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Bumble has announced a massive overhaul lately, but online daters aren't beelining to it.

On Monday, Axios posted its full interview with the dating app's founder and CEO, Whitney Wolfe Herd, where she discussed the already-announced news that Bumble is killing the swipe feature by the end of 2026. However, she also talked about Bumble's in-development AI dating assistant called Bee, also set for an end of year launch, which was announced back in the company's Q4 2025 earnings call.

Bumble's lean into an AI-powered product seems to be a long time coming, as Wolfe Herd commented back in May 2024 that she saw AI personas as the future of dating.

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However, people across social media got wind of Bumble's AI-forward plan, and they're not impressed. One TikTok user who met her partner on Bumble nearly two years ago said the app has "lost the plot" with its focus on AI. Another TikTokker said she gives up. Another still, a single woman, said she "cannot spend another moment in this f*cking hellscape."

Wolfe Herd posted a statement on her Instagram account on Tuesday to clarify a few things.

"A growing part of the tech world seems to believe human connection can be replicated, automated, or engineered," she wrote. "I believe the opposite, and at Bumble, we are building the opposite."

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Wolfe Herd said Bumble has "used AI for years to improve safety, reduce bad actors, and help people make better, more meaningful connections. But the next chapter of AI should not be about replacing human connection. It should be about strengthening it."

Clarifying that the future of Bumble is "not about automating love," the CEO stated that "the best AI should work quietly in the background so real people can show up fully in the foreground." She also promised "no AI openers, no AI-generated bios."

Bumble's approach is that AI should support people in showing up more authentically, not replace or speak for them, the company told Mashable. The team believes it's important that women have a seat at the table in how AI is applied, and ethical and responsible use is paramount to Wolfe Herd and Bumble.

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Most commenters on Wolfe Herd's post weren't convinced by Bumble's AI-focused "future of connection." The top comment asked what the company is doing about combating deepfakes. Wolfe Herd responded, saying that Bumble has supported legislation to fight deepfakes and invests in safety across its product and policies. Bumble works with nonprofit Partnership on AI, a coalition committed to building a framework for the "responsible use of AI-generated media."

"From detection tools and identity protections to partnerships and legal reform, we believe protecting women online must evolve as quickly as the technology itself," she wrote.

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Another commenter brought up Wolfe Herd's aforementioned comments about AI personas being the future of dating — at a Bloomberg Tech Summit in 2024, she said onstage, "There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge...and then you don’t have to talk to 600 people." On Tuesday's Instagram post, Wolfe Herd called the years-old comment a "sound bite" where "people took a speculative thought experiment and turned it into a product announcement for some reason (click bait)."

"I was talking about the far outer edges of what AI could theoretically do someday, not saying Bumble planned to replace human dating with bots," she added. "In fact, the entire point was the opposite: using AI to reduce noise and help people get to real human connection faster."

Despite the outcry, Bumble is far from the only dating app to add AI features. Both Tinder and Hinge have, as well, with the former introducing an AI-powered matchmaker, Chemistry, and the latter adding AI features to help write better prompt responses and initial messages.

And at the same time, Bumble is also investing more into IRL events, suggesting that it knows there's an appetite for tech-free dating.

TL;DR: The Magic: The Gathering Foundations Play Booster Box is down to $129.99 at Amazon. This deals saves you 12% off its usual $146.95 list price.

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The Foundations expansion is one of the most fun ways to get into Magic: The Gathering, and Amazon has now dropped the best deal to help you dive in for less.

As of May 14, Amazon has the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Play Booster Box on sale for $129.99, dropping it under both its usual Amazon price and the wider market rate. By comparison, TCGplayer currently lists the Foundations Play Booster Display with a market price of $135.80, and listings starting at $137.95 with shipping included. Walmart has the same box listed at $146.45 from a third-party seller.

The Foundations expansion is essentially designed to help you build a bigger Foundation with the Magic trading card game, as the name implies. The box includes 36 Play Boosters, with each pack containing 14 Magic trading cards and either a Token/Ad card or Art card. That all-around makes it great for drafting with friends, building out a collection, or just spending an evening ripping packs and hoping for something shiny. 

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Each Play Booster includes between one and four cards of Rare or higher rarity, plus a mix of Uncommons, Commons, and a Land card. There’s also one Traditional Foil card in every pack, with a Traditional Foil Land showing up in 20% of boosters. Borderless cards and Special Guest Mythic Rare cards are also possible pulls, which gives the box a bit more chase-card energy than a beginner-friendly set might suggest.

This probably isn’t as simple a starting point as a Jumpstart box, where you can shuffle two packs together and play immediately. Still, for players who want more flexibility, more packs, and better draft potential, Foundations Play Boosters are the better long-term buy.

Among other MTG expansions, there's also a price reduction on the Lorwyn Exclipsed Play Booster Box to only $119.95. Magic: The Gathering’s Marvel Spider-Man Gift Bundle is also on sale at Amazon.

If you’re a Pokémon fan, the newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is available to preorder at TCGplayer.

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We've all been there. The Wi-Fi acts up, a video call freezes, a download stalls, and the first instinct is to grab the laptop and move closer to the router. It feels logical, right? Closer to the source equals stronger signal equals better internet. Problem solved.

It's hard to believe that foldables have been around for long enough (and gotten good enough) that I can use one that's totally fine and think to myself, "Eh, you can do better."

That's been my experience during early testing for the new Motorola Razr Fold. The $1,900 device has pretty much everything you'd want in a book-style foldable: it's reasonably comfortable in the hands, the displays are high quality, and it's got a battery that dwarfs the competition. But in actually using it, I've still found myself preferring the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 from a year ago, while also considering the upcoming, heavily rumored iPhone Fold.

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Motorola Razr Fold $1,899.99 at Best Buy
  Pre-order Here at Best Buy Pre-order Here at Motorola US The first impression: This is a serious foldable with serious competition Credit: René Ramos / Mashable

Here's my takeaway from early testing: the foldable market is getting really crowded, and with such a high price, I'm not sure the Razr Fold has done enough to stand out against the competition just yet.

What I liked: It feels great in the hand, is easy to use, has killer displays, and boasts strong performance from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.

What I didn't like: Not as thin as the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and like the competition, it has a steep price tag; my testing unit also experienced a battery issue.

Key specs:

• Processor: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset

• Battery: 6,000mAh

• Displays: 6.6-inch pOLED cover display (up to 165Hz refresh rate) / 8.1-inch LTPO OLED (up to 120Hz variable refresh rate) with HDR10+

• Cameras: 50MP wide, 50MP ultrawide, 50MP telephoto, 20MP inner camera, 32MP cover camera

• Charging: 80W charging, 50W wireless, reverse wireless charging

• AI tools: Google Gemini, Perplexity, Moto AI, Microsoft Copilot

• Brightness: 6,200 nits

• Price: $1,899.99

Motorola Razr Fold feels good, but not quite as good as Galaxy Z Fold 7 Credit: René Ramos / Mashable

Last year, I fell in love with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 primarily because of its form factor. It was easily the thinnest and lightest book-style foldable I'd used at the time, and now. It's a new measuring stick for this type of phone in my mind, and that's also the first place where the Razr Fold comes up just short.

To be more specific, Samsung's foldable last year weighed just 215g and measured in at a mere 4.2mm when unfolded and 8.9mm when folded. Motorola's device, on the other hand, weighs 243g and measures in at 4.5mm when unfolded and 9.89mm when folded. In the grand scheme of things, those aren't huge disparities, but having used both devices, you can definitely feel the difference.

Last year's ultra-thin Galaxy Z Fold 7. Credit: Joe Maldonado / Mashable

The Razr Fold is noticeably heavier and a little more bulky, and in a world where Samsung has shown how thin book-style foldables can be, I'm not sure I can ever go back.

Having said all of that, this is still a reasonably comfortable phone to hold and use, especially compared to older, meatier foldables. Razr Fold's Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset keeps everything running smoothly, with social media and streaming apps working pretty much flawlessly in my limited testing so far.

The 8.1-inch AMOLED inner display with a 120Hz refresh rate is also crisp and clear, as is the 6.6-inch outer display, which has a blistering fast 165Hz refresh rate. As with pretty much every other book-style foldable on the market, this is the best way to watch videos and read things on a phone right now.

While I haven't done a ton of stress testing with the multitasking features yet, they do work pretty intuitively. Like some other foldables in this category, there's a horizontal app toolbar along the bottom of the inner display. While running one app, you can simply drag another one from the toolbar up into the main display itself, choosing where you want it to go. You can go halfsies or you can even turn one app into a free-floating window that you can resize and reposition to your heart's content, while the other one stays open behind it.

This isn't especially groundbreaking, but it is useful and works well.

TBD if its most distinctive features give it an edge Credit: René Ramos / Mashable

I still need more time with the Razr Fold before writing a full review, and part of that has to do with the phone's biggest potential edge over the competition: its battery.

The Razr Fold has a huge 6,000mAh battery inside it, significantly larger than the 4,400mAh cell inside my beloved Z Fold 7. If the Razr Fold can deliver notably longer battery life than other foldables, that could be a huge feather in its cap. Unfortunately, I am not in a position right now to judge that, as the review unit Motorola sent us has an issue where it will not charge correctly. I've been told this is not a common problem and Motorola is sending us a replacement, but this does mean that I simply can't analyze the battery right now.

One other potential advantage this phone has over something like the Z Fold 7 is that it natively supports the Moto Pen Ultra stylus accessory. I am not a stylus user by nature, and I haven't spent enough time using the Moto Pen Ultra on the Razr Fold yet to see if it's a game-changer, but Samsung sacrificed official S Pen stylus support on the Z Fold 7 last year in order to make the phone thinner. You can still use third-party pens, but Motorola having an official option that should work nicely with the phone is a big leg up for a lot of folks.

After a handful of days testing the Razr Fold, it's clear that this is a solid foldable phone that doesn't have anything catastrophically wrong with it, at least as long as the charging issue I encountered is an isolated incident. I'll have more to say on this soon.

Motorola just happens to be in an unlucky position here, with other major phone manufacturers having already matured in this space over the past several years, all while Apple takes its sweet time cooking up something that will almost certainly be very good, too.

The Motorola Razr Fold is available for pre-order starting May 14 and will be released May 21 for $1,899.99. You can order the foldable from Motorola and Best Buy.

Windows laptops aren't the only computers getting more expensive amid the global RAM shortage. Two PC makers have quietly raised the prices of their premium Chromebooks.

As of mid-May, two configurations of the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 and one variant of the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 were up to $250 pricier than they were at launch last year:

• Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910, 16GB RAM, 256GB UFS) — was $749.99, now $999

• Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910, 12GB RAM, 128GB UFS) — was $649.99, now $829.99 (but sold out)

• Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910, 12GB RAM, 256GB UFS) — was $699.99, now $749

A second configuration of the Acer model has remained steady at $799.99 since its release in September 2025, though it was out of stock at the time of writing.

Lenovo and Acer haven't formally announced these price hikes, which were first reported by the tech site Chrome Unboxed.

When reached for comment, an Acer spokesperson issued the following statement to Mashable:

Acer is adopting flexible pricing and promotional strategies to support demand and stabilize product availability as component costs increase. With any given model, as existing inventory sells out and new product is manufactured, there may be increases beyond Acer’s original MSRP guidance. This pricing will change based on demand, supply, as well as component costs at the time of manufacture.

A representative for Lenovo acknowledged Mashable's request for comment and said they'll follow up soon. We'll update this story once we hear back.

Both Chromebooks are best-in-class machines (we've tested them), but they were already costly at their original MSRPs. The now-$999 Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, in particular, is impossible for me to recommend at full price despite its beautiful OLED display and peppy processor. An on-sale M5 MacBook Air is a vastly smarter buy.

If nothing else, these Chromebooks make Apple's new budget laptop, the Mashable Choice Award-winning MacBook Neo, look like even more of a bargain at $599 (or $499 for education buyers). But it might not be available at that price for much longer.

The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is a really nice Chromebook — but for $999, just get an on-sale MacBook Air. Credit: Sarah Chaney / Mashable

A surge in RAM and SSD demand for AI data center construction has led to a shortage of those components, driving up prices for the chips themselves and, by effect, the consumer electronics that require them. The RAM crisis has gotten so dire lately that scammers have started selling fake RAM modules, and it's expected to get worse next year.

In April, Microsoft announced price hikes of up to $500 for its Surface Laptops and Surface Pro convertibles, blaming "recent increases in memory and component costs" in a statement to Windows Central. Meanwhile, the modular PC maker Framework has adjusted its RAM and SSD prices every month since December. Most recently, it told customers that it's seen some stability this spring, but cautioned that it's likely just "a temporary reprieve."

For its part, Apple has been largely immune to "RAMageddon" so far, though it discontinued the cheapest configuration of its Mac mini desktop computer earlier this month. The base MacBook Neo might soon suffer the same fate, according to tech analyst Tim Culpan.

UPDATE: May. 14, 2026, 7:37 a.m. EDT This story has been updated with a statement from Acer.

Androids have become fortresses that can stop threats and protect data when powered off. However, they haven't consistently given us the ability to easily and quickly lock down a single, sensitive file, which would make it as secure as possible. It's strange when you think about it, since it's a very old feature that should be possible without any tricks. Luckily, there is a straightforward solution to client-side file protection. You just have to look outside the apps you are given.

It can be hard to convey information in your smart home in an effective yet subtle manner. Mobile notifications work well for some things, but they can be easy to miss, and most of us receive too many of them anyway.

When people build a home audio system, they tend to prioritize raw output and deep bass. It's common, and I've even done it. It is easy to think that bigger is inherently better, and overspending on a single, massive unit that dominates your floor space won't create distortion. However, theater-level bass is really only needed in theaters; it won't do well in your home. By moving away from the temptation of the massive single box, you can get professional-grade audio without the premium price tag.

If you use ChatGPT, you already have access to Codex. At the time of writing, it’s available to both free and paid users. You can download it as a desktop app for Windows or macOS. It’s incredibly powerful, but most people ignore it because they assume it’s only meant for programmers. I understand why—after all, the word “code” is right there in its name—but Codex is too useful to overlook. Here are three reasons why I prefer it over the regular ChatGPT app.

Stephen Colbert has really put Barack Obama through the wringer. As well as challenging him to a rematch of wastepaper basketball and taking him on in a Wordle head-to-head, the Late Show host also gave the former U.S. president his famous "Colbert Questionert".

In the clip above Obama answers quickfire questions on everything from "favorite smell" to "earliest memory".

The sweetest answer? Probably his response to "Describe the rest of your life in five words", for which Obama uses three for his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha.

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Ncuti Gatwa is set to host the final episode of SNL UK Season 1 on May 16 and the regeneration jokes are out.

The Doctor Who star will join musical guest Holly Humberstone to close out first run of the UK version of Saturday Night Live, and the above teaser suggests it's going to be a delightful last ep.

Joining cast members Emma Sidi and Larry Dean, Gatwa appears on the SNL UK stage as a regeneration of last week's host, Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham, in full Fifteenth Doctor style (though for apparent copyright reasons, they can't mention the BBC show).

SNL UK has had a successful run in its first season with previous hosts Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed, Jack Whitehall, Nicola Coughlan, and Aimee Lou Wood.

The show has been renewed for a second season, coming this September.

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It's no secret that I'm a Windows user, although Linux is catching up fast in my house. I've been using Windows since the Windows for Workgroups days, so I've lived through more Start menu redesigns, control panel reshuffles, and "future of computing" experiments than I can count. I'm not someone who thinks every older version of Windows was automatically better. In a lot of ways, modern Windows is more stable, more secure, and more capable than it has ever been.

Amazon's Alexa is now available on the company's shopping app and website in the US, bringing a wide range of new capabilities. Customers can now visit the Amazon app or website to have Alexa support them with suggestions, guidance, and a couple of useful features while shopping.

These days, chances are you're learning about new experiences, attractions, and hotels through a social app, so why not book all those things directly through that app?

That appears to have been the line of reasoning for TikTok, which just announced TikTok Go, a new feature that lets you book local travel and tourism services in the TikTok app.

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TikTok Go allows you to book hotels (via partners such as Booking.com, Expedia, and Viator), as well as tours and various attractions. In an example provided by TikTok, a user sees someone posting a video from a hotel in San Francisco; a couple of taps later, the user is booking a room in that very hotel, all without leaving the TikTok app.

“Every day on TikTok, millions of people discover where to eat, where to stay, and what to do next. TikTok GO connects that moment of inspiration directly to the businesses behind it," Adam Presser, CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture (the American company established to oversee TikTok's U.S. operations), said in a statement.

There are benefits for content creators here, too, as they can earn commissions by featuring hotels, attractions, and other local services in their posts.

There are certain caveats, though. Users must be 18 or over to use the feature, and it's only available to users in the U.S. (for now).

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Windows 11's April update made several tangible improvements to the operating system which made it a bit easier to use. However, they didn't solve the main reason that I tweak the registry: customization. There are too many customization settings without easily-accessible toggles, and until that changes, the registry will be one of my go-to tools.

SAVE OVER $500: As of May 14, the Hisense 50-inch Hi-QLED S7 CanvasTV is down to its lowest-ever price of $798.99 at Amazon.

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The 50-inch Hisense Hi-QLED S7 CanvasTV launched just last month, and already Amazon is offering a stellar discount. If you've been hoping to grab this smaller sized art TV for your home, now is an excellent time to do it.

As of May 14, the Hisense 50-inch Hi-QLED S7 CanvasTV is down from $1,299.99 to $798.99. This marks its lowest-ever price at Amazon.

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We consider these our favorite budget art TVs in our roundup of the best art TVs, with Mashable's Leah Stodart writing: "The most well-known dupe for The Frame, the Hisense Canvas' value is hard to pass up if budget is a consideration at all."

This Hisense CanvasTV offers excellent picture quality for watching your favorite shows and movies. Boasting 4K resolution and QLED Color, alongside an anti-glare display that gets rid of reflections, every image is brought to life with vibrant, stunning detail. And for those who love to stream, it also comes with Google TV so you can access your favorite apps in one place.

If you've been searching for a new TV, this is a great opportunity to save on the Hisense 50-inch Hi-QLED S7 CanvasTV at Amazon.

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Not intent with merely beating the former president at wastepaper basketball (twice), Stephen Colbert also challenged him to a Wordle race during their recent interview.

In the clip above the two sit in near-silence while trying to complete the puzzle. Obama manages to get it in three, while Colbert claims to have managed it in two — although some text on the screen suggests he's actually cheated his way to victory.

Obama's response? "You seem intent, every time I'm on the show, to exert your superiority in some fashion."

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TL;DR: Walmart has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Display Box up for preorder at $244.77 with free shipping, putting it $20.33 under TCGplayer’s current $265.10 market price.

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As we get closer to Chaos Rising’s launch, some prices are starting to climb as leading retailers. But not Walmart, where you have a rare chance to get the expansion’s biggest lot of booster packs for under market price. 

As of May 14, Walmart has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Box listed for preorder at $244.77 with free shipping, sold and shipped by Revolution Sports Marketing. This will arrive a little later than Chaos Rising’s May 22 release date, with shipping expected to arrive by May 29.

TCGplayer’s current market price is $265.10, so Walmart is beating that by $20.33 before tax. The cheapest unopened presale listing on TCGplayer is also higher at $261.73 shipped, while the listed median is $268.08. Amazon is steeper, with its preorder price sitting at $296.43.

Each Chaos Rising Booster Display Box contains 36 booster packs from the new Mega Evolution expansion. At Walmart’s $244.77 preorder price, that works out to roughly $6.80 per pack before tax.

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The upcoming expansion includes more than 120 trading cards to collect, more new Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, over 25 Trainer cards, and more than 35 Pokémon and Trainer cards with special illustrations. The general theme is that Mega Floette ex is bringing trouble to the city, while Mega Greninja ex, Mega Pyroar ex, and Mega Dragalge ex are among the featured Pocket Monsters from Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

You can also grab single packs of Perfect Order on sale at Amazon. For more from Chaos Rising, single boosters are available for just over $13. 

Although currently not available on Amazon, the Pokémon TCG’s newly announced Pitch Black expansion is available to preorder at TCGplayer.

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Defying gravity is the default in the Fast & Furious films.

For 25 years, the series has sent vehicles of every shape, size, and price tag soaring into the air — whether a Lykan HyperSport jumping between multiple skyscrapers or a rocket-modified Pontiac Fiero being sent into actual orbit. 

Why drive the whole way to a rescue mission when you can airdrop your team in their own cars from a plane? Why stealth a heist from a police station when you can drag the whole safe out behind your car? Torpedo incoming? Just steer it with your own bare hands.

SEE ALSO: 'Fast X' review: How do you top blasting a car into space? Two words: Jason Momoa. 

Here, in chronological order (yes, to show you how chaotic things become), are the most ridiculous, physics-defying, jaw-dropping, or just plain silly stunts that have happened in the Fast & Furious franchise. You'll note there's nothing from the very first film, The Fast and the Furious, because there's nothing ridiculous about the best movie of the series.

Haven't seen the films? Well, before the below spoils it all for you, read Mashable's guide on where to watch all the Fast & Furious films.

1. The scramble in 2 Fast 2 Furious

Evading Miami's finest and intending to flee with villain Carter Verone's (Cole Hauser) millions, Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson) pull a scramble on the cops. Leading a Blues Brothers–worthy chase across the city, the pair drive into a garage, and with the help of Tej Parker (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) and Suki (Devon Aoki), hundreds of cars emerge. The switcheroo confuses (and smashes into) the cops, letting Brian and Roman escape the watchful eye of the FBI with the loot.

2. Muscle car smooshes luxury yacht in 2 Fast 2 Furious

In order to save undercover FBI agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) from Verone, Brian and Roman drive a 1969 Yenko Camaro SYC from land in the Florida Keys into the air and onto the villain's speeding luxury yacht. Luckily, Monica was below deck when they landed. The whole thing has The Man With the Golden Gun corkscrew jump energy. 

3. The Shibuya Crossing drift in Tokyo Drift

Racing through the world's busiest pedestrian crossing, Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing, Han (Sung Kang), Sean (Lucas Black), and Neela (Nathalie Kelley), pursued by Takashi Kamata (Brian Tee), drift around one of the corners in slow motion without hitting a single pedestrian. It's simply beautiful to watch.

Credit: Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock 4. Dom scooching under a tanker in Fast & Furious

Eight years after the original film, the main cast is back together and still hijacking trucks, this time in the Dominican Republic. When everything goes wrong with a gas tanker target, we end up in a situation where Dom and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are staring down the face of a burning, tumbling tanker coming straight for their 1987 Buick Grand National. Picking the absolute last moment, Dom stomps the accelerator and manages to scooch just underneath the perfectly bouncing blaze of doom. 

5. Dom drives out of a moving, burning train in Fast Five Credit: Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock

After their great train robbery goes pear-shaped at the start of Fast Five, Dom drives a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport out of a moving carriage with a perfect landing, then manages to drive close enough to save Brian from a burning rig before he gets smooshed by the upcoming rail bridge. With no room to brake, Dom drives the frankly stunning car off a cliff as Brian and Dom leap from the car in slow motion free fall. 

6. The exploding toilet in Fast Five

As part of their plan to rob the police station vault and drive away with Reyes' cash, Tego Leo (Tego Calderón) and Rico Santos (Don Omar) are tasked with blowing up the facility's plumbing in order to gain access to the station's surveillance system. Finding the right pipe in the basement, the pair set the charges as we watch an evidence technician (Carlos Sanchez) unknowingly wander into the bathrooms with a newspaper, set for a long stay. Yes, whatever you're thinking is exactly what happens. A brown plume of excrement and putrid water explodes through the stalls and all over the officer. Noice.

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When the opp for subtlety goes out the window in the Reyes heist in Fast Five, DSS allies Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) bust into the police compound using an armored vehicle and plunge straight into the wall where the Brazilian drug lord's vault sits. Following closely behind, Dom and Brian attach strong cables to the safe and their cars. You know where this is going. Our heroes pull that thing right out of the wall and drag it through the streets of Rio pursued by every cop in town. Suffice it to say, corners prove a curse and a blessing for this supersized flail.

8. The tank flip-and-catch in Fast & Furious 6

During the final chase sequence in Fast & Furious 6, when villain Owen Shaw's (Luke Evans) crew attacks a military convoy, the bad guy drives a tank through the front of an armored vehicle, then starts firing on Dom and his team and driving through civilians. Roman ends up in front of the tank, but is saved by jumping onto Brian's car, but not before he ties his own Mustang to the tank with a cable. Using this as an "anchor," Brian shoves the Mustang off the raised highway bridge. It'd be a good plan if Letty hadn't been standing on top of the speeding tank when it gets flipped. Luckily, Dom opens his own car door just as Letty gets flung into the air between two raised highways. Dom slams his own car into the barrier, flies through the sky, catches Letty, and lands on the hood of a car on the opposite road. What aim!

Credit: Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock 9. The airborne multi-car drop in Furious 7

In order to rescue hacker Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), who has been captured by terrorist Mose Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) for her facial recognition technology God's Eye, the team decides to use the element of surprise by launching their vehicles from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules plane. In a highly complicated stunt devised by stunt veteran Spiro Razatos, the Family airdrops their cars over Azerbaijan's Caucasus Mountains. We're talking Dom's 1970 Dodge Charger R/T, Brian's 2012 Subaru Impreza WRX STi, Tej's 2015 armored Jeep Wrangler, Letty's 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT, and Roman's 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, all just dropped from the sky.

10. Brian's close call in Furious 7

In a scene reminiscent of Uncharted or The Lost World, Brian finds himself at the edge of a cliff in a teetering bus-like vehicle during Ramsey's rescue in Furious 7. Getting out of that thing at the last minute and running up its length, Brian makes a last-minute jump and grabs Letty's conveniently timed rear spoiler, saving his ass.

Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock 11. The "cars don't fly" triple skyscraper jump in Furious 7

This has to be one of the best stunts in the entire Fast franchise.

Watching Diesel drive a $3.4 million dollar Lykan HyperSport through not one but two of Abu Dhabi's Etihad Towers is, genuinely, just one of the major stunts in Furious 7. But folks, it's fucking beautiful. "Dom, cars don't fly," Brian insists before Dom makes them do exactly that, eventually sending the prince's car plummeting to the ground in an audibly sad moan. 

12. Dom's strangely effective street stomp in Furious 7

After Jakande's helicopter sends a missile into the parking garage where Dom and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) are wrench fighting, the floor cracks. Dom says the line, "Thing about street fights. The street always wins," and stomps on the concrete so Shaw falls into an abyss. Perfect.

13. Dom and Hobbs' team helicopter takedown in Furious 7

With a broken arm released from its cast with an outstandingly ridiculous muscle flex — "Daddy's gotta go to work" — Hobbs not only drives an ambulance off a bridge into a drone, but drags its minigun down the street to fire at Jakande's helicopter. Dom outruns the collapsing parking lot in his car, drives up a ramp, does a jump toward the helicopter, hangs a bag of grenades neatly on the side of it, then crashes. Hobbs then shoots said bag of grenades with his pistol. It's a little too good.

14. Dom's shitbox car race in The Fate of the Furious

In the opening sequence of The Fate of the Furious, Dom stands up for his cousin Fernando (Janmarco Santiago) by challenging Raldo (Celestino Cornielle) to a race through the streets of Havana. Problem is, he's got to use his cousin's car, a 1950 Chevrolet Fleetline falling apart at the seams. Letty and Dom add a little NOS under the hood, which works but also makes his engine burst into flames, so he drives the thing backwards.

Credit: Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock 15. Tej's wrecking ball bowling in The Fate of the Furious

Hobbs requests Dom and team to meet in Berlin for a job involving the theft of an EMP and blowing up a facility in Berlin. As the crew spilt in their cars at the perfect moment, Tej releases a giant wrecking ball right into the German police cars pursuing them — and back again. 

16. The night of the living remote-controlled cars in The Fate of the Furious

"It's zombie time." In pursuit of the Russian defence minister, cyber terrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron) takes control of every chip within a three-mile radius in Manhattan, meaning every car becomes under her control. "Make it rain" means cars fly out a skyscraper garage window like giant, metal drops.  

17. Hobbs steering a torpedo with his bare hands in The Fate of the Furious

When Cipher's submarine launches torpedoes at the Family speeding across the ice, Hobbs asks Roman to take the wheel of the enormous armored vehicle they're both in, gets out, holds the torpedo that's speeding across the ice with his bare hands, then has Roman turn the wheel left and back to point it at one of the enemy vehicles. It's so casual it should be banned.

18. Roman's underwater rescue in The Fate of the Furious 

During the ice pursuit, Roman is spinning out on ice in his Lamborghini Murciélago LP640. As their enemies send missiles and create a massive hole in the ice, Roman's Lambo goes in nose-first. Tej, driving an army tank, grapple-hooks Roman's door and pulls him through the ice with his door like a sled. 

Credit: Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock 19. Dom blowing up a military sub in The Fate of the Furious 

Cipher's prize, the nuclear missile on a Russian military submarine, means a wonderfully ridiculous sequence of events that leads to the villain hitting the green button on heat-seeking missiles aimed at Dom's car (after she's broken the ice with it). Unfortunately for Cipher, Dom leads them right to a much bigger target, the submarine she's attempting to get to open water, leaping over it in his custom Dodge Charger and surviving the subsequent explosion.

20. Shaw's baby rescue in The Fate of the Furious

Shaw brothers reunited! Dom trusts new ally Deckard Shaw with Cipher's plane coordinates, allowing him to infiltrate the villain's base with his brother Owen, the villain from Fast & Furious 6. His target? Dom's surprise son, who Cipher has kidnapped. Finding the wee bairn, Shaw pops some baby headphones on his little head, plays "The Chipmunk Song" by Alvin and the Chipmunks, and gives the little one a wink before beating and shooting the shit out of Cipher's henchmen. It's weirdly adorable.

Credit: Matt Kennedy / Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock 21. Roman's land mines scrape in F9

In the jungle of Montequinto, the landmines “how fast do we have to drive to beat them” sequence in F9 is some highly stressful action. Driving over a mine, Roman's dramatically armored vehicle gets caught, explodes into the air, and becomes wedged between two enormous boulders hanging over another landmine. Roman slowly edges his way out of the truck, comes face to face with the mine, and rolls away, seemingly smooshed by the truck during the explosion. But he's OK! "How in the hell are you not dead?" asks an incredulous Tej. 

Credit: Universal Pictures / Moviestore / Shutterstock 22. The feeble rope bridge swing in F9

Driving a heavy vehicle over a rope bridge seems like a decision, and it's one that ends up exactly how you think it will in F9. During the Montequinto sequence, a tumbling vehicle cuts off the rope bridge while Ramsey, Tej, and Roman are crossing it, but they manage to drive up the last few planks. When Letty and Dom try to use the same bridge to escape their pursuers, Dom somehow sweeps up the singular rope left from the broken bridge in his wheel to swing across the chasm in their car.

"Well that was new," says Letty.

23. Tej and Roman go to space in F9

This is the big one, folks. SPACE.

In order to destroy the satellite Cipher is planning to use, Roman and Tej are tasked with becoming real, actual, genuine, sort of astronauts. In a rocket-modified Pontiac Fiero equipped by the Tokyo Drift team, Tej and Roman blast off through the atmosphere and successfully enter orbit while screaming the classic Han Solo line, "PUNCH IT!"

Credit: Universal Pictures / Moviestore / Shutterstock 24. Dom's magnet sandwich in F9

Magnets get a good run in F9, including when non-driver Ramsey makes a meal out of Edinburgh during a chase sequence, pulling smartphones and keys from school kids along the way, and pulling villain Otto's (Thue Ersted Rasmussen) car through a building.

But the best sequence is the epic chase scene, which includes Dom's magnet sandwich — when two enormous armored vehicles get stuck to Dom's Charger, then propelled away, totalling a stream of parked cars.

25. Dante's Indiana Jones-style bomb through Rome in Fast X

Perched in his marble tower with a remote control device, a cackling Dante (Jason Momoa) unleashes a giant spherical bomb upon the streets of Rome. Singing Neapolitan opera classic "O sole mio," into the Family's earpieces, Dante has a rather dramatic target in mind. "What are we blowing up?" Dante teasingly asks his captive henchmen. "The Vatican? Wow. You guys are going to hell."

As the bomb picks up speed rolling toward St. Peters, the whole scene has the effect of a Raiders of the Lost Ark–style ball chase, as Letty tries to evade it on her motorbike, and Dom drives backwards down ancient Roman stairs to get out of its way. It's all ridiculous.  

Credit: Universal Pictures

At one point, it hurtles past an outdoor restaurant. In pursuit, Dom, not one to let diners get fried, manages to pull what's known as a skiing stunt (driving on two wheels on one side of the car) to drag the awning of the restaurant down with his car, blocking the fiery inferno. Such manners.

26. Dom's crane bomb pinball in Fast X

It's got to be one of the best stunts in Fast X.

As Dante's flaming bomb hurtles toward St. Peters and Vatican City, Dom hits the NOS button and charges into a crane on a bridge, which whips around and pinballs the bomb straight into the Tiber River seconds before it explodes. 

Credit: Universal Pictures 27. Jakob's vodka-powered aircraft in Fast X

Escaping assailants on their flight, Jakob (John Cena) and Little B ((Leo Abelo Perry) get help from a flight attendant (played by Paul Walker's daughter, Meadow), who places three tiny bottles of vodka on Jakob's tray. "It's good to have friends in high places,” says Jakob, before taking Little B into the hold, where a tiny aircraft is waiting — Jakob had disguised it as a kayak for check-in. Those three tiny 50 milliliter bottles of vodka? The fuel for the plane. Now, I'm no scientist, but how this plane makes it to a safe landing is beyond me.  

28. Dom's plane drop in the Charger in Fast X

This one feels like a throwback to the plane drop in Furious 7. As Dante pursues Jakob's cannon-customised 1967 Chevrolet El Camino in order to kidnap Little B, Dom figures the fastest way to reach his enemy is by airdropping his Dodge Charger on top of the car of one of Dante's henchmen. He lands it and drives right into the race.

Credit: Universal Pictures 29. Dom leashed by two helicopters in Fast X

During the final showdown between Dom and Dante, Dom's Charger is leashed by two helicopters. Casual. How would a Toretto get out of such a predicament? NOS, of course. Dom hits the button and launches off the highway he's on, which pulls the helicopters together and makes them smash around and hit a bunch of cars. In all this, Dom manages to catch his son Little B midair, jumping from the villain's car into his father's.

"Did you hit me with a helicopter back there? Ow! Ya big brute," is all Dante can say about all this. 

Credit: Universal Studios  30. The dam slide in Fast X

The minute you see the dam in Fast X, you know where this is going. Dom finds himself in the centre of the top of Aldeadávila Dam in Salamanca, Spain, with Dante's remote-controlled semi-trailers at each end. As the trucks hurtle toward Dom and Little B, there's only one option. Dom floors it, drives off the edge of the dam and down its face as an enormous explosion chases them. Tires burning, Dom hits the NOS, and makes it to the water below. 

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UPDATE: May. 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m. This story originally published in 2023 and has been republished for the 25th anniversary of 'The Fast and the Furious.'