Cheap Windows boxes usually force a compromise you feel by lunch. ACEMAGIC’s Kron Mini K1, priced at $275.18 after clipping the on-page coupon (was $480), tries to dodge that fate by stuffing a real desktop into a cube you can hide behind a monitor, hang with the included VESA plate, or slide onto a shelf and forget. This particular machine features AMD’s Ryzen Embedded R2544, 16GB of DDR4, a 256GB drive, and Windows 11 Pro already on the disk.
iFixit scored the AirPods 5 a 2 out of 10, a number that only looks small next to the perfect zeros every earlier pair earned, including the AirPods Pro 3. For ten years the buds left the factory sealed so completely that a dead cell meant a new pair. Apple moves something like 80 million sets a year, and most of them have ended as small pieces of trash once the batteries quit.
DoorDash spent years watching other companies fly food, then decided the aircraft should come last. On September 30, 2026, at its Dash Forward event, the company showed DoorDash Air, a six-propeller drone it designed and assembles in San Francisco, paired with kitchen loading gear and software that already sorts millions of orders a day. Early pilot flights are set for Northern California in the coming months, with reporting pointing to the East Bay. Chipotle, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and the local shop Momo N Curry are the first restaurants signed on.
Golden elliptical galaxies fill the middle of the newest James Webb Picture of the Month, released this morning. They belong to the cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Orange galaxies crowd one side of the frame and stretch into a broad arc around the brightest central members, while smaller reddish objects bend into short arcs even near the edges. A handful of bluish-white galaxies and a pair of sharp foreground stars sit in front of all of it.
Parents who grew up walking to a friend’s house without a tracker in their pocket now face a different first-phone problem. Most options for ages 7 to 13 either open the full internet or function mainly as a way to watch a child from a distance. Freckle, revealed today by Freckle Mobile and founder Sam Terris, tries a third path. Terris, who describes his own childhood as free-range, calls the usual tracking products leashes. His answer is a small square phone meant to go outside with the kid, not sit in a bedroom feeding a scroll.