Rats and mice move through pitch-black burrows and narrow tunnels by brushing long, sensitive whiskers against nearby surfaces. Those same whiskers detect contact forces with almost no pressure, letting the animals build a mental map of walls, corners and openings without ever relying on sight. Researchers at Delft University of Technology have now translated that […]
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A Waveshare board built for reading pages now keeps up with running and jumping. InkBoy fits a full Game Boy emulator onto the ESP32-S3-ePaper-1.54 V2, a compact module with a 1.54-inch panel that measures 200 by 200 pixels. Stock software on that panel barely managed two updates each second. Custom driving code raises the rate […]
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Xbox Nano Controller Delivers Complete Controls in a Tiny Rechargeable Form for Everyday Portability
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Microsoft has rolled out the Xbox Nano Controller today as its smallest option yet, measuring a little over five inches in length and weighing just 3.5 ounces. That makes it shorter and lighter than most modern smartphones, and a clear step down in bulk from the standard Xbox Wireless Controller, which runs closer to six […]
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First Look at DirectHop, the Tiny One Gram Robot Precisely Hops Over Stairs with Motor Control
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Photo credit: Mark Stone/University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington engineers have built DirectHop, a one gram robot small enough to sit in a palm that clears a standard stair step while setting its jump height to single centimeter accuracy. The prototype performs multiple hops in sequence and rights itself after most landings, steps toward an autonomous […]
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On March 4, 2024, a radio array in South Africa caught a flash that lasted only a few milliseconds and then vanished. MeerKAT, working with the MeerTRAP search system, logged it at 00:50 UTC and gave it the name FRB 20240304B. The pulse arrived stretched and delayed by free electrons along the path, with a […]
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Mac Mini M6 Hits Store Shelves This Week With New 2nm Speed in the Same Tiny Box and a Higher Asking Price
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Apple’s smallest desktop computer reaches store shelves this week after early reviews that call the M6 model a fast, quiet machine that still fits in the palm of a hand. Reviewers who spent days with Mac Mini review units describe a familiar five-inch-square aluminum case that measures two inches tall and weighs about a pound […]
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Tiny English village votes to leave U.K. in symbolic protest over plan to house asylum seekers
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Piddington, England — A tiny English village has voted overwhelmingly to leave the United Kingdom in a symbolic referendum triggered by government plans to house more than 1,200 male asylum seekers at a former military site nearby. Residents of Piddington, a rural village in Oxfordshire, voted 285 to 26 to “secede from the UK and pursue […]
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Acer used its next@acer briefing at IFA Berlin 2026 on September 2, 2026, to showcase Project DualPlay Mini, a Predator concept built around one stubborn idea: a Windows gaming handheld that can fold into a miniature laptop without adding a second machine to your bag. Closed, Project DualPlay Mini bears an interesting resemblance to Acer’s […]
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Thousands of migrants hoping to get to Europe swam or crossed from Morocco to Spain’s Ceuta territory, with over a dozen dying in the process. Spanish officials are sending more law enforcement to the area as they attempt to control the flow of migrants and “restore normality.” Thousands of migrants cross into Spain’s tiny Ceuta […]
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Tiny England village plans referendum on leaving U.K., joining U.S. to protest migrant housing plan
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London — Residents of a tiny English village furious over plans to house hundreds of people seeking asylum in a nearby disused military barracks are preparing to hold a symbolic referendum calling for their community to declare independence from the U.K. and join the U.S. The referendum, which would carry no weight under British law, is […]
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