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Meta seems convinced that some users will pay a few dollars a month for extra controls, customization, and visibility inside its biggest apps. After initially testing these subscriptions with limited groups of users, the company is now expanding the idea globally across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Meta’s Plus plans are going global The plans are priced separately, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus costing $3.99 per month, while WhatsApp Plus is a little cheaper at $2.99 per month. The good news is that the free versions of these apps are not going away. Regular posting, messaging, calling, and scrolling still…

Spotify just rolled out a batch of updates that playlist obsessives have been waiting a long time for. The biggest one is playlist folders finally coming to mobile. This feature has existed on desktop for years, but mobile users never had it. Now you can group your playlists by mood, activity, or genre right from your phone, and you can even nest folders inside other folders if your organizational habits run deep. Playlist folders are available now for all users globally, no subscription required. Every new feature coming to your Spotify app Playlist folders are now available on mobile, letting…

OnePlus has a habit of building flagships that make us genuinely excited, both for the specifications and the price at which they’re offered, then finding ways to complicate things.  The OnePlus 16 is shaping up to be yet another example of the same pattern, and an extreme one no less. It’s a device with specifications that look deliberately unreasonable, with bizarre availability rumors suggesting most of the world won’t be able to buy one.  What does the latest leak actually say? The most recent batch of information comes from Chinese leaker Smart Pikachu (via Weibo), who now claims the OnePlus 16…

After years of going head-to-head with AMD for PC gaming supremacy, Intel now appears determined to challenge Team Red’s dominance in the Windows 11 gaming handheld market. The company has just unveiled the Intel Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors, both based on the Panther Lake architecture used in Intel Core Ultra Series 3. Intel says the chips are tuned for handhelds, with 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, 4 low-power efficiency cores, and graphics based on its latest Xe3 architecture. The top configuration uses Intel Arc B390 graphics, with support for real-time ray tracing, XeSS 3, Multi-Frame Generation,…

Waymo’s new robotaxi, the Ojai, doesn’t really look like something trying to blend into traffic. It looks like it skipped a few years ahead, landed in the future, and didn’t bother checking whether the rest of us were keeping up. This isn’t just an incremental update to Waymo’s existing fleet. It feels more like a reset — a rethink of what a ride becomes when there’s no one behind the wheel at all. And now, after months of internal testing, Waymo is finally opening the doors for early public riders in the coming weeks. A robotaxi that feels like a…

There is good news for YouTube Premium subscribers who love podcasts, as the platform just announced three new features heading their way. This update shows how serious YouTube is about competing with audio-first apps like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, especially as Netflix is also ramping up its investment in video podcasts. What are the new podcast features for Youtube Premium subscribers? The first addition is On-the-go mode, which is the most useful feature of the three. When you are running, commuting, or just doing something else with your hands, it switches your podcast to an audio-friendly layout with a static…

Your browsing habits may not be as private as you think, even with all the right precautions in place. According to Ars Technica, security researchers have uncovered a new attack technique that lets a malicious website figure out which other sites and apps you have open. You do not need to click anything, download anything, or grant any permission; just visiting the page is enough. How can websites spy on your browsing activity through hard drive? The technique is called FROST, short for Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing. Every website and app you use generates its own unique pattern…

Xiaomi has launched the Xiaomi 17T Pro in Europe and the U.K., alongside the standard Xiaomi 17T. The Pro model is the more powerful of the two, with a larger display, Leica-branded cameras, a bigger battery, and MediaTek’s new flagship chip. A larger Leica-backed sensor leads the camera setup The camera system is the main focus on the 17T Pro. Its triple rear camera setup is led by a 50MP Light Fusion 950 main sensor. This is a large 1/1.31-inch sensor with optical image stabilization and an f/1.67 Leica Summilux lens, which should help with low-light shots and capturing more…

Small businesses have spent years juggling separate platforms for CRM, communication, marketing, support, task management, and reporting. Growth often meant adding more software, more manual coordination, and eventually more people just to keep operations moving efficiently. The result has been familiar across SMEs: fragmented customer data, delayed responses, repetitive administrative work, and teams constantly switching between disconnected systems throughout the day. AI is beginning to reshape that operating model in a far more practical way than many businesses initially expected. Instead of functioning as passive databases, CRM platforms are evolving into AI-powered operational ecosystems capable of qualifying leads, generating follow-ups,…

Marathon has become one of those games where the conversation around it becomes louder than the game itself. Behind this new extraction shooter is Bungie’s long development history and old baggage from Destiny 2. And amid rumors of layoffs after the end of Destiny 2, there are people who have already decided that Marathon represents everything wrong with live-service gaming. But some of these reviews are before these players have even extracted once. Now that Bungie has announced its first Open Play Week, this is the perfect time for many to have an original experience with Marathon. The game will…