Google Maps unlocked AR arrows for malls, airports, and stadiums in 85 countries. A quick phone scan pins you on the right floor, then floating markers lead you past kiosks and escalators. I speed-ran LAX terminal swaps with zero wrong turns—and no Wi-Fi needed.

Sora 2’s live demo wowed devs today—type a storyboard or aim your phone camera, and a fluid 4 K stream appears at 30 fps. Edge GPUs handle the diffusion stack, keeping latency under 100 ms. It feels like FaceTime for imagination, minus the awkward pauses.

343 Industries unveiled Halo Rebirth, ditching Slipspace for Unreal 6. The teaser showed glassy New Mombasa streets, adaptive AI squads, and seamless four-player drop-in co-op. Frame rate hit 120 fps on Series X dev kits—Spartan parties are back on the menu.

Procreate Mirage update drops hypnotic particle brushes that react to Apple Pencil tilt and speed—think sparkles, smoke, even flocking birds following your stroke. My doodle morphed into a swirling nebula in seconds. Performance stays buttery on M2 iPads; artists, prepare to lose weekends.

Samsung previewed Exynos 2600 silicon on 3 nm GAAFET, boasting 25 % faster CPU bursts and a 60 TOPS NPU under five watts. Demo phones looped HDR video for 17 hours straight. If yields hold, autumn flagships could finally claw back from Snapdragon dominance.

Visual Studio Code 2.0 just landed with a slick WebGPU debugger: real-time shader stepping, VRAM heatmaps, and hot-reload on any Chromium-based browser. My sample ray-tracer went from black screen to sparkling pixels in minutes. Front-end devs finally get first-class GPU tooling without pricey plugins.

New beta toggle “AirShare” beams full-resolution photos and 4K clips between phones using ultrasonic handshakes plus Wi-Fi Direct. I swapped a 500 MB ski edit to a friend in 14 seconds—no QR codes, no cloud, just a satisfying chirp. Offline sharing finally feels frictionless.

Dropping jaws this morning, Gemini Ultra 3.1 now munches two-million-token prompts without choking. I fed it an entire codebase, sprint notes, and legal boilerplate; answers still came back in under two seconds—no more slicing docs into bite-sized chunks. Whole-project chatting is officially here.

Bethesda’s Starfield Aurora trailer plunges explorers beneath alien waves with pressure domes, manta mounts, and zero-G jetpacks. A fresh questline teases ancient ocean ruins and a harpoon-railgun combo. Premium owners dive in next month—sunscreen optional.

Adobe’s new Illustrator Vector Warp is a live distortion tool that keeps paths editable while you squish and twirl shapes. I morphed a rigid tech logo into a liquid rave badge in seconds—export stayed pure SVG, zero raster fuzz.