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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Spotify will let you clip podcasts.

Tap the scissors icon, trim your clip, and then save it to your library, where it can be shared from a dedicated “Your Clips” collection that houses all of your saved clips.

Clips for podcasts are now rolling out worldwide on mobile for free users and Premium subscribers, Spotify says.

The new Razr Ultra isn’t your average phone — for better and worse

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It’s a gorgeous phone with excellent battery life, but sometimes standing out isn’t so great.

Allison Johnson
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
People sure do hate Google’s AI Search updates.

Since Google announced its Search box overhaul at I/O last week, DuckDuckGo says its own iOS installs have increased by an average of 33 percent week over week in the US. Visits to the “No AI” version of DuckDuckGo’s search platform also jumped by up to 27.7 percent compared to the week prior.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down.

Steve Jobs famously told Houston his startup was “a feature, not a product” when trying to acquire it back in 2009. Houston turned down the nine-figure buyout offer and Apple went on to launch iCloud. Houston, now 43 and worth about $2 billion, leaves behind a service used by millions worldwide. He now wants to do something entrepreneurial with — you guessed it — AI.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Samsung’s largest unions approve bonus scheme.

The deal will pay some workers in Samsung’s highly profitable memory chip unit around $416,000 this year, while employees in other chip units will receive less, and those in its consumer electronics divisions are ‌set ⁠to receive very little by comparison. Payouts are pegged to Samsung hitting profit milestones through 2028.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Will there still be a desktop PC industry at this rate?

This 3.5-hour GamersNexus video makes me wonder. We knew tariffs, RAM prices, and oil prices were scaring buyers away, but it’s something different to watch a Cooler Master guy, standing in a warehouse full of unsold PC cases, dish for 30 minutes straight — or see how Thermal Grizzly’s thermal paste sales have cratered.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is officially talking about the new Workspace app icons.

We started seeing them in our apps earlier this month, but Google said Tuesday that it’s rolling out the icons over the “next several weeks.” I’m not a fan of the changes — the Gmail and Sheets ones look particularly bad to me — but I suppose I’ll get used to them over time.

What do you think?

An image showing new Google Workspace app icons.
Image: Google
Sony’s sloppy Spider-Man universe gets even messier with Spider-Noir

Spider-Verse aside, it feels like Sony is just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google’s AI is sometimes confused if 2027 is next year.

As noted on Bluesky, if you search “is it 2027 next year,” Google’s AI Overviews occasionally state that 2027 is two years from now. But this apparently isn’t even a new issue: when I got AI Overviews to mess up, it cited old Instagram and Reddit posts making fun of wrong responses to the same query.

By the way, Google still isn’t showing an AI Overview when you search “disregard.” AI Overviews are going just great!

A screenshot of the Google Search query, “is it 2027 next year.”
Here’s the Instagram post that Google is sourcing from.
Image: Google