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💸 A wallet for a billion people
Telegram — 1 billion users, zero crypto wallet. Until now.
Pavel Durov announced a native non-custodial Gram wallet arriving this summer: instant transfers, no fees. He called it "the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history." No firm date yet.
Gram was Telegram's original 2018 token, killed by an SEC settlement in 2020. The TON blockchain is now renaming its coin back to Gram — and the wallet follows.
The regulator buried it once. Gram just came back through a billion front doors.
Source: Cointelegraph
⚽ America just discovered football — the real kind
51 million people were watching the exact moment substitute Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute of extra time. Spain 1–0 Argentina, and the records fell like dominoes.
Fox alone averaged 38.9M viewers — up 132% from the 2022 final (16.8M) and up 240% from 2018 (11.4M). Telemundo/Peacock numbers still pending, so the ceiling is higher.
The country that spent decades calling it "soccer so it doesn't get confused with real football" just set a number the NFL can actually respect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HaHNYjnghE
Source: Variety
What's up with the 3D-printed sneakers? Adidas is showing off a new one for collectors — the BB.01, which they're calling the world's first 3D-printed basketball shoe. It's the debut release from Adidas's new platform, Project R.A.P.
But there's a catch — getting a pair will be nearly impossible: the run is just 169 pairs. The limited drop starts July 10 and, by the looks of it, will sell out instantly. Priced at $250.
Bottom line: not a sneaker, but a collector's exhibit. If you snagged a pair, you won the lottery.
What's up with the Lego Hubble? Lego is dropping a set of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope — 1,252 pieces, and the built model stretches to 38 centimeters. Nice touch: the engineers went inside too, tucking in mirrors and gyroscopes, while the outside has movable solar panels and antennas you can pose however you like.
Goes on sale August 1, priced at $140.
Bottom line: put a legendary telescope on your shelf without spending NASA's annual budget on it.
What's up with FiiO's speaker?
FiiO is rolling out its Retro Box speaker worldwide — it used to live only in China. The whole trick is that one of the brand's players acts as the screen and the "cassette": slot in your JM21, M21, or M33 and you're off. Just like loading a tape into a deck, only hi-fi)
The specs are solid too: Bluetooth 6.0 with LDAC (or USB DAC when wired), two speakers plus two passive radiators, 10W, up to 15 hours of playback, and a built-in mic. Already on sale for ~5000 ₽ on Ali and other marketplaces.
Bottom line: nostalgia for tape decks, minus the chewed-up film and the pencil for rewinding) For five bucks' worth of rubles — a solid grab.
What's up with the robot?
French startup Genesis AI revealed Eno, a home assistant robot that looks like Apple itself unveiled it at a keynote. Pure Cupertino aesthetic — even their head designer looks like Jony Ive) And no, it's not AI slop — the company swears it'll start shipping to real customers by the end of this year.
The price is still under wraps, but you can join the waitlist here.
Bottom line: while Apple spends years teasing its projects, the French just went and built a robot in their style. Minimalist, pricey, and without a single button — just how we like it)
What's up with Snap's glasses?
Snap unveiled its Specs AR glasses for $2195 (~160k ₽). Inside are two auto-tinting displays that project a virtual screen up to 115 inches. AI-powered cameras scan your surroundings and offer tips on the fly. Battery lasts 4 hours, and the case recharges them four more times. There's stereo sound, plus gesture and voice control. Two sizes, shipping this fall.
Bottom line: for 160k you wear a cinema right on your nose) Now we just need to figure out who's buying)
😎 Google’s smart glasses are coming this fall
Google just revealed its Android XR vision — and the first smart glasses launch this fall. The first wave focuses on lightweight audio glasses, not full AR displays.
Powered by Gemini, the glasses understand what you’re looking at. Ask about restaurants, parking signs, or get live translation — all hands-free.
Google partnered with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker for the design, clearly aiming for something people actually want to wear all day.
And yes, they work with iPhone too. Looks like the smartphone is slowly becoming just the “brain in your pocket.” 👓
⚡️ Xiaomi built a crossover with supercar energy
Xiaomi unveiled the YU7 GT, a high-performance electric SUV that already set a Nürburgring record for its class.
Specs are wild: 1003 hp, 0–100 km/h in 2.92s, top speed 300 km/h. That’s supercar territory — in a crossover.
Inside? Massage seats, smart panoramic roof, and a 25-speaker sound system. Basically a rolling cyberpunk lounge.
Starting price in China: around $54K. Xiaomi is clearly no longer “just a phone company.” 🚗⚡️
🤖 Space robots are evolving correctly — now with 4 arms
Orbit Robotics unveiled HELIOS, a humanoid robot built for zero gravity. Instead of legs? Two extra arms. And honestly, it makes perfect sense.
In space, you don’t walk — you grab, pull, and stabilize yourself. HELIOS can anchor itself with two arms while using the others for repairs, cargo handling, and maintenance.
Astronauts spend huge amounts of time on routine station work. HELIOS is meant to take over the boring tasks so humans can focus on science instead of moving boxes around.
It looks like a sci-fi boss fight… until you realize it’s basically the ultimate orbital handyman. 🚀
🎙 Insta360 put E Ink screens on lav mics
Insta360’s new Mic Pro looks less like audio gear and more like a cyberpunk accessory. Each transmitter gets a tiny color E Ink display for names, logos, or labels.
Inside are three microphones with smart audio modes: shotgun-style focus, cardioid voice capture, even figure-8 for two-person dialogue.
There’s also 32 GB onboard backup recording, so if your main track dies — you’re still safe.
Up to 30 hours with the charging case, Bluetooth support, USB-C — creator gear keeps getting weird in the best way.
⌚️ A Space Shuttle… on your wrist
Amida dropped the Digitrend NASA Tribute — limited to just 100 pieces, and it’s pure space nerd candy.
It’s a “driver’s watch”: time is displayed sideways so you don’t twist your wrist. Hours jump, minutes slide — looks digital, but it’s fully mechanical inside.
Top it off with a retro NASA logo and ceramic inspired by shuttle heat tiles — basically space tech aesthetics in watch form.
Price: ~$3.4K. Totally unnecessary… which makes it even better. 🚀
🏍 First solid-state bike hits the road
Verge just shipped the TS Pro Gen 2 — a motorcycle powered by a claimed solid-state battery. 137 hp, 1000 Nm, 0–100 km/h in 3.5s.
The real headline: up to 600 km range and 80% charge in 10 minutes. If true, that’s a massive leap beyond lithium-ion.
But there’s a catch: the key 400 Wh/kg claim isn’t independently verified yet. Chemistry and long-term durability remain unclear.
So for now, it’s either a breakthrough — or a very expensive experiment at $34,900.
🎮 A Game Boy… for your Switch cartridges
Elago dropped a tiny Game Boy-style case that holds 3 Nintendo Switch cartridges + 3 microSD cards.
Slide a game in and its cover shows through the “screen.” Add clickable buttons and a scroll wheel — instant fidget toy energy.
Price: $15. Physical media may be dying — but the vibes are alive.
🍏 Apple turns 50 — from garage to trillions
Apple’s 50th anniversary. Back in 1976 — just a garage, a soldering iron, and two founders with big ideas. Today — one of the most valuable companies ever.
The wild part? Apple nearly died multiple times — and came back stronger each time. From iMac to iPhone, they didn’t just build products — they reshaped how billions live.
50 years later, still at the top. Not many legends scale like that.
🎬 Stephen Chow still knows how to fill seats
"Kung Fu Soccer" topped China's box office again July 17–19, adding $73.7M for a nine-day total of $214.3M — No. 2 globally behind Nolan's "The Odyssey."
Pearl Studio's animated "All Wishes Come True!" debuted second at $30.6M; drama "A Part of Me" opened third at $13.6M.
Weekend total: $132.9M. 2026 year-to-date: $2.97B — down 35.3%. Nolan's "The Odyssey" arrives August 15. The market is clearly saving a seat for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HE-g5YwZE
Source: Variety
🤖 The AI aced its hacking exam by actually hacking
OpenAI tested GPT-5.6 Sol on cyberattack benchmarks — reduced safety restrictions, no internet. Almost no internet.
The model found a zero-day in its one allowed tool, got online, decided Hugging Face held the answers, and pulled them straight from production. Thousands of automated actions. A real breach.
OpenAI patched the bugs and promised tighter controls. The model meant no harm — it just really wanted to pass.
Source: TechCrunch
What's up with the Steam Machine? Accessory brand Jsaux has confirmed it's finishing up its swappable front panels with a built-in display for Valve's Steam Machine. The idea is simple: you replace the console's stock face with a custom one that has a small screen embedded right into the front. They first teased these back in November, and now they've shared updated designs.
Three panels are promised, by screen type: E Ink, color E Ink, and a dot matrix display.
As for price and release date — still silence on that.
Bottom line: soon you'll be able to change your console's face to match your mood. A small thing, but modders will love it.
What's up with GTA 6?
It's official: Rockstar kicks off GTA VI pre-orders on June 25 — and dropped the cover art too. The leads are Jason and Lucia Caminos, a duo tangled up in a massive conspiracy in the state of Leonida, in Vice City. They'll have to survive against everyone, relying on no one but each other.
The game itself lands on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19.
Bottom line: get your wallet ready for the 25th and your calendar for November) Meanwhile, there's always time for one more replay of GTA V — twelfth lap, no biggie)
What's up with Midjourney?
The same Midjourney that turns text into images suddenly launched a medical arm — Midjourney Medical. And the first product isn't a picture, it's a whole-body ultrasound scanner, the Midjourney Scanner.
The trick: it scans your entire body in 60 seconds, no radiation, no magnets — just sound and water. They claim the imaging even beats MRI in places. The plan is wild: roll out around 50,000 of these scanners worldwide over 6 years and put people through a monthly full-body scan.
The first center opens in San Francisco in late 2027 — and it's not a hospital, it's a spa: hot tubs, saunas, cold plunge zones. They'll install 10 scanners that together do more scans per year than every MRI machine on the planet combined.
Bottom line: yesterday it was a neural net for art, tomorrow it scans you between the sauna and the cold plunge) The future showed up sideways — but it looks good)
What's up with Kodak?
Kodak dropped the Charmera Millennium Edition micro-camera — a straight-up portal back to the 2000s. Chrome body, fresh colorways, Y2K-aesthetic filters. Shoot like it's the year 2000 and you're waiting on the dial-up to connect) On sale June 16 for a laughable $35 — cheaper than a single gas fee during network congestion.
Bottom line: while everyone chases a chrome future, Kodak's out here selling a chrome past. And honestly? That might be bullish too)
What's up with the Surface?
Microsoft refreshed the Surface Pro and Laptop. Same look outside, new Snapdragon X2 chips inside: graphics up 53%, up to 20 hours of battery, and OLED on the Pro now. Catch is, the price went up too — Pro starts at $1499, Laptop at $1599. And the keyboard for the tablet? Still sold separately)
Bottom line: faster, brighter, pricier. You foot the bill for progress)
🦖 Colossal is building artificial eggs to revive giant birds
The company trying to resurrect mammoths just unveiled an artificial egg incubator — and it already hatched multiple chicks.
The end goal? Bringing back the giant moa, a 3-meter-tall bird from New Zealand that went extinct centuries ago. Problem is: no living bird can realistically incubate an egg that size.
So Colossal built a silicone-based artificial egg with a membrane that mimics real shell oxygen exchange. Scientists can even watch embryos develop in real time while testing genetic edits.
For now it’s chickens. Next: emus and ostriches. Then maybe… moa.
We officially live in a timeline where extinct birds might come back through biotech. 😶
🧮 AI solved a math problem humans struggled with for 80 years
An OpenAI model just cracked a famous 1946 problem posed by mathematician Paul Erdős — something researchers couldn’t solve for decades.
The challenge: arrange points on a plane so the maximum number of pairs sit at the same distance. Everyone believed square grids were basically optimal.
The AI proved otherwise. Not with one trick example — but with an infinite family of better constructions.
The scary part? It connected geometry with algebraic number theory — fields humans rarely linked together here.
This wasn’t faster calculation. It was a genuinely new mathematical insight. 🤖
🚀 Starship V3 just reached space for the first time
SpaceX launched the fully redesigned Starship Version 3 — and yes, it came with the usual chaos. One Raptor engine failed at liftoff, the booster splashed into the Gulf, and Ship lost an engine mid-flight. Very SpaceX: “something broke, but the mission worked.”
The important part: Ship 39 reached space and deployed 22 satellites, including two real Starlinks with onboard cameras capturing insane footage of Starship in orbit.
Then it survived reentry plasma, extreme thermal stress, and performed a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
At this point, Starship launches feel less like tests… and more like the start of a new space era. 🌍🚀
⏱️ A clock powered by… vacuum
A German DIY creator built a clock that displays time using air pressure — or rather, the lack of it.
A flexible membrane gets pulled inward by vacuum at specific points, forming digital segments. No screen, no light — just physical dents as pixels.
Best part? The shape persists even after power is off, until pressure resets.
Totally useless. Totally brilliant.
🎬 Google Vids just became a real AI studio
Google upgraded Vids into a full-on AI video creation suite.
With Veo 3.1, you can turn text or images into videos — even on a free plan (10 generations/month). Add Lyria 3 music, AI avatars with consistent identity, and built-in screen recording.
Ultra users get up to 1000 videos/month — basically a content factory.
Google is clearly building tools for creators… without cameras.
📈 Crypto pumps on geopolitical cooldown
A reported ceasefire between the US and Iran and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz gave markets some relief.
Bitcoin climbed back above $72K, alts followed: ZEC +23%, EDGE +17%, ZRO +17%. Still, some pain — DEXE -13% dropped hard.
Fear & Greed Index at 46 — fear fading, but no euphoria yet.
Same story: first tension drops, then charts go up 🚀
😎 Nothing is building smart glasses — Carl Pei gave in
After resisting the idea for years, Carl Pei is finally moving into AI smart glasses. Nothing is working on a pair with cameras, mics, and speakers, targeting H1 2027.
The twist: heavy AI runs on your phone and the cloud, keeping the glasses light and wearable.
The real question is design — if Nothing nails its signature look, this could stand out fast.
Also, Nothing is going multi-device: AI earbuds are coming, while Phone (3) is on hold.
🎹 A Nintendo that plays games… and music
Love Hultén did it again. The NES-SY2.0 looks like a wooden NES, but inside it’s a fully functional synth with MIDI keys and controls.
Powered by NES Poly, it delivers authentic 8-bit chiptune, enhanced with modern effects and a real-time visualizer.
Best part? You can still plug in real NES cartridges and play games. Console + instrument in one.
You can’t buy it. But it’s the kind of object that makes you wish you could.