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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
That’s a wrap!

We’re done for the day.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Hue’s SpatialAware feature is here to adapt colorful lighting scenes to your room’s layout.

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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A room illuminated by various Philips Hue products using its new SpatialAware feature.
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Bring home Toy Story 5’s evil tablet with Belkin’s new iPad case.

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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An iPad inside Belkin’s Toy Story 5 Lily Pad tablet case.
Image: Belkin
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
iOS 27 will bring more AI photo editing features to iPhones this fall.

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.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Sam Altman left during a break, but Elon Musk’s lawyer didn’t notice.

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.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Musk claims he has time for SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company because he works a lot.

“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?

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Ayaneo is raising prices for most of its products due to the RAM shortage.

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.

A person holding and playing a game on an Ayaneo console.
Image: Ayaneo
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Neuralink’s long-term goal is... AI?

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!

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A TV show renewal? I’ve seen stranger things.

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.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Corsair’s new power cable shuts down your GPU before overheating causes damage.

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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Corsair’s ThermalProtect PCIe 5.1 600W 12V-2x6 cable connected to a GPU inside a computer case.
The cable is available in black or white, compatible with any hardware using the 12V-2x6 interface, and features gray tips so you can visually confirm it’s plugged all the way in.
Image: Corsair
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elon Musk, looking funereal in a black suit with a black tie, says “it’s not okay to steal a charity.”

He claims that if the jury finds in favor of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft, “it will become precedent and give precedent to looting every charity in America.”