Off the distant coast of Western Australia, where the water stretches out into the enormous expanse of the Indian water, there is a natural beauty so exact and awe-inspiring that you can’t help but wonder if it was computer-generated, all digital creation to one set of eyes. Four separate wave peaks crash into a shallow reef at the same moment, curling in from all angles and then slamming into each other perfectly symmetrically, spraying water up to 70 meters or more into the sky.
Modder Woodboy90 spent months rebuilding Quake 3 Arena, giving it a modern look. His mod uses NVIDIA’s RTX Remix to add route tracing to three classic maps: Q3DM1, Q3DM6, and Q3DM10. Most of the textures have been much improved, surfaces now reflect light more realistically, and shadows fall deep across venues that previously only had simple glows.
Lenovo and Motorola have recently introduced Qira, a personal AI assistant that connects their laptops, cellphones, and everything in between. Qira debuted at CES 2026 in Las Vegas and is essentially their solution to the existing jumble of AI interactions dispersed over a variety of devices.
The DJI Avata 2 Fly More Combo, priced at $789 (was $929), is at the top of the list for first-person-view flying, and it’s no wonder given its great blend of ease of use, strong performance, and sensible design. As soon as you put on the DJI Goggles 3, you are engaged in the action. The headset provides a crystal clear, low-latency image directly from the drone’s eye, and its 155-degree field of view allows you to shoot some pretty sweeping panoramas in pin-sharp detail.
Arkansas vehicles traveling through highway construction zones will soon face an entirely new level of scrutiny, and it has arrived a little earlier than intended. Work zone cameras that are now catching speeders will begin checking to see if someone is distracted while driving by a cell phone or other handheld gadget in mid-January 2026.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory has finally achieved a significant scientific breakthrough, due to the massive digital camera known as the LSST at its heart. Astronomers have discovered an asteroid called 2025 MN45 that stands out in a significant way: its rotation is simply incredible. To give you an idea of how big this object is, it measures approximately 710 meters across. That’s approximately the length of eight full-size American football fields stacked end to end, and it spins once every 1.88 minutes.
Photo credit: Jake Davis
Wildlife filmmaker Jake Davis placed ten high-end Sony cameras around a red squirrel’s food stash in Yellowstone’s high-elevation woodlands. This project had been years in the making, beginning with a simple desire to film grizzly bears and eventually turning into a deep curiosity with the intricate web of life that revolves around a single resource: whitebark pine cones.
In the early 1990s, Japan created a remarkable ship that moved over water without the use of propellers or turbines. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries completed the project in 1991 and called it Yamato-1. It made its inaugural excursion across Kobe Harbour under its own power in June 1992, marking a historic milestone as the first full-sized ship to cruise along using magnetohydrodynamic propulsion to transport people.
