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Specifically, Google says it now works with the Hydrow and Hydrow Wave rowers, the latest models of Echelon machines, and the confusingly named Spinning bikes and the accompanying mobile app. The Strava app is also confirmed to work. Sadly, the official list of compatible devices and apps says the device will definitely not work with Garmin, Life Fitness and TechnoGym. Oh, and there’s a handful of new clock faces too.

Now all Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can stream games they own (including some console-only titles) from the cloud through the Xbox PC app, just like they can on other devices, which is a feature that has been in testing with Insiders program members.

It’s launching the new payment method for US-based merchants “in the coming weeks,” allowing them to accept than 100 types of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether.

Not to be outdone by GPD, which teased a handheld so powerful it’s begging to be plugged into the wall, Ayaneo is teasing its own Strix Halo handheld — alongside a mountain of other product. There’s so much you’ll need to scrub through not one, but two “strategy sharing session” videos to see it all. The Strix Halo device will be the Ayaneo Next 2, and it’s promising its battery will be internal unlike the GPD one.

The crosswords are “human-edited” and themed on “stories from current news,” according to a popup in the Particle app.

The vulnerability (CVE-2025-31199), which Apple patched in a March 31st update, could give bad actors access to files inside a device’s Downloads folder and data cached by Apple Intelligence. That includes geolocation data, media metadata, and facial recognition info, according to a report from Microsoft Threat Intelligence.

Click the icon to the left of a URL and you can see a star rating and an AI-generated summary of details about the store.

Similar to Zens’ Wireless Charging Adapter, the $49.99 PowerBug delivers true wireless charging by plugging directly into an outlet without a USB cable. It’s compatible with MagSafe and Qi2-compatible devices and is designed to give you an elevated place to mount your phone in the kitchen or bathroom.

DJI is unusually weak right now, and Insta360 is seizing the opportunity for its first drone: “immersive, creator-ready, and easy for anyone to fly,” with spherical filming so you can fly first then frame shots after. (The company tried 360-degree drone attachments before, but never a full aircraft.)

Android Earthquake Alerts uses the network of smartphones to detect tremors, sending alerts to other phones in the affected area. But in a paper published in Science, the company admitted it had found “several limitations” in the algorithm’s performance during two 2023 quakes that killed over 55,000 people.

Reuters tracked a sampling of Shein prices from April to July and — surprise! — items are now more expensive. Prices spiked in April following Shein’s pre-announced price increase and then dipped slightly, Reuters found. Now they’re creeping back up: a $31 order in April would have cost $69 last week.

Yes, we tested Samsung’s latest premium foldable, but we didn’t try to destroy every surface and angle of the phone.

A regulatory filing surfaced Monday morning in Korea showing the underperforming electronics giant won an order to build chips for an unnamed large global tech company in a contract that runs through 2033.

Intel is cutting tens of thousands of employees, cutting investment around the world, and moving away from entire businesses too. After shutting down its automotive chipmaking business and spinning out its RealSense computer vision business, it’s now spinning out its networking business too, reports CRN, with Reuters and TechCrunch corroborating. Intel’s also selling off its majority stake in Altera, and finished off selling its flash memory business this year.

The changes include organizing recommendations into “one convenient section” and a “fully personalized” categories tab, according to Valve. You can try it now by joining the Steam Client Beta.

California Senator Alex Padilla granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, allowing it to more easily access and share government documents with the public.

The RCS Universal Profile 3.1 adds an “upgrade to audio messaging capabilities,” including support for the xHE-AAC audio codec that enables “highly efficient compression and decompression of shared audio content,” the GSMA says. This means that “whether users are sending voice notes, ambient sound clips, or have audio-based chatbot interactions, they can now expect clearer, more natural playback.”

The left-leaning nonprofit watchdog has been a frequent target of Elon Musk and other Republicans for its reporting on the right wing media ecosystem. Its legal battles have left the group with mounting bills, concerns for staff safety, and hesitant donors, The New York Times reports.

The new age ratings, initially announced earlier this year, now include Age 4 plus, 9 plus, 13 plus, 16 plus, and 18 plus. “Ratings for all apps and games on the App Store have been automatically updated to align with this new system and will be reflected on Apple devices” running the new betas, Apple says.

The company is making the change starting in October “in response to the EU’s incoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulation, which introduces significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties,” according to a blog post.

A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.

I reported yesterday that OpenAI is preparing to release GPT-5 in early August, and now references to a new GPT-5-powered “Smart Mode” have reportedly appeared in Copilot. Alexey Shavanov discovered code changes in Copilot that point toward a new smart option that uses GPT-5 to “think quickly or deeply.” Microsoft refused to comment on this alleged GPT-5 appearance.

It’s part of the company’s new push to support the development of technologies that can store renewable energy for longer periods of time than lithium-ion batteries. It’s the kind of thing that might be able to help Google meet growing data center energy demands and maybe even stop its fossil fuel emissions from continuing to rise.