Shoppers looking for a good gaming machine these days are frequently met with component prices that continue to rise, with many top-of-the-line solutions that would have been affordable a few months ago being exceedingly expensive. Against this backdrop, the ASUS TUF Gaming F16 (2025) appears deceptively low-cost at $899.99 (was $1,299.99), as if it’s almost too good to be true.
Just a few days before its 36th anniversary, Hubble’s latest image provides a glimpse of a small fraction of the Trifid Nebula, and it is a real stunner…This cosmic marvel is located roughly 5,000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, and it is essentially an active factory for new stars, producing stars left, right, and center from a swirling maelstrom of gas and dust.
David Liu sat down at his computer, his wrist still aching from whatever had ailed it, and picked up a Kensington SlimBlade Pro trackball in the hopes that it would provide some much-needed relief from all the mouse clicking. Four months later, this became a completely new way to manage 3D applications. Simply roll the ball back and forth like you would on a desk to rotate and move objects with natural ease.
Weighing in at less than 249 grams, the DJI Mini 3, priced at $379 with RC controller (was $549), is in a class of its own for easy transport and hassle-free carry-on in most areas around the world. Grab it and chuck it in a tiny bag; there are no weight restrictions or extra checks at the airport. That super-light construction does not compromise performance; once those propellers start spinning, you’re ready to go.
A recent segment from Arun Maini of MrWhoseTheBoss offers a behind-the-scenes look at how tech companies try to market their products to us, and Marques Brownlee joins in to provide some color to the topic. They’re talking about all the claims that sound wonderful on paper but are usually a letdown in real life. Companies have creativ ways of describing how “quick” or how much “battery life” you can get out of anything, by using phrases like “up to a multiple times faster” or similar. It allows them to highlight the fact that they were able to gain an advantage in ideal conditions or when compared to an old clunker.
Alexander worked in his workshop for years on a simple goal: to turn spools of everyday filament into a workable internal combustion engine. That is, anything with a few hundred horsepower to get the aging bones going. His third generation of this made-from-scratch engine, known as the AP3 Carbon D125, has recently met that target. The new design surrounds a 125cc single-cylinder four-stroke engine, which is commonly found in scooters.
The Pixel 10a by Google is without a doubt the best budget phone in 2026 (as far as we know), and there are many reasons for this. It will set you back a mere $449 (was $499) and provides a flagship Android phone experience that will fit comfortably into your hand.
Footage from the Robotics and AI Institute shows AthenaZero, a robot, juggling three balls with only its bare hands. There are no external cameras whirling around it, and no extra tools assisting in guiding the balls into place; only the robot monitoring, adjusting, and maintaining the rhythm as it learns from each bounce off its palms with every contact.
Engineers squeezed a high-end TV into a panel that is only 9 millimeters thick. LG calls it the OLED evo W6, and once hanging, it truly lives true to its “wallpaper” label. Two flat mounting pads and a couple of screws hold the screen tightly against the wall, leaving no obvious gaps. A ultra slim power board at the back connects to the nearest outlet, and that’s it. What about the weighty electronics? They remain out of sight somewhere else.
Astrobotic engineers went all out on their Chakram prototypes, doing a series of hot-fire tests that dwarfed anything previously done with this type of hardware. Two rotating detonation engines together clocked over 470 seconds of operation throughout eight runs at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, one of which lasted a whole 300 seconds without any hitches, and the entire time each engine delivered a solid 4,000 pounds of thrust as steady as can be.