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The Summer Game Fest season is officially kicking off now, and Sony clearly does not want to sit quietly on the sidelines this year. The company has officially confirmed that the next PlayStation State of Play showcase will air on June 2, featuring more than 60 minutes of PS5 game announcements and updates. The biggest confirmed highlight so far is Marvel’s Wolverine, which Sony says will receive a fresh new look during the presentation. Sony confirms Wolverine showcase for June 2 State of Play According to Sony’s official announcement, the showcase will focus on upcoming PS5 titles from both PlayStation…

YEEDI S20 Infinity Ultra enters a category that has already refined navigation, mapping, and basic automation to a point where daily dust cleaning is predictable and reliable. The expectation from a robot vacuum today is no longer about whether it can move efficiently through a home, but whether it can handle the kind of mess that defines real, everyday use. Floors accumulate dried spills, sticky residue, and layered grime that cannot be removed through suction or light mopping alone, and these conditions continue to expose a limitation that has persisted across the category. Users still find themselves stepping in before…

Google is building Gemini deeper into the research workflow, starting with ideas, tests, and scientific literature. At Google I/O 2026, the company announced Gemini for Science, an experimental suite built around agentic AI science. It targets the manual work behind discovery, including hypothesis building, computational testing, and literature review. Access starts gradually through Google Labs, with a separate path for enterprise organizations through Google Cloud. The rollout gives the announcement a path beyond Google’s conference stage, although the tools are still early. How far can Gemini push discovery The suite is built around three features that follow the research process…

Forza Horizon 6 is available now through Game Pass, and it’s easily one of Microsoft’s most important additions this month. The new racer comes to cloud, Xbox Series X/S, handheld devices, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers. That reach gives the Forza Horizon 6 Game Pass release a wider lane than a traditional console launch, with Microsoft putting one of its biggest franchises across the screens it now treats as part of Xbox. Japan is the headline draw. Xbox describes it as the series’ biggest driving adventure yet, and the setting gives the game an…

At the I/O 2026, Google rebuilt two of YouTube’s core experiences from the ground up, and the results look genuinely useful. First, YouTube search is getting a new feature called Ask YouTube, which is more like AI Mode, but for the vast library of videos on the platform. Then there’s Gemini Omni, Google’s “create anything from anything” tool, which will be available in the YouTube Shorts Remix and Create app, the most disruptive announcement for creators. However, while Omni remains free for now, Ask YouTube is locked behind a paywall.  With Ask YouTube, we’re bringing a new conversational search experience…

I have been a Plex user for a long time, and I genuinely love what the app does. But when I read their latest announcement, I had to put my phone down and take a breath. Plex is raising the price of its Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1, 2026.  That’s not a price increase. That’s a 200% jump, and the way they’ve packaged it makes me even more annoyed. This comes on top of the price hike the company announced last year, taking the lifetime pass from $119.99 to $249.99 and the remote pass price…

Spotting an AI-generated image is getting harder by the day. OpenAI wants to change that, and it is using Google as a partner to accomplish this behemoth task. OpenAI has announced a significant update to how it handles content provenance, which is just a fancy way of saying how you can tell where an image came from and whether it was AI-generated. The update has three key parts: C2PA conformance, a new watermarking partnership with Google, and a public tool you can use to verify images yourself. So what is actually changing? OpenAI has been adding metadata, called Content Credentials,…

Recently, I wrote about how Apple’s Continuity features keep me locked into the Apple ecosystem because Android and Windows have no answer to Apple’s incredible cross-device seamless integration. It seems that Android is finally getting started to compete with Apple in this domain. The upcoming Android 17 is bringing a feature that makes switching between your Android devices feel natural. It’s called Continue On, and it lets you start work on one device and seamlessly pick it up on another Android device.  At launch, the feature focuses on mobile-to-tablet transitions. When you open your tablet, you will see a suggestion…

At the I/O 2026 Developer Conference, Google gave us our first look at the upcoming Gemini-powered Intelligent Eyewear. Running atop the Android XR stack, these glasses have been developed in collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm, while the design DNA has been developed by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The partner is similar to the work that Meta has done with its own smart glasses, which started with a partnership with Ray-Ban and later expanded to Oakley, as well.  Google is calling them audio glasses because they don’t come with a built-in screen, and most of the interactions that you will…

Google is pushing its experimental AI world-building project into surprisingly realistic territory. The company announced that Project Genie can now use real-world imagery from Google Street View to generate interactive virtual environments, blending real locations with imaginative AI-generated styles. At its core, Genie is what Google calls a “world model” — an AI system capable of creating explorable digital environments where AI agents, robots, or even users can interact naturally. Until now, those worlds were mostly synthetic. But with this new update, Genie can anchor itself to real places pulled directly from Street View imagery. This is actually where things…