In an update on its blog, Valve says its purpose remains to be to ship the Steam Body, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine within the “first half of the 12 months.” But it surely additionally signifies that specifics round pricing and launch dates are in flux, saying that “restricted availability and rising costs” on storage and reminiscence are forcing Valve to “revisit” these points. That sounds loads like worth will increase, one thing that almost each PC producer has already warned about in new products coming in 2026. Corporations like Dell and HP are doing every thing they’ll to safe provide, together with working with Chinese language reminiscence producers for the primary time.
The reminiscence scarcity has been brought on by an enormous spike in demand for AI in information facilities. The three major reminiscence producers on the earth, Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix, have all however deserted the buyer market in favor of supporting AI information facilities. Costs on off-the-shelf PC reminiscence started to rise in September and October, and actually ramped up within the following months, now up to four times the retail price (particularly with DDR5 RAM). Now we’re seeing the fallout in nearly each product possible. There is not any clear path ahead to how this can resolve, however we’re nonetheless ready to see how huge the impression will actually be on PCs and new merchandise just like the Steam Body and Steam Machine. —Luke Larsen
Fitbit Founders Launch Luffu, a Household Caregiving App
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Sure, that’s proper—it’s pronounced “loo-foo,” like “love.” After founding (and selling) Fitbit, James Park and Eric Friedman realized that along with safeguarding their very own private well being, they had been additionally taking good care of everybody else’s, too. The American Affiliation of Retired Individuals (AARP) and the Nationwide Alliance for Caregiving estimated that in 2025, practically one in 4 adults was a caregiver of both school-aged kids or older mother and father. Luffu is a new platform that lets caregivers simply entry all of the well being info they want—prescriptions, lab assessments, and extra—with out having to kind by means of completely different units, calendars, or portals.
Luffu is AI-powered (due to course it’s), however the founders insist that the AI expertise will go manner deeper than being only a well being chatbot. Luffu’s AI will scope by means of your loved ones’s information, be taught patterns, and proactively provide personalised steering and easy-to-understand recommendation. It can additionally let everybody in your loved ones log drugs, diets, or different well being info in a single platform for sharing throughout well being portals with medical doctors. Luffu assures us that privateness and safety of your information would be the prime precedence, and customers can management how a lot info is shared.
We’ll have to preserve privateness top-of-mind, as a result of as befits the founders of the massively standard wearable, Luffu will begin as an app expertise earlier than increasing into {hardware}. I’m very curious to see what a fitness tracker that retains observe of your loved ones as a unit, as a substitute of simply you, will seem like. —Adrienne So
Dexcom Redesigns Its App With AI-Enabled Options
Monitoring your glucose spikes is one of the easiest (properly, least expensive) methods of nudging you in the direction of more healthy behaviors with out having to take medication. Dexcom, which makes one of many two hottest commercially obtainable steady glucose displays, is constant to enhance its personal proprietary expertise inside the Dexcom app.
Final 12 months, Dexcom launched good meals logging within the Dexcom app, the place you may simply take an image of what you’re consuming, and the app will log what it’s. This 12 months, the corporate is increasing the characteristic by breaking down energy, carbohydrates, protein, fats, and dietary fiber in your meals and together with textual content search and barcode scanning. The app may also provide Day by day Insights with three personalised, actionable advice playing cards and contextual understanding.
I used to fret that monitoring your glucose was half of a bigger pattern (together with protein powders and GLP-1s) that mirrored a broader shift in physique beliefs and will result in disordered consuming. Nonetheless, as Dr. Diane Stadler, a dietitian and professor at Oregon Well being & Science College, identified, sufferers with disordered consuming have a dysfunction. There are loads worse methods to shed extra pounds than by prioritizing lean protein and fiber and strolling round after each meal. —Adrienne So
Blink’s Outside Safety Digital camera Goes 2K
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The newest safety digital camera from Amazon’s funds model is the Blink Outside 2K+. The principle bounce for this fifth-generation digital camera in comparison with the Blink Outside 4 is a better decision of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Help for 2K is quick turning into the usual now, and we’ve seen Google’s Nest cams, among others, step up lately. It’s excellent news for residence safety followers as a result of sharper footage makes it simpler to acknowledge topics, packages, pets, and autos.
