Aston Martin revealed the Valhalla Spider as the open-top version of its mid-engined hybrid hypercar, capable of the same 217 mph top speed with the roof removed that the coupe achieves with the roof fixed in place. That figure makes it the fastest open-cockpit car the company has ever built, and the engineering team preserved nearly all of the coupe’s structural stiffness and aerodynamic balance while adding a removable roof system. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2027 after a public debut at the Concours at Wynn in Las Vegas.
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A commercial imaging satellite snapped China’s secretive reusable spaceplane from about 56 miles away in 2024, and the Defense Intelligence Agency included that view in an unclassified report released late last month. The picture shows a compact winged vehicle with its payload bay doors open and solar arrays stretched out from a rear service module, the whole assembly hanging against the black of space. Resolution reaches roughly 1.8 inches per pixel, clear enough to resolve panel lines and the shape of the delta wings. Earlier public images had been grainy telescope shots or brief lower-resolution frames; this one gives the first detailed public look at the underside and how the power systems are arranged.
Zack Nelson finally got his hands on a Trump Mobile T1 and put it through the same series of physical stress tests that have become his signature for years. Right from the start the phone lined up with an HTC U24 Pro he already owned, matching in overall size, the angled metal frame contour, the placement of the power and volume buttons, the notification light, the USB-C port, the headphone jack, and the microSD card slot.
Years of dust and neglect left one Atari Jaguar looking far from its original form when Tito of Macho Nacho Productions decided it deserved better treatment. A console that launched in 1993 with bold claims of 64-bit power and then faded after modest sales sat filthy and unused. Tito took it apart, vacuumed out the accumulated grime, cleaned the internals thoroughly, and put it back together with a fresh set of capacitors from a Console5 kit to address the aging power and signal components that fail over time on machines this old.
Journalists at the Los Angeles event today lifted the lid on Apple’s new MacBook Pro and immediately felt the weight drop before the screen even lit up. The 14-inch model comes in at three pounds, half a pound lighter than the previous version, while the 16-inch version sits at four pounds. In the hand it feels closer to a thinner machine, and several people noted that the difference shows up right away when the laptop goes into a bag.