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Adidas says the $250 BB.01 is the “world’s first 3D printed basketball shoe” and the first shoe it’s launching from its Project R.A.P. platform, following last year’s 3D-printed Climacool. Getting them will be tough — only 169 pairs will be available in a limited drop starting July 10th.

Once a cutting-edge audio brand, Sonos has lost a lot of its luster. Last month, the company cut three percent of its staff, which we now know included several veteran execs.

According to Elon Musk, the platform will be releasing a new feature for Community Notes that sends you a DM if “a post you interacted with is corrected.” I can see the potential utility, though you’re putting trust in the Community Note actually being correct. It’s also unclear when this may launch.

In the interview below, he describes it as a local, encrypted feature used to identify people you already know. Not, he says, as a feature that pulls data from a central database. Even so, there are discussions to be had about consent and whether it’s actually that awkward to ask, “Hey, where do I know you from again?”

Go to your profile in the Instagram app and open the hamburger menu in the top right corner. Scroll down to “sharing and reuse,” then toggle off the sliders for “allow people to create with and reuse your content” for Posts and Reels. Then, below that, also turn off “allow people to create and reuse your original audio on Meta AI.”

Following its $99 million class action agreement earlier this year, the company struck another settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and several states that sued it on antitrust grounds. Similar to the earlier agreement, the proposed settlement has a ten-year term requiring it to make repair resources available to farmers.

Apple is suspending work on a display made in partnership with Samsung Display for an entry-level XR device, according to a machine translation of a report by The Elec (which we saw thanks to MacRumors). Seems like Apple is moving away from headsets in favor of glasses.

Google’s Video Remix feature, running on Gemini Omni, adds new editing options like “cinematic relighting,” custom backgrounds, and “artistic treatments” such as watercolor and sketchbook effects. The AI video editing templates are rolling out starting today for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers.

Business Insider reported that the project is focused on improving Alexa AI enough to handle more advanced, multi-step tasks, like Google, OpenAI and other AI leaders have been, but internal documents show its steep cost.

Buying a home in the US has been wild for years, with buyers in incredibly competitive markets offering all-cash transactions well above asking prices. Now there’s a new twist: sellers tempting people who have AI stocks to offer. Definitely still a better trade than giving up bitcoin for pizza.

The step tracking app WeWard has a new way to cut back on screen time — its “Walking Mode” feature can lock selected apps until you hit your step goal, TechCrunch reports. If you leave Walking Mode turned on, it will re-lock your apps when your step goal resets each day.

According to Retro Dodo, the G02 is “officially dead” and has been removed from “every marketplace it was originally sold on.” The $60 handheld was spotted earlier this year, shipping preloaded with thousands of copyrighted retro games from Nintendo, SEGA, and others.

Developer Josh Pigford created a “Knockoff” browser extension that detects alphabet-soup brands — like LUENX, EHEYCIGA, and YXYL — that have become ubiquitous on Amazon. It hides, dims, or labels these listings in your search results based on your preferences.

The 935-gram DJI AP100 can safely bring the pricey drone (and whatever payload it’s carrying) to the ground at a descent rate of less than 5 meters per second. The chute features its own redundant power and communications and can be deployed manually or automatically in an emergency, like when the drone leaves a predefined geocaging boundary.

It will also block “most video ads” outside YouTube, according to a blog post. DuckDuckGo’s browser will switch on the feature by default across Windows, Mac, and iOS devices, while users on Android will have to enable it manually from the Settings menu.

Apple added a bit more insight into that Broadcom deal announced a few days ago. It’s expected to “exceed $30 billion” and “lead to the production of more than 15 billion US-made chips” and “hundreds of American jobs.” The announcement comes with a line of obligatory flattery from CEO Tim Cook:

The Doom developer is reportedly the latest Xbox studio to be hit by Microsoft’s ongoing layoffs, prompting a new variant on an age-old question.

In an update on Tuesday, Google says it will block users from downloading its Google Earth Pro desktop app starting June 25th, 2027. People can continue to use the app after that date, which offers access to more advanced mapping tools, but Google suggests sticking to Google Earth on the web to get access to the latest updates.

Unlike Notion’s main notetaking app, the new Notion Agents app on iOS is specifically for chatting with your custom AI agents or connected AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, 9to5Mac reports. Notion says you can use it to ask your agents questions or capture text, photos, and voice notes.

New York state is the latest place to prohibit smart glasses and other recording tech in courtrooms. Says Syracuse.com:

We have all become desensitized. Every place is like every other place, every experience is happening at a remove and on a screen. And Ian Bogost, a Washington University professor and a writer at The Atlantic, argues in a new book called The Small Stuff that this “dematerialization” is making our life worse. He tells us of the magic of paper tickets, why he’s kind of obsessed with the rubber on his water bottle, and why you don’t need to throw phone into the ocean — but you should probably watch more ASMR videos.

Omida reports that memory costs can make up more than half the cost of low-end phones. That’s leading to a gradual retreat from the low-end market, as low-end products are “already becoming unprofitable and face a high risk of weakening demand as retail price continues to rise.”

Pete Holmes has a lot of good tech takes in this Wired interview. He also, against all odds, made me want the iPhone Air:

Following the 12 new sets announced last month featuring Smart Brick interactivity, Lego is once again expanding its Pokémon collection with five new sets. They range in price from a $69.99, 757-piece Munchlax to an elaborate $299.99, 2,386-piece Poké Ball that opens to reveal a battle scene and Professor Oak’s laboratory.

As Windows Central reports, Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam Machine, like it previously did for the Steam Deck, so you can replace its Linux-based SteamOS if you want. However, the Steam Machine still doesn’t support dual-booting, so you can only have one OS installed at a time.

The trillionaire’s legacy of death under DOGE had a spotlight put on it recently, including from us. Musk responded with threats, including a threat to sue Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) for citing the same study we did. Now he’s in a losing war against the reality of his ghastly conduct. The Guardian explains the saga so far: