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YouTube takes baby steps to being a real podcast app

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS.

A new “on-the-go mode” shifts YouTube into an audio-first layout, with larger, simplified playback buttons, a still image in place of the video, and a timeline showing video chapters. YouTube says you can turn on this new mode in a video’s settings — a pop up will also appear if YouTube detects you’re moving around while watching a video.

If you like to speed up your podcasts to get through episodes faster, YouTube’s new auto speed feature can help you automate that process. It automatically adjusts playback speed based on a video’s content and the minimum speed...

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Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Valve announced renewed availability of the Steam Deck OLED (at a massively increased MSRP), the handheld is once again listed as “out of stock” in the US and Canada. Spot checks of other regional Steam stores on Thursday morning showed the

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Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

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Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature

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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. A newly disclosed letter

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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are