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Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously popular videos turn subjects such as physics, robotics, and mechanical engineering into spectacular challenges, ingenious pranks, and machines that kids immediately want to understand. CrunchLabs has carried that approach into the physical world with its Build Box subscriptions. Now Rober is taking it in another direction: children’s fiction. The first three books in the new CrunchLabs Mysteries series are Toy Store Trouble, The Arcade Thief, and The Stolen Bike. Each is a hardcover, heavily illustrated mystery starring a fictionalized 12-year-old Mark Rober. The stories are intended for…

Ferrari just unveiled a one-off supercar at Pebble Beach, and it’s called the CZ26. This isn’t a limited edition you can still hunt down. It’s a completely custom Ferrari built for a single client, and it took two years to come together. What makes the CZ26 different from a regular Ferrari? Underneath its new skin, the CZ26 shares its architecture and performance with the Ferrari SF90 Stradale. So mechanically, you’re still looking at a top-tier, ultra-high-performance hybrid supercar. But the Ferrari Design Studio, led by Chief Design Officer Flavio Manzoni, gave it an entirely new body and identity, inspired by…

AI apparently doesn’t need to replace every biological system. Dogs are still keeping their jobs, at least for now. An Indian startup from Bengaluru, Karnataka, is training dogs with sensors and machine learning. Patients breathe normally into a face mask for about 10 minutes, ship the sealed sample to a lab, and let the dogs get to work. The dogs are trained to identify changes in volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, associated with cancer. Sensors meanwhile track signals including movement, respiration, brain activity, and body language, which Dognosis’ AI translates into standardized data rather than relying entirely on a human…

Keychron has built a 100-key macro pad for anyone who has ever looked at a keyboard and wished none of its buttons had jobs yet. The Keychron C100 8K costs $64.99 and presents a 10-by-10 grid with no letters, numbers, or commands assigned. Four corner keys are reserved for lighting controls and can’t be remapped, leaving 96 programmable positions. That’s still nearly an entire full-size mechanical keyboard devoted to shortcuts, except nobody has decided what any of them should do. How much can you program The C100 8K supports QMK and the browser-based Keychron Launcher, letting owners assign individual commands…

Samsung gives Galaxy owners an impressive amount of control over their phones. Features like Good Lock let users customize just about every aspect of their smartphones. But somehow, the company forgot to put a simple alaxy owners an almost ridiculous amount of control over their phones. Somehow, simply adding a fingerprint lock for apps. With the One UI 9.5 update, this might finally change. Tipster Fahad Ali Javed has uncovered a native App Lock feature inside an unreleased One UI 9.5 build running on a Galaxy S26. So you would be able to secure individual apps directly from the app…

Insta360 has barely had time to celebrate the arrival of its new X6, and DJI is already coming for some of that attention. The company has unveiled the Osmo 360 II in China, its second-generation 360-degree camera that may look familiar on the outside but brings some meaningful upgrades underneath. The Osmo 360 II can now shoot 8K 360-degree video at 60fps, promises better low-light performance, packs a bigger battery, and even lets you replace a damaged lens yourself. That last one could be especially useful considering just how exposed the lenses on a 360-degree camera are. There is one…

Samsung has reportedly turned to AI to speed up one of the slowest and most demanding parts of designing chips. According to a report from Chosun Biz, the company’s engineers are using Anthropic’s Claude to dramatically accelerate certain tasks, with one project reportedly completed roughly fifteen times faster than usual. Samsung cut one chip verification task from over a month to two days The report states that Samsung Electronics’ System LSI division has been using Claude Code for semiconductor verification and general software development. The company gave developers access to the tool in May before expanding its use to specialized…

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a new way to understand how you actually work on your computer. Called Computer History, the feature turns activity across apps and websites into a timeline and memories that ChatGPT and Codex can use later. The idea is fairly simple: instead of asking ChatGPT to remember something you previously discussed, you can ask it about work you recently did on your Mac. The feature can help you pick up where you left off, understand patterns in how you work, and even turn repetitive workflows into reusable skills or automations. The rollout began on August 13 and…

OpenAI just rolled out Computer History for the ChatGPT desktop app, and if you found Chronicle interesting but a little too screenshot-happy, this update should ease your mind. What does Computer History do? Instead of taking screenshots as Chronicle did, Computer History tracks your clicks, keystrokes, and app switches through macOS’s accessibility system, then turns all that activity into text summaries and a timeline you can scroll through. Think of it as ChatGPT quietly taking notes on your day so it can help you out later. ChatGPT can now remember your activity across the apps and websites on your computer.With…

We’ve all been there. You’re in a meeting, trying to stay in the moment and contribute ideas, while also scrambling to jot down notes so nothing important slips through the cracks. Turns out, you don’t have to choose one over the other anymore. Google is rolling out a new feature that lets Google Meet handle note-taking for your in-person meetings, not just video calls. Google announced this feature at its Google Cloud Next 2026 event in Las Vegas, and it’s finally making its way to users. How does Google Meet’s note-taking feature work? Starting a session is easy. Just open Google Meet…