Fans of the French electronic duo have waited years for something like this. On October 22, 2026, the LEGO Group and Daft Punk announced a new partnership that brings the robots into the brick universe, and the first concrete step is an official set recreating the glowing pyramid stage from the 2007 Alive tour.
Jensen Huang stood on the GTC Berlin stage Wednesday evening with four small biped robots from French company Pollen Robotics arrayed in front of him. Standing roughly ten inches tall and weighing under two pounds each, the Microducks had already drawn attention when they walked out under their own power. Huang greeted them casually, asked if they could sit, then told them to stand again. When he ordered them to take a nap, three promptly toppled over onto the floor. The fourth kept walking a few more steps before eventually joining the others on its side.
NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom keeps moving toward a late-2028 launch as the first spacecraft ever built to run fission power beyond Earth’s orbit. Announced back in March during the agency’s Ignition event, the mission pairs a compact reactor with hardware already under construction for the canceled lunar Gateway station. That reuse lets engineers hit the next Mars transfer window instead of waiting years for a clean-sheet design.
Owning a Philips CD-i often means dealing with controllers that feel more like afterthoughts than proper game pads. Released in 1991 as a multimedia player that later tried to become a game console, the machine never sold in large numbers, and its original input devices remain scarce and expensive decades later. Most units shipped with an infrared remote or the awkward pointing device known as the spoon, neither of which works well for anything requiring quick reactions or precise movement.
Locked doors in classic DOOM levels have always forced a specific route, usually involving a colored key card found after clearing a few rooms of demons. Tuin Doom Enhanced, the customized Windows build created by the modder known as tuin and based on Duct-Tape DOOM, removes that restriction. Rockets and exploding barrels now carve real openings through walls, doors, floors, and ceilings, and the resulting holes affect both how the level looks and how the player can move through it. A door that once blocked progress can be breached from either side, after which the player can walk or shoot straight through the gap while the damaged door continues to open and close with its holes still intact.