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Zenvo will debut production-spec Aurora Tur prototypes at Goodwood.

The hypercar combines a V12 with four turbos and three electric motors.

Customer deliveries are scheduled to begin during 2027.

The hypercar world is filled with ambitious promises, but very few projects survive the brutal journey from concept reveal to customer delivery. Zenvo says its Aurora is now entering one of the most important phases of that process as the company prepares to show production-spec validation prototypes at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

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More importantly, these hyper.cars are intended to represent what customers will actually receive when deliveries begin next year. Suffice it to say, a boatload of horsepower is very much on the menu.

The Danish automaker is bringing two Aurora Tur validation prototypes and an Aurora Agil show car to Goodwood after completing final preparations at its facility in Præstø, Denmark. The appearance marks a major milestone for a program first shown dynamically at the event in 2025 and is part of Zenvo’s stated plan to begin customer deliveries in the second half of 2027.

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The Most Powerful Production V12 Ever

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At the heart of the Aurora sits what Zenvo claims is the most powerful V12 ever fitted to a road car. Developed with Mahle Powertrain, the bespoke 6.6-liter quad-turbocharged engine produces 1,250 hp (932 kW) and 885 lb-ft (1,200 Nm) of torque while revving to 9,800 rpm. Three electric motors add another 600 hp (447 kW), bringing total system output to a staggering 1,850 hp (1,380 kW) and 1,254 lb-ft (1,700 Nm) of torque.

Those figures translate into some equally impressive performance claims. Zenvo estimates a 0-62 mph (100 km/h) sprint in 2.3 seconds, 0-186 mph (300 km/h) in nine seconds, and 0-249 mph (400 km/h) in 17 seconds. To put that in perspective, the Aurora reaches 186 mph in about the same time a lot of ordinary cars take just to hit 60 mph (97 km/h).

Top speed is estimated at 260 mph (420 km/h). Despite the hybrid hardware and all-wheel-drive system, the Aurora Tur carries a claimed dry weight of 3,413 pounds (1,548 kg).

Two Flavors, Fifty Cars

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Zenvo plans to offer Aurora in two forms. The Agil targets track-day enthusiasts with a lighter, more aggressive setup, while the Tur focuses on grand touring duties without sacrificing outright performance. Both variants share the same carbon-composite architecture and hybrid V12 powertrain concept.

Only 50 examples of the Aurora will be built, making exclusivity nearly as extreme as the performance. The real test, however, isn’t the spec sheet. It’s whether Zenvo can successfully transition from impressive prototypes to customer cars, and Goodwood will provide the clearest look yet at how close the company really is to achieving that goal.

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Looking for the best of the best when it comes to comics? Then you’ll want to read your way into this year’s 2026 Harvey Award nominees. These represent some of the best of the best in comics over the last year.

The Harvey Awards were founded in 1998 and named after writer and artist Harvey Kurtzman. Nominees are judged by a host of comics publishing professionals, including publishers, retailers, librarians, and educators across seven categories, including Book of the Year, Digital Book of the Year, Best Children’s Book, Best Young Adult Book, Best Manga, Best International Book, and Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel.

Anyone who has attended a ReedPop comic convention between 2016 and 2026 with a Professional or Artist Alley badge is eligible to vote in each category to select winners. Eligible voters can apply to vote here , and voting ends August 28. Comics fans will be able to watch the announcements live or via livestream from New York City Comic Con on October 9.

Take a peep at a handful of the categories and nominees this year.

Best Children’s Book

A Fishboy Named . . . Sashimi by Dan Santat

Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks

The New Girl: First Crush by Cassandra Calin

Night Chef by Mika Song

Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears

Best Manga

Billy Bat by Naoki Urasawa & Takashi Nagasaki

He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsuge

Land by Kazumi Yamashita

Miss Ruki by Fumiko Takano

My Gorilla Family by Iijima Ichiro

My Life in 24 Frames Per Second by Rintaro

Best Young Adult Book

Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen

Flip by Ngozi Ukazu

Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit: A Graphic Novel by Kim Hyun Sook & Ryan Estrada

Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young

This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki & Nicole Goux

Book Of The Year

Absolute Batman Volume 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta

Absolute Martian Manhunter Vol 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp & Javier Rodriguez

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance by Ben Passmore

Cannon by Lee Lai

Drome by Jesse Lonergan

The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler

A Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte

More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey

The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco

The Weight by Melissa Mendes

Check out the full list of 2026 Harvey Awards finalists .

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The patient: A woman in her early 50s in Canada

The symptoms: The woman started occasionally hearing her name being called when she was alone, usually in quiet surroundings. Later, the sounds evolved into indistinct murmurs. These voices seemed to come from outside her head rather than from her own thoughts. They never spoke directly to her, commented on her actions or gave commands.

What happened next: In the next two years after she began hearing voices, the woman made several trips to emergency departments and had brief psychiatric admissions. Because hearing voices is commonly associated with psychosis — symptoms that occur when people experience a disconnect from reality — doctors diagnosed her with "unspecified psychosis" and attempted various treatments.

They first tried the antipsychotic risperidone, gradually increasing the dose, but the voices did not go away. Doctors then switched the patient to aripiprazole, but the hallucinations remained unchanged. Next, they tried haloperidol, and although the woman said the medication made her feel calmer and less distressed, the voices persisted.

As they conducted further psychiatric evaluations, the doctors noticed that the woman frequently leaned forward during conversations, cupped an ear and asked people to repeat themselves. About four to six months after her first contact with a psychiatric team, she was referred for hearing tests. These tests revealed hearing loss in both ears, ranging from moderate to severe in one ear and mild to profound in the other.

About two months later, the woman was fitted with hearing aids in both ears, which improved her hearing. The voices did not go away, however.

Brain scans showed no abnormalities, and blood tests came back normal. Neurological evaluations turned up no evidence of other explanations. Meanwhile, the woman continued working full time, managing her household and maintaining an active social life. She showed no signs of paranoia, delusions, disorganized thinking or the decline in daily functioning that doctors would typically expect to be associated with a psychotic disorder.

The diagnosis: Based on the woman's stable functioning, hearing impairment and lack of other clinical abnormalities, the doctors concluded that her auditory hallucinations stemmed from sensory deprivation caused by hearing loss.

Reduced sound input from the ears can make auditory regions of the brain unusually active, causing them to "fill in" missing sounds, the doctors explained in a report of the case . A related phenomenon is known as musical hallucinosis , in which people with hearing impairments hear songs, melodies or other forms of music that are not actually playing.

The treatment: Because neither antipsychotic medications nor hearing aids eliminated the patient's hallucinations, doctors shifted their focus toward helping the woman cope with them.

They taught her about the connection between hearing loss and hallucinations and advised her to pursue psychotherapy aimed at reducing the distress associated with the voices and improving her coping strategies for dealing with their persistence. At the time the report was published, in May 2026, she was waiting to begin this therapy.

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What makes the case unique: In their report, the doctors noted that most published accounts of this phenomenon have described patients' hallucinations improving or resolving after their hearing impairment was treated. Persistent hallucinations after treatment are rare. In the woman's case, however, the voices persisted despite the use of hearing aids.

The doctors suggest that prolonged hearing loss may cause lasting changes in the brain that do not immediately reverse once hearing improves. (The case report does not note how long the woman's hearing had likely been impaired.)

The case also serves as a reminder that hearing voices does not always indicate psychosis, the doctors concluded. Because the woman's hearing loss was recognized only after years of symptoms and several unsuccessful medication trials, the report authors argued that doctors should consider running hearing assessments early in patients with isolated auditory hallucinations, especially when their insight and daily functioning remain intact.

For more intriguing medical cases, check out our Diagnostic Dilemma archives .

This article is for informational purposes only and is not meant to offer medical advice.

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From the outside looking in, it would appear that Undead Labs is a victim of mismanagement. The team was acquired by Xbox Game Studios in 2018, just weeks after the release of State of Decay 2. A sequel is set to land in 2027 after navigating a turbulent trajectory – revealed before it was ready for public consumption, development stalling during pre-production , challenges in shifting to Unreal Engine 5. The survival shooter finally opened its doors to public alpha testing earlier this spring .

Undead Labs didn't contribute any new games to the ecosystem in eight years. That's an irrefutable fact, which may speak to why Xbox just sold the studio as part of an internal reset . Although that doesn't mean the team hasn't been busy.

State of Decay 2 was a quiet success – amassing 10+ million lifetime players by its fourth anniversary. Undead supported this community with an expansion, multiple updates, new features, and years of refinements. Given how starved PS5 is for new co-op titles, it's shocking SoD2 wasn't part of the first wave of Xbox games to abandon platform-exclusivity . Another error from the prior Xbox administration.

Xbox Game Studios Xbox Game Studios Xbox Game Studios Xbox Game Studios Xbox has historically done a poor job of drawing attention to collaborations across XGS. The Coalition is an Unreal Engine 5 center of excellence. Other teams have made use of Ninja Theory's high-end motion capture studio. Rare provided the networking know-how for Double Fine's Kiln. Blizzard lent its cinematics expertise to Playground for Fable. Obsidian's proprietary dialogue editor is used by various in-development RPGs at Xbox. There's countless other examples.

Just like State of Decay helping bring Grounded to life. Operating with a small budget, Obsidian sought a novel way to achieve its co-op ambitions. And so it turned to Undead Labs, who had developed a system to store world-data as a shareable save file in the cloud. It's what allows multiple players to independently drop into the same persistent world without requiring a community's host to be online.

"It's almost like a pseudo-dedicated server space," Marcus Morgan, Obsidian's VP of operations, told me last year. "It's effectively just a shared cloud save, but you don't need any of the dedicated server infrastructure – or the cost that goes with it."

"The intention behind that was, because we were a small team (there were only like 20 people working on it, and the cost of making it was relatively small) this was a good way to satisfy player's needs," he says, adding: "That stemmed from a collaboration between us and Undead Labs. I have to give a big shout out to that team. They built this tech initially, and then we built upon it."

This 'Shared Save' technology helped Obsidian scale quickly to build more vibrant and collaborative backyards. Eventually, Undead received an expanded 'Shared World' system in return – allowing State of Decay 3 to support far larger communities, no longer constrained by the co-op tethers that plagued its predecessor. It'll be interesting to see whether the tech evolves again in the future.

Still, it's an interesting example of the sort of value that Undead Labs brought to Xbox, and the way the XGS group has been able to leverage wider expertise to bring concepts to life. Eight years without releasing a new game clearly isn't enough for this next era of Xbox, but the legacy of Undead Labs and State of Decay will live on through Grounded 2's ever-expanding Brookhollow Park forever.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Bryan Konietzko has revealed that more top-secret projects from the animated franchise are on the way – if the appetite is there from fans.

"The [Avatar] Aang movie was just one of a whole slate," Konietzko told Entertainment Weekly . "I'm working on another thing, which we'll announce when the time's right."

Right now, Avatar is in a precarious position. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender suffered an unprecedented leak earlier this year, with the entirety of the movie being available to watch on social media for almost 24 hours. That followed the feature being pushed from a theatrical release to a Paramount Plus drop.

From there, Avatar Aang – which follows the adult Gaang as they encounter a surviving airbender – was shifted to a July 25 release , in line with an Avatar Hall H panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

Konietzko added of his current feeling after a tumultuous period for the series, "I think if we had just been kicked to the curb and felt like no one cared about us anymore, it would be harder to deal with. But they are really excited not only for this but for [upcoming show] Seven Havens – and for the other projects that we’re working on."

Seven Havens, a sequel to The Legend of Korra, is an upcoming series that has – unfortunately – also been the target of leakers in recent months.

A live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is currently airing, though its second season has seen a significant dip in viewership on Netflix compared to its first season.

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender hits Paramount Plus on July 25.

For more, check out all the big movie release dates still to come this year.