That’s not an Apple Watch — it’s the Moto Watch Fit. Phones aren't the only gadgets that Motorola is announcing today. But whereas the new Razr foldables evoke a sense of nostalgia, ... read more

The first time I met Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, was in 2019 when he was spearheading a new open approach to design at Microsoft ... read more

Overall media revenue inched up 1.1% to $6.4 billion, with cash flow rising a strong 22% to $1.0 billion. Peacock grew advertising by 2.5%, and now has a 22% share of NBCU's advertising, says Madison ... read more

Anudit Vikram, Chief Product Officer, Channel Factory Brand safety technology has advanced well beyond its origins. What began as simple keyword blocklists has matured into a new generation of tools powered by AI. These systems ... read more

GameStop’s online Nintendo Switch 2 preorders went live at 11AM ET, and like the preorders from other retailers overnight, things immediately got off to a rocky start. Right as the clock ... read more

The Eufy Omni E28’s dock includes an integrated deep cleaner for stains and messes the robovac can’t handle. | Image: Eufy If you’ve got pets or kids, in addition to a vaccum, ... read more

This WTF guide, sponsored by Adstra, explores how composable identity is changing how marketers target and engage consumers across a fragmented ecosystem, future-proofing their marketing strategies against industry and regulatory changes. Amid evolving privacy regulations, ... read more

A big old thumb lump, and a touch of RGB underglow. Razer is announcing two new mice, the Pro Click V2 and Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition — the latter being Razer’s ... read more

Samsung’s newest washer and dryer come with 7-inch Android tablets built in that can run apps and answer phone calls. Almost a decade after launching the first smart fridge with a giant ... read more

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said divesting the Chrome browser from Google would hurt users while leaving the real issue of Android untouched. ... read more

You can preorder the Nintendo Switch 2 and the Mario Kart World bundle from GameStop today. Most major retailers launched their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at 12AM ET on April 24th and ... read more

It’s a photo you may have already seen. Captured in stark black and white, several Vietnamese children run down a road, flanked by soldiers. In the left foreground, there is a ... read more

Today, we’re talking about the very real possibility that the United States government might break up Google. To figure that all out, I invited Jonathan Kanter, the former assistant attorney general ... read more

11 years after its launch, Grand Theft Auto V is still massively popular, becoming the most watched game on Twitch. The streaming platform has shared some of its viewership stats from ... read more

The next set of Pokémon TCG Pocket cards feels like a reminder that spring and summertime is almost here. Today, The Pokémon Company announced that Celestial Guardians, Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next ... read more

In advance of the ANA's Advertising Financial Management Conference, I sat down for a no-holds-barred conversation with Acadia CEO and Co-Founder Jared Belsky to discuss his unique views on principal media-buying, and much, much more. ... read more

Google announced an extended repair program for the Pixel 7A that promises free repairs for devices that suffer from “unexpected battery swelling” issues, 9to5Google reports. The program covers symptoms that directly ... read more

It was either this or a picture of a bathroom. It is our lot in life to poop. We eat stuff, digest it, and then the waste must be expelled. That's just ... read more

The new label highlights energy efficiency, durability, repairability, and battery life. The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include ratings ... read more

The shortfall was not unexpected as the company had previously indicated it was entering 2025 with a negative revenue tailwind of 4% to 5% due to three big losses in 2024. ... read more

As the world mourns Wink Martindale, we can be consoled by the fact that TV game shows and quiz shows are alive and well. ... read more

Stellantis says its solid-state batteries are getting closer to reality. The parent company of brands like Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and many others is working with startup Factorial on the new batteries, ... read more

Volkswagen isn’t typically mentioned in conversations about robotaxis, but the German auto giant has been quietly working on its own self-driving technology for over a decade. And now the company is ... read more

OnePlus has launched the 13T, which packs a larger battery than most Ultra flagships despite being barely bigger than an iPhone 16 or Samsung Galaxy S25. OnePlus calls the 13T’s 6.32-inch ... read more

Adobe has a new tool that makes it easier for creatives to be reliably credited for their work, even if somebody takes a screenshot of it and reposts it across the ... read more

Adobe has launched two new versions of its text-to-image generative AI model alongside a host of new Firefly features and Creative Cloud app updates coming to Photoshop and Illustrator.  The fourth-generation ... read more

LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool. Adobe is among the first ... read more

In a recent update to its website about its direct sales program for the Switch 2, Nintendo says that due to “the very high demand” for the console, “delivery by June ... read more

Nintendo’s delayed Switch 2 preorders finally kicked off in the US at 12AM ET, but there have already been a lot of problems. While some people reported success buying through Target’s ... read more

Nintendo’s next-gen Pro Controller introduces some welcome additions to one of the best gamepads around. The Switch 2 isn’t the only hardware launching on June 5th. Nintendo also plans to release a ... read more

This is the Digiday+ Research Data Sheet, a new monthly feature that takes an in-depth look at our survey data in relation to major trends in the marketing and media industries. This month, we look ... read more

The Possible conference, trade show and kibbitz-fest kicks off on Monday in Miami, its third year of existence. And while it has grown its audience sizably since year one — with an emphasis on attracting ... read more

When major marketers like Unilever are saying they’re dramatically increasing their ad spending on influencer marketing, the agencies who manage influencer marketing are, naturally, chomping at the bit to get those ad dollars. But ... read more

The digital advertising industry has spent the last five years preparing for a cookieless future. This week, they’re looking for ways to make that feel less like a wasted effort, following Google’s latest policy reversal. ... read more

In this week’s Media Briefing, publishers say that after years of preparing for Google’s deprecation of third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, the tech giant’s u-turn this week felt like a slap. And yet, they ... read more

Over the past 24 hours, the auto industry has experienced some of the most extreme whiplash in the saga of the Trump administration's tariffs, ending on Wednesday night with two contradicting ... read more

The Nebula X1 with the optional battery-powered Wi-Fi satellite speakers installed. | Image: Anker Anker’s new all-in-one Nebula X1 smart projector has everything you’d want from a “cinema-grade outdoor entertainment system.” It ... read more

Perplexity’s iOS App just got an update enabling support for the company’s conversational AI voice assistant. Now Apple users can activate the assistant in the app and ask it to perform ... read more

The Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station features adjustable ambient LED lighting to match your gaming setup. | Image: Anker Anker has announced its first Thunderbolt 5 dock. At roughly 5.2 inches wide ... read more

The convergence of sports, streaming and shopping is creating new opportunities for brands seeking to connect with new, active, diverse audiences. With figures like Caitlin Clark, Simone Biles and Livvy Dunne driving interest and attendance, ... read more

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Apple CEO Tim Cook a letter asking for information regarding Cook and Apple’s conversations with President Donald Trump’s administration about tariffs and any special exemptions from ... read more

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said he didn't want to testify in a trial about how to resolve Google's search monopoly because he feared retribution from Google. But after being ... read more

It was really great seeing all the excitement from fans when Oblivion shadow dropped earlier this week. For a lot of people, the fourth installment in the Elder Scrolls series is ... read more

Lexus’s mid-sized ES luxury sedan is getting a redesign for its eighth generation that includes some edgier styling and a significant platform change that accommodates both an all-electric drivetrain and a ... read more

The Supreme Court should turn away personal injury law firm Lerner & Rowe, which is seeking to revive a lawsuit over the use of its trademarks to trigger search ads, rival firm Accident Law Group ... read more

The Supreme Court should turn away personal injury law firm Lerner & Rowe, which is seeking to revive a lawsuit over the use of its trademarks to trigger search ads, rival firm Accident Law Group ... read more

Roomba’s latest robot vacuum can avoid pet waste and has dual rubber roller brushes for digging pet hair out of carpets. iRobot just launched its ninth new robot vacuum of the year. ... read more

With a five-paragraph blog post, Google has officially cemented the Privacy Sandbox as the biggest waste of time in ad tech history. The company has decided not to add a prompt in Chrome asking users if ... read more

Six-year-old Ostro rebranded from RxDefine in 2022 after receiving an additional $45 million in funding from investors, bringing its total funding at the time to $55 million. Details of Havas' investment were not disclosed. ... read more

LinkedIn's Qualified Leads Optimization feature is designed to help advertisers "move beyond surface-level conversions by focusing on leads that are more likely to become paying customers," Director of Product Management Ada Yu says. ... read more

I find something weirdly captivating about tech products that come with transparent cases that let you see the works inside. We all know that there are all sorts of chips and ... read more

Pete Buttigieg appears on Flagrant with Andrew Schultz on April 23rd, 2025. A Democrat has entered the manosphere. Pete Buttigieg, the former Secretary of Transportation in the Biden Administration and a presidential ... read more

WhatsApp is launching a new “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside the app. When the setting is turned on, you can block others from ... read more

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be replaced by former Activision Blizzard and King exec Humam Sakhnini, according to a press release. Sakhnini takes over on ... read more

On Wednesday, Threads launched its long-awaited test of ads with a small number of advertisers, including Wendy's and GroupM. ... read more

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood during the company’s April 23rd product event in New York City. Last month, Roku ensnared itself in controversy after customers quickly complained about a limited test ... read more

A judge rejected Google's attempt to dismiss the case, finding Yelp plausibly alleged Google's monopoly power and exclusionary conduct within the statute of limitations period and partially denying Google's motion. ... read more

Agentic commerce functions identified in lines of code added by OpenAI in ChatGPT suggest the platform will officially host Shopify rather than adding an affiliate link. The report suggests that the price and shipping fields, ... read more

OpenAI’s upgraded image generator in ChatGPT brought a surge of users to the AI service thanks to its ability to create Studio Ghibli-style images and really dull dolls, and now it’s ... read more

Three men and two women wearing black combat gear and standing together side by side on a dirt road. | Image: Netflix It only took five years, but Netflix has finally locked ... read more

Burrell said the purchase was the first step in creating the first Black-owned agency network, BCG Worldwide. ... read more

Why are we not talking about ad avoidance? We're turning a blind eye to this existential threat to our industry. ... read more

We’re used to seeing Predators do the hunting — it’s in the name, after all. But it looks like the roles will be reversed somewhat in Predator: Badlands, at least according ... read more

Disney+ is one of the few streaming brands that has raised its national TV messaging exposure, year-over-year. ... read more

Microsoft revealed earlier this year that LG TVs would get access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now the Xbox TV app is rolling out to select LG smart TV models starting ... read more

Last night, Elon Musk did what he does best: promise “millions” of autonomous Tesla vehicles would be on the road by the end of next year. It’s become a familiar refrain. ... read more

Intel continues to work on getting better results from its Arrow Lake CPUs, now with a free update that it says will boost gaming performance. The company announced that the update, ... read more

Following a brief delay stemming from the Trump’s administration’s ongoing tariff policy, Nintendo is finally opening up preorders for the Switch 2. Most major retailers — including Walmart, Best Buy, and ... read more

Nestled between the crowd-pleasing guns and gore of Xbox’s 2024 summer showcase, was an eyebrow-raising, painterly role playing game. As its party of grimacing adults urgently sprints across a shimmering, surrealist ... read more

Sony has brought back its classic PlayStation console themes to PS5 as part of a new update, the company announced on Wednesday. The classic themes, originally introduced to celebrate PlayStation’s 30th ... read more

The film, "Doc Albany," made with Breakwater Studios is set to debut at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York in June. ... read more

Apple's AI rollout just became a bit rockier. The BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division wants the iPhone maker to rethink some of its claims to customers. ... read more

Florida has sued Snap for allegedly violating a controversial new social media law that prohibits platforms with "addictive features" from allowing anyone under 14 to create accounts, and requires those platforms to obtain parental consent ... read more

The Ray-Ban Meta Skyler frames are now available in new color lens combinations. | Image: Meta Meta announced new color lens combinations for its Ray-Ban smart glasses as well as wider availability ... read more

Meta is opening up ads on Threads to “all eligible advertisers globally” and plans to show them to users in “select markets at launch,” according to an update to the company’s ... read more

After the year of self-induced tumult that Sonos has been through, I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But interim CEO Tom Conrad ... read more

Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be an act of persuasion. The US believed that a drawn-out bombardment would pressure the North to cease its aggression on the South — or, at ... read more

Roku says its sticks are the smallest on the market. Your move, Amazon. Roku today introduced refreshed versions of its Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus, with the company describing the devices ... read more

The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition’s color E ink screen is vibrant compared to rivals like the Kobo Libra Colour. Built with E Ink’s color display technology, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition brings ... read more

Graze - which powers creation of many custom Bluesky feeds - is helping feed developers monetize through advertising, becoming the first company to introduce ads to the protocol on which Bluesky and other decentralized apps ... read more

Looking back, the original idea behind YouTube seems almost quaint. The mythic founding story goes like this: in January of 2005, two PayPal employees, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, were at ... read more

Tech evangelists have been yammering about “working smarter, not harder” for years. Now, two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their AI ... read more

Innovid estimates the average campaign reach across its 95 million TV households was just 19.64% - leaving a lot of room for campaigns to do more. ... read more

Netflix believes there can be a difference in its content from YouTube. During its earnings call, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos used the word "premium" when speaking about podcasts. ... read more

The Optiq-V is coming later this year. Cadillac’s all-electric Optiq SUV will receive the coveted V badge later this year, the automaker confirmed today. It will be the second EV in Cadillac’s ... read more

Like the idea of multiview, but want it for more than just March Madness and NFL Sunday Ticket? Lucky you, YouTube has announced that in the next few weeks, it’ll be ... read more

Microsoft is launching a newly designed version of its Microsoft 365 Copilot app today. The app, which is used by businesses as a hub for Office documents and now Microsoft’s AI tools, ... read more

Nvidia is updating its G-Assist AI assistant on Windows to take it beyond optimizing game and system settings. G-Assist originally launched last month as a chatbot primarily focused on improving PC ... read more

One of the year’s biggest PlayStation 5 games is launching this fall: Sony just announced that Ghost of Yōtei will hit the PS5 on October 2nd. The news was accompanied by ... read more

Shortages of the Switch 2 look increasingly likely after Nintendo admitted today that it “cannot fulfill” all of the preorder applications it has already received through its own Japanese store.  In ... read more

The last performance the Beatles ever did on TV came in 1968, and only one man was capable of getting them to do it: David Frost. ... read more

The Sol 5 Spectra can be purchased with optional lenses that create patterned lighting effects. | Image: Harlowe Harlowe’s new Sol 5 Spectra smartphone light will improve the quality of your photos ... read more

Something is rotten in the Department of Justice.  Three federal prosecutors told their supervisors they’d rather resign than admit to wrongdoing over their refusal to drop the corruption case against New ... read more

The European Commission has just issued its first Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines to Apple and Meta, and now it’s telling Apple that it’s not impressed with the company’s approach to ... read more

Two decades ago, YouTube wasn’t about the elaborate long-form content pumped out by creators like MrBeast. There wasn’t any fancy lighting, sound effects, or jump cuts.  The platform’s first video, “Me ... read more

Apple and Meta are the first companies to be fined for violations under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission announced today that Apple has been served a ... read more

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is one of the phones being updated to One UI 7 now. Samsung is once again deploying its One UI 7 update to last year’s flagship Galaxy phones, ... read more

A new software update for Logitech’s MX Creative Console introduces new plugins for more apps. | Image: Logitech Logitech is releasing a major software update for the MX Creative Console it launched ... read more

Brands looking to reach Roblox users in 2025 are finding themselves inundated with competing pitches from Roblox over how to best advertise on the platform — and some are deciding to spend their marketing dollars elsewhere ... read more

As more vendors rebrand automation as agents, established giants and startups alike are challenged to show agentic AI delivers real business value — not just hype. Among the most ambitious is Salesforce, which aims to ... read more