Laurent Giret

Laurent is a Senior News Editor helping Paul Thurrott with daily tech news coverage since 2022. He's been writing about the technology industry for 10 years, mainly focusing on Big Tech companies. He also was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022 to 2023. You can follow Laurent on LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Amazon Fire TV Home screen

Fire TV Users Are Now Seeing Full-Screen Ads Before Screensavers Start

Amazon's Fire TV platform has started showing users full-screen ads before the screensaver starts.

Epic Games Store

Epic Games Says Apple is Violating the DMA After Rejecting its iOS Game Store Twice

Epic Games says Apple is violating its app store obligations under the EU’s Digital Markets…

Meta Threads app

Threads Crosses 175 Million Monthly Active Users After Just a Year

Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter/X has crossed 175 million monthly active users ahead of its…

Apple Phil Schiller

Report: Apple Veteran Phil Schiller to Get an OpenAI Board Seat

Apple veteran Phil Schiller will reportedly be offered an observer role on OpenAI’s board, where…

Netflix

Netflix is Discontinuing its Ad-free ‘Basic’ Plan for Existing Subscribers

Netflix has started pushing subscribers to its discontinued ad-free Basic plan to switch to a…

iPhone 15 lineup

Apple’s Full iPhone 16 Lineup May Use the Same Generation of A-Series Chips

Apple may go back to using the same generation of A-series chips on its upcoming…

Apple iPhone X vintage

iPhone X, Original Airpods and HomePod Join Apple’s Vintage Products List

The original AirPods, the iPhone X, and the original HomePod have now joined the list…

Cricket 24 Game Pass July 2024

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 and Seven More Games Are Headed to Game Pass

The crossover fighting game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is headlining the first wave of games…

Copilot OneNote handwritten notes

Copilot in OneNote Can Now Recognize Handwritten Text

In a new update for Office Insiders, Copilot in OneNote can now read and analyze…

Facebook Pay or consent EU DMA

EU Commission Says Meta’s “Pay or Consent” Model is Breaching the DMA

The European Commission said today that Meta's “pay or consent” advertising model for Facebook and…

Apple Vision Pro Launch China Hong Kong Japan Singapore

Apple Vision Pro Launches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore

The Apple Vision Pro is finally available in non-US markets today as it just launched…

Apple Intelligence

EU Competition Chief Says Apple Intelligence Skipping the EU is “Disabling Competition”

Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition said that Apple Intelligence skipping the EU this…

YouTube Premium

YouTube Announces New Premium Features and Hints At More Plans Options

Google detailed yesterday a couple of new features that are now rolling out to YouTube…

Xbox Cloud Gaming Fire TV Stick 4K

Xbox Cloud Gaming is Coming to Fire TV Stick 4K

Microsoft has teamed up with Amazon to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to select Fire TV…

Forza Horizon 4

Forza Horizon 4 to Be Delisted on December 15

Forza Horizon 4, the penultimate episode in the Xbox-exclusive open-world racing game series will be…

Google Translate

Google Translate Adds Support For 110 New Languages Thanks to AI

Google Translate is adding support for 110 new languages today, representing the biggest expansion to…

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