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

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Candy Crush Solitaire is King First’s New Game Under Microsoft Ownership

Candy Crush Solitaire is King’s first new game since Microsoft acquired its parent company Activision…

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Apple’s 4th-Gen iPhone SE Could Be Revealed Next Week

Apple’s 4th-gen iPhone SE may be announced next week and start shipping later this month…

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Get Ready for a New “Storyline” News Feed in Microsoft Teams

The Microsoft Teams you know will soon try to imitate social networks with a "Storyline"…

Windows 11 Photos App OCR

OCR Support in Microsoft’s Photos App is Live Again For All Insiders

Windows Insiders can once again test optical character recognition (OCR) in Microsoft’s Photos app it…

ChatGPT Search is Now Available Without Logging In

OpenAI is expanding access to ChatGPT Search by making the chatbot’s web search feature available…

Windows MIDI Services

Microsoft Releases Windows MIDI Services With MIDI 2.0 Support in Public Preview

Microsoft released today the first public preview of Windows MIDI Services, which adds support for…

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Amazon Announces Devices & Services Event on February 26

Amazon has just sent invites to an upcoming Devices and Services event that will be…

Tapestry

Twitterrific Developers Launch Tapestry, a “Universal Timeline” App

Tapestry, the new app from Twitterrific developer The Iconfactory offers a unified timeline that aggregates…

Microsoft Build 2025

Microsoft’s Build 2025 Conference Will Be on May 19-22

Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference will return to Seattle this year on May 19-22, and…

Age of Mythology Retold PlayStation 5

Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires II: DE Are Coming to PlayStation 5

Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition are both coming to…

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Report: Windows 11 is Getting New File Sharing UI and More This Year

Various hidden features have been recently discovered in Windows 11 preview builds including a new…

Apple Invites App

Apple Wants to Improve Event Creation With New Invites App

Apple is launching today a new Invites app on iPhones and the web that aims…

Apple Music

Deal: Get Six Months of Apple Music for $2.99

Apple is offering six months of Apple Music for just $2.99 as a part of…

Starfield Xbox Game Pass Standard

Starfield is Coming to Xbox Game Pass Standard in February

The first wave of new Game Pass games for February will bring Starfield and three…

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Apple Says it’s “Deeply Concerned” After First iPhone Porn App Launches in the EU

Apple has publicly criticized the release of the first porn app on AltStore PAL, one…

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Outlook for Mac is Getting the Ability to Recall Emails

Outlook for Mac is getting the ability to recall emails sent by mistake, which was…

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