The iPhone 16 is built for Apple Intelligence, with most of the features rolling out through the next few months.

Ever seen a fish swimming through water droplets in the air? Today, I learned Panasonic has been cleverly repurposing an outdoor air conditioning system to produce effects like that. Here’s a video: Panasonic calls it “Silky Fine Mist,” and the company primarily sells it as a way to beat the heat. The company claims its nozzles use a combination of pressurized water and compressed air to spray mist that’s so fine (six to ⁠10 microns), it doesn’t feel wet to the touch. Panasonic says the system has been adopted by “train stations and public facilities nationwide” in Japan since its 2019 debut. But like Disney and decades of other projection mapping...

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Just in time for the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom on September 26th, Woot is selling the Nintendo Switch OLED for $299.99 ($50 off) with either white or neon red and blue Joy-Con controllers. That’s $10 shy of the console’s best price to date, and a deal that will last through 1AM ET on September 29th or while supplies last. Nintendo could announce a new Nintendo Switch any day now, one that is expected to sport a larger, eight-inch screen and more horsepower. But for now, the Switch OLED offers the best-looking handheld experience in the existing lineup. Its seven-inch OLED display is more spacious and vibrant than the screen found on the standard Switch or Switch Lite, and it features improved sound and a...

Telegram will now turn over a user’s phone number and IP address if it receives a request from authorities, according to its just-updated privacy policy: If Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you’re a suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate the Telegram Terms of Service, we will perform a legal analysis of the request and may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. The adjustment is the latest change Telegram has made following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov last month, who French authorities charged with enabling illegal activity on the platform. In a post on Telegram, Durov says the company is making these changes to “deter...

A photo of Dmitry Grinberg's custom Linux/4004 circuit board. Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor. With just 2,300 transistors and an original clock speed of 740 kHz, the 1971 CPU is incredibly primitive by modern standards. And it's slow—it takes about 4.76 days for the Linux kernel to boot. Initially designed for a Japanese calculator called the Busicom 141-PF, the 4-bit 4004 found limited use in commercial products of the 1970s before being superseded by more powerful Intel chips, such as the 8008 and 8080 that powered early personal computers—and then the 8086 and 8088 that launched the IBM PC era. If you're skeptical that this feat is possible with a raw 4004, you're right: The 4004 itself is far too limited to run Linux directly. Instead, Grinberg created a solution that is equally impressive: an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor—the architecture used in the DECstation 2100 workstation that Linux was originally ported to. This emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.

Enlarge and rebuild customer and partner trust. Sonos also expects to miss its annual revenue target by $200 million. This is partially due to its delay of two hardware releases to focus on the app. Bloomberg noted that “Sonos shares are down 25% this year.” Annual bonuses and merit-based raises have also reportedly been canceled. One reason for the app’s failure is the outdated code and infrastructure that the prior app was running on. Anonymous employees Bloomberg spoke with claimed that the Sonos app’s technical debt had been building up for 20 years before the update.

Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley talks massive spoilers for his new film starring Chris Hemsworth and Bryan Tyree Henry, now in theaters.

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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinan-Atlas) won't be this close to Earth again for over 80,000 years, assuming it survives its approach to the Sun.

By the end of the month, the United Kingdom is set to shutter its last operating coal-fired power plant. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. The coal power plant was first commissioned in 1967 and received its last coal delivery in June. The 2,000-megawatt-capacity plant can produce enough electricity for some 2 million homes, according to Uniper, the energy company that owns it. Over its decades in operation, it’s generated enough energy to make more than 21 trillion cups of tea, or roughly 1 billion cups...