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If you have ever typed two letters into the Windows 11 search box, paused, and watched nothing useful happen until you added more characters, you already know exactly why this Windows 11 update matters.  Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update, part of a release Windows Latest calls the biggest of the year (via Windows Latest), quietly fixes that. Windows Search can now find and prioritize files with as few as two characters, down from the old three-character minimum. So what exactly changed in Windows Search? Before this update, typing two letters from the file name didn’t do anything useful. You…

Every transparent OLED demo I’ve seen so far looks amazing for about ten seconds, right before I notice how dim or smudgy it actually looks. A big part of the problem is the role that electrodes play in the design.  A transparent display requires a see-through electrode that sits on top of incredibly delicate organic light-emitting layers. However, most of the usual options either conduct electricity poorly or risk damaging those layers during manufacturing.  So how exactly does this new electrode get made? A team at Seoul National University, led by professor Yongtaek Hong, just found a way around that,…

Brazil has more World Cup titles than anyone, five of them to be precise, but after going through five straight tournaments without adding to that count, the team is leaning hard on data this time.  Every player wears a sensor-packed “smart vest” tracking field position (via GPS), heart rate, and a stat called “player load,” the same kind of numbers that your Whoop band or Apple Watch brags about, but tuned specifically for the sport. So what exactly do these smart vests track? The vests sit under the jersey, and Brazil uses them for its men’s, women’s, and youth teams.…

For years, the idea of Tesla and SpaceX becoming a single company has lived somewhere between ambitious business theory and Elon Musk fan fiction. The two companies already share DNA, leadership influence, engineering talent, and long-term goals. But every time the topic surfaced, it felt more like an interesting thought experiment than a realistic possibility. Now, one of the most important people at SpaceX has added fresh fuel to the conversation. Speaking in a recent CNBC interview, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell was asked about the possibility of closer ties between Tesla and SpaceX. Her response wasn’t a flat-out…

Meta’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence is facing growing resistance from an unexpected group: its own employees. According to a recent report from WIRED, frustration inside Meta has reached a boiling point following a series of AI-related restructuring efforts, layoffs, and workplace policies. The tensions became public this week when an employee interrupted a company-wide livestream with an expletive-filled rant directed at Meta’s AI leadership, shocking thousands of colleagues watching the presentation. The incident may sound like an isolated outburst, but employees say it reflects a much broader problem inside the company. Over the past several months, Meta has reorganized…

When shopping for a new laptop, most buyers compare specifications like performance, battery life, display quality, and price. But a new AI-powered initiative could soon add another metric to that list: carbon footprint. Researchers are developing AI agents capable of calculating and displaying the environmental impact of consumer electronics in real time, potentially giving shoppers instant access to sustainability information before making a purchase. The effort aims to bring the kind of emissions transparency already available in services like flight booking platforms to the world of consumer technology. Today, consumers can easily compare the carbon emissions of different flights through…

Facebook and Messenger users were briefly knocked offline Friday morning, with many saying they had been logged out and couldn’t get back in. The Facebook and Messenger outage sent users to X, Reddit, and other platforms to check whether the problem was widespread or tied to their own accounts. Downdetector showed the first visible surge in Facebook complaints around 9:52 a.m. ET. Meta Vice President of Communications Andy Stone posted on X shortly after, saying some people were having trouble getting into Meta services and that it was working on a fix. We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing…

Anthropic’s troubles with the US government do not seem to be easing. The company has now been ordered to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, including foreign national Anthropic employees working inside the United States. Anthropic said it received the directive on June 12 and is disabling the two models for all customers to comply. Other Anthropic models are not affected. The government has not publicly explained the full national security concern, but Anthropic says it understands the order is linked to a reported method for bypassing, or jailbreaking, Fable 5’s safeguards. A fresh…

Every video editor has a list of tasks they’d happily outsource to someone else. Exporting isn’t one of them anymore because modern laptops are already plenty fast. The real-time sinks are the boring bits: manually masking subjects, finding scene cuts in long recordings, rotoscoping frame by frame, or wrestling with tedious edits that require more patience than creativity. That’s exactly why NVIDIA’s RTX Spark demo at Computex 2026 caught me by surprise. I walked into the booth expecting another presentation full of AI buzzwords and benchmark charts. Instead, I walked out thinking that for the first time in years, hardware…

This weekend’s movie picks on Prime Video include a low-budget sci-fi that turns a dinner party into an existential nightmare, a Swedish dramedy that will have you crying before you realise what hit you, and one of Adam Driver’s quietly devastating performances in a film about a man who writes poems and drives a bus for a living. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best free movies, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video. Coherence (2013) Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller IMDB rating: 7.2/10…