Google One premium and Google AI Pro subscribers will now be getting a 50% discount on a YouTube Premium subscription for one full year, however it is currently limited to select countries.

Read more about it below.

Google One Premium and Subscribers Google AI Pro – 50% Discount on YouTube Premium

This update comes from Google’s VP and GM of Google One – Shimrit Ben Yair, and as per her post on X, existing as well as new Google One users with a paid subscription plan of USD 10 or above will now be eligible to receive a 50% discount on the YouTube Premium subscription. Additionally, Google Gemini posted from its X account that this offer also extends to Google AI Pro users.

Speaking more, this offer is currently available for users (existing or new) in the US, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, and Japan, and those interested can claim it before April 29, 2026.

Looking into related updates, Google had recently increased the pricing of its YouTube Premium plans.  Many users believe that this new 50% discount offer has been introduced to manage the impact of the recent price hike. Also, to add, users who enroll for the annual individual plan under this offer will continue to renew at the discounted price of USD 80 per year (currently at $159.99/year), making it a more affordable option in the long run.

It is important to note that the discounted YouTube Premium plan is only available to the one person who manages the Google One account (the person who pays for and sets up the family plan). If any of the other family members want YouTube Premium, they have to sign up for it on their own and pay the full, regular price. The discount doesn’t “share” with them.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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Yesterday, Samsung Electronics announced that it has updated its global smart home platform SmartThings to provide improved experiences that help users better care for their families and themselves in everyday life.

Samsung Elevates Experiences To Care for Users and Their Families With SmartThings Updatehttps://t.co/zbx3E8sorY

— Samsung Electronics (@Samsung) April 15, 2026

Updated SmartThings

Enhanced Family Care

Family Care connects SmartThings with a range of home appliances and mobile devices to provide notifications regarding the activities of users’ ageing parents and reminders for medication and hospital visits, as well as location-based alerts. With the new update, the service enables even more thoughtful care.

Samsung’s new Care on Call feature allows users to more closely check on the status of the care recipient through a simple phone call. When a caregiver using the service calls the care recipient, a floating pop-up that displays key information appears before the call begins so that the caregivers can ask more meaningful check-in questions and respond accordingly.

SmartThings continuously monitors devices like Acs, air purifiers, dehumidifiers and humidifiers for indoor temperature, humidity and air quality. If unusual usage patterns are detected, the caregiver is notified, and they can remotely control the relevant device.

Family Care has made the Safety Patrol feature even more convenient. If the care recipient’s activity is not detected for a specified period of time, users receive a notification, and the feature can be remotely activated if the caregiver needs to take action. Using a camera built into the robot vacuum and built-in speaker, and a microphone, caregivers can handle an issue that occurs.

The Care Insight feature has been enhanced to provide even more actionable, long-term data within the Family Care service. It analyses temperature and humidity levels and can also track significant changes in activity levels and connected device usage compared to the previous week.

Expansion of Now Brief to TVs and Family Hub

With the launch of the Galaxy S26 series, Now Brief will support Home Security, Family Care and Pet Care, in addition to existing features that include Home Insight, Energy and the Sleep Environment report. Through Now Brief, users can access the useful information needed to care for themselves, their families and their homes at a glance.

Now Brief provides information such as home device status of the previous night, Home security updates based on lock doors, door sensors, and security mode, parents’ daily activity updates and dog-walking information.

Now Brief will soon roll out in phases to TVs launched in 2024 or later, as well as Family Hub refrigerators launched in 2021 or later.

Users will not need to manually launch Now Brief. If the feature is set up in advance, it will be automatically activated when they approach the TV, touch the Family Hub refrigerator screen or open and close the refrigerator door.

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Yesterday, Perplexity announced the rollout of the Personal Computer for Mac. Personal Computer is an expansion of Perplexity Computer, and it integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, connectors and browser.

Today we're releasing Personal Computer.

Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser.

We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today. pic.twitter.com/kxgFQFo7BB

— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) April 16, 2026

Personal Computer rollout

Personal Computer works as an orchestrator and works across local files, native apps, connectors, and the web in one system. It can help with tasks that are too messy for a chat box and too repetitive to keep doing by hand.

According to the company, one of the best ways to experience Personal Computer in on a Mac mini. On a Mac mini, Personal Computer stays available 24/7 for work that needs a persistent machine or secure local access to your files and native apps. You can initiate tasks from your phone or manage them on the go.

How does it work?

You can ask Personal Computer to read your to-do list and to even do your to-do list. In Notes, just press both CMD keys to activate Personal Computer and ask. Computer will read your Notes to-do list, reason how to accomplish each task, and work across all your local files, iMessage, email, connected apps, and the open web to get it done.

You can ask it to take a messy Downloads folder and sort it into clear project folders, with sensible names and a structure that is easier to work with. Ask it to compare local files against information on the web, then use both to help you make a decision or complete a task. You can control Comet from Computer and can also talk to your Mac with the help of the Personal Computer voice mode.

Both Personal Computer and Perplexity Computer are designed to keep the user in the loop on sensitive actions. You can see what it is doing, step in when needed, and stay in control of important decisions. Files are created in a secure sandbox. Actions are auditable and reversible.

Availability

Personal Computer for Mac is rolling out to Perplexity Max subscribers. The company will prioritise users on the waitlist as they expand the rollout.

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Yesterday, Google introduced new ways for Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to generate images in the Gemini app, so that users can create unique images more easily, spending more time creating and less time explaining.

Personalizing images in the @GeminiApp just got easier — and you’re in total control. ✨

We’re introducing new ways for Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to generate images that can reflect your life, interests, and the things you care about most.

Here’s how it works 🧵 pic.twitter.com/F2gu4VExY0

— Google (@Google) April 16, 2026

New ways to create personalised images in the Gemini app

Personal Intelligence gives Gemini an inherent understanding of your preferences from the start. By integrating the context directly with Nano Banana 2, Gemini can automatically fill in the blanks, grounding every creation in the things you care more about.

There’s no extra setup needed. If you’ve already linked your Google apps, that personal context is ready and waiting the moment you start creating images. Instead of writing out the intricate details of your life, you can use simple prompts like “Design my dream house” or “Create a picture of my desert island essentials”, and the results will automatically reflect your specific tastes and lifestyle, gleaned from the Google apps you’ve connected to.

Personal Intelligence securely connects the dots across Google apps like Google Photos, Gmail, YouTube and Search, so the Gemini app inherently understands your likes and interests.

By connecting your Google Photos library to Personal Intelligence, Gemini can use actual images of you and your loved ones to guide the image generation process. Now your inner circle can become the stars of your images, whether you want a result that feels pulled straight from your life or one that takes your imagination a bit further.

You can also experiment with different styles like watercolours, charcoal sketches or oil paintings. You can turn a quick idea into a custom creation, saving you the trouble of searching for, downloading and re-uploading files just to see a concept come to life.

The company has warned that Gemini might not always pick the exact photo or detail you had in mind on the first try. If the result isn’t quite right, you can simply tell Gemini what was incorrect and try again. You can also click the “+” icon and select a different reference photo from your Google Photos library to try a new perspective.

Users can also click on the Sources button to see which image was auto-selected to guide the creation. You can even ask Gemini directly for information on the attribution and sources used for that specific image.

Also, the Gemini app does not directly train its models on your private Google Photos library. And connecting your Google apps to Gemini remains an opt-in experience that you can adjust in your settings at any time.

Availability

The new personalised image creation experience in the Gemini app is rolling out over the next few days to eligible Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US. Google also plans to bring this experience to Gemini in Chrome desktops and to more users soon.

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Recently, Google introduced its upgraded Google app for desktop for Windows users globally. The app is currently available only in English. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has now announced that the Gemini app is available on Mac.

Introducing Gemini on Mac.

It’s the first time we’re bringing the @Geminiapp to desktop. The team built this initial release with @Antigravity, and it went from an idea to a native Swift app prototype in a few days.

More features on the way! pic.twitter.com/YRy0Pqq6zo

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) April 15, 2026

Gemini app on Mac

This is the first time that the company is bringing the Gemini app to desktop. The app is brought to macOS as a native desktop experience.

Window Sharing

You can share anything on your screen with Gemini to get help with exactly what you are looking at, including local files. If you are reviewing a complex chart, you can share your window and ask, “What are the three biggest takeaways here?” to get an instant summary.

To give Gemini context about your current work:

• Click the Add files and tools in the Gemini app.
• Select Share Window.
• Choose the specific window that you want to share.

To let Gemini read full pages in the browser, go to your Mac’s system settings> Privacy and security and enable Accessibility for Gemini.

Stay in your flow

You can bring up Gemini from anywhere on your Mac with a quick shortcut (Option+ Space) to get help instantly, without ever switching tabs. Creatives can also quickly generate images with Nano Banana or videos with Veo to bring an idea to life without breaking their creative stride.

Mac users can access Gemini from any screen on their desktop to clarify a topic, recall a formula or brainstorm on the fly without opening a tab.

Availability

The native macOS Gemini app is available to all Gemini users (age 13+) on macOS versions 15 and up, globally at no cost.

To get started, you can download the app directly from gemini.google/mac. It is revealed that more features for Gemini on desktop are on their way and will be revealed in the coming months.

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To improve the user experience and help creators make more money, some new updates are being rolled out to YouTube Live.

Live streaming is a massive part of YouTube, and that’s because of the @youtubecreators who build incredible communities on our platform.

We’re rolling out some major updates to YouTube Live to improve the experience and help creators make more money:

↔️We're expanding Gifts to… pic.twitter.com/zu5J0Qq4kP

— Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) April 13, 2026

New updates released to YouTube Live

Sending Gifts

Now, viewers can send gifts on your horizontal live streams, in addition to vertical, directly from their mobile device. Gifts are also now live for more creators around the world, including Canada, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.

The company is also working on bringing gifts to more countries and rolling out unique gifts for local holidays and events.

Ad-free windows for Supers and gift purchases

When a fan shows support with a Super Chat, Super Stickers, or gifts, you want to thank them right away. To make sure that moment isn’t interrupted, we’ll be rolling out an update that automatically creates a personal ad-free window right after their purchase. Once live, it will automatically work for any creator who has automatic ads enabled, a great reason to make sure you’re set up.

Live Chat Engagement

YouTube’s system now recognises when Live Chat engagement is at its peak and automatically holds back ads for everyone. This helps you keep the momentum going for the whole community without being broken up by an ad. This also works only when you have automatic ads turned on.

Customise your stream

With the latest updates, for streaming across formats, you can now go live in both vertical and horizontal at the same time, with everyone joining a single shared chat.

In the coming months, more customisation tools like vertical cropping layouts in Live Studio and multiple stream keys will be rolled out. This will let you send a completely separate, customised feed for both your vertical and horizontal streams.

Stay tuned with The Tech Outlook for the latest tech updates.

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Reliance Jio and the Bank of Baroda have now jointly announced the release of the new “bob World Lite” mobile banking app for the JioPhone Prima 4G device. As per its purpose, the app is aimed at bringing accessible digital banking services to feature phone users across the country.

Read more about this below.

Bob World Lite Mobile Banking App – Now Available on JioPhone Prima 4G

The newly-introduced Bob World Lite app has been designed to offer everyday banking services on affordable feature phones, thereby expanding digital banking access across semi-urban and rural parts of India. As indicated by its “Lite” branding, the app is lightweight in nature, consumes lower bandwidth, and features keypad-friendly navigation with secure access, making online banking more practical for users who rely on feature phones or cannot afford smartphones.

Speaking of its currently available features, the app supports UPI-enabled Scan & Pay, Send Money, bill payments, recharges, and profile management. More banking features are also expected to be introduced in the near future, as mentioned in the official press release.

With this partnership, the Bob World Lite app comes pre-loaded on the JioPhone Prima 4G and can be accessed directly from the home screen, while existing users of the device can also download it via the JioStore. Apart from Bank of Baroda customers, users from other banks too will be able to sign up for the app through the self-onboarding process, making it accessible to a wider customer base.

Speaking on the partnership, Dr. Debadatta Chand, Managing Director & CEO, Bank of Baroda, said, “Driving digital inclusion remains a core priority for us at Bank of Baroda. Presently, bob World mobile banking caters to retail customers and bob World business serves merchants, SME and corporate customers. Our partnership with Jio to launch bob World Lite is a significant step towards extending digital banking beyond the smartphone ecosystem. With a large and growing base of feature phone users in India, this initiative enables simple, secure, and anytime banking while helping bridge the digital divide. This initiative also opens up opportunities for us to onboard and engage with a wider customer base, reinforcing our commitment to inclusive and sustainable growth.”

Speaking on the partnership, Dr. (Hon.) Sunil Dutt, President, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, said, “At Jio, we have always focused on expanding the reach of digital services to every Indian, at scale and with affordability at the core. JioPhone has been central to realising that vision, putting affordable devices and digital services in the hands of millions of users across India, while serving as a powerful tool for digital democratization and inclusion. Today, our partnership with Bank of Baroda marks the next step in that journey, enabling seamless digital banking access at scale for millions of users. We are bringing full-featured banking to JioPhone users across the country seamlessly, securely, and in a way that is built around their needs.”

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Meta-owned social media platform, Instagram, will now allow you to edit your comments within 15 minutes after posting.

editing Instagram comments is here 🗣️ now you can make changes within 15 minutes of posting.

— Instagram (@instagram) April 9, 2026

You can edit your Instagram comment as many times as you want or need to within those 15 minutes. Though only the text of comments can be edited, and for comments that have a text and a photo, only the text part will be editable.

Once you edit a comment, other users on Instagram will be able to see that the comment was edited, but they will not see the original version.

Earlier, Instagram allowed users to edit their posts on the platform, but this feature was not available for comments. Now with the new update, users can correct typos or make changes just by tapping the “Edit” option within 15 minutes after posting the comment. This will not only enhance the user experience but will also reduce errors in the comment sections.

The editing feature for comments is available for both iOS and Android apps. In case the feature is not visible to you, then you should try updating to the latest version of the Instagram app.

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YouTube has recently released two new experimental features for its Premium subscribers so that they can try them out and provide their feedback on the features.

New experimental features for YouTube Premium subscribers

Auto-speed

This feature will automatically adjust the playback speed throughout the video you are watching. It is only available for English-language videos on Android and iOS. The auto-speed will automatically be disabled and hidden for videos that are not supported.

How to use it?

Enable auto-speed by navigating to the playback speed control menu on the watch player and toggling the Auto Speed option on.

On-the-go

With on-the-go, you can enjoy your favourite podcasts, talk shows, true crime series and more for easy listening anywhere. This feature is only available on Android mobile phones.

How to use it?

There are 2 ways to activate on-the-go mode:

• Automatic, motion-sensored prompt- If motion is detected (e.g., walking, running) for at least 60 seconds while you are listening to or watching a video with your phone unlocked, a prompt may appear asking if you want to switch to On-the-go mode.
• Manual activation- You can enable it any time by tapping on Player settings on the video watch page and selecting On-the-go.

If you are a YouTube Premium subscriber and want to try the new features, click on this link. Do note that these experimental features are available till 27^th April.

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At the end of last year, Google introduced NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app to help users with complex tasks. And now the company has introduced Notebooks in the Gemini app.

Notebooks in Gemini are rolling out this week, starting with Google AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers on the web. In the coming weeks we'll expand access to mobile, more countries across Europe and to free users.

For more information about notebooks in Gemini, check out our…

— Google Gemini (@GeminiApp) April 8, 2026

Notebooks in the Gemini app

Notebooks give you a dedicated space to organise your chats and files, and because they sync with NotebookLM, you can unlock even more efficient workflows directly from Gemini.

With notebooks, you can keep conversations about a topic organised in one place. Click “New notebook” on the side panel of the Gemini app to get started. You can move past chats into notebooks, give Gemini custom instructions and add relevant files like documents and PDFs to give Gemini more context.

Once your handpicked sources are organised into a notebook, Gemini uses them alongside its powerful tools and web search to provide uniquely helpful responses. Notebooks let you use sources depending on your subscription plan, helping you tackle bigger tasks and longer-running projects.

And since notebooks sync across the Gemini app and NotebookLM, any source you add in one place automatically appears in the other. You can use unique features of each app, like Video Overviews and Infographics in NotebookLM, even if you started a notebook in the Gemini app.

Availability

Notebooks is rolling out in Gemini this week, starting with Google AI Ultra, Google AI Pro and Google AI Plus subscribers on the web. It is revealed that in the coming weeks, the company will expand notebook access in the Gemini app to mobile, to more countries across Europe, and to free users.

In the future, more helpful features for notebooks in Gemini will be introduced.

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