Author: Geek Planet

OnePlus turned quite a few heads when it launched the OnePlus 13s, a rebadged version of the OnePlus 13T, outside of its home market. The handset practically reignited excitement in the compact flagship space, offering better value than popular models like the Samsung Galaxy S25, but it remained exclusive to the Indian market. Now, the Indian tipster Yogesh Brar claims that the handset’s successor — the OnePlus 15s — might not make it out of the Chinese market at all. In response to an X user asking whether the OnePlus 15s is canceled, the tipster said there’s a 90% chance…

Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon step into warehouses and factories, and then eventually our homes. But the Wall Street Journal reports a more restrained view inside the industry, even the companies building these bots think expectations have gotten ahead of what works. Executives and engineers say today’s humanoids are still too unreliable for the messy, multi-step work people imagine at home, even if they can handle simpler jobs in controlled settings. The goal is not just a humanoid, but a humanoid that does useful work. Humanoid robot…

Payment frictions continue to undercut the creator economy’s growth.Creators continue to wait too long to get paid, according to several ad execs interviewed for this story. What should be routine disbursements can slip from days into weeks and whatever finally shows up has already been thinned out by an expanding chain of middlemen — agencies, platforms and financial processors — each taking a slice on the way through. The payment terms only make it worse. Some payouts now stretch to 90 days, and in certain cases even 120, according to Revving, an ad tech finance startup.  What’s emerged is a…

If you’ve been patiently waiting for the successor to the OnePlus Open, there’s some bad news for you. According to a Smartprix report citing the Indian tipster Yogesh Brar, OnePlus has reportedly canceled plans to launch the purported OnePlus Open 2. Previously, the foldable was supposed to debut globally in the third quarter of 2026, i.e., between July and September. It would have been the company’s big launch, carrying forward the “Open” brand, before it launches the successor to the popular OnePlus 15 later this year. OnePlus Open 2 could have been an excellent foldable The Open 2 was reportedly…

Omnicom began absorbing its former rival Interpublic Group (IPG) this week with a swath of redundancies up and down the org chart.Among the 4,000 people cut loose across the globe were Susan Credle, global chief creative officer of FCB until last year and most recently global creative advisor for IPG, and Eileen Kiernan, previously the global CEO of IPG Mediabrands (Kiernan didn’t respond to a request for comment). Just two of IPG’s former leadership group have been lifted into the new C-suite roster leading Omnicom: Philippe Krakowsky, who moves from leading IPG to a co-president and co-COO role at Omnicom…

Recently, Brooklyn-based freelance journalist Vince Bielke wrote a three-part series at Real Clear Investigations about the damage that fraudulent papers are doing to science. It seems increasingly clear that the current gatekeepers of science are either helpless to do anything about it or appear to be indifferent or, in a few cases, actively co-operating. Image Credit: iQoncept – Adobe Stock Massive increase in retractions In the first part, he starts on a positive note, profiling bogus science hunters: Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role…

A personal hobby of mine is to ask two different chatbots the same question and see which one provides the best response. Like a professor quizzing students (which I sometimes do in real life as a volunteer), I evaluate whether the bot is hallucinating and making up facts or whether it provides an intelligent and coherent answer that is actually useful. “Intelligence” and “coherence” are not the words I’d use to describe what chatbots have usually generated when it comes to images. Known as AI slop, these strange concoctions — often with a blurred background, a perfect human with coiffed…

Supply-side platforms (SSPs) were originally built as publisher advocates. Their job was straightforward: get impressions into the market and take a cut. Then they decided to work with advertisers, a move that never sat easily with the publishers who built their ads businesses on them. The contradiction was obvious. An outfit meant to push prices up for sellers was now courting buyers trained to push them down.  SSPs brushed off the tension, arguing that better data and smarter buying would lead to higher publisher revenue. OpenX leaned into that pitch more than most, and the bet appears to be paying off. …

A recent prediction in a Fast Company article raised some eyebrows in the HR profession, proposing that by 2026 the traditional HR director title will begin to give way to another executive role: chief productivity officer.Rather than simply merging HR and IT, the newly created position of CPO (not to be confused with the already common chief people officer) is envisioned as the leader who orchestrates people and technology together to drive business outcomes. Moderna and the British government are among early adopters, but does the shift make sense for most other organizations? Some people management experts say yes — if…

LG has unveiled a new lineup of UltraGear evo gaming monitors that lean hard into two broader themes: higher resolutions and intense AI upscaling. The new lineup consists of three models: the 39-inch 5K2K OLED gaming monitor, another 52-inch 5K2K 240Hz gaming monitor, and the 27-inch 5K mini-LED monitor. To begin with, the 39-inch GX9 (39GX950B) is a curved OLED monitor that offers “5K-class clarity without requiring GPU upgrades,” which is the brand’s way of saying it’s gone all-in on AI upscaling. With real-time upscaling, AI Scene Optimization, and AI Sound, the monitor not only refines visuals but also audio.…