
Apple plans to show off iOS 27 at its Worldwide Developers Conference early next week, and details already surfacing from internal builds and reports give a clear sense of the practical shifts users will notice first. One adjustment stands out right away for its effect on long-held habits. Notifications currently appear from the top of the screen, and a downward swipe from the middle opens the full list in Notification Center. In current internal versions of iOS 27, those alerts instead slide in from the left side. Reaching Notification Center requires a downward swipe from the top-left portion of the screen. A swipe from the center area now surfaces search or an interface for asking the assistant directly.

Yufei Wu, also known as Flying Bug, dominated the America’s Got Talent stage from the start of season 21, which aired on June 2. At just 26 years old, he began with a solo dance to Lady Gaga’s Abracadabra, a high-energy song to dance to.

Sony’s PlayStation carved out an enormous place in Japanese living rooms during the late 1990s and early 2000s. While the rest of the world focused on racing games, fighters, and RPGs, Japan also received an entire line of educational titles built around a television channel called Kids Station. Bandai stepped in with a matching piece of hardware that most people outside the country never encountered.

Insomniac Games chose Sony’s most recent State of Play to show an extended gameplay trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine. The new footage runs several minutes and gives the clearest sense yet of how the game will feel when it arrives on September 15. Extended gameplay footage puts Logan in the middle of a high-stakes chase after a convoy carrying kidnapped mutants. The Reavers, a cybernetic militia, have taken the captives and plan to hand them over to Bolivar Trask. Logan stalks the group from the shadows before the action turns loud and direct.

ASUS introduced a portable monitor that leans on e-paper for its display during this year’s Computex show. The ZenScreen Color ePaper MP13UC stands out in the company’s lineup of creative portable screens by offering a different kind of viewing experience aimed at long reading sessions and document work.