Nintendo’s Virtual Boy app is now available to download on Switch and Switch 2 as part of its Nintendo Classics offering. You’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to access the launch titles, and unlike Nintendo’s other retro emulators, this one also requires a dedicated accessory.

As a reminder, the Virtual Boy was a portable tabletop system released in 1995, and the first console capable of rendering stereoscopic 3D graphics. It had a facemask with a monochrome red display built onto a bipod, so rather than wearing it like a modern VR headset, you had to awkwardly push your face towards it to play games.

While undeniably innovative for the time, the console never took off (to put it gently), but Nintendo is giving anyone who missed out in the ’90s a chance to experience one of the strangest experiments in its history in 2026. Aesthetically, the $100 Virtual Boy add-on is a near perfect replica of the original console, with the big difference being that rather than a built-in display, it has a slot for sliding in your Switch or Switch 2. And unlike the OG Virtual Boy, this one is also wireless.

If $100 seems a bit steep for something that’ll almost certainly be collecting dust before summer rolls around, Nintendo is also selling a $25 cardboard version (unfortunately your old Labo VR headset won’t work here). Both are available to buy from the My Nintendo Store.

The Virtual Boy app is launching with the following games today: 3d Tetris, Galactic Pinball, Golf, The Mansion of Innsmouth, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer and Virtual Boy Wario Land. More games will be added in the future, including Mario Clash, Mario’s Tennis and Space Invaders Virtual Collection.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendos-virtual-boy-app-is-now-available-to-download-150705800.html?src=rss

There’s little worse than losing an hour or two of hard work, just by clicking on the wrong button or pressing the wrong key in Microsoft Word—a mistake that sees your well-crafted document (or a sizable portion of it) disappear before your eyes.

A slip of the fingers isn’t the only way you can potentially lose work, either. Maybe you just have the misfortune to be busy at your computer when a power outage happens—taking your desktop, Microsoft Word, and your unsaved work along with it.

However, before you begin all over again, there are some tricks you can try to bring your work back.

Use Undo (Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z)

Word keeps an undo history.
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Sometimes, all you need is the undo command—hit Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Cmd+Z (macOS) to undo your last action in Word. It might be enough to restore that table you accidentally deleted, or bring back that huge block of text you moved to the clipboard and have since lost track of.

This won’t save you from a power outage, and it doesn’t include all actions (it won’t bring back a file you’ve closed, for example). However, it’ll work a lot of the time when you’ve made a mistake, and Word always keeps a record of your last 100 actions in the app, so you can go back a fair way.

There’s also an undo button up in the top left corner of the Word interface: Click on this to undo the last action, or click the arrow next to it to see a list of previous actions and choose where you want to go back to. To the right of the undo button is the redo button, which works the same way but in the opposite direction.

Open previous file versions

Accessing previous versions in Word.
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Word also has a file version history feature you can utilize to bring back lost work: It essentially saves past versions of your document at regular intervals, so you can go back in time, and even all the way back to the file’s creation. It’s like a super undo, which works between app restarts as well.

In Word for Windows, you can find these older incarnations of your document by heading to File > Info > Version History. If you’re using Word on macOS, it’s File > Browse Version History. A new sidebar opens on the right, showing all the available previous versions, and the date and time they were saved.

There is a caveat to this, though, which is you have to have your document saved in the cloud (in OneDrive) for this to work. If you’re working with a local file that’s only saved on your computer and you try and access version history, you’ll be prompted to save it to OneDrive instead (which will turn on version history).

Find unsaved documents on your system

Unsaved documents are sometimes still available.
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Word actually saves files temporarily to your computer every so often, so if the program crashes without warning, you should see an autorecovery dialog pop up the next time you load Word, asking if you want to recover the old file. If not, you can see partially saved files by clicking Click File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents.

That’s only for Windows, however—if you’re on macOS, you’re relying on the auto-recovery process. Word for both Windows and macOS lets you set how often auto-recovery files are saved: Head to File > Options > Save (Windows) or Word > Preferences > Save (macOS). The default is every 10 minutes, but you can adjust this if needed.

If you’re still not seeing your file, you can try checking the temporary cache folder manually. On Windows, check “C:Users

Save your work to the cloud

OneDrive gives you various extra options—including AutoSave.
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These days, Microsoft Word will tend to push you to save your work in OneDrive in the cloud. There are multiple benefits for this, including the version history feature mentioned above, and the option to collaborate on documents with other people. It also enables another handy feature: AutoSave.

This is exactly what it sounds like, and means that every time something is changed in your document, it quickly syncs to the cloud. You’ll see the AutoSave button in the top left hand corner enabled when it’s active, and the document name at the top of the app window will indicate when saves are in progress.

Should Word or your PC crash, your work should be safe. AutoSave is enabled by default for files saved to OneDrive, but you can customize this behavior by heading to File > Options > Save on Windows) or Word > Preferences > Save on macOS.

During the flurry of CES 2026 news at the start of the year, it might have been easy to overlook Amazon’s announcement that the Fire TV user interface is getting a revamp. But that redesign is rolling out starting today for US viewers. It will be available to users as a free update. 

The main visual updates for the streaming device’s UI are a lot of rounded corners. But Amazon is also emphasizing speed in this new look, claiming that the improvements will offer 20 to 30 percent faster interactions. This version of the UI also makes more apps visible on the screen at a time, with up to 20 apps able to be pinned to the homescreen compared with six in the prior design. The update also has access to the Alexa+ AI voice assistant if you want to use it to pull up viewing suggestions or to organize your viewing queue.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/amazons-fire-tv-redesign-is-rolling-out-today-150000988.html?src=rss

The software industry’s decades-old habit of charging companies a flat fee for every employee who uses a product is running into a fundamental problem: AI agents don’t sit in chairs, and they don’t need licences.

As autonomous agents take on tasks that human workers once handled, the per-seat pricing model that made SaaS revenue so predictable is giving way to consumption-based and hybrid alternatives. Snowflake and Databricks (valued at $134 billion) already charge based on usage. Salesforce initially priced its Agentforce customer relations bot at $2 per conversation but faced customer pushback and now offers action-based pricing, upfront credits and fixed fees.

ServiceNow’s finance chief Amit Zavery said last month that some customers aren’t ready for purely consumption-based models. Goldman Sachs estimates US software spending will nearly triple to $2.8 trillion by 2037 as automated tasks blur the boundary between IT and wage budgets, but that money will no longer arrive in the neat recurring instalments that investors and private equity firms have come to expect.

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This week we’re taking a look at some hyper-specific cultures within the larger youth culture. They run the gamut from the truly disturbing Looksmaxxing community, to the strange world of hardcore audiophiles, to the nostalgic domain of the bebot girls. What’s a bebot girl? I’m glad you asked!

What is a “Bebot Girl”?

TikTok is being taken over by Bebot Girls. “Bebot” is Filipino slang from the 2010s that means “babe” or “baddie.” The bebot girl trend is posting videos of the transformation from a regular person to a bebot, that is, a Filipino baddy from the 1990s. This is usually accomplished through period-appropriate makeup like heavy bronzer, frosty inner eyes, and striking metallic eyeshadow. It looks like this:

and this:

The trend started with TikToker @bellepauleen posting this video, which revived the term. The bebot anthem and soundtrack to the these videos is Black Eyed Peas 2005 song “Bebot.” Bebot girls seems like part of the same nostalgia trend that brought us Millennial Optimism and nostalgia for 2016, but with a huge dose of Filipino pride. If you want to watch bedot girl videos all day, check out the hashtag.

Who is Clavicular?

This week in people who are famous to your children but not you, we have Clavicular. His real name is Braden Peters, he was born in 2005, and he is the world’s most famous looksmaxxer.

Looksmaxxing (as you can read in my Gen Z and Gen A slang glossary) is maximizing one’s physical attractiveness through personal grooming, working out, and dressing stylishly. That doesn’t sound terrible in theory, but in practice, looksmaxxing is nihilistic vanity. To the Looksmaxxer, there’s a single standard for male attractiveness: basically being a lantern-jawed white dude. And there is nothing more important than looks. Being smart, cool, interesting, good-hearted, talented etc. does not matter; the only quality that is worthwhile is how you look. Looksmaxxers are insanely obsessive about defining what makes a person attractive. They measure their canthal tilt (the angle of the eyes), obsess over their maxilla (upper jaw), and know their exact biacromial width (the span of the clavicle.) Clavicular’s is 19.5 inches, hence the name.

Clavicular’s fame comes from his Kick channel, where he films himself rating other people’s looks, walking around being handsome, giving advice to his followers on how they can “ascend,” (become more attractive) and going on dates. As expected, he does sell an online course. To achieve his look, Clav says he’s been injecting himself with testosterone since he was 14, takes steroids regularly, and smashed his cheekbones with a hammer so they would grow more prominent. There are rumors that he takes meth to keep his weight down too. Although he describes himself as apolitical, Clavicular’s associates include right-wing influencers Nick Fuentes, Sneako, Andrew Tate, and more. He says the n-word all the time.

So all this is very bad, and it’s all growing in popularity among boys of the brainrot generation. So be warned, I guess: Young boys are not OK.

What is a “Big John machine”?

While niche communities like Looksmaxxers are depressing, many young people are into much less dire interest groups, like audiophiles. Within that community, audio equipment is sometimes referred to as “Big John machines,” because people are demonstrating their ridiculously expensive audio set-ups by playing a Geoff Castelucci cover of Jimmy Dean’s 1961 novelty hit “Big Bad John.”

It started with a post on Reddit’s audiophile subreddit, describing the original song as “an interesting example of how good audio systems can bring out more life in a recording.” So people started posting videos of extremely exotic and expensive systems playing the song. Like this system with $2 million speakers:

Then people started posting their own systems playing the song. Or just middle-of-the-road gear. Then people started posting the cheapest gear that can play “Big Bad John,” like this:

and this:

Viral video of the week: The Leaf Test

Recently, TikTokers Toni & Austin posted the following 11-second video, dubbed “The Leaf Test.”

In it, Toni says, “I found a leaf,” and Austin responds “It’s beautiful, just like you.” She sighs. He panics, presumably having said the wrong thing. It’s mildly funny, but it went viral in a huge way—over 18 million views— for maybe the wrong reasons.

Despite it being very, very clear that the clip is a joke, the video’s comment section is full of anger, with people saying things like, “Dump her ungrateful ass,” “He deserves someone better,” and “Can we normalize not doing test on our boyfriends he gave a perfect and valid answer and how are we still gonna get upset??”

People started making response videos:

It spread off TikTok. Reddit got extra mad about the leaf test.

I don’t know if there’s any way to measure this, but the internet has made people way less able to understand when someone is being ironic or sarcastic, whether it’s misinterpreted written posts on Threads or joke videos on TikTok. The internet seems to have made people less likely to moderate their responses; people are fast on the trigger.

Up to a third of people worldwide have shoulder pain; it’s one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints. But medical imaging might not reveal the problem—in fact, it could even cloud it.

In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, 99 percent of adults over 40 were found to have at least one abnormality in a rotator cuff on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The rotator cuff is the group of muscles and tendons in a shoulder joint that keeps the upper arm bone securely in the shoulder socket—and is often blamed for pain and other symptoms. The trouble is, the vast majority of the people in the study had no problems with their shoulders.

The finding calls into question the growing use of MRIs to try to diagnose shoulder pain—and, in turn, the growing problem of overtreatment of rotator cuff (RC) abnormalities, which includes partial- and full-thickness tears as well as signs of tendinopathy (tendon swelling and thickening).

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Anthropic’s Claude is an AI bot that keeps up a steady pace when it comes to pushing out new features, and the latest upgrade of note sees three useful features make their way down to free users, having previously been exclusive to the paid-for plans.

If you’re choosing between AIs and comparing the features available on the free plans, then there’s now more of a case to be made for choosing Claude over a competitor like ChatGPT or Gemini for your next batch of AI tasks.

The three new features now available to free users on Claude are file creation, external plug-ins called Connectors, and bundles of instructions called Skills. Here’s how you can make use of them.

File creation in Claude

Claude’s file creation capabilities let you create Word documents, PowerPoint slideshows, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs from right inside a conversation. You can either supply the bot with all text, data, and other information you want included, get Claude to invent everything itself, or something in between.

For example, if you’ve got a long list of names and scores, Claude can put them into a spreadsheet for you. If you’ve got a series of images, Claude can combine them into a PDF and describe them. You can get it to analyze and visualize data, produce presentations based on reports, and create summary documents.

A simple prompt can create a file in Claude.
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To enable file creation for your account, click your profile icon (bottom left) in Claude on the web, then select Settings > Capabilities and enable Code execution and file creation. With that done, you just have to prompt Claude with the type of file you want to make and what you want included, supplying any information as needed (or telling the AI where to find it online).

As usual with these AI bots, the more detail and specificity you can provide, the better—the end result is then more likely to be closer to what you were aiming for. I got it to quickly come up with the results of a fictional sports day race, and produce a spreadsheet from it. While it’s not the most demanding of tasks, Claude completed it correctly.

Claude Connectors

Connectors can hook Claude up to a variety of other apps, sites, and services: So if you want to get it to design something for you in Canva, or manage your messages in Slack, or find some travel deals on Trivago, then Claude can do that for you. The full list of current Connectors gives you some idea of what’s possible.

To get to the Connectors from the Claude prompt box, click the small + (plus) icon in the lower left corner, then choose Add connectors. You can search through Connectors by name, and filter them by type and category. When you select one you like, you’ll need to supply your account credentials and give Claude permission to access your account.

Use Connectors to connect Claude to other apps.
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Your Connectors of choice are then available from the same sub-menu in the prompt box: You can add more plug-ins and remove existing ones from there. You can either select an app, or specify the name of it in your prompt and Claude should understand what you mean. You can ask for outputs, run searches, and communicate through your connected services.

Connectors can give Claude some handy extra talents. With the Canvas Connector, for example, I was able to create a basic bit of artwork for a birthday party flyer—something that the AI wouldn’t have been able to do on its own. I find that access was spotty, however, perhaps a sign of a lot of free users now making use of these tools.

Claude Skills

With Skills, you can “teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way” (in the words of the official support document). In old-school computer talk, they might be referred to as macros: batches of set instructions that Claude can repeat whenever you need something doing in a particular way.

Templates are a good example, whether they’re for emails or documents. Rather than just getting Claude to write an email for you, you can set down some basic parameters for the job that include guidelines on tone, length, and style, as well as crucial bits of information (such as your contact details) that always need to be included.

You’ve got three options for creating Skills.
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Click your account profile icon (bottom left) in Claude on the web, then choose Settings > Capabilities and click Add under Skills to get started. You can create a Skill through a Claude conversation, by writing out the instructions, or by uploading a Skills file (which is handy for including extra items such as code snippets, as described here).

I took the Create with Claude route to put together a basic way of summarizing PDF reports, with specific guidelines on how many paragraphs and headings to use, and the tone of voice to apply. In the future, rather than typing out those instructions every time I need something summarized, I can just invoke the Skill.