Dressed in nothing but the shorts he slept in for a century, Link picks up a pot. At first, it’s not surprising — pots are a Zelda mainstay — but our shirtless hero then maneuvers awkwardly against a wall until suddenly he’s flying across the sky of Hyrule, twisting side-to-side to stay afloat while still clutching the fragile piece of pottery.

What may seem like nonsensical button presses are actually precise inputs from Player 5, a Breath of the Wild speedrunner. This is three minutes into a run. Twenty minutes later, Link (still shirtless) will defeat Calamity Ganon. Roll credits.

Six years after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released to worldwide acclaim, it continues to be a feast for speedrunners. The game’s open-ended progression and physics-based gameplay make it possible for these intrepid players to complete a game that takes most players 50-100 hours in mere minutes.

With the sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, finally within reach, those speedrunners are eagerly anticipating their next adventure. But they also say they’re not in any particular hurry to break the game.

When you think back on the old BlackBerry smartphones, most people probably think about one of two things: the keyboard and mobile email. And although those were endemic to the early success of the first breakout smartphone OS in a pre-iPhone world, the enduring legacy of BlackBerry is something else entirely.

Before iMessage, WhatsApp, LINE, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, or whatever mobile messaging strategy Google has decided on this week, there was BlackBerry Messenger. BlackBerry Messenger, better known as BBM to its millions of once-devoted fans, was arguably the original "killer app" of the smartphone age and it set the standard for the way we have communicated via text on our phones for nearly 20 years and defined the blueprint for mobile messaging services as we know them.