Throaty Mumbo has spent the past year chasing projects that most people would dismiss before the first soldering iron heats up. This time the target was a standard Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the same gray box that once needed a cartridge and a CRT television. Instead of another emulator sitting on a modern computer, the goal was to keep the original console hardware in the loop and still end up with something that behaves like a desktop machine from the late 1990s.
Alef Aeronautics released video on Thursday of its electric flying car lifting off vertically and crossing above a Tesla Roadster, marking the California company’s 1,000th logged flight. The clip arrived the same day Tesla showed its redesigned Roadster performing a brief airborne hop with cold-gas thrusters at a SpaceX site in Texas. In the Alef footage the vehicle rises cleanly, maintains a level cabin, and glides over the Roadster along with a Cybertruck and other cars parked nearby.
Joshua Bird set out to build a flying drone small enough to fit comfortably in a room without the bulk that usually comes with single-rotor designs. Most approaches either rely on a second rotor for balance or force the machine to grow large so its blades can produce usable control forces. He wanted neither, so he kept the hardware to one motor and one propeller sitting on a compact finned body, then solved the control problem through rapid changes in blade angle instead of extra hardware.
Ruins across the Capital Wasteland pick up sunlight and shadow in ways Bethesda’s original fixed lighting never quite managed when Fallout 3 first arrived. A small fan effort has been stitching RTX Remix, ray reconstruction, and neural rendering into Tale of Two Wastelands, the long-running project that drops Fallout 3 and its expansions into the Fallout: New Vegas engine so both games can run as one continuous playthrough. The result, shown in a short gameplay video released mid-October, already shifts familiar locations enough that some viewers describe the footage as looking like an entirely different game.
Hotel rooms, home offices, libraries, and school desks share one familiar problem: too many devices and too few outlets. A laptop, phone, tablet, and earbuds quickly turn a single wall socket into a puzzle of adapters and cables. UGREEN’s Nexode 100W GaN charger, priced at $39.98 (was $55), solves that with one compact unit. Three USB-C ports and one USB-A port share a total of 100 watts, so a full charge session for several gadgets runs from a single connection.