Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME's Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations from TIME's editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process, paying special attention to growing fields--such as health care, AI, and green energy. We then evaluated each contender on a number of key factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact. The result is a list of 200 groundbreaking inventions (and 50 special mention inventions)--including the world's largest computer chip, a humanoid robot joining the workforce, and a bioluminescent houseplant--that are changing how we live, work, play, and think about what's possible.

Is it...is it summer already? I locked the door to my apartment in March when it was cold and blustery outside and...well, it's June in San Francisco, so it's probably cold and blustery outside. But the point is that I'm reduced to marking time by the various Steam sales, and that means today it's summer. Yes, the Steam Summer Sale kicks off Thursday, and runs through July 9 at 10AM Pacific. "Rewards" is a bit strong of a term maybe, given it's all profile backgrounds and chat effects and the like, but hey, it's a "souvenir" of the sale, as Valve puts it.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been a highlight of the last two E3s, so of course we couldn't have this year's Fake E3 without it. Today CD Projekt ran its debut Night City Wire stream, where we got probably our best look at Cyberpunk 2077. Less guided and less constrained than the previous demos, I feel like this is the first time Cyberpunk 2077 felt like...well, a video game. The highlight of the stream was probably the new trailer. CD Projekt stated that all of the new footage came from the prologue, which like The Witcher 3 means I'm guessing we've got a 10- to 15-hour intro ahead of us.

When Crystal Dynamics's Avengers game got delayed, it left a pretty large hole in the spring release schedule. I can't say I was surprised though. Last year's reveal didn't go quite as smoothly as Square Enix (and Marvel) presumably hoped. The loudest detractors merely complained that the titular Avengers didn't look like their film-screen counterparts, but concerns about level design and repetitive combat abounded as well. Crystal Dynamics broke radio silence today to reintroduce Marvel's Avengers in the first of what it's calling its "War Table" streams.

A bowl of salad is a beautiful collection of human ingenuity. The lettuce requires its own specialized agricultural process, as do the tomatoes, as do the garbanzo beans. Then comes the simple act of pulling these ingredients out of the ground, a challenge our dextrous human hands complete with ease. This is why roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies. There's the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water.

There are eight films nominated to win Best Picture at the 2019 Academy Awards. Following an impressive 94 percent score in predicting last year's Oscars, a San Francisco-based technology firm, thinks it has correctly predicted the winner for Sunday night's show. Unanimous A.I. uses its so-called "swarm A.I." technology to create an artificial intelligence comprised of a hive-mind of dozens of movie experts. The firm regularly predicts the results for the World Cup, NFL games, politics, and even Game of Thrones plot lines. This week, it shared the results of its 2019 Oscar predictions with Inverse.

What's below is the result of a challenge: can a company that helps patients find the right doctor identify the best physicians over all, or at least come close? Last year, I wrote a magazine profile of a company called Grand Rounds, which aims to meticulously comb through data on physicians – everything from what they prescribe to the wait times in their parking lots--to match patients with the right doctor for them. The company's founder, Owen Tripp, even used the service himself when a type of tumor was found in his ear. "It's not that there aren't good doctors, and it's certainly not that there aren't enough of them," Tripp said last week at the Forbes Healthcare Summit. OK, smart guy, I said.