Apple TV now costs $14.99 a month after its fourth price hike in four years
Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99. Apple also increased the cost of its individual Apple One subscription, which includes Apple TV and Apple's other subscription services, from $19.95 per month to $21.95.
According to Deadline and Variety, the price change is effective immediately, and current subscribers will be notified of it before their next bill.
This price hike comes almost exactly a year after Apple last increased its Apple TV subscription fe …
Apple TV’s sci-fi thriller Dark Matter gets even trippier in season 2
Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows. They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what's going on. But even by the standards of the genre, Dark Matter is extreme. Its multiversal premise, which involves a man kidnapping a version of himself from another world, can be hard to wrap your head around, and as the first season went on, things only got harder to follow. With the return of the show for season 2, I have both good and bad news: The show is more dramatic and thrilling than ever, while also being ever so much har …
Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration.
The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting "red lines," or unacceptable military use cases of its AI technology.
"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics," Judge Rita F. Lin, a district judge in the northern district of California, wrote in the ruling …
The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised. The in-depth preview, which "entirely" features footage captured from the PS5 version of the game, initially premiered on Netflix at 3PM ET. But because Rockstar allowed creators to post reaction videos, you've technically been able to watch the video on YouTube before the studio's official upload.
The nearly 27-minute preview largely focuses more on atmosphere, protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, and highlighting locations in the game instead of diving deep on specific game mechanics. It feels more like slices of …
The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie
I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that I've ever seen. To make a new game that lasts another decade or more and potentially rivals the success of its predecessor, Rockstar is clearly trying to further blur the lines between Hollywood and video games.
The line between games and movies has been getting consistently fuzzier. Look no further than this year's James Bond game, 007 Fi …
Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording."
The company's line of smart glasses already disables their built-in cameras if someone covers the LED capture light, which blinks to alert others that you're recording or taking a picture. However, some wearers found that they can bypass these restrictions by covering the LED light after they started recording. This latest fix comes a l …
GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series
It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date twice, eventually shifting to November 19th, 2026, a full year after its originally planned fall 2025 release window. Early official glimpses offered a look at the game’s protagonists, Jason and Lucia, who players will navigate around Vice City as outlaws on the run after a job goes south.
Preorders have opened for the digital code-only game, offering the $79.99 standard edition and $99.99 Ultimate Edition on both PS5 and Xbox Series X / S.
Rockstar Games has also responded to “CyberLeek” posts that showed sequences of the game, calling them heartbreaking and saying, “…this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.” At about the same time, the leakers released yet another clip.
Now a half-hour “extended look” has arrived full of gameplay slices and cutscenes that’s available for viewing on Netflix, as well as all over other social media channels in reaction videos before it hits YouTube at 9PM — here are some of our first impressions.
Read on below for all of the news and updates about Grand Theft Auto VI.
- You can download a higher-quality ‘extended look’ at GTA VI.
- The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
- The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie
- Here are some of the first preview impressions of GTA VI.
- GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for
- Netflix’s GTA VI “extended look” is starting soon.
- Reminder: Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe.
- Streamers can host Netflix’s GTA VI event as long as they talk over it.
- Rockstar wants to turn actual Miami into Vice City.
- Are you ready for today’s GTA VI preview?
- GTA VI just got some more competition.
- Cyberleek responds to Rockstar with another GTA VI leak.
- Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks
- GTA VI keeps cyberleeking, with trips to the club, a used game store, and the beach.
- The GTA VI “CyberLeek” leaks keep coming.
- Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
- Take-Two requests subpoenas over GTA VI gameplay leaks
- A GTA VI leaker seemingly has a playable build.
- GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere
- GTA VI preorders have gotten off to an “exceptional start.”
- GTA VI is getting an ‘extended look’ at the end of August
- Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI
- Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch
- With GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible time
- GTA VI is a worrying sign for the future of physical games
- GTA VI is download-only.
- GTA VI finally gets a price tag
- GTA VI preorders open June 25th.
- Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar
- Rockstar Games developers have unionized.
- Take-Two still isn’t sharing GTA VI’s price.
- You might be able to pre-order GTA VI soon.
- Grand Theft Auto VI launch delayed until November 2026
- Rockstar claims fired employees were leaking company information.
- GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings
- Am I the only person that didn’t watch the GTA VI trailer?
- Rockstar says new GTA VI trailer was ‘equal parts gameplay and cutscenes’
- Grand Theft Auto VI’s second trailer sets up its Bonnie and Clyde story
- Let’s rewatch the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer
- Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026
- GTA V is Twitch’s most watched game of 2024
- GTA V is coming back to Game Pass, again.
- Rockstar’s working on bringing Roblox creators to GTA VI
- GTA VI is still coming this fall.
- Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025
- It’s RTO for the GTA VI devs.
- GTA Online will no longer support Rockstar Editor on old-gen consoles.
- Y’all really liked that trailer, huh?
- Digital Foundry posted a nearly 37-minute analysis of the GTA VI trailer.
- The GTA VI trailer is already breaking viewership records on YouTube.
- GTA VI isn’t launching on PC.
- The first GTA VI trailer is here
- This is where you can watch the first GTA VI trailer tomorrow.
- Speak softly, then drop a hype-ass trailer.
- Grand Theft Auto VI’s first trailer will debut in December
- Rockstar confirms hack, says work on GTA VI will ‘continue as planned’
- GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos
- GTA VI could finally let you blow up Miami as a woman in 2024
- Rockstar finally confirms it’s working on the next Grand Theft Auto
GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for
Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much better than previous entries, with impressive graphics, densely packed rooms, and detailed environments. The footage was captured on PS5, according to the end of the video.
A key focus of the game seems to be how protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos work together. In one scene, it appears you play as Duval as he hangs out of the window of a car that Caminos is driving so he can sho …
Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents.
During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan's Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott's management-focus …
Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order "to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware constraints and Android's broader memory limits," it says. And failing to meet the new memory restrictions will come with consequences.
The memory limitations were first introduced with Android 17, appearing first on Pixel phones. It's probably no coincidence that the base …