From CNET: Engagement is a big deal in the world of social media. On Wednesday, Meta announced Live Chats, a new feature for the Instagram-supported social app Threads. It adds a real-time conversation component, letting people connect during high-interest cultural events, such as playoff or...

From Turtle Beach Press Release: Today, Turtle Beach Corporation (Nasdaq: TBCH) announced its expansion of PC peripherals with the launch of the all-new Turtle Beach Command Series of keyboards and mice. Designed across a range of price points, the Command Series products deliver a new standard of...

From PC Mag: If you’re looking to buy a Mac mini, good luck finding a configuration of your choice. After higher-memory variants went out of stock last week, the base $599 M4 Mac mini has now been marked as “currently unavailable” on Apple’s online store.

Apple currently offers Mac minis with both...

From PC World: With Firefox’s latest version 150 update for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mozilla has introduced few genuinely new features but some noteworthy improvements. The split view is easier to use, the built-in PDF viewer is increasingly evolving into a PDF editor, and the developers have once...

From CNET: If you're an Android user with a trip coming up, there's a new feature worth checking out. Google just unveiled Live Updates, which could make your journey easier. As reported by 9to5Google, a new widget included in the Android 16 update provides real-time updates for your trip -- whether...

From PC Mag: OpenAI rolled out an update to ChatGPT’s image generation model on Tuesday that can reference web information, create multiple outputs at once, and deliver images containing non-Latin text. Images 2.0 is also ChatGPT’s first image model with "thinking" capabilities.

This is the company...

From PC World: Microsoft has released new preview versions of Windows 11 for Insiders. These new Insider preview versions are available now on the Beta, Dev, and Canary channels, and they give cause for optimism. With these updates, Microsoft is focusing on improving stability and performance, the...

From CNET: Google is going all-in on agentic AI. At Google's Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, the tech giant announced a slew of updates aimed at helping its enterprise customers automate their business processes with AI agents.

Google Cloud reports that 75% of its customers use AI in their...

From PC Mag: Meta has begun testing a subscription plan for WhatsApp, just weeks after it began testing a similar tier for Instagram. The test was first spotted by WABetaInfo and later confirmed by a Meta spokesperson to TechCrunch.

“WhatsApp is testing a new, optional subscription called WhatsApp...

From PC World: Virtually every Windows user wonders at one point or another: Do I need a third-party antivirus app in addition to Windows 11’s built-in Microsoft Defender? Do I need any antivirus protection at all?

In a blog post from earlier this month, Microsoft goes on the record and claims that...