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

Halo Infinite Season 3: Echoes Within Launches Today

Echoes Within, the third multiplayer season of Halo Infinite is launching today on Xbox consoles…

Google is Getting Rid of Overlay Ads on YouTube

Google is planning to retire overlay ads on YouTube starting on April 6. The company…

Report: Apple Made 8 of the Top 10 Best-Selling Smartphones in 2022

There were 8 eight different iPhone models among the top 10 best-selling smartphones in 2022,…

Valheim is Coming to Xbox Game Pass in March

The survival game Valheim is being released in preview on Xbox consoles this month, and…

Outlook for Mac

Outlook for Mac is Now Free to Use on macOS

Microsoft’s Outlook for Mac app is now free to use on macOS. Until today, Outlook…

Microsoft Announces Windows Insider Canary Channel and “Rebooted” Dev Channel

The Windows Insider Program is getting a new Canary channel as well as a "rebooted"…

Microsoft Will Share its Vision of the Future of Work With AI on March 16

Microsoft announced today that it will hold an event about “the future of work with…

Apple Could Launch New M3 iMac Later This Year

Apple’s next-gen M3 chip is expected to ship in new Mac models coming later this…

Meta’s Quest Pro VR Headset Gets a $500 Price Cut

Meta is dropping the price of its $1,499.99 Quest Pro VR headset, which will be…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Starts Testing Enhanced Volume Mixer in Quick Settings

The Windows 11 Insider build 25309 for Dev Channel testers introduces an enhanced volume mixer…

Microsoft Activision Blizzard

Report: EU is “Likely” to Approve Microsoft’s Concessions on Activision Blizzard Deal

After announcing licensing deals with Nintendo and Nvidia last week, Microsoft may have successfully addressed…

OpenAI

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT API for Developers

OpenAI launched this week new APIs allowing developers to integrate ChatGPT and the company's speech-to-text…

Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Adds Conversation Style Selector

Microsoft has rolled out a new conversation style selector on its new Bing chatbot, and…

xbox-series-x-s

Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold 18.5 Million Xbox Series X|S Consoles

Microsoft has sold 18.5 million Xbox Series X and Series S consoles since launch according…

Qualcomm Details Integrated SIM (iSIM) Support for its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Chip

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC now supports integrated SIMs. iSIMs integrate the functionality of…

Google CHrome

Google Chrome is Now More Power Efficient on Apple Silicon Macs

A new update for Chrome 110 should make the web browser sip less battery on…

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