Playground finally showed Forza Horizon 6 Tokyo—stacked highways, neon rain, and uphill drift ladders that loop back through alleys. A photo mode tease hinted ray-traced puddles and alley steam. Street culture vibes, plus a street-legal electric concept that actually sounds mean.

Grease Pencil 4 Live Rigs let me bind a hand-drawn robot to bones in seconds—no cleanup, no mesh wrestling. Keyframes snapped, smear frames looked crunchy in a good way, and export to Eevee stayed realtime.

Tested a thin-and-light with GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile: DLSS frame gen pushed a moody shooter past 120 fps at 4K external, fans whispering the whole time. USB-C power held, and the NPU kept background upscaling off the GPU’s plate.

Shipped a marketing page with Next.js 15 Partial Prerendering—above-the-fold HTML landed instantly while the rest streamed in. No route surgery, just a flag and hints. Lighthouse greened up, CPU calmed down, and our edge cache finally stopped thrashing.

Snapped a whiteboard, and Notion Autofill Tables turned scribbles into clean rows—types guessed, checkboxes set, even owners tagged. A quick “/verify” pass caught typos from my messy handwriting. It’s like OCR grew a brain and learned project management overnight.

I installed the Grok 3.1 Multimodal Planner pack on a spare laptop—camera, mic, and docs stitched into one task graph. It mapped errands, drafted emails, and queued rides without cloud calls. Battery barely moved, and a tiny rules editor made the agent feel actually…mine.

Diablo IV Season 8 drops Forge Keys so builders can stitch rooms, affixes, and bosses into shareable dungeons. We tested a poison-maze gauntlet that scaled with party level and paid out leaderboard badges. It’s Mario Maker energy—just grim, lootier, and delightfully mean.

Firefly Style Lock lets teams pin palettes, type scales, and image treatments, then enforces them across Photoshop, Express, and Premiere. I tried breaking a banner—contrast and logo spacing snapped back automatically. Fewer “can you fix the brand?” pings; more shipping.

Threadripper 9000 Pro swings into workstations sporting 128 cores, 256 threads, and obscene PCIe lanes. I rendered a 4K scene while compiling and barely nudged utilization. An onboard NPU handles denoise and speech-to-text in the background—quiet fans, loud results.

Bun 2.1 Vector Search ships a native ANN index so you can query embeddings without extra services. I swapped a microservice from Python + Faiss to pure Bun and shaved 40% latency. One import, one table, instant semantic search—devops footprint just got tiny.