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Microsoft has spent years treating Game Pass as the centerpiece of Xbox, but the subscription service has become something of a problem for the company. Subscriber growth has fallen far short of internal expectations, while putting expensive first-party games on the service from day one has reportedly hurt the full-price sales Microsoft still relies on. According to Fortune, Sharma is planning a major Game Pass overhaul that would let players choose some features à la carte, including add-ons for console-only games, cloud gaming, and multiplayer, while keeping a tiered subscription structure. Game Pass clearly needs a rethink Microsoft reportedly wanted…
Google wants Gemini to do more than play music or give directions while you are driving. Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to Gemini on Android Auto starting today. Cars running Google built-in will get it in the coming months. With your permission, this feature lets Gemini pull from your Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Maps, YouTube, and Search to give you tailored answers. What can Gemini do with your apps while you’re driving? Next time you are driving to the airport and have no idea which gate you’re headed to, you won’t have to pull over to dig through your emails.…
Microsoft may already be putting pieces of its rumored Game Pass overhaul into place. A recent report claimed that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning a major rethink of the subscription service that could let players pay separately for features such as cloud gaming, multiplayer, and console-only games. Xbox has now started testing a pay-as-you-go version of Cloud Gaming that does not require a Game Pass subscription. Xbox Cloud Gaming now has an hourly price Xbox Insiders without an active Game Pass subscription can buy 10 hours of cloud playtime for $3.99, 25 hours for $7.99, or 50 hours for…
Anyone who has used Google Chrome has probably seen the red warning screen when they click a suspicious link or try to visit a potentially dangerous website. Google is now beefing up this warning system by adding a new layer that will flag websites that seem fishy, even when Safe Browsing does not have enough confidence to classify them as outright dangerous. The new Suspicious sites category is being added to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode and will sit below the existing Dangerous sites classification. Google says these are pages that show deceptive patterns commonly associated with malicious websites, but where…
Apple just revealed a new brand identity for Apple Music. The logo with its iconic pink and white color scheme is gone. The design is almost identical, but we now have a monochrome look for the icon, with a black tone set against a white backdrop. Of course, there are also elements of liquid glass alongside the corners. That’s just about it. What’s fascinating is the story and how Apple actually landed on this visual. The company says it worked with musician Fred again.. and NEST Acoustics to come up with the new design. Interestingly, in a brief video, Apple…
The AI race has taken an interesting turn lately, with frontier labs now competing to build agents that can keep working even when you are not actively talking to them. Meta helped push that idea into the spotlight with Muse, OpenAI followed soon after with Dots, and now Anthropic is throwing its hat in the ring with Claude Duet. Duet is launching as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers in the US through a waitlist. Anthropic is pitching it mainly at professionals and small-business owners who want help keeping track of work without constantly checking every app themselves.…
“Limited” is a great marketing word because it lets brands avoid disclosing actual stock numbers. For prospective customers, though, it’s frustrating. Even with cash in hand, they don’t know whether they’ll leave the store with the product. That uncertainty is now playing out with Apple’s first foldable. The company said Wednesday that its stores will carry a “limited” supply of the iPhone Duo for walk-in shoppers on Friday, October 23, 2026, the day general availability begins, without specifying how many. Why is the iPhone Duo so hard to find? I’d blame the pre-order stampede. Even at $1,999, Apple sold out…
Putting an active cooling fan inside a gaming smartphone is not a revolutionary idea. Red Magic phones have done this for a while, but Honor apparently thinks a single fan isn’t enough to cool the demanding Qualcomm flagship chip, so it included two in its new Win 2 gaming smartphone. The Chinese company unveiled the device alongside the Honor Win RT2 and Win Turbo2, both of which come with a ridiculous 12,070mAh battery. Two fans somehow fit next to the cameras The Honor Win 2 uses what the company calls its “Dongfeng Twin Star Turbine Cooling System.” One cross-flow fan…
Electronic Arts is shutting down BioWare after more than three decades, bringing the curtain down on the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. EA also canceled the next Mass Effect in early development, and the closure is part of a wider restructuring that will reportedly eliminate around 400 jobs across EA. Roughly 50 of those positions are reportedly at BioWare, and EA is also closing the studio’s Edmonton workspace. BioWare confirmed the news in its own farewell message, thanking the developers and players who helped build its games over the past 30…
Have you ever missed the chance to watch your favorite streamer going live? This is why Twitch has launched Stream Recaps, a new feature that bundles the best clips from a livestream into one highlight reel. You can now catch key moments in minutes instead of replaying hours of video. If you follow a streamer, you’ll find these recaps at the top of your mobile feed and on the streamer’s channel page. How do Stream Recaps work? Right after a stream ends, creators can open Stream Summary or tap the plus button in the mobile app to build a recap.…