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TechLinked's Riley Murdock makes room for a kickflipping Roadster

Tesla's airborne demonstration opens a fast-starting roundup that also puts Nvidia's new laptops under scrutiny.

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TechLinked Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 341,303 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (28,912).

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0:00Tesla's Roadster demonstration includes a vertical ramp climb, hovering and a jump over a semi-truck.
4:22RTX Spark laptops offer unified memory and CUDA support, but benchmarks show mixed performance relative to cost.
6:54Ritchie Torres's proposed Power to the Players Act aims to establish consumer ownership rights for digital games.
7:45MapQuest's Surveillance Layer lets users locate and avoid automated license plate recognition cameras.
9:19Meta's Muse Spark Open model targets high-end Apple hardware with large amounts of unified memory.

Riley Murdock can entertain the engineering objections, but a car flipping over a semi-truck is going to interrupt the discussion. TechLinked's host opens "WTF TESLA WHY" with Tesla's Roadster demonstration, including a vertical ramp climb, hovering and a truck-clearing jump powered by thrusters and vacuum fans.

The tension is between asking what any of this is for and acknowledging the spectacle. Murdock gives the airborne stunt its moment before returning to the rest of the tech-news agenda.

The episode drew an estimated 340,000 views in its first day, nearly twelve times TechLinked's usual opening audience for regular videos. The comments offer their own interpretations of the vehicle: a collection of thrusters disguised as a car, a Speed Racer fantasy, or an engineering project nobody would need much persuading to tackle. Those are viewers' jokes and guesses, not explanations from Tesla's design team.

Beyond the Roadster, Murdock examines Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops, whose unified memory and CUDA support come with mixed gaming and AI benchmark results relative to their cost. The episode includes a paid Saily segment.

Later, the roundup turns to a more earthbound question of ownership: Congressman Ritchie Torres's proposed Power to the Players Act, aimed at giving consumers rights over their digital video games.

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What viewers say

That's not a car, it's 12 RCS thrusters in a trenchcoat
@treschletSee it on YouTube
Somebody watched wayy too much Speed Racer cartoons as a kid.
@shayneweykerSee it on YouTube
I guarantee no one had to force the engineers to design that.
All engineers live their entire lives hoping to make something actually cool like that.
@Psi105See it on YouTube

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1:34 it kickflipped because the Stig was driving it...
@SrSilverstarsSee it on YouTube
1:54 I think that the whole make a cool thing element was the primary justification.
@joshuaradick5679See it on YouTube
Dude my childhood Hotwheels movie dreams are finally coming true, and I'm not even 30 yet
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