Author: News Room
My inbox is chaos on most days. It’s filled with everything — meeting invites, marketing pitches, product PR, important updates, and a constant stream of things that all feel urgent in the moment. And when it piles up like that, it gets overwhelming fast. I’ll be honest, there are days when I avoid opening emails altogether because it feels like too much to process, and there’s always that nagging worry that I might miss something important buried in the noise. That’s exactly where Gemini has changed things for me. Having it built into my inbox feels like a safety net…
A new study has found that access to and understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly concentrated among wealthier and more educated individuals, raising concerns about a widening digital divide. The research, based on data from more than 10,000 adults in the United States, shows that people with higher income and education levels are significantly more likely to be aware of, familiar with, and actively use AI technologies. Uneven Awareness And Usage Driving A New Gap The study highlights a clear pattern: individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to recognize where AI is being used or understand…
Netflix has never been a friend of the multiplex. For most of its existence as a film studio, the streamer has treated theaters as a reluctant pit stop — a brief, begrudging detour before content lands where it was always meant to: on your couch. That’s starting to change, and the company is making the shift in the most attention-grabbing way possible. The streamer announced Friday that Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will get a proper wide theatrical release on February 12, 2026, with a 45-day exclusivity window before it hits the platform on April 2. For a company that has…
SpaceX has its own ambitious plans for AI data centers in space, while Microsoft has explored the idea by sinking them underwater. However, building AI data centers is expensive and power-intensive. This is why a UK firm wants to build one using street lamp posts in Nigeria, and it has already signed a deal to do it. Warwickshire-based Conflow Power Group has agreed with Nigeria’s Katsina State Government to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts called iLamps across the state (via BBC). Each unit runs on a cylindrical solar panel and battery, powering a low-energy Nvidia chip that draws just…
If you’ve been dreaming of building your own app without writing a single line of code, vibe coding probably sounds like your golden ticket. You describe what you want, AI builds it, and you ship it. However, a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology Policy Council says the picture is a lot messier than that. The ACM TechBrief, co-authored by Simson Garfinkel, Chief Scientist at BasisTech, doesn’t dismiss the appeal. Vibe coding apps like Loveable and Google’s Firebase Studio opens up software development to people with no programming background. It also frees experienced developers from repetitive, low-creativity…
Writing an email is already one of the more lifeless parts of modern work, so of course the tech industry decided to automate it. AI was meant to ease workloads by managing “grunt” work—dealing repetitive junk, trimming down inbox overload, and giving people their time back. It really sounded like the right idea. But in reality, we are nowhere close to removing the misery of email. The kind of email you’re already sick of seeing AI lowers the effort required to produce corporate-sounding language. That means every “just following up,” every “circling back,” every “gentle reminder,” and every “happy to…
To counter Linux’s growing dominance in handheld gaming devices, Microsoft showcased Xbox mode, a lighter, gaming-focused version of Windows. Last month, Microsoft pleasantly surprised Windows users by announcing that Xbox mode would also come to Windows PCs and laptops. And that day is here. Xbox mode is finally rolling out to Windows 11 PCs, including laptops, desktops, and tablets. If you have ever wanted your PC to feel more like a console, this is the update you have been waiting for. What makes Xbox mode so exciting? Xbox mode is a full-screen, controller-optimized experience built for gaming. Think of it as…
Apple has a good problem on its hands: it simply cannot make enough Macs. On its fiscal Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook confirmed that demand for the Mac lineup has outpaced what the company can supply — and honestly, that’s not a sentence you’d have expected to write a few years ago when Mac growth was chugging along in iPhone’s shadow. The culprits are interesting. The Mac Mini and Mac Studio are flying off the shelves, and Cook attributes a big chunk of that to people waking up to how capable Apple Silicon is for running AI tools…
OpenAI recently started testing ads inside ChatGPT, and AI companies are already trying to figure out whether advertising inside an AI chatbot can work without annoying users. Now Google is making it clear that Gemini may not avoid that business model forever. During Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings call, Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler was asked directly about ads in the Gemini app. He kept the answer measured, saying Google’s current focus is the free tier, subscriptions, and AI plans, while the company is working on monetizing AI Mode in Search first. Could ads really come to the Gemini app?…
Apple has quietly discontinued the $599 Mac mini, making the 256GB model no longer available for purchase. Rather than raising its price to reflect rising memory and NAND costs, the company simply pulled it from the lineup, leaving buyers with a steeper entry point than before. Did Apple just raise the Mac mini’s price without calling it a price hike? Since Apple pulled the 256GB model from its website, the cheapest Mac mini you can buy now comes with a $799 price tag, featuring an M4 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Apple has not made an official…