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Image: Google Gemini is getting a productivity boost as Google adds notebooks to the platform, a feature designed to turn scattered chats into structured projects. The tech giant on Wednesday announced an update to deepen the connection between Gemini and its AI research tool, NotebookLM, by introducing notebooks that serve as centralized project hubs across both platforms. The integration will now enable users to group conversations, documents, and instructions into a single workspace. The update gives Gemini more context and helps it handle longer, multi-step tasks. A new kind of Google Workspace One of Google’s biggest and largely unspoken flexes…
After its history-making trip around the Moon, NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to return to Earth later today. The Orion spacecraft carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen is scheduled to splash down off the coast of San Diego at approximately 8:07PM ET. NASA will stream the landing on YouTube and its NASA+ website, as will Netflix and HBO Max. The official broadcast will begin at 6:30PM ET. After leaving Earth on NASA’s super heavy-lift SLS rocket and spending nine days in space, the most dangerous part of the Artemis II mission still lies ahead. It…
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Not everyone needs a $1,000 soundbar. It’s easy to argue the sonic superiority of those flagship models from Samsung, Sonos and Sony, but for some people a simple boost to their TV speakers can provide a world of difference. As part of its 2026 soundbar lineup, Sony debuted the Bravia Theater Bar 5: a $350 entry-level model that covers the basics and comes with a wireless subwoofer in the box. The real question here is how many features are you willing to live without.SonySony’s latest compact soundbar can boost TV volume, but it has constrained directional audio and offers limited…
Image: Apple Apple is not giving up on its ultra-slim iPhone dream, not yet, anyway. Despite the current iPhone Air landing with a thud in terms of sales, the tech giant appears unwilling to give up on the ultra-slim dream. New reports suggest that Apple is moving full steam ahead with an iPhone Air 2, signaling a stubborn commitment to the form factor regardless of how the market reacts. The claim comes from a Weibo-based leaker who goes by “Fixed Focus Digital,” a source with an established track record in Apple circles. In a recent post, the leaker stated that Apple…
Another day, another subscription price hike, this time for YouTube Premium. Every plan for YouTube’s ad-free tier is going up, and depending on which one you have, you could be paying as much as $4 per month more.As reported by , YouTube has started emailing subscribers about the price changes, rather than announcing them publicly, and some Reddit users have screenshots of the emails they’ve received. The emails say that the increases will kick in during the June 2026 billing period. Individual plans are now $16 per month, up from $14, so a $2 hike. If you’re on a YouTube…
Tyre wear has always been a challenge for the people who manufacture them. Too much of it is undesirable from a value-for-money point of view, but also because as tyres wear so does the road surface, producing tiny particulates that pose an emissions problem. Friction between a tyre’s contact patch and the road is an obvious cause of wear but, says Continental, many factors contribute to the generation of tyre and road wear particles. According to Continental and the European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation, these factors include (in order of rising influence on wear), weather, temperature, tyre design, vehicle,…
Audi boss Gernot Döllner has reiterated to Autocar that a production version of the Concept C will arrive in 2027, following reports placing its future in doubt. The new electric coupé, the design of which has echoes of the fabled TT, will sit on a new sports car platform called PPE Sport, which has been jointly developed by Audi and sibling brand Porsche. At the end of last year, Porsche dramatically scaled back its EV plans (at a cost of €3.1 billion), leading to reports that it could cancel the next-generation 718 Boxster and Cayman-consequently throwing the future of the Concept…
Microsoft has rolled out a Notepad update for Windows Insiders that removes the Copilot branding and icon from within the app, Windows Central has reported. The old Copilot menu has been replaced with “writing tools,” but it’s worth noting that the tools are still powered by AI and are pretty much identical to the selection found in the old menu. Microsoft has just replaced the Copilot button with a pen icon. In addition, the company has removed mentions of AI in the Settings menu and has placed the option to disable the AI-powered writing tools within the “Advanced features” section.The…
In January 2026, 45 UK MPs submitted an Early Day Motion entitled “UK digital sovereignty strategy”. The motion pointed to the dependency of government services, democratic functions and critical infrastructure on a small number of digital providers. Those providers are US-based hyperscaler cloud providers AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, also known as the Big Three, who between them provide cloud services to more than 90% of UK public sector organisations. Meanwhile, in October 2025, the European People’s Party group in the European Parliament adopted a position paper calling for, “a permanent EU Tech Forum to guide digital strategy [and]…