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    Google Meet’s new homepage gives you an overview of your meetings.

    The “revamped” homepage, rolling out starting today, lists all of your upcoming meetings with links to notes and calendar attachments for each one. It also has options for navigating through weeks and months to see past and future meetings.

    A screenshot of the redesigned Google Meet homepage
    Image: Google
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Meta’s adding parental supervision tools on Threads.

    Starting next week, Meta’s Family Center will have options for parents to adjust their teens’ Threads account privacy and content settings, similar to parental controls on Meta’s other apps.

    Parents will also be able to see and limit how much time their teens spend on Threads and manage who can tag their teens.

    Screenshots of Meta’s parental supervision controls for Threads
    Image: Meta
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    Stevie Bonifield
    MSI’s special-edition dragon laptop costs nearly $7,000.

    The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic marks MSI’s 40th anniversary by maxing out the already-pricey Titan with a flashy dragon design, 96GB of DDR5 RAM, an Nvidia RTX 5090, and an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. At least the $6,999 price tag also includes a bundled copy of LEGO Batman.

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    A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid closed
    A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid open
    A photo of the keyboard deck on the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic
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    Stevie Bonifield
    Google reportedly leaked the Pixel 11 Pro XL.

    According to a Droid Life report, spotted by 9to5Google, an image of the phone briefly showed up on the Google Fi website, ahead of an August 12th Pixel launch event. Google appears to have removed the image, but the phone in Droid Life’s screenshot matches the “Dune” colorway in an earlier Pixel 11 leak.

    A screenshot of a removed Google Fi ad for the Pixel 11 Pro XL, via Droid Life
    Image: Droid Life
    Image: Google / Droid Life
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    Stevie Bonifield
    X “completely rebuilt” its Android app.

    X says the new version of the app, rolling out starting today, is “faster, smoother, and more reliable,” with better scrolling, loading, and notifications. Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, called it “one of the largest engineering projects in the company’s history,” but warned users that “There are still some rough edges.”

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Ayaneo’s Next 2 handheld got a $1,000 price hike.

    PC Gamer spotted a listing for the Next 2 on Ayaneo’s website with a top configuration priced at $5,299. The same configuration, with 128GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, was already pricey at $4,299 earlier this year, before Ayaneo suspended preorders, saying the handheld was “unsustainable” due to skyrocketing RAM costs.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Tesla admits one of its robotaxis was being remotely-operated when it crashed.

    Tesla filed an NHTSA crash report that lists the driver as “Remote (Commercial / Test),” which Electrek says is a first for Tesla. It’s one of numerous accidents with Tesla’s robotaxis in the past year, and involved a Model Y hitting a tree stump while trying to get out of a dead end road.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Apple might start getting your iPhone ready for iOS 27 a little early.

    As 9to5Mac reports, the release notes for the latest iOS 26.6 beta say it “optimizes the Spotlight index to prepare for iOS 27.” This is likely aimed at speeding up the indexing process so it doesn’t take days when iOS 27 officially launches, like some users on the developer beta have reported.