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Announced at Computex, Asus’s new Ascent QN10 is the first mini-PC to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite. It has quite the port selection, including three USB4 and four USB-A. And it’s under 0.7L in volume, which is about 0.1L smaller than the tiny M4 Mac Mini. But did I mention its power button is not on the bottom?

As Bloomberg reports, SK Hynix chairman Chey Tae-won says the company will do “whatever it requires” to expand chip production, but that will take years. So, unfortunately for anyone trying to buy a Steam Deck or build a gaming PC right now, the RAM shortage probably isn’t ending anytime soon.

For a fraction of Leica’s first $7,900 ultra-short throw projector, the new Cine Compact 1 is built around a triple RGB laser and 360-degree mount to project a 4K image onto walls and ceilings. The all-in-one projector runs the Linux-based VIDAA OS originally developed by Hisense which supports Netflix streaming, AirPlay, and Dolby Vision. Leica says brightness can hit “1,700 lumens,” but fails to say how they’re measured — shame, shame.

The smart lighting company best known for its modular RGB lighting panels has been acquired by OneRobotics, the parent company of Switchbot. According to a filing on the Hong Kong stock exchange, the purchase will take two years to complete.

In addition to adding the soundtrack to Mario Kart World, Nintendo Music has been updated so you can now listen on a computer through a web browser, on a compatible tablet giving you more screen real estate for browsing, or in a vehicle with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto with support for voice commands.

iOS users now have the option to “React with Video” under the reposting symbol on the X app, allowing you to respond to clips and static images by recording yourself. You can choose between green screen, split screen, or picture-in-picture recording styles.

The ‘90s are in right now, and with a new Microsoft antitrust case on the horizon, even the Federal Trade Commission is getting into the spirit.

The platform is testing a way to limit teens from seeing too many posts related to topics like nutrition, weightlifting, or anxiety management. It sounds similar to the “nudge” notifications Instagram launched in 2022, though this one will apply across home, explore, and reels feeds.

Prime members in the US will have the chance to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in select theaters on July 29th, two days before the movie is widely released stateside. Tickets will be available here, and you can sign up to be notified when they go on sale.

Alongside a $35 outdoor camera, $23 plug-in indoor cam, and $45 wired video doorbell launched last week, the retailer has leaked a floodlight camera at the end of a promo video. Question is, will it or the rumored Onn speaker launch first?

That’s Dave Limp, Blue Origin CEO, commenting on New Glenn’s return to service after last week’s spectacular explosion that seriously damaged LC-36 — the rocket’s only launchpad. If the timeline holds it would be on the optimistic side of estimates and good news for NASA and Amazon who need the partially reusable, heavy-lift launch vehicle operational to meet their respective targets of returning to the Moon and competing with Starlink.

Today marks eight months since Lego’s Game Boy officially went on sale — and since Natalie The Nerd brought it to life the very same day with real Game Boy circuitry. Her drop-in kit still isn’t ready, but can you blame her when the result keeps getting better? Just watch:

Asus is launching various Vivobooks and ExperBooks at Computex, but I’m most interested in the Zenbook 14 with a base-level Snapdragon X1-26-100. It’ll come in AMD and Intel configs too, but the Qualcomm version will start with a lowly 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD.

Along with a new ARM CPU for Windows laptops, Nvidia’s Computex news includes another feature it’s adding to the DLSS 4.5 suite ahead of that other DLSS AI graphics update. Called Ray Reconstruction, it uses a second generation transformer AI model to “generate higher-quality pixels in the noisy parts of a ray traced frame where rays were not sampled.”

Apple’s new iOS update is exclusive to its latest handsets, to address “an issue for a small number of users that may prevent wired charging on iPhone Air and iPhone 17 models when the battery is nearly drained.” Don’t worry if you notice it lists a huge download size, iOS 26.5.1 is not actually that big of a download and it will take far longer to actually install it.

”This means that viewers on mobile will see a full screen vertical view optimized for mobile devices, and viewers watching on a desktop will see the classic horizontal format,” Twitch says.

The @obamawhitehouse account briefly showed images of Iranian propaganda, which have since been taken down, as spotted earlier by TMZ. The account belonging to the US Space Force Chief Master Sergeant was also hijacked.

Apple’s Greg Joswiak is teasing a very glowy logo ahead of next week’s WWDC — one that could match the rumored design for Siri’s big upgrade that’s expected to be revealed at the show. I like it.

I’ve had “100 ways to use your phone less without really trying” on my list of story ideas for forever, and the list I’ve been compiling looks a lot like this one from our friends at New York. My personal favorites: finding something else to occupy your hands, setting up a Brick, and charging your phone somewhere you don’t hang out. But practically everything here is good, easy advice to follow!

404 Media sued ICE to get documents related to its $2 million contract with the spyware company Paragon. In response, ICE sent back heavily redacted documents that provide little insight into the surveillance tool, which can be used to remotely hack people’s phones without their knowledge — and can even break into their encrypted messaging apps.

The Omotesando, Tokyo Google Store will be Google’s first physical store outside the US, as Engadget reports. It will also be Google’s 11th store worldwide since opening its first physical store in 2021. Google says the new shop will offer Pixel devices, AI experiences, on-site repairs, and online order pickups.

Tech companies want to film you doing chores as training data for the next generation of household robots. If you’re not a fan, and don’t mind living in chaos, there’s always another way to participate.

Nvidia says it’s working with everyone to get software ready for RTX Spark laptops this fall, but as for Adobe, Premiere is getting a whole new video pipeline to take advantage of Spark’s up-to-128GB of unified memory, and Nvidia says Photoshop is “transitioning from 5 percent to 100 percent GPU accelerated processing.” Just ask AI agents to transform your images, too.

Nvidia tells us over 30 laptops and 10 desktops are currently in the works with its “most efficient PC chip ever built,” but today it’s only confirming these eight. Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and of course Microsoft are the primary partners for this fall’s launch. No prices or spec sheets for most of these yet.