Steam's store refresh lands, and some users are calling it 'hot garbage'
Valve's latest Steam store redesign adds a personalized release calendar and higher-res art, but it also reignites the perennial UI revolt that every product team fears.
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Valve's latest Steam store redesign adds a personalized release calendar and higher-res art, but it also reignites the perennial UI revolt that every product team fears.

The Airbnb CEO is entering the AI race with a new venture focused on models and user design, raising the stakes for how founders split attention and shape product strategy.

That milestone changes the benchmark for enterprise software teams: review, governance, and workflow design now matter as much as raw coding output.

WIRED found unreleased biometric code in Meta's smart glasses platform, raising fresh questions about consent, device permissions, and how far wearable AI can reach.

United is betting the Airbus A321XLR can make narrow-body jets feel premium enough to steal routes from older 757s, while FAA approval still holds up one flashy feature.

India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa are building local AI stacks to work around scarce compute, changing where infrastructure power sits.

Amazon is giving its Proteus warehouse robot language skills, a move that could make human-robot handoffs faster while deepening automation pressure on warehouse labor.

The company’s OpenDots 2 and cheaper OpenDots Air show how comfort, price, and awareness are becoming real product battlegrounds in earbuds.

Nintendo says it is preparing Switch 2 versions for the EU that let users replace the battery, a preview of how the bloc’s 2027 regulation could reshape gadget design.

Former Plaid and Google executives are building personalized AI assistants designed to move beyond chatbots into proactive, autonomous collaborators.

The new Surface RTX Spark aims to shift AI development costs from unpredictable per-token cloud bills to predictable, fixed hardware investments.

G42 will deploy a U.S.-designed supercomputer in India, giving governments a playbook for owning AI hardware instead of renting it.