
Frequent travelers know the drill all too well. A hotel or Airbnb provides one connection, yet every phone, laptop, and tablet needs its own login. One person handles the captive portal page while others wait. Friends or family members end up asking for the password repeatedly. TP-Link built the Roam 6 AX1500, priced at $49.99 (was $60), to remove that friction entirely.

Hugging Face has shared complete plans for a bipedal robot platform that costs roughly $2,500 in parts and relies mostly on 3D-printed pieces plus common actuators and electronics. Builders start with 75 printable files that form the torso along with left and right legs. The design breaks into modular sections including hip mechanisms, thighs, knees, shins, ankles, and feet. A public Onshape CAD model lets anyone inspect or adapt the geometry before printing.

Electric vehicles and grid batteries keep lifting lithium demand higher each year. Meeting that growth cleanly matters more than ever. Spodumene holds much of the lithium locked inside hard rock deposits spread across Australia, the United States, and Europe. Mines already pull the mineral out of the ground, yet turning it into battery-grade material has always demanded extreme heat and left large piles of leftover rock. A team at MIT changed the script. Materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues mix crushed spodumene with a simple solution of water and ammonium fluoride. The first major step happens at ordinary room temperature.

Intel has introduced the Arc G3 series, a pair of processors built from the start for Windows 11 handheld gaming machines. The lineup arrives with two versions that share a common foundation yet offer clear differences in graphics power. Device makers can now choose between the standard Arc G3 and the Arc G3 Extreme when designing the next wave of portable systems.

Nintendo confirmed today that Donkey Kong 64 will join the Nintendo 64 library available on Switch Online. Access to the game opens June 4, 2026 for those holding an active Expansion Pack subscription. Both the original Switch and the Switch 2 will run the title without issue.