Valve hikes the price of Steam Deck A while ago, the Steam Deck OLED models went out of stock. Now, Valve has announced a massive price increase for the handheld consoles. The Steam Deck 512GB OLED, which launched for $550 in 2023, now costs $790. That’s a price increase of...

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Firefox 151 introduces a Fire button for incognito sessions, location selection for VPN Mozilla released the Firefox 151 update this week which brought a handful of changes. One of these is a “Clear Private Session” button, which is shaped like a flame. It’s exclusive to private browsing sessions. What it...

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If you’re editing a video on a tight deadline and you realize a piece of footage isn’t there, you already know the next few hours. You pause the project, switch to a browser, dig through stock sites, download options, import them, check if any of them actually work in context,...

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Microsoft rebrands Xbox, it’s now XBOX This maybe the biggest change ever made. Xbox is now XBOX. That’s no joke. As reported by The Verge’s Tom Warren, the creative change came after Asha Sharma, the CEO of Xbox, held a poll on X asking players if they liked Xbox or...

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Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI Model on your computer Security researcher Alexander Hanff wrote an article on ThatPrivacyGuy, stating that he discovered Chrome was writing a 4GB on-device AI model called weights.bin in a new folder. This file is related to Gemini Nano, which is Google’s local language...

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Producing content for a brand used to follow a predictable rhythm. You briefed a campaign, scheduled a shoot or a design sprint, sourced your assets, and built toward a delivery date that gave everyone enough room to work. That rhythm is mostly gone. Social media alone now requires a volume...

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YouTube makes picture-in-picture mode free for all mobile users YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode debuted in 2018 on Android, and arrived on iOS in 2021. The feature allows users to continue watching videos in a small window, when they switch out of the YouTube app, i.e. by swiping up or by tapping...

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Mozilla is testing a built-in ad blocker in Firefox Mozilla has begun testing an ad blocker in Firefox. This native solution, is powered by Brave Browser’s ad block engine, which is called adblock-rust. Firefox has supported ad blocker extensions for a long time, and users have lots of choices to...

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Have you ever found yourself with fourteen browser tabs open, two hours left before a deadline, and absolutely zero confidence that the hero image you need actually exists somewhere on the internet? Because I have. More times than I’d like to admit. And I can tell you right now: the...

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Google launches Gemini app for Mac Google has released an official Gemini app for macOS. The app is native, and is written in Swift. It is compatible with all Apple Silicon computers that run on macOS Sequoia 15.0 or later. Once installed, users can access Gemini from the dock or...

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YouTube Premium gets a price hike in the US Amazon Prime and Netflix raised their prices last month. It was only a matter of time before other streaming services followed their example. This time, it is YouTube’s turn. While YouTube Premium got a price hike in many countries in 2024,...

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Microsoft wants to focus on native apps for Windows 11 Microsoft has been making quite a few changes recently to improve the Windows 11 experience. According to Rudy Huyn, a Microsoft Partner Architect, the next step is to focus on Windows apps. You may be aware that many Windows apps...

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The way we watch television has changed dramatically in recent years. Now, viewers are no longer satisfied with channels limited to their country. International series, exclusive sports events, cultural programming, and foreign streaming platforms are now part of the everyday media consumption of millions of people worldwide. International television has...

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Netflix plan prices hiked in the U.S. Netflix has increased the price of its subscriptions in the United States. The streaming service had last hiked its prices in January 2025. According to a support page on the official website, Netflix’s ad supported plan now costs $8.99 per month, after a...

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Google Search is using AI to edit headlines It looks like Google Search is modifying the headlines of articles, using AI. The issue came to light when The Verge discovered that some of the results for their articles had different headlines on Google, instead of the original ones. The problem...

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Digital content consumption has grown exponentially recently. Movies, TV shows, music, video games, and software are now easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection. In this environment, two methods stand out above the rest: torrenting and streaming. While both allow users to access online content, they work in very...

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Have you ever searched for something like ‘best running shoes for flat feet’ online, and then later, while scrolling through your social media, suddenly saw ads for exactly the types of shoes you were just looking at? It’s creepy. One might think this is simply the result of the sites...

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Copilot is coming to Xbox consoles this year Microsoft is bringing its Copilot AI to its consoles this year, whether you like using it or not. Sonali Yadav, Product Manager for Xbox Gaming AI announced that Gaming Copilot is coming to current Xbox consoles. Games Radar reports that this likely...

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Firefox is getting a redesign Mozilla is planning to give Firefox a makeover. The browser’s interface was last refreshed in 2021, with Proton. Prior to that, there was Photon in 2017, and Australis in 2014. Internal mockups that were shared by Sören Hentzschel have revealed the upcoming design for the...

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Discord pauses age verification amid backlash from users Discord has officially confirmed that it has delayed the rollout of age verification globally after backlash from users. The messaging platform had planned to introduce the system in March, but the reaction from the community was negative. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, the co-founder and...

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