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The landmark James Cameron blockbuster turns 35 this year. It’s easy to forget sometimes how difficult it must have been for ILM to solve the problems posed by early ‘90s CGI, develop new technologies, and scale up to the over 100 CG shots required by T2.
The “heat dome” covering the US from the Midwest to the East Coast interrupted the Trump Administration’s Freedom 250 event at the National Mall, which shut down for about four hours, citing the temperatures, and said it would reopen at 5PM ET.
The National Weather Service said more than 110 million people nationwide were under extreme heat risk.
For the 35th anniversary of the film, several founding members of ILM’s CG department got together to discuss the technical challenges of creating Terminator 2’s memorable liquid metal T-1000 character. For a more in-depth look at the film’s effects, check out the Light & Magic documentary on Disney Plus.
Designed for use with modern ATX 3.1 power supplies, the $50 Dr. Power III Pro is a cable and component tester with SENSE0/SENSE1 signal detection and various connectors used to measure voltage output and ensure a PSU is functioning properly and delivering power within an expected range for other components.
The Key Boy Advance may appeal to those of us who remember squinting at the GBA’s unlit screen. You’ll have to supply your own switches and keycaps, but the keyboard’s programmable shoulder buttons come with microswitches preinstalled for an authentic GBA feel. Pricing starts at £210.83, or around $282, with shipping expected in Q4 2026.
Instead of only showing purchases made with your phone, 9to5Google reports that the Wallet app’s transaction history can now also show money spent using the NFC chip in a Wear OS watch in one combined view.
The Sony Alpha Instagram account shared a short and vague teaser for a new Sony RX10 camera that will be announced on July 9th at 10AM ET. The last version was 2017’s RX10 IV that launched with a 24-600mm 25x optical zoom lens, a 20.1-megapixel 1-inch sensor, and up to 24fps capture capabilities with autofocus and tracking.
A new firmware update for the Sony WH-1000XM6 and 1000X The Collexion headphones is now available through the Sony Sound Connect mobile app. In addition to performance improvements the update adds support for the low-latency Bluetooth Gaming Audio Profile, but keep in mind the device you’re pairing with needs to support GMAP, too.
As cute as baby Yoda may be, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released when I was just an impressionable little boy so Lego’s new 1,226-piece Ideas set has me feeling nostalgic. Launching on August 1st for $139.99, Lego’s E.T. has a moving head and limbs while pushing a button makes the alien’s chest glow red.
If you’re a collector or are just on the hunt for an authentic Halloween costume, Sotheby’s is auctioning off a Tom Ford leather jacket worn by Huang worn during an event in Taipei in 2023. The jacket is also signed by Nvidia’s CEO and is estimated to go for $40,000 to $60,000 when the auction starts on July 7th.
After teasing the upgraded model alongside the original Mic Mini 2 that launched in April, DJI has announced the ¥629 ($93) Mic Mini 2S in China. It adds 14.5GB of storage in each transmitter for redundant recording (with a boost in audio quality) and the ability to wirelessly connect up to four microphones to a single transmitter.
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A group of students in Pisa, Italy, recently set a new Guinness World Record for the “largest paper aircraft.” The previous record stood for over a decade. Icarus is made from glue and paper but was designed and built using actual aeronautical engineering techniques which helped it glide nearly 194 feet.
It’s teaming up with the National Sanitation Foundation to develop a voluntary repairability scoring standard for the US, aligning with growing requirements for gadgets to show how repairable they are at the time of purchase. iFixit says the standard will be distinct from its own scores, aligning with European efforts.
LG’s Xboom Stage 501 party speaker is now available to buy for $499.99 (technically $449.99 after a $50 rebate). Like Soundcore’s Rave 3S, the new Xboom speaker has an AI feature that can remove vocals, turning “virtually any song” into a karaoke track.
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I’ve uploaded the response to DocumentCloud, if you want to take a look. I’m planning to write more about this soon, but in the meantime, you should also check out my big story about this case from earlier this year.
[DocumentCloud]
Instead of revealing more about your iPhones and other devices by tearing them apart, this time iFixit is inside a Chinese battery factory. The video shows how the lithium polymer cells are manufactured and tested, long before they end up in your pocket.
Zac Bowden at Windows Central posted this video of Aion, a stripped-down Windows concept made for agentic AI that popped up on the BetaWiki Discord, and says sources have confirmed to him that it is a real video made in 2024.
There’s no indication whether an OS like this would actually ship or if it’s part of something like Project Solara, but it’s very Chrome OS-like, built around the Edge browser and web apps.
Technically, the 4K remaster already got a one-day IMAX screening in September 2020 and you can buy it on disc, but it’s finally coming back to US and Canadian theaters on September 4th, 2026. Few animated films have ever been so influential; countless works have paid homage to the Akira slide alone.
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You know what weeping gamers really want? A burned CD with their GitHub repo on it. Fun novelty if you can get it, though. “This is a limited run, so signing up doesn’t guarantee one,” writes Microsoft-owned GitHub.
Check out this video tour of Panic’s demo showroom for Big Walk, its next game, at the company’s offices in Portland. I got to see this for my preview, and it was delightful.
If you want to check out the experience for yourself, Panic is taking signups now for July 7th through August 4th, which is Big Walk’s release date.
According to a Pew Research poll, 56 percent of American adults support banning social media for anyone under 16. A majority support it across almost every demographic — Democrats, Republicans, parents, non-parents — except among those over 65, where 49 percent of respondents agreed, but just 19 percent opposed a ban.
Starting September 15th, Cloudflare will block bots that scrape ad-supported websites for search indexing and AI training at the same time. The goal is to encourage AI companies to separate their crawlers for different purposes, giving publishers more control over which ones to allow into their websites.
Capcom is pushing up the launch of Onimusha: Way of the Sword to September 4th, up from the previously-planned September 25th. That moves the game out of the way of Control Resonant (September 24th) and Silent Hill: Townfall (September 25th) — and even farther ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI in November.
The app, which allows you to track the shows and movies you’re watching, will no longer be available starting July 15th. In an update on its support page, TV Time’s developers say operating the free app “was no longer sustainable,” and that “there was not enough demand for a paid app.”
19-year-old Peter Stokes was arrested in Finland and extradited to the US to face federal conspiracy charges related to the Scattered Spider hacking group. Stokes is accused of working with co-conspirators to breach a luxury jewelry retailer and demand an $8 million ransom.
Last month, two Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty to breaching London’s transportation system in 2024.
Made by Weave Robotics, Issac 1 is a fuzzy, colorful home robot that promises to collect dirty clothes, fold and put away laundry, make beds, and tidy clutter. Shipping is slated for later this year, with a $250 deposit required. While its main tasks are automated, Weave says that, like its predecessor Isaac 0, Issac 1 will be teleoperated “when needed to guarantee we complete tasks.”
Instead of turning M5Stack’s M5PaperS3 development hardware into another Kindle clone, Wenting Zhang used the Playdate’s open source CrankBoy emulator to create a Game Boy alternative with an easy-on-the-eyes E Ink screen. Having to play with touchscreen controls isn’t ideal, but we’d love to see this turned into an app optimized for the Boox Palma devices.
The search giant has lost its final appeal to overturn a record-breaking €4.1 billion (about $4.68 billion) penalty imposed by the European Commission over practices that abused Android’s mobile dominance. The charges date back to 2018, so it’s taken almost a decade to close the antitrust case.
[Court of Justice of the European Union]
