Imagine if that refrigerator you bought just five years ago suddenly up and died—and not because of some technical glitch, but because the manufacturer deliberately reached out and deactivated it, permanently. You’d be furious, right? And you’d probably want a refund, too.  As wild as that scenario sounds for a major appliance like a refrigerator […]

Youtube has been trying to push users toward Premium for a while now, dangling all kinds of benefits ranging from ad-free viewing to extra features like downloading videos for offline playback and playing videos in the background while using other apps. That all sounds nice, but some people are never going to pay to remove […]

Laptops and other electronics are about to get a lot more expensive in the US. If you’re in the market for a super-cheap laptop, you can’t do much better than this Asus Chromebook, which is going for $109 on eBay. It’s a refurbished model, but with 8GB of RAM and a two-year warranty…Read More

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you can never have enough storage space. Extra SSDs are useful for so many things. And right now, you can snag this large-capacity pocket-sized portable SSD at a phenomenal price. The Samsung T7 SSD normally retails for $270 but is currently on sale for $140…Read More

It’s not a political issue, marketers and agency execs say, but a cultural shift. Marketers and agency execs believe there’s a balancing of the scales, a recalibration, going on that will see some brands letting loose, going for the humor and sex appeal that had been out of favor. …Read More

Any client that isn’t a multinational advertiser spending at least half a billion in media spend is unlikely to get the attention it will want from the holdcos — a truth that has independents and smaller holdcos licking their chops at what they hope will be a windfall of client defectors…Read More

Amid more hype of generative AI for products and ads, security experts and legal filings note numerous reasons for caution…Read More

Bots Crew sets up custom conversational AI solutions for enterprises, aka bot-driven chat functions, for a range of companies, and will join the CourtAvenue Collective…Read More

At a GlanceExpert’s Rating Pros Superb antivirus and malware protection Strong online threat protection Customizable dashboard Cons VPN limited to 200MB per day, per device Can have notable performance impact on some PCs Anti-theft tools aren’t effective Our Verdict Bitdefender Total Security packs superb antivirus defenses into an easy-to-use app…Read More