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Google has officially announced the new google home speakerPrice $99.99. It is now available for pre-order and is scheduled to ship on June 25th. The device is the first audio hub built around the new Gemini for home voice assistants. It was first shown in October 2025 and underwent nine months of development before its […]

Google has started rolling out Android 17 and Wear OS 7 for Pixel phones and Pixel Watch devices. Samsung Galaxy and other Android phones are expected to get the update from next month. The update also introduces a new app-windowing feature called Bubbles, as well as more detailed controls for location and contact sharing, and

Fox Corp. is acquiring Roku in a deal worth about $22 billion consisting of cash and stock, the companies announced. The acquisition will give Fox direct access to Roku’s more than 100 million homes, as well as expanded ad targeting data and a way to reduce its reliance on traditional cable distribution. The deal is

Mozilla is temporarily removing the bandwidth cap on Firefox’s free built-in VPN, giving eligible users unlimited browsing until August 31. This promotion expands the available locations from the standard set to 28 countries. The VPN is back to its standard 50GB monthly bandwidth limit and reduced space list on September 1st. Firefox Built-in VPN is

Instagram has expanded its algorithm controls to the main feed. This follows an initial launch on Reels in October 2025 and a subsequent rollout to Explore. This feature allows users to see what topics the recommendation system interests them, add topics they are more interested in, and remove topics they are less interested in. Instagram

Valve has confirmed it is ending the Steam gift card program at retail stores, citing years of scam abuse. Physical Steam Gift Cards will be available at retailers while stocks last. Once those locations sell through their inventory, Valve will not restock them. The company expects all retailers to run out of physical cards by

Apple announced new AI-powered features for Safari at WWDC 2026, using Apple Intelligence to enhance tab management, password protection, browser customization, and page monitoring. Apple emphasizes that these features are designed with privacy in mind and do not share browsing data with Apple or third parties. Automatic password correction and AI tab organization in Safari

Apple announced macOS 27 Golden Gate at WWDC 2026, which marks the end of support for Intel Macs and introduces a significantly improved Siri AI powered by Google Gemini. The new operating system is expected to be released this fall. Siri AI will be available in beta for English users later this year. macOS 27

Iron Gate has announced that Valheim 1.0 Will be out of Early Access on September 9thMore than five years after the Viking survival game first launched on PC in early 2021, The 1.0 update introduces Deep North, the game’s final biome expansion, and marks the debut of Valheim on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2.

Microsoft has fixed a Windows Update caching issue that caused driver updates to install on managed devices without notification, bypassing policies set to prevent automatic updates. The issue was acknowledged on June 2 and confirmed as resolved in Wednesday’s update to Admin Center incident report MO1332784. The issue affected enterprise-managed Windows devices enrolled in Intune

Microsoft announced Release of coreutils For Windows at its Build 2026 developer conference, added several popular Linux command-line utilities as native applications for Windows. The project is based on the open-source Utils project, a cross-platform rewrite of GNU coreutils written in Rust. Its goal is to enable developers to switch between Linux, macOS, Windows, and