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Whisplay HAT+ Rebuilds Google’s Offline Gemma Translator Into One Compact Pi 5 Slab

By Jackson Chung September 20, 2026

Google Creative Lab published Gemma Translator back in August 2026 as a voice box that never phones home. Alan Yam, Shashwath Santosh, and Dan Motzenbecker built it with help from Google Antigravity, then posted the code, model scripts, and 3D-print files on GitHub under Apache 2.0. You talk into a microphone. Moonshine turns the recording into text. Gemma 4 E2B, running locally through LiteRT-LM, translates that text. Moonshine speaks the other language from a speaker. After the first download, the radio can stay off.

Hubble Captures NGC 4698, an Out of Sync Galaxy Spinning Two Ways at Once

By Jackson Chung September 19, 2026

Hubble’s new frame of NGC 4698 arrives from 55 million light years out in Virgo, a spiral tucked into the nearest big cluster of more than a thousand galaxies bound by gravity. Brown dust lanes cut through the outer disk and young blue stars light the same curves, yet those arms refuse to spiral into the middle. They hang in a ring around the perimeter and leave the bright core standing on its own, with reddish pockets of fresh star birth mixed among the dust.

Kid Kirby Recreation Finally Lets You Fling DMA Design’s Lost SNES Mouse Game

By Bill Smith September 19, 2026

In 1994 Nintendo handed Scotland’s DMA Design a Kirby license and a Super NES Mouse and asked the studio to make a prequel. DMA was already known for Lemmings and Uniracers and would, two years later, ship Grand Theft Auto. Kid Kirby started even earlier as a golf-style mouse prototype from freelancer Tony Colgan, then became a stretch-and-launch blob called Jellies before Nintendo suggested the pink puffball.

Fingers as Legs, ETH Zurich Turns a Store Bought WUJI Hand Into a Walking Addams Family Extra

By Jackson Chung September 19, 2026

Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, and Robert Katzschmann of ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab began with a commercial WUJI right hand with five fingers designed for grabbing. They put a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and a battery to its back, resulting in a package weighing 818 grams and operating without a cable. Twenty powered joints remained factory standard, four on each finger, with different lengths and a thumb positioned to one side. Lift one finger to step, and a support point disappears.

BOSGAME E5 Mini PC Packs Dual 2.5G Ports and Triple 4K Screens Into a Sub $200 Desk Box

By Jackson Chung September 19, 2026

BOSGAME E5 Mini PC, priced at $186.99 with promotion code: 5400U45 (was $340), keeps showing up in deal threads because a machine this small almost never arrives with two 2.5-gigabit Ethernet ports, three 4K outputs, and a licensed copy of Windows 11 Pro for less than $300. Inside is a 15 watt laptop processor, a Ryzen 3 5400U with 4 cores and 8 threads to get the work done.