Author: Geek Planet

Honor’s Magic V5 claimed the slimmest foldable crown last year, and the company now seems to be gunning for the most durable foldable title with its successor. Honor is set to unveil the Magic V6 at MWC early next month, and the next-gen foldable phone will bring some serious durability upgrades. Ahead of the official launch, Honor has revealed that the Magic V6 will feature both IP68 and IP69 ratings for dust and water resistance, giving it a significant edge over Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7, which comes with an IP48 rating. The phone will also feature a new 2,800…

Olympic icon Michael Johnson was spotted over at Dentsu beach. Sir Martin Sorrell held court above the Croisette, delivering his usual readout on the state of the holding companies. Jamie Olivier was grilling. The sun was out, the rosé was cold and everything looked the part. The Cannes illusion has always been part of the draw. This year, fewer people are pretending it’s enough. Well before the Palais opened its doors, the mood was already being recalibrated. At an 8 a.m. closed-door session hosted by MediaLink, more than 50 senior marketers gathered to compare notes — not on trends or…

Google Messages could soon make it much easier to tell someone exactly where you are. A new feature spotted in development would allow users to share their live location directly inside a chat, updating in real time as they move. The feature has been discovered by Android Authority in an APK teardown of Google Messages. It shows Google is working on built-in real-time location sharing, similar to what many users already rely on in apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Unlike sharing a static location pin, this option would update continuously, showing your movement for a chosen period of time. How…

Anthropic has been working on ways to help people better understand their Apple Watch and Health data, and now that idea has officially moved from promise to practice. The company has begun rolling out a new beta feature that can connect Claude AI directly to your Apple Health, turning raw fitness and medical data into something you can actually talk about and understand. The new integration is part of a broader health push from Anthropic and is now available in beta for Claude Pro and Max users in the US through the iOS and Android apps. Once you explicitly opt…

Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Before it became X, the platform brought marketers from the Palais to the beach for daytime panels featuring Chrissy Teigen, a celeb the company once dubbed the mayor of Twitter, and a nighttime party with performances by Ciara and Steve Aoki. The flag with its iconic blue bird flew next to tech giants like…

Most popular messaging apps already let you schedule a text for later, whether it’s a birthday wish timed for midnight or a reminder set to land at the start of a workday. Until now, that convenience has been missing from WhatsApp. However, a new report suggests that the Meta-owned platform is finally laying the groundwork for a native message scheduling feature that could roll out in a future update. WABetaInfo has spotted evidence of the in-development message scheduling feature in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS. While the functionality is not yet live, the outlet reveals that the feature will…

Google has announced that AI Mode in Search can now tap into your Gmail and Google Photos to deliver responses that feel personal, relevant, and grounded in your real life. This update brings what Google calls Personal Intelligence directly into Search, pushing it beyond generic results and into something closer to a digital memory that works for you. Until now, AI Mode focused on handling complex questions through conversation. With Personal Intelligence added, it can now quietly connect details across your Google apps, so you do not have to explain everything from scratch. Google says this helps Search understand your…

When Chris Hassell’s agency Ralph last made the trip to Cannes several years ago, building a business around branded entertainment felt like a creative experiment. Novel but niche. Now, it feels inevitable.  “What is exciting for us now as an entertainment brand is that we’re now able to speak to marketers about things we can partner up for and work collaboratively on instead of ‘hey there, do you have a brief for us, do you have some budget for us please, can we dance the usual dance,’” said Hassell. That evolution is hard to miss this year.  Whether it’s Mattell’s…

Snapchat is betting that AI-powered ad tech might finally help it shrink the distance between itself and the platforms that have long outpaced it. Last month, the mobile messaging app launched its first major iteration of an AI-powered suite of tools called Smart Campaign Solution — akin to Google’s Performance Max or Meta’s Advantage+ — to support advertisers, but particularly SMBs. While the tools are still in test mode with a select group of advertisers, chief business officer Ajit Mohan believes the combination of having more performance driven capabilities has the potential to put Snapchat into the tier one platform…

AMD has finally confirmed pricing and availability for its Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor, the company’s newest near-flagship desktop CPU aimed at gaming enthusiasts. The chip will officially launch on January 29th with an MSRP of approximately $499 USD, according to AMD’s latest announcement. The 9850X3D was first unveiled at CES 2026 as part of AMD’s expanding Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache family, and it slots in just below higher-tier Ryzen 9 models in the 9000 series. Compared with its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the 9850X3D gains a higher boost clock of up to around 5.6 GHz, while continuing to…