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First announced and demonstrated at CES 2026, Philips Hue’s new SpatialAware feature that better distributes the colored lighting in a preset scene around a room is now available through the mobile app. The feature requires the Hue Bridge Pro and you’ll need to scan each room using your smartphone’s camera first.
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It was inevitable, but Belkin will be the first company with a case turning your tablet into Toy Story 5’s new Lily Pad character. The $49.99 case is made from EVA foam and features both a built-in carrying handle and a folding kickstand. Hopefully it doesn’t come preset to villain mode.
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Apple is adding an “Apple Intelligence Tools” section to the Photos app editor, which will include four AI features: Extend, Enhance, Reframe, and Clean Up, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Clean Up is the only AI editing tool already available in the Photos app, but it fell short of Google’s Magic Editor in our testing after its debut last year.
Molo went to gesture to Altman to ask if, as he sat there today, safety was important to him. But Altman, who was here for the opening arguments, left afterward.
“I work 80 to 100 hours a week,” Musk says. He says he doesn’t take vacations, own vacation homes, or own a yacht. He also spends an awful lot of time posting to X.com, doesn’t he?
After suspending preorders for its $1,999 Next 2 handheld because the rising cost of storage made it too expensive to build, Ayaneo says it has been ”forced to increase prices across most product lines” as a result of the RAM shortage. It has also restocked several of its best selling handhelds including the Pocket DS, but in very limited quantities.
Elon Musk says from the stand that Neuralink’s “long-term goal is AI safety in the sense that if we can closely tie the human world to AI... if there’s symbiosis we’re more likely to have a future with AI that’s good for humanity.” Sure!
I wasn’t the biggest fan of Tales From ‘85, the animated Stranger Things spinoff, but it evidently did well enough that there’s more in store. Netflix has confirmed it’s coming back for season 2, and it’s happening soon — it’ll start streaming this fall.
Spending $24.99 on Corsair’s new ThermalProtect PCIe 5.1 600W 12V-2x6 cable could save you from having to replace a GPU that cost you well north of a grand. The cable’s built-in sensor monitors and detects when operating temperatures get unsafe, automatically shutting down the GPU before any melting or burning causing serious damage occurs.
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