The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.
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Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise …
Powered ‘Spiritual Successor to Foursquare’
This new app tracks every time you swipe your card at a cool restaurant—and tells all your friends.
I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I'm changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice
VPN gaming isn't the pointless endeavour I assumed it was.
No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so
Maybe communism has something going for it.
A Utah age verification law targeting VPN users goes into effect this week
It's the first US state to explicitly target VPN use with its age check legislation.
The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
Only roles "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible for awards.
Best Apps for Focus (2026): Focus Friend, Forest, Focus Traveller
Distractions? What distractions? Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand.
A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix
You just need to be on an Arch-based distro, for now.
The new Linux 7.0 kernel is here and as always, it's all about lots of little improvements rather than one significant update
Tux is looking a little more dapper with every update.
Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'
"It has to look calm even when the rest of the system is not."
'It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things' says Sam Altman on AI after alleged arson attack on home
"We should de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally."
Roblox unveils new Roblox Plus monthly subscription that pays creators who get players to sign up for the new Roblox Plus monthly subscription
Capturing half of the games industry's consumer sales growth apparently wasn't enough.
Someone allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house
A suspect was arrested after the early morning incident, which caused minor damage and no injuries.
Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is ending support for game purchases and subscriptions from third-party stores, and users will lose streaming access to purchased third-party games in June
Luna users' previously purchased EA, Ubisoft, and GOG games will still be accessible on their associated platforms.