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Japan’s space agency is two days from sending a spacecraft toward a moon almost nobody outside planetary science circles can name. The Martian Moons eXploration mission, known as MMX, is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center on October 20, 2026, at 4:41:03 a.m. Japan Standard Time, carried by JAXA’s H3 Launch Vehicle.…
WinUAE just quietly passed version 6.0.3, and the open-source Amiga emulator for Windows remains the deepest, most configurable way to run Commodore’s 16/32-bit machines on modern hardware. If you have ever tried to get a Workbench disk booting, load a WHDLoad-packed game, or figure out which Kickstart ROM an A1200 setup actually needs, you already…
Google Search still fields more queries in an hour than Perplexity sees in a month, but that gap is closing in a way that would have sounded absurd three years ago. As of October 18, 2026, three products are fighting over the same five seconds of a user’s attention: the moment someone types a question…
Anthropic pushed Claude Code to version 2.1.302 on October 17, 2026, and buried inside that release note is a shift that developers have been asking for since the tool first shipped as a terminal-only agent: an official plugin system. The company launched a curated GitHub repository called claude-plugins-official, rolled out a new customization layer called…
Five days from now, on October 23, 2026, Activision will put Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 up against a shooter that already has a year of patches, a Metacritic score, and tens of thousands of nightly Steam players behind it. Battlefield 6 launched in October 2025, and instead of fading into the background the…
A flying car company just trolled Tesla with its own highlight reel, and the internet loved it. On October 16, 2026, Alef Aeronautics released video of its Alef Model A lifting off vertically and sailing over a parked Tesla Roadster and Cybertruck, timing the release to land one day after Tesla’s own flying Roadster demonstration.…
A Nintendo Switch emulator is now booting retail games directly on an Xbox Series X, and the early results are drawing attention from across the gaming press. The project, built on the open-source Eden emulator and packaged for Xbox under the name NXbox, runs as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application through Xbox Developer Mode,…
Microsoft’s positioning on physical games is still unclear … but this latest job vacancy might offer a hint. What’s going on?
Razer is back with another webcam, the Kiyo V2 Pro, and it’s pretty good, though it’s also pretty pricey. But you’ll only be interested if you’re a content creator.
Control Resonant has been released, and we’ve gotten our hands on it to see if it lives up to or even surpasses the surreal, thought-provoking storytelling and hard-hitting gameplay of its predecessor, Control.
