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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
You can use Claude directly in Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets with a new add-on.

Claude for Google Workspace, now in public beta on all paid Claude plans, adds a sidebar where you can prompt Claude to edit your files, similar to Google’s Gemini sidebar. Anthropic’s also launching new connectors for creating and editing Google Workspace files directly in Claude.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Asus finally priced its new MacBook Neo competitor: $799.99 with an OLED and Snapdragon X.

Asus first announced its colorful Zenbook 14 laptop back in June, and it’s now available. The new Zenbook starts at $799.99 with a Snapdragon X1-26-100 chip, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and a 14-inch OLED display. An Intel Panther Lake version is due out before the end of the year, but that’s sure to cost way more.

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An Asus Zenbook 14 on a person’s lap.
The new Zenbook 14 comes in coral and arctic blue.
Image: Asus
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Pimax is trying to leapfrog the Steam Frame and Steam Machine.

The company’s got a rep for optics among VR diehards, and it’s just announced the $1400 Crystal Pro. It’s a standalone headset with eye-tracking foveated streaming like the Steam Frame — now with uncompressed video over an optional (and pricy) 60GHz link. Pimax also has gamepad wands that snap together, the headset has a tethered external battery, and it’s launching a powerful mini-PC that looks like a taller Steam Machine clone. FAQ here.

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
This Zelda: Wind Waker Recomp is making me question my commitment to authenticity.

I’m finally playing Wind Waker for the very first time on original hardware — with my 9-year-old along for the ride! The controls and graphics are pretty rough on GameCube, though. This static recomp “BlueWake” looks amazing and runs on iOS, Mac and Windows… should I? Should I wait for the decomp?

Our first five impressions of Googlebooks — exciting but underbaked

Google’s new laptop OS shows lots of promise for Android phone owners, but there’s a long road ahead.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google launches the next version of its on-device AI model.

EmbeddingGemma 2 can work with more than just text, featuring capabilities across coding, images, video, and audio. Google says the upgraded model has 740 million parameters and is designed to perform on-device tasks like finding a video clip from a voice memo or searching through audio recordings based on a text prompt.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Dimming the glare.

If you’ve ever been blinded by the atomic glare of an approaching car at night, this one’s for you. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it’s tackling headlight glare — a problem so widespread that it’s even spawned its own subreddit.

The agency said it will bring together experts in vehicle lighting with safety and equipment associations to come up with changes to federal safety rules. NHTSA already allows adaptive headlights, so I’ll be curious what solutions they come up with.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
DroidDeck: Which Android handheld should I try it with?

I might be The Verge’s part-time PC handheld reviewer… but I don’t actually have any modern Android ones! Now there’s software that easily makes an Android handheld act like a Steam Deck, I should probably try again. Or should I wait for one with the new 6th-gen Snapdragon Elite?