WhatsApp beta adds StealthChat: messages vanish two seconds after the recipient’s eyes leave the bubble, detected via front-camera gaze cues processed locally. I tested with cat memes; look away and—poof—chat history stays pristine. Privacy freaks finally get Snapchat vibes without switching apps.

Claude 5 Vision just rolled out an edge-mode toggle that parses 1080p video on-device, spotting objects, text, and tone in real time without hitting Anthropic’s cloud. I pointed my phone at a bustling café; it tagged every pastry, flagged brand logos, and never spiked data usage.

Rockstar says GTA VI ships with full VR Mode on PC and next-gen consoles. Teaser footage showed cockpit car chases and a wrist-mounted UI, all running at 90 fps reprojection—finally, Vice City streets you can literally look both ways on.

Illustrator FluidMesh lets you bend complex wireframes like putty while preserving ratios and snapping labels. A phone-pic tech diagram morphed into portrait aspect in seconds—no pen-tool headache, all anchors editable.

NVIDIA teased GeForce RTX 5090: 32 K CUDA cores, 30 Gbps GDDR7, and 500 W TDP. A leaked slide shows Cyberpunk path-tracing at 144 fps 4 K, plus a new zero-RPM idle fan mode to keep desks silent.

TypeScript 6.0 beta adds first-class pattern-matching that compiles to tight switch blocks. Refactoring a reducer cut eight branching chains and flagged missed cases right in VS Code. Expect speedy adoption before its September LTS.

Snapchat SceneSwap scans your selfie and drops you into a 3-D backdrop you can tilt-pan—think neon Tokyo or cozy cottage—rendered locally for instant Story uploads. No cloud lag, so remixing backgrounds feels as quick as flipping filters.

OpenAI’s Whisper 3 Realtime now handles 40-language call translation locally. On a mid-tier Android, café-noise Spanish flipped to English in under a second while CPU stayed low. No cloud, no lag—just slick privacy and clear conversations on the subway.

Elden Ring 2 Network Test emails landed overnight. Selected Tarnished get three-hour sessions this weekend in a volcanic realm featuring duo bosses and horse co-op. Builds wipe Sunday, so expect speedrunners to stream every secret wall before reset.

Affinity Designer 3 quietly shipped Auto-Vectorize: snap a phone pic of a doodle and watch clean curves, smoothed corners, and layer groups materialize. Exporting SVG keeps anchor points human-readable—illustrators can finally skip tedious pen-tool tracing.