IO Interactive 007 First Light Screenshot
A new James Bond game is barreling toward us, and it’s not the suave, martini-sipping spy you’re picturing. IO Interactive, the folks who made Hitman a stealthy masterpiece, just unveiled 007 First Light, a third-person action-adventure set to drop in 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. Forget rehashing old Bond flicks or chasing GoldenEye 007 nostalgia—this is a gritty origin story about a 26-year-old James Bond, rough around the edges and miles from his polished 00 badge.

Enhance Tetris Effect Lumines Arise
Enhance, the studio that spun Tetris Effect into a hypnotic masterpiece, just pulled back the curtain on Lumines Arise at the June 2025 State of Play, and it’s shaping up to be a dazzling mash-up of music, visuals, and puzzles that’s as easy to pick up as it is tough to put down. If you missed the Lumines craze when it hit the PlayStation Portable back in 2004, it was a rhythm-puzzle lovechild that blended block-dropping with a pulsing soundtrack. Now, 21 years on, Enhance is giving it a modern glow-up that’s ready to mess with your senses in the best way.

DIY Perks Smart Desk Truly Wireless Power
Matthew Perks, the inventor behind DIY Perks on YouTube, has a habit of making wild ideas feel real, and his latest project—a desk that wirelessly powers everything from monitors to speakers with zero visible cables—might just be his most innovative project yet. Teaming up with Etherdyne Technologies, Perks has built a workspace that looks ripped from a sci-fi flick, marrying a clean aesthetic with some seriously clever tech.

LG UltraFine 40WT95UF First Thunderbolt 5 5K2K Monitor
LG Electronics just dropped a beast of a monitor that’s got finance pros and IT fanatics interested: the LG UltraFine 40WT95UF, a 40-inch 5K2K display that’s the world’s first to rock Thunderbolt 5. This isn’t just a screen—it’s a productivity powerhouse built to handle sprawling spreadsheets, dense code, and everything in between with a mix of crisp visuals, blazing-fast connectivity, and a workspace that feels like a digital playground.

Japan NICT Petabit Speed Record Internet Long Distance
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The internet’s been chugging along, powering 4K streams, cloud gaming, and AI’s number-crunching frenzy, but its fiber optic backbone is starting to sweat under the load. Enter Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which just smashed records with a mind-boggling 1.02 petabits per second data transfer over 1,808 kilometers (NYC to Minneapolis or Berlin to Lisbon). That’s enough juice to download Netflix’s entire catalog in one second flat.

MVRDV Out of the Box Project Building Minecraft Taipei
Photo credit: MVRDV
A residential tower that looks like it was yanked from the pixelated plains of Minecraft is set to rise in Taipei’s Tianmu neighborhood. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, known for its boundary-pushing designs, has unveiled Out of the Box, a 25-story residential structure that’s as much a playful nod to blocky aesthetics as it is a clever response to Taiwan’s complex building regulations.

James Webb Space Telescope Sombrero Galaxy Messier 104
Photo credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave the Sombrero Galaxy—Messier 104—a mind-blowing makeover, catching this cosmic icon 30 million light-years away in a way that leaves Hubble’s classic shots in the dust. Unlike Hubble’s visible-light pics, where a glowing core and stark dust lane steal the show, Webb’s near-infrared image flips things, spotlighting a dazzling central bulge while the dust fades into the background, building on its trippy mid-infrared view from late 2024.