 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and the thin iPhone Air until every phone died, then he ran the whole thing a second time with a Galaxy S26 Ultra in the mix.

Public Transit for Wild Mice Sends Coop Invaders Down a 250-Foot Homemade Gondola

By Jackson Chung September 20, 2026

Super Valid Designs spent two months on a ski lift because mice had moved into the chicken coop and ordinary traps only opened a revolving door. Catch one batch and another arrives. Live relocation felt like a better bet than a pile of snap traps, so the plan became a pair of jobs in one machine: baited gondolas that work as traps, then a cable line that carries those cars 250 feet down a hill and dumps the passengers into brush without anyone walking the route every night.