Most people who want the newest phone look at the Ultra or the latest foldable. Meanwhile, Samsung’s Galaxy S25+, priced at $679.99 (was $1,000), delivers the same daily performance without the increased weight or cost. A year and a half after its release, it is still in that unusual position where the hardware feels modern while the software continues to improve.
Crowds at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing couldn’t help but stop and stare at the gigantic, dark gray robot, which took up as much room as a large motorcycle but was propelled by four mechanical legs instead. A rider sat on the saddle, hands firmly clutching the handlebars, and the whole thing was propelled forward, albeit with all the subtlety of a toddler beginning to walk, in purposeful but shaky steps. That beast is the Qiji X1, and people are already able to buy one (or two).
Somewhere between the wet asphalt reflections and the glow of undercarriage lights, a small indie team has built something a lot of players have wanted for years. Heatwarped, from Sealime, is an open-world arcade racer set squarely in the 2000s. It leans hard into the feeling of those late-night underground meets that defined Need for Speed Underground and its closest contemporaries. A free demo is already available on Steam, and the full game remains unscheduled.
Uri Tuchman decided a musician friend needed a present that could actually make noise. He chose the Hammond organ, that old electromechanical machine whose spinning iron disks and magnetic coils once filled churches and stages with pure tones. Instead of a full console, he built a single octave version he could turn by hand. The result sits somewhere between a careful reconstruction and a living demonstration of how sound can come from metal moving past a coil.
Most people who remember personal computers from the late 1980s think first of the Macintosh and its clean black-and-white interface. Apple had already shipped something that looked and behaved a lot like it, only this version ran in color on a machine that still carried the Apple II name. That system was GS/OS, and it arrived in 1988 as the heart of Apple IIGS System Software 4.0.