Valve announced in June 2026 that SteamOS is now available for custom desktop PC builds, giving gamers an alternative path to the Steam Machine experience without waiting for a reservation through…
In June 2026, Google’s DeepMind will partner with A24 on production and distribution technologies, investing about $75M—the first time Google has taken a financial stake in a film studio. The deal is non-exclusive; Google won’t access A24’s library data, and A24 says the tools won’t resemble “prompted generation” AI that users dislike.
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public, raising fresh questions about how AI developers source…
Barret Zoph has left OpenAI just five months after rejoining the company, The Verge reported on June 19, 2026. Zoph had been serving as OpenAI’s head of enterprise AI sales and posted a goodbye…
Epilogue’s free Flashback app (2026) uses the $50 GB Operator to read from the Game Boy Camera’s Mitsubishi M64282FP sensor, outputting “identical” 128×112, 0.01434‑MP photos with shutter/gain/exposure tweaks and 32 palettes. No hardware? A simulation mode uses the phone camera to mimic the dithered look and saves to Camera Roll.
Firefox is rolling out new home-page widgets (between v151 and v152; spotted in June 2026), including a focus timer that defaults to 25 minutes on/5 minutes off with optional end notifications. You can add/remove or expand widgets like a checklist, sports scores, and time zone display via home-page customization; Mozilla also shared a “Project Nova” redesign roadmap this week.
Google has significantly expanded the color options available for events in Google Calendar, raising the previous limit of 11 predefined colors to up to 200 custom colors per event.
The update…
VSCO launched Studio Pro on iOS on June 17, 2026, with batch editing and reference-based style matching for high-volume work; macOS is planned later this year. Its $500-per-year VSCO One (rolling out later in June) bundles Studio Pro with Capture, Galleries, Workspace and more, aiming at Adobe.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) announced Matter 1.6 in June 2026 at Unify, its inaugural conference in Austin, Texas. The updated smart home interoperability standard introduces Joint…
LinkedIn’s “connected apps” feature (June 2026) links third-party apps to profiles and auto-generates verified, real-time descriptions of actual usage. It can’t be edited and updates automatically; planned notifications will flag description changes, building on January 2026 integrations and 14 additional apps like Buffer, Fiverr, and HubSpot.
Google started rolling out Wear OS 7 in June 2026 for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding Live Updates that sync real-time sports scores or meal delivery status to phone and watch and up to 10% more battery than Wear OS 6. Gemini-powered features like Create My Widget and multi-step automation arrive later this year, plus a media output switcher and Personal Intelligence.
Google announced Android 17 in 2026, bringing a set of new features to Pixel phones before rolling out to other Android devices. The update introduces floating “Bubble” app windows designed to make…
