Wind speeds on Mars are high enough to blow fleets of large spherical rovers that resemble tumbleweed across the Red Planet’s surface, according to new wind-tunnel tests of small prototypes conducted by an international consortium of young scientists.
“We now have experimental validation that tumbleweed rovers could indeed operate and collect scientific data on Mars,” James…
SpaceX targeting Oct. 13 for next Starship megarocket launch
October 1, 2025
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly again less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan.
SpaceX announced on Monday (Sept. 29) that it’s targeting Oct. 13 for Starship Flight 11, which will be the final launch of the vehicle’s current…
Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems raised a new round of private financing despite its previous plan to be trading on the public market by 2025.
Silicon Valley-based Cerebras announced it raised a $1.1 billion Series G round on Tuesday that valued the AI hardware company at $8.1…
AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the trend: The company on Tuesday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps.
Currently all Playground lets you build are widgets, like a flight tracker, a next meeting brief, or a…
Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser
October 1, 2025
Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature called “Cards.” With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The…
Shock-jock street photographer Bruce Gilden has a new book of black-and-white portraits he has taken in Britain over the years. Called The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets, the monograph features over 50 photographs that the Magnum photographer has shot over a period of…
Discover how to photograph windmills with these handy tips
October 1, 2025
The countryside is dotted with examples of early technology in the form of wind and water-powered mills. Both types of mill used the power of nature to crank machinery that ground flour, pumped water or, in modern times, to generate electricity. Well, don’t concern yourself with the bird-battering eyesores of today, what we want to photograph are the mills of yesteryear. For windmills that means…
Leica smashes sales record as centenary celebrations continue as camera company records €596m revenue
October 1, 2025
Leica Camera has announced record revenues for the fourth year running, marking a milestone in its centenary year of the original Leica I. For the 2024/25 financial year, the German optics brand achieved the highest revenue in its history, with sales climbing 7.6% to around…
A video circulating on social media this morning has electric bike fans cheering and Homeland Security officers scratching their heads after a man who is reported to be a delivery rider appeared to evade a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Chicago…
Tesla Roadster reservation holders describe the frustrating process of getting their $50,000 deposit reimbursed after the automaker delayed the vehicle’s release by five years.
Update: the article previously mentioned that Tesla didn’t reimburse the $5,000, as per Brownlee, who now said that Tesla sent him the $5,000.
The next-gen Roadster has been sort of a running gag in the Tesla community…
