Gmail CleanSweep just landed: one tap mass‑unsubscribes, labels receipts, and shoves promos to a weekly digest. I nuked 2,400 emails in five minutes; the on‑device model learned which newsletters I actually read and stopped them from skipping the digest. Inbox zero without the Sunday purge ritual.
🤖 AI: Llama Edge 8B Multimodal Runs on a Smartwatch
I strapped on a Pixel Watch 3 and fired up Llama Edge 8B Multimodal—camera captioning, voice chat, even on‑wrist translation, all offline. Queries answer in ~120 ms, and a tiny vector index remembers my routine. Wildest part? Battery sipped 6% during a 20‑minute errand run.
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🎮 Gaming: Minecraft Dimensions DLC Adds Time-Bending Portals and New Mobs
Mojang announced Minecraft Dimensions DLC: craftable Chrono Portals let players hop between epochs—Jurassic biomes, steam-punk cities—each with unique physics and mobs like Rift Lizards that age blocks into mossy variants by touch. Cross-play beta lands next month; speedrunners already plotting route splits.
🎨 Graphic Design: Illustrator RecolorPro Generates Brand Palettes from a Mood Word
Illustrator RecolorPro panel now takes a single mood word—“zen,” “cyber,” “sunrise”—and instantly proposes five ADA-compliant color systems, complete with tints, shades, and gradient pairs. I typed “retro-future” and had a polished palette, swatch library, and CSS tokens ready before the deadline Slack pinged.
🔧 Hardware: Lunar Lake-HX CPU Hits 8 GHz Turbo on Air
Early engineering samples of Intel’s Lunar Lake-HX laptop chip clocked an 8 GHz turbo burst while staying under 95 °C with a standard heat pipe. Cinebench scores top last year’s desktop i9 by 12 percent, and an integrated 60 TOPS NPU slashes Adobe export times.
💻 Development: Python Codex Studio Adds Live AI Pair Programming
JetBrains’ lightweight Python Codex Studio plug-in now streams GPT-5 suggestions inline, autowriting docstrings, edge-case tests, and refactors as you type. Switching it on cut my bug-fix sprint from an hour to ten minutes, while every AI change shows up in a tidy side-by-side diff.
📱 App: Slack Pulse Summary Recaps Busy Threads in One Swipe
Slack Pulse Summary button digests any channel’s last 24 hours into a five-bullet recap, generated entirely on your handset. I swiped after a red-eye flight and caught every decision, emoji vote, and file link before coffee kicked in—no more scrolling ocean-deep threads at 6 a.m.
🤖 AI: Gemini Pro Vision 2 Nails 3D Object Detection Offline
Google’s Gemini Pro Vision 2 update lands on Pixel 10 today, running full 3-D object detection and pose tracking locally. I aimed the camera at my cluttered desk; it labeled 17 items, estimated distances, and built an AR overlay—all in 40 ms per frame with no data signal.
BioShock Echelon leaked via a Gamescom mic-drop: an open-world floating metropolis with ray-traced water and co-op plasmids. Players chain elemental storms in shared instances. In-engine footage showed 100 fps on PS6 dev kits; release set Fall 2026 for both single story and battle-arena modes too.
🎨 Graphic Design: Adobe XD AutoFlow Adapts Wireframes for Foldables
Adobe XD 2025.8 brings Live Texture Warp—drag a bitmap onto vectors and meshes deform in real time. I wrapped a brick pattern around curved text, exported responsive SVG, and designers cheered over their newfound workflow speed today.