Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more. As if DirecTV doesn’t have enough trouble keeping customers, the satellite TV provider’s streaming devices will show AI-generated screensaver ads next year, according to an announcement today from partnering ads company Glance. People who use either of…
Help Me Schedule creates a meeting widget based on the context of your message. Meetings can be a real drain on productivity, but a new Gmail feature might at least cut down on the time you spend scheduling them. The company has announced “Help Me Schedule” is coming to…
End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily. Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft’s Windows 10. That doesn’t mean these PCs will suddenly stop working, but if you don’t take action, it does mean your PC has received its last regular security patches…
After more than 5 billion AI image edits, Nano Banana is expanding. Google began experimenting with conversational image editing earlier this year in the dev-focused AI studio, but the feature didn’t remain experimental for long. Over the summer, Google rolled out the “Nano Banana” image-editing model in Gemini 2.5…
Apple unifies its remaining streaming offerings by dropping the “+”. Apple has lightly rebranded its video-on-demand streaming service. The Netflix rival that has brought us critically acclaimed shows and movies like Slow Horses and The Lost Bus has gone from Apple TV+ to Apple TV. Apple announced the name…
“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…” Amazon Echo Show owners are reporting an uptick in advertisements on their smart displays. The company’s Echo Show smart displays have previously shown ads through the company’s Shopping Lists feature, as well as advertising for Alexa skills. Additionally, Echo Shows may play…
Ending support for SoundTouch may help Bose avoid a Sonos situation. Bose will brick key features of its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars soon. On Thursday, Bose informed customers that as of February 18, 2026, it will stop supporting the devices, and the devices’ cloud-based features, including the companion…
The CMA will focus on regulating search and search advertising, but not Gemini (for now). Google is facing multiple antitrust actions in the US, and European regulators have been similarly tightening the screws. You can now add the UK to the list of Google’s governmental worries. The country’s antitrust…
YouTube will evaluate each request individually, but copyright violators need not apply. A few weeks ago, Google told US Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that it would allow creators banned for COVID and election misinformation to rejoin the platform. It didn’t offer many details in the letter, but now YouTube…
New laptop CPUs replace confusing bifurcated Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake lineups. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but the press that Intel has generated in the last year has certainly been testing the boundaries of the aphorism. Is it good when your company posts an…
