From PC Mag: To take on OpenAI's advanced voice mode for ChatGPT, Google is launching its own conversational feature with its Gemini chatbot.

The new feature is called Gemini Live, and it promises to let you speak to the chatbot in a free-flowing conversation rather than through a traditional...

From PC World: The built-in PDF reader in Microsoft’s Edge browser is getting more AI features, reports MSPoweruser. Powered by Microsoft’s Copilot AI, Edge can now pick out the main points of a PDF document to help you better understand what’s written.

In the latest beta version of the Edge...

From The Verge: Google just wrapped up its Made by Google hardware event, where we got an official look at the refreshed Pixel 9 lineup and updates across Google’s other devices. Even though the Pixel event confirmed many of the leaks we’ve seen over the past several weeks, Google still shared some...

From The Verge: Rivian isn’t offering phone mirroring features like Apple CarPlay in its electric vehicles, so the company is instead pushing a new software update today that adds built-in Apple Music streaming support, which might scratch customers’ connectivity itch.

Last month, Rivian CEO RJ...

From PC Mag: TikTok is adding Group Chats, which will support up to 32 people per chat.

The social network announced the highly requested feature on Monday. It allows the group to watch, comment, and react to videos together in real time on the platform. It also comes with a few safeguards: it’s...

From PC World: AM4 is the processor socket that just refuses to die. With a couple of new chips debuting in June — an astonishing seven years after the original Ryzen 1000 series debuted on AM4 — it looks like AMD is releasing yet another CPU for the perennial computer platform.

New regulatory...

From The Verge: Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) are refreshing their licensing agreements to expand the use of the publishing giant’s content on more Meta social apps. The new multiyear agreement announced on Monday now includes licensed media in content like shortform videos on Threads and...

From PC Mag: Instagram access has been restored in Turkey now that the social media site has agreed to meet the country’s demands regarding censorship and crime-related content.

Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu announced the decision on X.

Instagram users in Turkey abruptly lost access to...

From PC World: It seems like every month or so we hear about a new security flaw affecting tons of consumer-grade CPUs. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, though, since the complexities of modern processors and the PCs around them have grown to truly labyrinthian degrees.

But the latest issue...