Khadas has unveiled the most versatile quarter-sheet A4 Mini PC, Mind.

The size of the chips does not end there: you can connect modules to the mini-PC that turn it into anything. In its basic form, this is a good office station with a Core i7-1360P, 32 GB of RAM and two SSDs. With the xPlay module, the mini PC turns into a compact laptop, and with the Graphics module (inside the RTX 4060) it turns into a good gaming PC. Price and release date are still unknown.

Swimming in the Seine will be allowed again in Paris after a 100-year ban.

This was made possible thanks to a large-scale project to clean up the river, implemented on the eve of the Olympic Games. Three Olympic and Paralympic events - triathlon, marathon swimming and paratriathlon - are planned to be held on the Seine in central Paris. By 2025, three open-air swimming areas will open on the river. The renewed river will also take part in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. A flotilla of 160 boats carrying 10,000 athletes to the Eiffel Tower will pass through it.

Microsoft released mouth-watering gamepads - a series in the style of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" smells like pizza.

There are four of them, each of which reflects the personality of the character. The aroma is achieved using a special diffuser in the form of a slice of pizza. Gamepads will be raffled off and you can’t wait for them to be sold.

Queen guitarist Brian May will release a 3D atlas of the asteroid Bennu.

Brian May, also an astrophysicist, will be publishing a book called Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid with colleagues. This will be the first ever complete 3D atlas of the asteroid. The book is based on images from the Osiris-Rex mission, which started in 2016 and will end in September 2023.

China will send fish into space.

Scientists will send zebrafish to the Tiangong space station to collect data to study bone loss in astronauts. It will also be possible to study the interaction of fish and microbes in a closed ecosystem. When exactly the experiment will start is still unknown.

Vintage champagne for $25,000.

This is Heidsieck Monopole champagne from the 1907 vintage. In 1997, a ship was discovered that sank in 1916 when a Swedish ship sailed to Russia to deliver another batch of wines. Only 2,000 bottles of French champagne were recovered from the seabed, which was put up for sale at a huge price.

McDonald's to pay $800,000 in damages for nugget burn

In 2019, mom treated her four-year-old daughter to Happy Sweet. The girl dropped the nugget from the box, and it got stuck between the car seat and the girl's leg. As a result, the child received a second-degree burn. Although relatives of the victim demanded $15 million, they were satisfied with the court's decision.

NASA is preparing to launch the Psyche spacecraft, which will go to the asteroid of the same name.

Scientists believe that this asteroid is entirely composed of nickel, iron and gold: according to some calculations, valuable metals on it can cost more than the entire world economy (~$10 quintillion). The spacecraft will take about 6 years to reach its destination, but so far the ship is only sent on an exploration mission.

Mercedes Benz have developed a special wheelchair for the dog Bunny.

After being abandoned by his owners, Henry Friedman, an animal rescuer, picked up Bunny and shared the story in a viral video. Everyone wanted Bunny to get a sidecar from Mercedes, and the company did not remain indifferent to such a touching project.

Dangerous giant snails have appeared on Tenerife.

The size of such a snail can reach 30 centimeters. Its danger is that it is a carrier of a parasite that causes meningitis in humans. Therefore, it cannot be touched. However, you can also get infected through vegetables on which the snail managed to sit.

Unusual coffee machine.

LG has introduced an unusual coffee machine in the form of a spaceship - it can mix different capsules, giving out new, original tastes. If you don’t feel like messing around and coming up with “lattuccino”, the application already has ready-made combinations developed by professional baristas. Coffee lovers' dream price - $399.

In the USA there were junkie sharks.

American scientists said that so much cocaine was dumped off the coast of Florida that local fish became junkies. According to marine biologists, sharks track down non-existent prey, simply spin circles and stick into the void.

In China, they came up with a compact gadget-translator with AI.

Fluentalk T1 Mini understands 36 languages and 88 accents and can also work offline. It instantly translates any world language in real time.

Astronomers have found a strange source of waves in space.

It lights up every 22 minutes since 1988. It behaves like a pulsar, but "blinks" ten times less often. Modern science cannot explain its existence in any way, none of the known cosmic phenomena simply fits. Perhaps no one just noticed or looked for such sources before.

How long people sleep at night depends on the country where they live.

These conclusions were made by South Korean scientists in the course of a study involving 30,000 people from 11 states. Smart devices collected 52 million records of their daily sleep over four years. On average, people go to bed around midnight and wake up at 7:42 am. They sleep the least in Japan - about seven hours, the longest - in Finland. There, the duration of sleep is approximately eight hours.

In Germany, they want to introduce a siesta because of the extreme heat.

The Health Workers Association BVOeGD is calling on the government to take advantage of the experience of Italy and other southern countries and introduce a siesta, a midday rest that is necessary when the weather is unbearably hot. In July, Germany faced a rise in temperatures up to 35°C, and in Bavaria the thermometers rose to a record high of 38.8°C.

In the UK, improperly parked cars evacuate works.

Recently, an innovative Eastract robot tow truck has appeared in Europe, which can be guided using a special control panel. Such works work much more quickly than conventional tow trucks, while they can work in a narrow space, which makes them an indispensable assistant in narrow city streets.

2023 will be the hottest year on record with an 80% chance.

Analysts were able to give such a forecast, based on a number of factors: an increase in average global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the hottest period on record is between 2016 and 2020. However, a number of temperature records in June and July may contribute to its renewal.

ChatGPT has become numb to talking to people.

The Stanford researchers found that after 3 months of use, the capabilities of the chatbot drastically decreased. At the moment, the exact cause of "stupefaction" is unknown, but researchers give two reasons. First: AI communicates with people, learns from them and therefore becomes dumber. The second reason is called the decrease in abilities by OpenAl themselves.

In France, they will fight dog feces with the help of DNA analysis.

Dog owners in the French city of Béziers will be required to issue a "genetic passport" of the pet and take it with them for walks. This is necessary to deal with animal excrement on the streets. Dog feces found on the sidewalk will be collected and sent for analysis. The police will compare them with the data from the unified register and bill the owners for street cleaning in the amount of up to 122 euros.