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By most measures, it’s been a sensational year for SpaceX. The American spaceflight company will finish 2025 having notched up a record-breaking 165 launches using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket, with the final lift-off of the year targeting Saturday, December 27. SpaceX’s last flight of 2025 is the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation mission for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission is currently scheduled for 6:08 p.m. PT, though if needed, a backup opportunity is in place for Sunday, December 28, at the same time. A livestream of…
OpenAI has shipped a security update to ChatGPT Atlas aimed at prompt injection in AI browsers, attacks that hide malicious instructions inside everyday content an agent might read while it works. Atlas’s agent mode is built to act in your browser the way you would: it can view pages, click, and type to complete tasks in the same space and context you use. That also makes it a higher-value target, because the agent can encounter untrusted text across email, shared documents, forums, social posts, and any webpage it opens. The company’s core warning is simple. Hackers can trick the agent’s…
The team behind the close-friends photo-sharing app Retro, has built a side project called Splat that turns your photos into AI coloring pages for kids. Start with a new shot or something from your Camera Roll, pick a visual style, then generate a clean line-art page your child can color on-screen or print. Parents can already find endless printable pages online, but the hunt is often the annoying part. Many sites are ad-heavy, cluttered, or push small fees when you just want a quick sheet for a bored kid. Splat’s workflow is built around quick choices. Pick a photo, choose…
WhatsApp is working on a new feature for Channels that could give admins another way to interact with followers. The tool, spotted in the latest beta release for iOS, lets admins create multiple-choice quizzes, adding a more interactive option alongside existing features like polls. The quiz feature, first seen in an Android beta release last week, works pretty much like polls with one key difference. Unlike polls, a quiz requires admins to specify the correct answer before sharing it on the channel. When members select an option, WhatsApp immediately shows whether their answer is correct and plays a brief confetti…
Even as we celebrate some of the best traditional board games of 2025, we also want to offer some accolades for some of the most impressive tabletop role-playing releases of the year. This year’s selections continue to show the broadening scope of the role-playing hobby, with a variety of amazing games competing against mainstay systems that have held audience attention for years. Check out our alphabetized selection of the Best Tabletop RPGs of 2025, and share some of your favorite role-playing experiences of the year in the comments below. Cohors Cthulhu: Player’s Guide Published by Modiphius Entertainment Love the vibe of…
Microsoft has quietly added a potent piece of storage tech to Windows, and enthusiasts are buzzing about what it could mean for SSD performance. The company introduced a native NVMe driver in Windows Server 2025 that bypasses decades-old legacy bottlenecks in how Windows talks to modern solid-state drives. While this update wasn’t officially meant for Windows 11, resourceful users have found a way to activate it there too. More importantly, the results suggest you can squeeze noticeably more speed from your NVMe SSD if you’re willing to tinker. Taking a deeper dive into the technical aspects, for years, Windows has…
In 2008, Bethesda released Fallout 3, a groundbreaking adaptation of the to-that-point isometric Fallout franchise to a gameplay style close that veered close to its beloved Elder Scrolls series. Within seven years, we not only received a new spin-off entry by Obsidian Entertainment, Fallout: New Vegas, but also an all-new mainline entry from Bethesda, Fallout 4. It’s now been more than a decade since Fallout 4, and though fans of the series can enjoy things like the online RPG Fallout 76, which initially launched in 2018, and the successful Prime Video series, which started in 2024, the wait for a…
One of the key things about the people and companies we speak to as part of Trending Forwards is they must be doing something different… and that’s certainly what Syntilay is doing. They have the lofty goal of changing the world of shoe production – not just in terms of the way they’re made, which is by 3D printing them based on reams of data – but by changing the way they’re ideated, designed and worn. Syntilay uses sophisticated foot scanning technology to map and measure your feet, generating thousands of measurements that then get fed into a 3D printer…
The South Korean display technology giant LG has officially announced the world’s first 240Hz OLED panel featuring an RGB stripe subpixel layout, making it one of the most critical and exciting display reveals at CES 2026. The 27-inch 4K OLED panel supports a peak refresh rate of 240Hz. This makes it an excellent option for professional use cases such as high-end gaming or competitive esports, while also appealing to creators and power users who rely on precise frame timing. RGB stripe structure will dramatically improve text clarity However, that isn’t the panel’s main highlight. Unlike traditional OLED panels that use…
If you’ve been trying to find a “real” gaming laptop as a last-minute gift, this is the kind of spec sheet you usually see well north of $1000 even on sale. Between the 165Hz display, current-gen RTX 5060, and a surprisingly generous 32GB of RAM, this TUF F16 looks like an easy one-and-done purchase for someone who wants a machine that will last a few years. What you’re getting This configuration of the TUF Gaming F16 is built around a 16-inch FHD+ display with a 165Hz refresh rate, which is right in the sweet spot for fast-paced shooters and esports…