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Fresh images of the Pixel 11 Pro in matte black have landed just days before Google’s Made by Google event, and they show a phone that finally matches the finish many people have wanted for years.
Most racing sims start with a chair bolted to a frame and a wheel on a desk. Project Sim Racing’s current build starts somewhere else entirely. A full Sim-Lab P1X Pro aluminum cockpit sits on four Qubic System QS-210 linear actuators. Those actuators deliver pitch, roll, and heave with under eight milliseconds of latency, a 60 mm stroke, and enough force to move more than 250 kilograms of rig, seat, and driver. Add the Qubic belt tensioner that pulls the four-point harness tighter under sustained loads, and the whole assembly begins to behave less like furniture and more like a car.
HeroTech just timed a perfect release. As Spider-Man: Brand New Day tore through opening weekend with the second-highest domestic haul on record, the channel posted a full functional replica of the film’s new wrist-mounted web shooters. Stainless steel housings, electronic retraction, and a compact shape that matches the trailers sit right there on the bench.
Diddy Kong Racing arrived on the Nintendo 64 with a different rhythm than Mario Kart. You collected golden balloons to unlock worlds, switched freely between car, hovercraft, and plane, and chased a genie named Taj across tracks that felt bigger and stranger than anything else on the system. Nearly three decades later a fan project called Golden Balloon has turned the game into a proper PC and browser title. It is built from the community decompilation that only recently reached completion, and it asks only that you supply your own legal ROM.
Foundation just put out a short video of its newest robotic hand closing around a baseball in mid-flight. The catch looks almost casual. The ball arrives, the fingers curl, and the grip holds. No frantic adjustments. No visible sensors twitching on the surface. The throw is timed and the motion is planned ahead of time, yet the repeatability is sharp enough that the team is already joking about the majors.