NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a hazy galaxy, classified as Messier 85 (M85) in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) located approximately 50 million light-years from Earth. First discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, M85 is either a lenticular or an elliptical galaxy, and currently interacting with NGC 4394, which located out of frame to the upper left.
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York County police officers arrested a 25-year-old man for attempting to rob a Sharon Kwik Stop gas station convenience store at 5:45pm on May 30th. He came into the store wearing a mask, wig, hoodie, sweatshirt, and a spray-painted NES zapper tucked into the waistband of his pants.
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Sleek and stylish, the Fiat Topolino is a micro EV designed for urban mobility. The company states that it’s a vehicle that aims to bring a smile, embodying Fiat’s dolce vita and Italian spirit in the city streets. They call it a quadricycle of sorts, or a new electric mobility device which has been designed for a wide audience, including the youngest customers, families as well as city lovers.
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Diego Trujillo Pisanty’s Blind Camera is essentially a Raspberry Pi-powered device that generates pictures from sound instead of light. It functions similar to a point-and-shoot camera, but rather than a lens, the horn is aimed at a sound and at the push of a button, it’s converted into an image.
The JBL Charge 4 Waterproof Portable Bluetooth Speaker is perfect for summer pool parties or just a day at the beach, and you can get one for $79.96 shipped, today only, originally $149.99. Aside from its IPX7 waterproof rating, it doubles as a 7500mAh power bank for your mobile devices via USB and is good for up to 20-hours of playtime. Product page.
Modder Redherring23 is familiar with all of the handheld consoles that run emulators, but none use official Nintendo hardware. So, he created TinyTendo, which is unofficially the world’s smallest NES console made with actual Nintendo hardware. It uses real NES chips that have been physically cut and ground down to fit in a smaller chassis.
Say goodbye to credit card PIN numbers, and hello to Samsung’s new Biometric Card IC. This card can store up to three digital templates of fingers during enrollment and added by the card issuer at home or a supervised in-person location. To make a payment, the card can be tapped or inserted at a standard EMV point-of-sale terminal with the finger placed on its built-in sensor.
Priced at $40 USD, the 8BitDo N64 Mod Kit adds wireless connectivity to the classic controller and a hall effect joystick, the latter of which is designed to last far longer than the OEM part. The mod kit consists of a new board for Bluetooth connectivity, hall effect joystick, and a rumble pack that also serves as a battery pack without adding any additional bulk.
ETH Zurich researchers have developed Tethys, an autonomous diving robot that can search for people or objects. It comes equipped with acoustic sensors and cameras, enabling it to search large areas underwater completely autonomously. Since it can quickly localize objects or people, rescue teams will not have to risk working in dangerous situations.
You won’t see the NASA’s Perseverance rover, but the ESA’s livestream of Mars yesterday did provide a colorful look at the planet. This event had the Mars Express orbiter beaming back images in near real-time, as it takes around 18 minutes for communication between Earth and the spacecraft.