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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are facing serious heat. Lawsuits, privacy complaints, and government investigations are piling up after reports of secret recordings by wearers. The core tension here is familiar — a device that looks ordinary but captures everything around it, worn in public spaces where people have no idea they're being recorded.
On the gaming front, Bazzite, the Linux-based operating system built on Valve's SteamOS foundation, is winning fans for secondary gaming rigs. It handles RAM more efficiently than Windows eleven and strips away the bloatware, offering a cleaner console-style experience. But for main machines running specialized software or peripherals, Windows still holds the leash.
And if you've got a drawer full of USB adapters — and most of us do — Engadget is making the case that two thousand twenty-six is the year to finally sort through them. With USB-C now dominant across laptops, phones, and peripherals, most of those older dongles are dead weight. A few Thunderbolt and legacy connectors are worth keeping, but the rest can go.
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