X eliminates thousands of accounts in new bot purge

Head of Product Nikita Bier said on the app that the company was “identifying and suspending 208 bots per minute.”

WhatsApp partners with Arsenal Football Club

The deal launched with a documentary premiere and will include exclusive digital experiences for fans in the official WhatsApp Channel.

Plasmaborne Impressions: The Devil Is In The Details

Plasmaborne is an ambitious Doom-inspired roguelite with a few rough edges to smooth over.

Jigsaw Night & VR Villa Partner To Introduce Hundreds Of People To VR

We traveled to the USA Jigsaw Nationals in Atlanta to see two VR enthusiasts introduce VR to hundreds of new people.

Snap & Qualcomm Announce Long-term Partnership, Affirm 2026 Launch for ‘Specs’ Consumer AR Glasses

Snap’s new XR subsidiary Specs Inc and Qualcomm announced a multi-year partnership for Snap’s upcoming AR glasses, with Qualcomm pledging Snapdragon chips for future iterations. The companies also reaffirmed that Snap’s next-gen Specs are coming “later this year.” Specs Inc, which was formed by Snap in January to handle its XR efforts, is working with […]

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Philips Hue Aims to Resolve Apple Home Issues with an Update

For several weeks now, the Matter integration between Philips Hue and Apple Home has been causing major issues. Following updates to the respective Apple platforms—such as the Apple TV or HomePod, which act as Matter border routers—all Hue devices become inaccessible. This primarily affects the Hue Bridge Pro, which simply isn’t designed for a traditional…

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Is Your Cloud Communications Stack Breaking Compliance Laws?

If your cloud calling, meetings, messaging, and contact center tools span borders, cloud communications compliance can break in ways that are hard to spot. And it often breaks quietly. GDPR communications compliance can fail when recordings, chat, or meeting artifacts land in the wrong region. UC compliance requirements can collapse when admins cannot prove retention, […]

Training Without Tanks: XR Scales Military Readiness In Ukraine

Ukraine’s battlefield realities are forcing a rethink of how modern militaries prepare personnel for combat. With armoured vehicles and critical equipment almost constantly deployed to the front lines, access to hardware for training has become a serious bottleneck. But a new Nordic defence technology initiative is stepping in with a solution that would have sounded […]

YouTube tests 90-second unskippable ads on CTV

The company’s overview of nonskippable ads still lists 60-second ads as the maximum length available, but a Reddit user discovered longer segments.

LinkedIn adds video playback speed controls

Users can now decide whether to play in-stream videos at half speed or double speed, providing new ways to engage with short-form clips.

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR – Brutal Edition Review: Valiant Effort

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin VR – Brutal Edition is a valiant effort to translate an old-school genre into VR, but its design pulls it back from greatness.

Skytail Impressions: A Wave Shooter By Any Other Name Is Still A Wave Shooter

Skytail is a mellow aerial adventure trying to bring something new to one of VR’s oldest staples.

The other M-word

A few years ago, we had one word that was both very good and very bad for VR: the metaverse. During the hype, the metaverse helped XR in getting a lot of attention, but at the same time, it created so much confusion in our field that we all started hating it, and a few […]

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Android XR Update Adds Deep Enterprise Support, Auto-3D Conversion & More

Samsung and Google announced a major software update to Galaxy XR, the Android XR-based headset, which includes deep enterprise support, automatic 3D conversion of photos and videos, and more. One of the biggest bits in the update, now available on Samsung Galaxy XR, is the inclusion of Android Enterprise, the Google-led initiative that includes built-in security, […]

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‘Project Hail Mary’ is Getting a Mixed Reality Game for Quest & Pico This Year

Maze Theory, the XR studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, announced it’s working on a mixed reality game based on Andy Weir’s novel and recent film, Project Hail Mary (2026). Developed in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars is slated to feature […]

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Busy Day of Space Science and Lab Maintenance Greets Station Crew

A packed schedule filled with numerous science objectives and critical lab maintenance tasks greeted the Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. Meanwhile, the orbital residents await the next U.S. cargo mission.

Not All Sleep Scores Are Created Equal

Here’s how Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Apple Watch, and Fitbit all calculated last night’s “sleep score.”

This Is the 65-Inch QLED TV I Would Buy If I Wanted the Best Bang for My Buck

With a $222 discount, the TCL QM7K is an incredible value.

Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I began…

The Download: water threats in Iran and AI’s impact on what entrepreneurs make

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable  As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalinization technology that supplies water in the region.  President…

Philips Hue 5.64.2: Remix colors in saved scenes

After a short Easter break, Philips Hue released its next update this week. Version 5.64.2 of the in-house app has been available for download on the Google Play Store since yesterday and on the Apple App Store since today. Aside from the usual under-the-hood improvements, the only new feature is a small function that allows…

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Intermedia CEO Mike Gold on its 26North Acquisition, What’s Next, and More

If you’re an IT leader, MSP, or channel partner, this conversation is essential viewing. Mike shares a transparent look at what this transition means for the business, detailing how fresh capital and 26 North’s “Alpha Creation Team” will fast-track product innovation without disrupting the core partner experience. With $430 million in ARR and a highly […]

Google Expands Gemini Languages in Workspace: Why That Could Be a Big AI ROI Moment for UC Workflows

Most enterprise AI programmes share the same blind spot. Pilots run well at headquarters, adoption numbers look reasonable in the board update, and then the rollout hits regional teams, and the returns stop making sense. Language is often the culprit. Google’s April 1 update expanding language availability for Gemini-powered features in Workspace, including AI-assisted form […]

X expands AI translations and adds in-stream photo editing

The app also updated reply settings, allowing paying users to give second-degree connections the ability to comment on posts.

Instagram looks to grow Notes engagement

The brief comment function is being expanded beyond mutual followers and could potentially become a new way for creators to broadcast information.