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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    Valve made it easier to find games on your Steam wishlist.

    As GamesRadar+ reports, you can now create custom categories for your wishlist, like “buy when on sale,” which could make organization easier for those of us with giant Steam wishlists (myself included). You can filter your wishlist by category and set custom notifications for specific categories.

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    A screenshot of the custom categories editor in a Steam wishlist
    Image: Valve
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked in 15 minutes.

    If you missed Samsung’s event today, you can watch all the highlights here, including the redesigned Galaxy Z Fold 8, the new Z Fold 8 Ultra, and an updated Z Flip 8. You can also check out today’s episode of The Vergecast to hear more about everything Samsung announced.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Google Meet’s new homepage gives you an overview of your meetings.

    The “revamped” homepage, rolling out starting today, lists all of your upcoming meetings with links to notes and calendar attachments for each one. It also has options for navigating through weeks and months to see past and future meetings.

    A screenshot of the redesigned Google Meet homepage
    Image: Google
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Meta’s adding parental supervision tools on Threads.

    Starting next week, Meta’s Family Center will have options for parents to adjust their teens’ Threads account privacy and content settings, similar to parental controls on Meta’s other apps.

    Parents will also be able to see and limit how much time their teens spend on Threads and manage who can tag their teens.

    Screenshots of Meta’s parental supervision controls for Threads
    Image: Meta
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    Stevie Bonifield
    MSI’s special-edition dragon laptop costs nearly $7,000.

    The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic marks MSI’s 40th anniversary by maxing out the already-pricey Titan with a flashy dragon design, 96GB of DDR5 RAM, an Nvidia RTX 5090, and an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. At least the $6,999 price tag also includes a bundled copy of LEGO Batman.

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    A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid closed
    A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid open
    A photo of the keyboard deck on the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Google reportedly leaked the Pixel 11 Pro XL.

    According to a Droid Life report, spotted by 9to5Google, an image of the phone briefly showed up on the Google Fi website, ahead of an August 12th Pixel launch event. Google appears to have removed the image, but the phone in Droid Life’s screenshot matches the “Dune” colorway in an earlier Pixel 11 leak.

    A screenshot of a removed Google Fi ad for the Pixel 11 Pro XL, via Droid Life
    Image: Droid Life
    Image: Google / Droid Life