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.
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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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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.
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?

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











