Jackson Chung

Microduck Robots Waddle, Stumble, and Recover During Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin Keynote

By Jackson Chung October 22, 2026

Jensen Huang stood on the GTC Berlin stage Wednesday evening with four small biped robots from French company Pollen Robotics arrayed in front of him. Standing roughly ten inches tall and weighing under two pounds each, the Microducks had already drawn attention when they walked out under their own power. Huang greeted them casually, asked if they could sit, then told them to stand again. When he ordered them to take a nap, three promptly toppled over onto the floor. The fourth kept walking a few more steps before eventually joining the others on its side.

NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom Mission Continues Work on Nuclear Power Module

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom keeps moving toward a late-2028 launch as the first spacecraft ever built to run fission power beyond Earth’s orbit. Announced back in March during the agency’s Ignition event, the mission pairs a compact reactor with hardware already under construction for the canceled lunar Gateway station. That reuse lets engineers hit the next Mars transfer window instead of waiting years for a clean-sheet design.

MattKC’s GenCDi Adapter Brings SEGA Genesis Controllers to the Philips CD-i

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

Owning a Philips CD-i often means dealing with controllers that feel more like afterthoughts than proper game pads. Released in 1991 as a multimedia player that later tried to become a game console, the machine never sold in large numbers, and its original input devices remain scarce and expensive decades later. Most units shipped with an infrared remote or the awkward pointing device known as the spoon, neither of which works well for anything requiring quick reactions or precise movement.

Why Apple’s 13.6″ MacBook Air M5 Stands as the Practical Everyday Laptop for Most Buyers

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

Photo credit: Josh Teder
Laptops that handle ordinary work without drama have climbed in price, yet the 13.6-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD, priced at $1,149 today (was $1,299), still sits in a range where the cost matches what the machine actually does. This configuration keeps the same thin aluminum body as earlier Airs: 0.44 inches closed and roughly 2.7 pounds. The chassis uses recycled aluminum in large measure, and the finish resists everyday scuffs better than many lighter alternatives.

Apple Music Unveils New Logo Crafted Directly from Sound Waves

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

Apple Music introduced its updated brand identity on October 21, 2026, built around the idea that sound itself should generate the visuals. British producer Fred Again and the sound design studio NEST Acoustics created a short original composition that serves as both a sonic signature and the source material for the new look. That piece runs through a transducer, a device that turns an audio signal into physical vibration, placed inside a shallow tank of mineral oil.

First Reviews of the iPhone Duo Show Impressive Hardware With Real Practical Limits

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

First reviews of Apple’s iPhone Duo make one thing clear right away. This is a first-generation device still working through its early stages. Reviewers consistently praise the physical design and hinge quality while pointing out software gaps and everyday compromises that keep the experience from feeling fully settled.

Early iPhone Duo Unboxing Videos Show Flat Packaging Ahead of Global Launch

By Jackson Chung October 21, 2026

Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, has begun leaving boxes in private hands days before its Friday store arrival. A tech leaker channel called Kingmi Mobile uploaded two short clips on October 20, one of them focused on a 1TB Night Sky unit. Both run about two minutes and show the device coming out already open rather than folded shut. Packaging looks like any recent iPhone box aside from the extra length needed to hold the screen flat, and the units themselves carry Chinese text that suggests they left factories ahead of most retail stock.

Mysterious Blinding Lights Near Mount Whitney Reveal Reflect Orbital Ground Test for Space Mirrors

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Residents around Lone Pine, California, looked up one recent night and saw intense beams cutting across the desert sky near Mount Whitney. Cars pulled over. Phone cameras came out. Speculation ran from military exercises to something far stranger. Officials later confirmed the source sat on the ground along Horseshoe Meadows Road, where a California company had parked powerful spotlights for a controlled experiment.

Turning Ordinary Silicon Wafers Into Working Solar Cells With a Microwave Kiln

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Silicon wafers sit in online carts for a few dollars, plain p-type disks cut from larger crystal ingots and free of any factory patterns. A short score with a diamond or silicon-carbide scribe splits them into small squares a few millimeters across, then a rinse in isopropyl alcohol and distilled water clears the dust left by the break. Those squares already carry the positive side of a solar cell. The missing piece is a thin negative layer of phosphorus atoms driven a fraction of a micrometer into the surface so light can knock electrons loose and send them around a circuit.

Cranktown City Assembles Massive Backyard Satellite Ground Station to Capture Weather Data From Orbit

By Jackson Chung October 20, 2026

Cranktown City spotted an eight-foot dish online and decided the usual starter kit of a small Yagi or a handheld weather dish simply would not do for a first serious look at signals coming down from space. What followed was a full-scale articulating mount planted on a large post set into a concrete pad, with a custom metal base fabricated underneath to hold the electronics that both receive the incoming radio and command the dish’s motion. That base carries a big metal gear driven by a wheelchair motor for the side-to-side azimuth sweep and a linear actuator that handles the up-and-down elevation, giving the whole assembly enough travel and speed to follow satellites as they cross the sky.