The Steam Deck proved that PC gaming in a handheld form factor was viable. The ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and a wave of competitors followed. In 2026, the handheld gaming PC is an established product category — but the tradeoffs are real and the target audience remains specific.
The mRNA platform that produced COVID vaccines in record time is now being used to build vaccines tailored to each patient's tumor. Moderna and BioNTech's phase 2b results showed a 49% reduction in melanoma recurrence. Phase 3 trials are underway.
Anduril, Shield AI, and dozens of smaller companies have turned autonomous weapons systems and military software into some of venture capital's most active investment targets. The money followed Ukraine. The debate about whether it should has not been resolved.
Zipline has made over one million deliveries of medical supplies in Africa. Wing has completed hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Australia and the US. Amazon Prime Air is finally operational. The technology is proven. What limits the industry now is regulation, airspace, and economics — not the hardware.
The database that ships in every phone, browser, and OS is increasingly being used for production web applications, not just prototyping. Tools like Litestream, LiteFS, and Turso have solved the replication problem. What remains is changing the mental model.
The open-source instruction set architecture born at UC Berkeley in 2010 now runs in billions of devices, from Espressif's $1 WiFi chips to NVIDIA's GPU microcontrollers to Western Digital's SSD controllers. The next question is whether it can move up the stack into servers and laptops.
The protocol that routes all internet traffic was designed in 1989 with no built-in authentication. RPKI is the cryptographic fix that's been available for years, but less than half of the internet has turned it on — and the consequences keep showing up as outages and traffic interceptions.
The EU's Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow third-party app stores and sideloading in Europe starting March 2024. Eighteen months on, the results are more complicated than either Apple's critics or defenders predicted.
Software supply chain attacks now deliver higher leverage than ransomware: one compromised package maintainer or build system reaches thousands of downstream organizations simultaneously. The SolarWinds breach, XZ Utils backdoor, and 3CX attack all used this playbook. Here is how they work and how to defend against them.
The over-ear headphone market has split into two incompatible categories: audiophile planarmagnetic headphones delivering studio-quality sound under $500, and consumer wireless ANC headphones charging a premium for ecosystem features over acoustic performance. Here is how to navigate the divide.
ZK proofs are live in production at HSBC, ING, Siemens, and EU identity systems — proving compliance, verifying identity, and enabling cross-organization data analytics without sharing raw data. Here is how the enterprise ZK stack has matured and where it falls short.
LPCAMM2 modules are ending the era of soldered laptop RAM, delivering LPDDR5X speeds from a removable slot that takes 30 seconds to swap. Here is which laptops support it now, what the performance tradeoff actually looks like, and what it means for repairability.