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, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Google Audio Glasses Gentle Monster Warby Parker

Google I/O: Google Shows First Audio-Only Glasses Coming Later this Fall

Google revealed at its I/O conference yesterday two designs of audio-only smart glasses developed with…

Apple Intelligence Accessibility features

Apple Details New AI-Powered Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year

Apple revealed today how its Apple Intelligence system on its recent mobile devices will soon…

Plex Lifetime Pass

Plex’s Lifetime Pass Will Soon Be 200% More Expensive

Plex has just announced another price increase for its Lifetime Plex Pass, which will cost…

Fortnite on mobile

Fortnite is Coming Back to Apple’s App Store Worldwide, Except in Australia

Fortnite has just returned to the iOS App Store worldwide (except in Australia), five years…

Forza Horizon 6 Game Pass May 2026 wave 2

Forza Horizon 6 is Racing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Today

The critically-acclaimed Forza Horizon 6 headlines the second wave of games coming to Game Pass…

Intel-powered Surface for Business

Microsoft Refreshes Surface for Business Lineup With Intel’s Latest Core Ultra Chips

Microsoft is refreshing its Surface for Business lineup today with new Surface Pro and Surface…

Xbox Player Voice

Xbox Fans Express Their Desire for Exclusive Games on New Player Voice Feedback Hub

The new Xbox leadership team recently said that it wanted to “fix the fundamentals for…

PlayStation Games on PC

PlayStation Reportedly Plans to Stop Porting its Future Single-Player Games to PC

Sony is reportedly changing its approach to PC ports and will keep its future single-player…

Amazon Alexa+ AI-generated podcasts

Amazon Launches AI-Generated Alexa Podcasts in the US

Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant can now create personalized podcast episodes with AI-generated hosts discussing the topics…

PlayStation Plus

Sony Announces PlayStation Plus Price Increases

Sony is raising the price of 1-month and 3-month PlayStation Plus Essential subscriptions on May…

Windows 11 PC Copilot Key

You’ll Soon Be Able to Remap the Copilot Key on Your Windows 11 PC

Microsoft will soon allow users of Windows 11 PCs with a dedicated Copilot keyboard key…

Google Gemini Intelligence

Google Details Strict Hardware Requirements for Gemini Intelligence on Android

Gemini Intelligence, the upcoming agentic AI system designed to automate various actions on Android devices,…

WhatsApp Status updates

WhatsApp is Testing Custom Audience Lists for Ephemeral Status Updates

WhatsApp has started testing custom audience lists for its ephemeral “Status” updates that disappear after…

Siri Apple Intelligence

Report: Apple’s Revamped Siri Will Support Auto-Deleting Chats

Apple's standalone Siri app coming with iOS 27 later this year will reportedly have the…

ChatGPT Personal Finance

US ChatGPT Pro Users Can Now Connect Their Bank Accounts to Get Financial Advice

OpenAI is launching a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT that lets Pro users in…

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge Will Stop Loading Passwords Into Memory in Clear Text at Startup

Microsoft Edge 148 will no longer load passwords into memory in plain text at startup.…

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