Originally announced earlier this year during IFA 2026, the Narwal V50 Cube, the company’s first cordless vacuum for the US market, is now available for $649.99 with a temporary discount to $499.99 until November 30th. The V50 pairs a lay flat stick vac with 180 minutes of cleaning time with an auto-empty charging dock that’s reminiscent of the Cybertruck.

The latest Google Home update fixes an issue where Gemini “could occasionally say ‘Sorry, I didn’t understand’ unprompted when no one had spoken to the device.” It also improves Gemini’s ability to distinguish between sleep alarms and regular timers, as well as understand requests to transfer music to a device in another room.

It may look like a frozen turkey-shaped Game Boy, but the Butterball Buddy is played more like a game of hot potato. You pass it around and when it stops making noise the person holding it is randomly assigned a Thanksgiving Day task like helping the chef or washing dishes. You can win one through Butterball’s website, and the rest of the year it functions as a kitchen timer.

Sega Fave — Sega’s arcade-focused subsidiary — says an unauthorized third party accessed its systems, forcing it to suspend the online services it provides across games like Taiko no Tatsujin and Initial D: The Arcade, as reported by Kotaku. The machines will remain offline while Sega Fave investigates the incident.

Reuters cites a report by Korean outlet Maeil Business Newspaper saying AMD has reserved most of the RAM from Samsung’s second Taylor, Texas chip plant, with some also going to Nvidia. It’s expected to start mass production in 2030, and will use Samsung’s “advanced 2-nanometre technology.”

The latest Google Play Services changelog reveals the feature, which uses Quick Share to automatically back photos up to a Windows PC, no cloud storage required. There’s no word yet on how quickly it will actually roll out across devices, but Android Authority has the details on how it should work, based on previous leaks.

The company describes the new accessory as a “fully integrated tech-enabled helmet from GoPro x AGV” which you can see quick glimpses of in a short teaser video. The integrated GoPro camera’s lens is positioned just below the visor on the front of the helmet. A release date isn’t known, but you can sign up for more details on GoPro’s site.

Google’s newly reinvigorated photo editing app just got new features across iOS and Android in its 4.2 update. The big one is the ability to import presets and LUTs, but there are also improvements to sharing Looks and LUTs, motion blur and lens blur effects, and full multi-wheel color grading on Android.

The latest firmware for the desktop productivity tool adds a JavaScript runtime so developers can create their own apps like live data widgets, games, and smart alerts that run right on the device. At the end of November, the company also plans to launch a “Busy Apps Catalog” featuring a curated collection of community-built apps available for download.

Dan Driscoll will head up “national security modernization” in a newly-created role, OpenAI said Tuesday, advising company leadership and external partners on AI’s uses in defense. The role will focus on helping US allies adopt AI responsibly and supporting “the buildout of democratic AI.” Driscoll resigned as Army Secretary two months ago.

The indie game hosting platform didn’t specifiy what was purged, but it has clear creator guidelines around acceptable AI usage. The cleanup comes after itch.io reported that daily game submissions have doubled in two months. Meanwhile, almost half of all games released on Steam in October disclosed AI-generated content.

Affinity announced on X that a Linux version is “in active development,” but didn’t share a launch date. After being acquired by Canva, Affinity for Windows and macOS was relaunched last year as a free all-in-one app for vector graphics, photo editing, illustration, and page layouts, with an iPad version introduced this week.

The creator behind AO3.life, a vibe-coded website that scraped the Archive of Our Own fanfiction repository and re-sold content as AI audiobooks, said they received over 2,000 takedown requests during the single day the website was live. The real AO3 platform is still suffering a partial system outage after announcing some lengthy downtime last Thursday.

Here’s the GitHub for the $100 Jsaux E-Ink Faceplate, and here’s the GitHub for the $90 Pixel Matrix. The company isn’t open-sourcing what you need to flash new firmware, though — just a portion of the software that could beam your content to the panels. For a refresher, here’s my Today I’m Toying With video:

3D-converted movies could be in for another big push, as Deadline reports the arrangement between Meta and Lionsgate will start with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

A banner in the app says the app will “retire” on January 30th, 2027, according to 9to5Mac. The banner also points users toward the updated app, which was released earlier this year.

Don’t get too excited yet; it’s running in a virtual machine, and trees and water in The Witcher 3 aren’t supposed to look like that! But SteamOS on Arm-based Macs is now a thing with surprisingly decent performance, ETA Prime demonstrates in this video. Here’s the GitHub page.

Streaming all your video games seems like such a good, simple idea. All your games, everywhere, on any screen you like — it’s the dream! The Verge’s Sean Hollister explains how the tech works now (which might be better than you think), why it’ll take a huge amount of work to make it even a little bit better, and why games like Grand Theft Auto VI probably can’t just live in the cloud.

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According to TechCrunch, OpenAI said in an email to users that it’s merging ChatGPT’s chat and work tabs, but Codex will remain separate. OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux said on X that it’s “working on this but it’s not rolling out just yet.” Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork earlier this year.

Nagoshi Studio will never get to release its first game Gang of Dragon, because China’s NetEase stopped funding the studio this summer and it couldn’t find the investment to go indie. We’ve lost a lot of game studios this year, not to mention around 11,000 game developer jobs, but a few studios have managed to go indie.