Samsung’s holding a Galaxy Note 7 launch event on Tuesday as well. The Note 7 is expected to have a dual curved display like the existing Galaxy S7 Edge, and feature a secure iris scanner hinted at by an iris-like graphic in the invitation.

On Thursday, August 4th, DARPA will host the world's first, all-machine hacking tournament in Las Vegas. The Cyber Grand Challenge, according to DARPA, "will mark the culmination of an ambitious three-year effort to develop advanced, autonomous systems that can to detect, evaluate, and patch software vulnerabilities before adversaries have a chance to exploit them." It’s timed to start just as the DEV CON 24 hacking conference gets underway in the same Vegas hotel and conference center.

We’ll be publishing our This Is My Next pick for our favorite record player this week, and put in some hands-on time with GM’s NASA-developed RoboGlove. You can also expect another in our series of Mr. Robot hack reports, and a review of the latest from British art-pop vets Wild Beasts. In gaming we’ll have thoughts on both Batman: The Telltale Series Episode One set for release on Tuesday, and Mobius Final Fantasy being released on Wednesday. And with any luck, we’ll end the week with a test drive of the McLaren 570GT.

But that’s all yet to come. First let’s get caught up on the weekend that was.