Wonderful Engineering

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In the ever-curious world of tech hacking and console modding, one daring developer has managed to achieve something no one asked for—running iOS on a Nintendo Switch. The developer behind this curious experiment is a user known as PatRyk, who unveiled their project on the social media platform X. In a tongue-in-cheek announcement, they dubbed the result “the world’s slowest ‘iPhone’,” noting that it takes 20 full minutes just to boot, and every app crashes.

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For decades, radio astronomers have relied on quiet patches of the sky to detect the faintest signals from the early universe, whispers from a time before the first stars were born. But that silence is now being disturbed. A recent study has revealed that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are producing unintended radio signals that are flooding the frequencies astronomers need most.

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SpaceX has introduced a powerful new addition to its Starlink satellite internet lineup: the Performance antenna, a significant upgrade aimed at professional and enterprise users in remote or demanding environments. With download speeds exceeding 400 Mb/s, this new model surpasses the typical 250–300 Mb/s range offered by standard Starlink equipment. The Performance antenna resembles earlier Starlink models but comes with a key difference: its noticeably larger surface area.

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Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on his AI ambitions, and he’s not being subtle about it. Just days after making headlines for Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and recruiting its founder Alexandr Wang, Zuckerberg has now set his sights on yet more top-tier AI talent. The latest recruits? Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, co-founders of the venture firm NFDG and key figures in the rising AI startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), were founded by former OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever.

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Chinese researchers have developed a compact nuclear device capable of generating powerful neutron beams using common elements—hydrogen and lithium. Developed in China’s northwestern military-industrial center, this groundbreaking particle gun uses an innovative electromagnetic method to collide hydrogen protons with lithium atoms.