Louis Vuitton Monterey. From 1988 to today, one of the House’s heritage pieces begins a new hour. With a pebble-shaped case and vintage sensibility, the wristwatch honors original codes while unveiling contemporary horological design. Discover more at #LVMonterey# #LVWatches# #LaFabriqueDuTemps# #LouisVuitton#

A day at sea takes a wild turn when a feisty octopus latches onto a fisherman's face and won't let go. The fisherman desperately tugs at its tentacles as the creature keeps its grip, turning the encounter into an unexpected wrestling match. After a tense back-and-forth, he finally manages to break free and pull the octopus away.

The Boeing 747 is one of the cargo planes that had the option to be fitted with a giant nose cargo door as an option from the factory. This unique design allows cargo to be loaded directly through the front of the aircraft, making it possible to carry oversized freight that wouldn't fit through a conventional side cargo door. The nose cargo door is electrically operated, not hydraulically. The system also has manual overrides. If the electric motor fails, maintenance can use turning rods to manually operate the door and its latches. There are also strict wind limitations. The door can be operated in winds up to 40 knots, while 65 knots is the threshold for safety when the door is open. Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs) don't have the nose door because retrofitting the forward fuselage with the required structure and mechanism would be expensive; hence, they opt to fit the massive side cargo door. 📹: DatOneMD11

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't. Meet Mia Heller. A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water. That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%. Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills. The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop. The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it. So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way. She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries. She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink. The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia. Source: Smithsonian Magazine

Gemini 4 Argon /Antigravity. This time I just tried simple prompt without even using /grill me. The best thing about these project is I can improve them over time, how long it will take until I take this game concept to AAA quality? Maybe in six months or 18 months but the journey will be worth it. I also put it on my Github. Prompt: Build a climbing puzzle across a monumental wall of drawers inside an abandoned railway hall. Begin with a drawer bursting open beneath me. Its contents roll into a receiving tray, pulling a counterweight that opens the next drawer just in time for my jump. Let me climb the mechanism while changing its loads. Pull drawers along rails, latch them at visible notches and transfer substantial objects between connected trays. A drawer can become a step, lift or counterweight depending on how I use it. Fill the wall with recognisable belongings: trunks, rolled carpets, boxed instruments and ceramic parcels. Model rails, rollers, exposed cables and transfer chutes in Blender. Use Nano Banana for handled lacquer, luggage canvas and worn lining. Stage one builds a staircase from three drawers. Stage two moves one heavy case between linked drawers to raise a lift while preserving a return route. Stage three requires an ascending sequence of load transfers, moving platforms and timed jumps. Preserve object identity and mass. My weight must affect an unlocked platform, and latches must engage real notches. Finish by opening the final drawer from inside. Daylight reveals a rooftop garden beyond the colossal storage wall. Capture the complete progression in an energetic one-minute showcase.

Every living thing on Earth like bacteria, trees, you writes its instructions in the same four-letter code. A, T, C, G. Four letters, every organism, no exceptions, for billions of years. Scientists at UC San Diego just added 4 made-up letters & the enzyme that reads DNA handled them anyway. 🧬 Here's why that's strange. DNA isn't useful on its own. An enzyme has to crawl along it to copy it out & that enzyme has spent billions of years seeing only those four letters. Show it something new & it should choke. It didn't. It read the synthetic letters as accurately as the real ones. They took atomic-level pictures to find out why & the answer is that the enzyme isn't only checking for the specific chemistry of the natural pairs. A synthetic pair that fits, trips the same recognition machinery. Right shape, it copies. Never mind that nothing in nature has ever looked like this. The second paper is the stranger one. They used synthetic letters built without the chemical bonds every textbook says hold DNA pairs to their partners. The enzyme worked on those too. So life's alphabet has four letters not because four is the limit, but because that's what it started with. Turns out the machinery was always capable of more. This was purified enzyme in a test tube, not inside a living cell. That's the next problem & it's a hard one. What it's for, eventually? DNA with extra letters can be designed to do things natural DNA can't. Earlier work built synthetic DNA that latches onto liver cancer cells. This is the step that makes running that kind of thing inside a living organism plausible.