The Rockstar Game Workers Union has members in the developer’s UK offices. Rockstar Games workers have announced the creation of the Rockstar Game Workers Union, the Grand Theft Auto developer’s first union. According to an explainer video released alongside the announcement, the new union represents workers in Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Lincoln and Dundee, covering all of Rockstar’s offices in the UK. The new organization is a subsidiary of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and its members say they are focused on issues such as “pay transparency, working flexibility and ending the crisis”. More immediately, they are also…
Author: Amelia Scott
One of the undisputed leaders in music streaming, Spotify is committed to maintaining its lead. So, in 2026 alone, Spotify has added several exciting updates, including a feature that lets Spotify Premium users listen to narrated articles from a wide range of publications. With the podcasting trend showing no signs of slowing down, it’s no surprise that Spotify has decided to offer a massive upgrade to both free and premium users. According to the official press release, the new Spotify feature lets you share and save podcast clips. By simply pressing a single button in the Now Playing tab, users…
Google is rolling out a new feature for YouTube, and luckily, it won’t intentionally make your experience worse. Although the company continues to make platform changes to make advertisers happier, the latest feature aims to provide a more curated experience for users. Like many of Google’s recent projects, it will use artificial intelligence (AI), but this one focuses more on your feed rather than what the company is trying to sell you. Announced in a Google press release, this new feature is a bullet point called “Your Personalized Feed” and allows users to enter a prompt for YouTube to generate…
Artificial intelligence is expected to be the main topic at Apple’s WWDC 2026 event, where the iPhone maker would unveil the revamped Siri experience that has been in the works since Apple first announced Apple Intelligence in 2024. The company was unable to ship this version of Siri in late 2024 or early 2025, which postponed Siri’s release and acknowledged that it would take longer to roll out the promised AI features. The delay represented a rare setback for Tim Cook’s Apple, but the company continued to build out its Apple Intelligence features, confirming in early 2026 that Siri…
The AI assistant has had its personality stripped away to create a more cohesive experience. Copilot is getting a new visual overhaul as Microsoft reconsiders its approach to AI in Windows and its various applications. The new changes focus on the version of Copilot accessible in Microsoft 365 and visually streamline the AI assistant for more consistent use in apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The most striking difference in Copilot’s new look is how little color it contains. You can always ask Copilot to produce color output, and it will refer to other apps by their colored app icons.…
Military submarines are extremely complex vehicles. Each submarine uses a series of tricks to hide from enemy sonar, and nuclear-powered submarines can stay submerged for months, producing their own oxygen. As such, they require more knobs and buttons than most seagoing vessels. These controls require funding and training, so the Navy decided to save time and money by using a video game controller to manage the modern equivalent of the periscope. In 2018, the United States officially welcomed the USS Colorado into active service. The ship was the 15th Virginia-class submarine built for the Navy, but unlike its predecessors, Colorado…
AI-based recommendations and more background playback options are on the way to YouTube. YouTube is adding some features for Premium members that it says will be especially useful for podcast fans. An auto speed option is now available on Android and will be coming to iOS soon. YouTube said this “intelligently adjusts playback speed during relevant moments, like slower speech or information-rich segments” in podcasts and other types of videos. Some other podcast apps have long offered similar features. For example, in Overcast (the podcast app I use), the smart speed adjustment aims to shorten silences, which is very handy.…
Inflation, tariffs, RAM and chip shortages: there are many reasons why finding a solid desktop computer for less than $1,000 seems increasingly difficult. This is especially true if you are a gamer and need a certain level of performance. PC gaming may have many advantages over consoles, but price isn’t one of them. With almost every component, from CPUs and GPUs to storage and RAM, currently experiencing wild price fluctuations (and trending toward the more expensive end of the spectrum), getting decent hardware that fits your budget can seem impossible. That said, there are still ways to get a reasonably…
In the last episode of The edgeIt is Decoder podcast, Wassym Bensaid, Rivian’s head of software, explained why the electric vehicle maker still refuses to offer Apple CarPlay. In short, Bensaid said Rivian didn’t want CarPlay to fully take over the software experience. “The challenge with screen mirroring solutions is that they take care of every pixel in the car,” he said. Instead, Rivian prefers to offer its own interface with “end-to-end integration”. Bensaid added that “the deep integration of AI into the car” will eventually make the debate over offering CarPlay in vehicles “completely obsolete.” He believes Rivian owners…
Proton claims that managing your Gmail messages through its service offers greater privacy. Some people are looking to abandon Google altogether as the company further embraces AI, including by transforming search into an AI-driven experience. It will not necessarily be easy for everyone to disassociate from Google services, but some competitors offer alternatives. DuckDuckGo, for example, said it saw “a sustained increase” in installs after Google announced its search overhaul. Proton, meanwhile, is looking to help people ditch Gmail. It was already possible to check your Gmail inbox from Proton Mail using the Easy Switch tool (which also supports importing…