Author: News Room
If you’ve ever downloaded an app on a tablet only to find out that it has a phone-shaped interface that occupies only the centre of the screen, surrounded by black bars on both sides, Google has finally acknowledged your pain. An upcoming Play Store update (version 51.2) introduces a new badge system that will clearly mark apps built to utilise large screens, saving tablet and foldable users time by letting them quickly see which apps actually look right on their devices. What does the new badge actually tell you? The new badge appears on an app’s Play Store listing. It…
The shift toward over-the-counter hearing aids has changed how people approach hearing health. What was once delayed due to cost or complexity can now be addressed earlier, with devices that are easier to adopt and far more flexible in how they fit into daily life. This matters not just for older users, but for a wider group of adults managing mild-to-moderate hearing loss across work, calls, and everyday conversations. With Mother’s Day offers now available across the category, this is also a practical time to consider an upgrade, whether for yourself or for someone in the family. The focus is…
Amazon’s color Kindle lineup had been missing the budget Kindle models had for years: a system-wide dark mode. However, admitting its oversight, the company has finally released dark mode for both the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. Before this update, the only way people could comfortably use the Kindle models for nighttime reading was the Page Color toggle, which inverted colors within supported books. However, the moment you left the book and returned to the home screen, library, settings, or any other page, everything snapped back to bright white. What can Colorsoft and Scribe users do with dark mode?…
Google Translate is celebrating its 20th birthday, marking the occasion with something users have been requesting for a long time. Google is introducing pronunciation practice, which is now available on Android for English, Spanish, and Hindi in the US and India. No word yet on when it will expand to other regions or arrive on iOS. Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and… the launch of a top-requested feature! 🎂One of the toughest things about speaking a new language is getting the nuances of pronunciation just right. Now, you can get instant feedback with “pronunciation practice,” which uses AI… pic.twitter.com/DdMfiMB9dz—…
Valve has already done the hard part with the Steam Deck. It proved that a handheld gaming PC can offer a console-like experience while still being practical and fun. With the Steam Deck OLED, the company only sharpened this approach with a better screen, larger battery, and a handful of smart upgrades. So the Steam Deck 2 does not need to chase some wild new identity. The current Steam Deck is not flawless, but it also does not need to win some pointless spec war. What I really want is a mix of quality-of-life improvements and hardware upgrades that tighten…
If you’ve finished Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 and immediately wanted more, Netflix heard you. The animated series has officially been renewed for season 2, and it is returning to Netflix this fall. For context, Tales From ’85 is a spin-off of the original Stranger Things franchise, set in the winter of 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana. It follows the Hawkins Investigators Club as they face paranormal threats in an animated format separate from the live-action series. What happened at the end of Tales From ’85 season 1? [Spoiler warning: please skip this section if you have not finished season 1…
YouTube TV’s multiview feature has always been a great idea, but it was held back by one frustrating limitation: Google decided what you watched, not you. But that changes now. On April 28, 2026, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced the full launch of the custom multiview feature for YouTube TV, giving subscribers complete freedom to create their own multi-screen viewing experience from any live channel. Today, we’re officially launching fully customizable multiview on @YouTubeTV.Our @youtube teams made one of our most popular features even better. The new multiview builder gives you full control to mix and match live streams (including…
Google’s Photos app has been doing things that Apple’s Photos app couldn’t, for years, and the iPhone-maker has noticed. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his latest report, claims that iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will come with a dedicated “Apple Intelligence Tools” section inside the Photos editing interface. The “Apple Intelligence Tools” section will include three new AI-powered photo-editing features: Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. Before we begin with what the features actually do, all of them will run entirely on-device, and, in a typical Apple fashion, complete their edits in seconds. What will the new Apple Intelligence photo editing…
Shopping on Amazon just got a lot more conversational. The company has launched Join the chat, a new interactive feature inside its existing Hear the highlights experience. If you have not come across Hear the highlights before, it is an AI-powered audio summary tool that lives on millions of product pages inside the Amazon Shopping app. It gives you a short audio rundown of a product’s key features, pulled from product details, customer reviews, and other publicly available information. Now, the ‘Join the chat’ feature takes it one step further by letting you have a conversation with the AI. How…
Asus has decided that one screen isn’t simply enough on a laptop. The ROG Zephyrus Duo has returned to the market with two screens, with pre-orders now live for what the company is calling the world’s first 16-inch dual-screen gaming laptop. Starting at $4,499.99 and going up to $5,499.99 for the top configuration, this is undoubtedly a machine that is built for people measuring their laptops with ambition, either for innovation or the desire to game on a dual-screen laptop. What are you actually getting for $4,499.99? Two full 16-inch ROG Nebula OLED touchscreens, which give you a combined diagonal…