A sea drone was used to save two crew members of a downed US army helicopter off the coast of Oman earlier this week, according to the US military - making it the first publicly known instance of an unmanned vessel being used to conduct a rescue mission. President Donald Trump said the apache helicopter was shot down by Iran near the Strait of Hormuz - the dangerous waterway which has been largely blocked off to shipping since the start of the Iran war. The two soldiers were safely rescued within approximately two hours and are in stable condition, US Central Command (Centcom) said. BBC Verify has examined what we know about the drone boat and how the mission took place. What is the US sea drone?

Mini PCs are exploding in popularity as an affordable alternative to laptops. Even Corsair is entering the market… though it probably won't appeal to quite the same people. The new AI Workstation 300 is--you guessed it--designed for AI developers, powered by a Ryzen AI Max laptop chip and shipping with absolute gobs of memory and storage. The tiny machine (measuring just 247.5mm or 9.7 inches on its longest side) can be equipped with either a Ryzen AI Max 385 or Max 395 processor, with 8 or 16 primary cores, respectively. All that power is surprisingly reasonable in terms of price, with the base model going for 1,600 while the upgraded version is 2,000.