🚁 Another glitch in the Matrix?

This is what happens when your camera’s recording frame rate perfectly matches the helicopter’s rotor speed.

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🥷 A bored Chinese techie built a little warrior toy you can play with for hours!

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🔦 Xenon headlights weren’t so bad after all.

Some mad Chinese engineers strapped a 500,000-lumen flashlight to a car.

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Talk with the scientists behind discoveries shaping the future

At the Moscow Investment and Industrial Forum, researchers will give talks followed by a chance to ask them questions in person. On October 23, chemist Leonid Fershtat will discuss how new medicines—and even entirely new molecules—are created. On October 24, physicist Ilya Semerikov will explain how quantum computers are built and what they can do today.

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🍞 Transparent toasters are now being made in Russia.

The Bork toaster’s heating elements are built into the glass, so you can watch your bread toast in real time.

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🔥 A Reddit engineer built a robot air hockey opponent for when there’s no one around to play.

A camera above the table tracks the puck and predicts its path, while four motorized cables move the paddle.

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✅ The engineers’ weekend plans:

Build a vehicle to reach the stratosphere.
Try to launch an egg into space.

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🖥 Truly impressive: Samsung’s new transparent display.

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🏋🏻‍♀️ Who needs the gym when you’ve got AI?

The ultimate phone for the uncool crowd: the new Samsung Galaxy.

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🦔 The hedgehog’s face when it spots a tasty treat

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🤔 A fascinating experiment

Watch as a giant lens focuses sunlight into a single point, harnessing enough energy to melt stone.

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🥋 A glimpse of Singapore’s esports week

Here’s what a virtual taekwondo competition looks like.

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🌅 Buddha’s Hand in the scenic Gulong Canyon

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⌨️ Google Japan has unveiled a vertical keyboard that works like an escalator.

The keys move upward continuously, so there’s barely any need to move your hand—just wait for the letter you need to reach your finger.

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🦝 Raccoons are remarkably smart for mammals. Their IQ is higher than a cat’s and just below a monkey’s.

They can lift lids with their paws to open containers, and studies suggest they can remember how to solve a problem for up to three years.

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📷 You can leave the camera at home

Huawei has given its new Mate 90 Pro Max a huge external camera. The Ruiying Z10 packs a 1-inch RYYB sensor, 10x optical zoom, and a 24–240 mm lens.

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The rusty-spotted cat is the world’s smallest wild cat.

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🧾 This guy has clearly mastered the art of accounting.

Boss: 100% understanding, 0% judgment.

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This 14-year-old boy held on to his Bible until the very end as he sat in the electric chair, insisting he was innocent.

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🏹 The Archers of the 21st Century

A multi-shot bow with a digital sight is creating a buzz on Chinese social media — a masterpiece.

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