--- title: 5 Things You Didn’t Know your Browser Could Do | daily.dev description: A quick overview of five lesser-known browser APIs: WebGPU for GPU access (physics simulations, ML inference), the Web Bluetooth API for controlling devices,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-things-you-didn-t-know-your-browser-could-do-s4bxjjcce twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 Things You Didn’t Know your Browser Could Do | daily.dev og:description: A quick overview of five lesser-known browser APIs: WebGPU for GPU access (physics simulations, ML inference), the Web Bluetooth API for controlling devices,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-things-you-didn-t-know-your-browser-could-do-s4bxjjcce og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S4BxJJccE.png og:image:alt: 5 Things You Didn’t Know your Browser Could Do og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 Things You Didn’t Know your Browser Could Do **[Coding with Lewis](https://daily.dev/sources/codingwithlewis)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A quick overview of five lesser-known browser APIs: WebGPU for GPU access (physics simulations, ML inference), the Web Bluetooth API for controlling devices, the Web Speech API for built-in speech recognition without external libraries, the Screen Wake Lock API to prevent screens from sleeping, and the Gamepad API for reading input from PS5/Xbox controllers via JavaScript. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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