Keys vanish between couch cushions with a regularity that feels personal. Wallets slide into jacket pockets that later get hung in the wrong closet. Backpacks get set down at a coffee shop and stay there. AirTag 2, priced at $89 for the 4-pack (was $99), the second-generation tracker Apple released earlier this year, is built for those ordinary losses, and for the larger ones that start at an airport counter.
Google put Gemini 4 Argon in front of a small group of cyber defenders on September 30, and the claim attached to it is plain enough to follow. This is the model the company wants on jobs that take a long time to finish, the kind that wander through a huge codebase, a stack of contracts, or a live security review and still need one coherent result at the end. Argon can write up to a million tokens in a single pass. Earlier Gemini models stopped around 64,000. A token is a small piece of text, so a million of them sits closer to a short novel than a chat reply. Google’s case is that the extra room changes the work itself, because the model can stay on one problem instead of being cut off and asked to pick the thread back up later.
Emmet wanted a living room console that still asked for a disc, so he built one instead of buying a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox. The result sits on a ZimaBoard 2, a small x86 computer with an Intel N150, 32GB of onboard storage, DisplayPort, USB, and a pair of SATA connectors. A USB CD drive hangs off one port. A 500GB SSD occupies the other after he opened a SATA-to-USB enclosure, pulled the drive free, and wired it straight into the board. DisplayPort runs to a television at 4K and 60 frames a second. Batocera, a Linux build made for retro emulation on x86, handles the library.
Twenty-three years after a television crew tried and failed to kill a Toyota Hilux, the company took the same idea to an old airfield in Suffolk and aimed it at the battery version. Bentwaters, a former military strip, stood in for the studio lot. A crane did the lifting, and Reddit did the choosing.
Boston Dynamics spent this morning showing Atlas a new pair of hands, and the first thing that stands out is a missing digit. There is no pinky. Four fingers sit on a palm a little larger than an average human hand, and the assembly is a little stronger than the gripper it replaces. Engineers reached that count with a blunt test: they taped a pinky to a ring finger and spent a day trying to work. The missing finger never blocked the jobs they cared about. Chief technology officer Zack Jackowski put the lesson in plain shop language. The best part is no part.