Elite athletes took to the court in Tokyo to face a beast of speed and precision, Ace, a robot designed by Sony AI to run rings around the world’s top table tennis players. In April 2025, the robot won three of five bouts against the elite bunch. In later sessions, the team really showed off; between December 2025 and March 2026, they defeated pros like Miyuu Kihara, who is ranked in the top twenty-five internationally.
Engineers took the existing flagship and completely overhauled it to create the 2027 BMW i7, which uses the brains and brawn from BMW’s most recent electric vehicles. This resulted in two all-wheel drive versions that will roll into showrooms late next year, with production kicking off this July at the German factory in Dingolfing.
OPPO has released a new compact tablet aimed for users who want a lot of power but don’t want to carry a large device around. At only 5.39mm thick and weighing a svelte 279g, the OPPO Pad Mini easily fits into a bag or even a decent-sized pocket. The body was built with a combination of anodized as well as sandblasted metal, and it feels somewhat substantial while remaining absolutely lightweight in the palm. You’ll get three colors at launch: Space Grey, Monet Purple, and Peppermint Green. A magnetic strip along one edge keeps the OPPO Pencil 3 Pro stylus clean, eliminating the need for fussy clips or cases.
Northrop Grumman has released a brief teaser that shows off its sixth-generation fighter concept, and what a look it is. For a few seconds, the camera circles the plane, displaying all of the important lines. The broad nose leads to a spacious cockpit, and the intake vents are tucked firmly up against the fuselage, making them difficult to see. The long, diamond-shaped wings emerge, their outer panels fully folded up. The strengthened landing gear is at the front, ready for a carrier catapult launch, with two wheels and a launch bar, and the curvy doors at the bottom indicate that there is plenty of space inside, even though you can’t see much.
High in the fields of Gwynedd County in North Wales, a seemingly ordinary LEGO set experienced an incredible day when it spent almost 8 hours hovering near the edge of space before slowly falling back to solid ground. Sent Into Space attached the entire Project Hail Mary model to a piece of kit driven by a balloon and launched it on a perfectly clear March day. The payload steadily rose to 114,790 feet before spiraling back down and landing safely on the surrounding grass.
People often talk about finding value when a product simply works for you and does not involve a significant trade-off in performance or cost. The Anker Solix C2000 Gen 2 portable power station, priced at $799.99 (was $1,499), has a capacity of 2,048 watt-hours and is powered by lithium iron phosphate cells that can withstand thousands of charge cycles without trouble. With so much energy saved, you can power a conventional dual-door fridge for up to 32 hours on a full charge.
Modders Delca and Trxye have spent years pouring their hearts into a fan project that reimagines legendary Tomb Raider adventures in side scroller fashion, which is a tall job for anyone, but they’ve pulled it off with flying colors. They’ve created 11 levels inspired by the series’ first three games, and you’ll be guiding Lara Croft through reinvented places such as Peru, Greece, Venice, and the sunken ship the Maria Doria, all of which have been updated with a 2D twist.
NASA’s Curiosity has returned some interesting images from Mars, including shots of rock surfaces that have a striking similarity to dragon scales. Across the ground, dozens of interconnected honeycomb patterns spread as far as the rover’s mastcam can see. The rover captured these photos as it approached Antofagasta, a tiny crater with a diameter of around ten meters. NASA scientists refer to these interconnected patterns as honeycomb-shaped polygons, and what’s particularly remarkable is that they appear to be all over the place here, which we haven’t seen on previous rover trips.
