Peter Parker keeps smashing phones, and that simple truth is at the heart of Samsung’s latest promotional video for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a nearly 100-second teaser that does more than just showcase next week’s foldables. It tells a brief, self-contained story of how the web slinger finds up having a Galaxy Z Flip 8 in his pocket.
Ten years after the first episode quietly appeared on Netflix, the streaming service has given Season 1 a complete visual and audio overhaul that turns every frame into something that feels pulled from a dusty rental case. Search for “Stranger Things VHS” or head to the dedicated title page and you will find all eight episodes of the first season presented as if someone in Hawkins had checked it out from Family Video in 1983 and played it until the tape started to wear.
A YouTube creator who goes by patchzy has spent months turning the 2008 Wii classic into a proper Windows program. The project is called Mario Kart Wiicompiled, and the first public beta arrives in August. This is the first time anyone has statically recompiled a full Wii game for modern computers. Static recompilation takes the original machine code, translates it into something a PC can understand, and rebuilds the whole thing as a native application. The finished program never pretends to be a Wii. It just is Mario Kart Wii, running at the full speed of whatever hardware you throw at it.
Sony spent its latest investor meeting talking less about bigger televisions and more about games that move with you. Executives described a future where PlayStation stops living only in the living room and starts working in bedrooms, cars, hotel rooms, and anywhere else a screen and a battery can go. The language was careful, yet the direction felt clear. The next hardware generation, widely expected to carry the PlayStation 6 name, appears built around a portable device rather than another box that sits under a TV.
Mosquitoes kill more people than almost any other animal on Earth. Diseases they spread take hundreds of thousands of lives every year, mostly in places where chemical sprays and nets only go so far. Two French engineers looked at that problem and decided ordinary toy drones could solve it for far less money.