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Its PowerDetect UV Reveal now comes in four colors — brown, green, blue, and ivory. The earthy neutral palettes feature metallic accents and look surprisingly good — for a robot. I’ve been testing the blue one, and I like how it blends in with my kitchen cabinets.

Microsoft has a vision for its future AI hardware concepts, including an AI ID badge. It doesn’t feel entirely new, but it does feel very Microsoft.

The EU’s General Court said the European Commission’s decision to designate Facebook Marketplace as a gatekeeper service under Digital Markets Act rules “lacks sufficient reasoning,” and that it should be exempt from the regulation. Meta also tried to appeal Messenger’s designation, but that decision stands firm.

The “Model Capability Initiative” that records staff’s computing activity for AI training is being updated following backlash. Now, Meta employees can pause MCI for up to 30 minutes, and staff who handle sensitive content, work remotely, or have concerns regarding bandwidth or device battery can be exempt from using it.

The former Republican congressman claimed in a video on X that he would be at the State of the Union in February, but didn’t show up. Now, according to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn’s sources, the DOJ and CFTC are investigating whether Santos made tens of thousands of dollars betting on Kalshi that he wouldn’t be there.

Ace Combat’s been a lovely mix of anime plot and dogfighting action for a long time now, and it looks like we’re getting even more of the former with installment eight. So many pretty cutscenes, where we generally get comparatively static exposition.

It uses data from your pictures to mix and match outfits in a virtual try-on you can save and share. It’s rolling out in the US, India, and Brazil as part of the June Android drop, starting with AI Pro/Ultra subscribers and “other select users” on Android, but you’ll need at least 1,000 photos of yourself to be eligible to try it out without a subscription.

Nvidia is betting that AI is going to change the way you use your computer — and with a new chip, the RTX Spark, it’s hoping to ensure it powers that new-fangled AI machine. The Verge’s Sean Hollister explains what’s inside the Spark, why Nvidia is taking on Apple, Intel, AMD, and the rest of the chip industry, and whether the world’s most valuable company has a shot at reinventing the personal computer. Without charging a fortune.

The new feature in Google Home lets you add your pets’ faces to your indoor cameras, so you get alerts that tell you which cat is walking on the counter rather than just that a cat is traversing the kitchen. To enable it, type your pet’s name and species into the Ask Home search box in the Home app; you need Google Home Premium Advanced ($20/month).

Microsoft’s new publication has a familiar name and is aimed at developers, kicking off with information about the launch of Project Solara, its agentic AI hardware-focused platform.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Execution Containers, a policy-driven layer to make it more secure to run things like OpenClaw on Windows. It’s going a step further too, by allowing a companion app for OpenClaw to run contained on Windows PCs. It should stop AI agents like OpenClaw from deleting all your files. “You can totally run OpenClaw inside your company now,” says OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger.

Microsoft just introduced a couple of concept gadgets at Build 2026 that are powered by a new platform, Project Solara, which is made to run AI agents on devices taking the form of everything from smart speakers to security badges or earbuds.

With this expansion of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing initiative, organizations in “several industries that weren’t well represented” in the initial cohort, like power, water, and healthcare, will get access to the model so they can use it to find security vulnerabilities.

After introducing its smallest instant camera in 2021, Polaroid has updated the Go for a second time. The new Go Generation 3 is now available for $89.99 and features a faster shutter, stronger flash, and an upgraded lens positioned deeper in the camera to deliver better contrast and sharper images.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is on stage at Microsoft Build this morning, albeit virtually. He says Nvidia started working with Microsoft on RTX Spark about three years ago, and it has led to the creation of the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box.

Microsoft just launched a new Surface Dev Box, and the company is already using the machine live on stage at Build. The top looks like the vent on an Xbox Series X, and inside there’s an Nvidia RTX Spark chip and 128GB of unified memory. Overall, I’d say it looks like a flattened Xbox Series X.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has started his Build developer keynote by focusing on Windows immediately. Microsoft is expanding Windows AI APIs to more PCs, through CPU, GPU, and NPU support. There are two new local AI Windows models too, Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan.

It’s nearly time for Microsoft’s annual developer event. The Build keynote kicks off at 9:30AM PT / 12:30PM ET / 5:30PM UK. I’m expecting we’ll hear a lot about new Microsoft AI models, Windows dev improvements, and a little surprise or two.

The BodyFit, available starting today, is a more affordable alternative to Withings’s $600 “longevity station” BodyScan 2 or the original BodyScan, which got a tariff price hike to $499.95 last year. Withings claims the BodyFit can deliver a “DEXA-level” “full-spectrum, 6-zone body composition scan in just 10 seconds.”

Robots have been an important part of Disney’s theme parks for decades, but instead of entertaining guests, this industrial arm is being used to carve intricate marble statues while human sculptors add fine details. The use of marble is more cost-effective, according to Disney, and better suited to surviving Florida weather.

The company showed off the Y50 RGB during Computex 2026, which costs just $99.99. It supports an array of motherboard sizes and comes with the same three-piece panoramic glass as the pricier Y70.