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.

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YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Adds High-Quality Audio for Music Tracks, Faster Playback Speeds, More

YouTube Premium members are getting high-quality audio for music tracks on mobile, the ability to…

Xbox Series X_S consoles

US Retailer Costco is No Longer Selling Xbox Consoles

Costco, one of the biggest retailers in the world with hundreds of locations across the…

Meta AI Vibes Feed

Meta AI App Gets New “Vibes” Feed of AI-Generated Content

The Meta AI app is giving more importance to visual content and community features with…

Amazon Prime

Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Over Prime-Related Dark Patterns

Amazon agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission…

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates

[Updated] Microsoft Accepts to Make Windows 10 Extended Security Updates Free for EU Consumers

Microsoft has agreed to make Windows 10 Extended Security Updates truly free for consumers in…

macOS Sequoia iPhone mirroring

Apple Blames Digital Markets Act for Feature Delays in the EU

Apple really isn’t happy with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and it’s urging the European…

Google AI Mode Search Live

Search Live is Now Available For All Google App Users in the US

Search Live lets mobile users have a voice chat with the new AI Mode in…

PlayStation Pulse Elevate Wireless Speakers

PlayStation Reveals Pulse Elevate Wireless Speakers Coming in 2026

Sony's upcoming Pulse Elevate wireless speakers will offer ultra-low latency and multi-device connectivity thanks to…

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Series Chips to Power New Copilot+ PCs Coming in 2026

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Series Chips to Power New Copilot+ PCs Coming in 2026

Qualcomm revealed today its next-gen chips for ARM-based PCs, the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon…

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Smartphone Chip

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Smartphone Chip

Qualcomm just took the wraps off its new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC at…

Meta Facebook Instagram

Instagram Crosses 3 Billion Monthly Active Users

Instagram has now crossed the 3 billion monthly active users milestone, just like Meta's Facebook…

Disney plus

Disney+ Subscriptions to Get More Expensive in the US in October

Disney announced upcoming US price increases for its Disney+ standalone plans, with bundles with Hulu,…

Google AI Mode spanish

Google’s AI Mode is Now Available in Spanish

Google’s experimental AI Mode now supports Spanish in addition to Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and…

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 Models

Microsoft is making two AI models from OpenAI rival Anthropic available with its business-focused Microsoft…

Google Photos Android conversational editing

Google Photos Makes Conversational Editing Available for All US Android Users

The new conversational editing feature in Google Photos, which first made its debut on the…

Perplexity Email Assistant

Perplexity Max Subscription Adds New Mail Assistant for Gmail and Outlook

AI startup Perplexity is launching a new Email Assistant to help Perplexity Max subscribers manage…

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