Author: Geek Planet

I spend more hours slouching over my laptop, or staring at an unusually large monitor than I have the guts to admit. Between work, play, and passion projects, my daily screen time is abysmally unhealthy. And to top it off, my near-permanent workation situation means ergonomics is not a luxury for me.  All that has taken a visible toll. I wear prescription lenses to compensate for vision issues and blue light protection. I often resort to hot water bags or vests to make me sit straight due to the forward-neck situation. And regular water intake, or work breaks, is something…

Ad tech has always lived in a world where money moves slower than the ads it sells. Everyone’s floating — fronting payments to publishers while waiting weeks, sometimes months, for agencies and advertisers to settle up. The cost of doing so is only rising. Nearly six in 10 invoices (58%) in the sector were paid late in the first half of the year, according to payment data form OAREX. Almost one in five arrived more than two weeks past due — after the original 60, 90 or even 120 days. Granted, this long tail of payments isn’t new. It’s how the…

It is a tough day for anyone who loved the underdog energy of the Zenfone or the sheer overkill of the ROG Phone. Asus has officially confirmed what the rumors were hinting at: there will be no new smartphones in 2026. They are calling it a “strategic pause,” but let’s be honest—this feels a lot heavier than just taking a gap year. According to reports from early January, the company has basically frozen its development pipeline. That means no ROG Phone 9, no Zenfone 12 Ultra, and likely nothing else for a long time. They are taking the resources that…

For the most part, it’s nearly impossible to find advertisers that are spending a substantial amount of their social budgets on X. But more niche industries, such as crypto, see X the same way traditional advertisers view Meta and Google – their audience is there, it delivers good results. It’s a no brainer.Or at least should be. In this edition of our Confessions series, where we trade anonymity for candor, the chief strategy officer of a crypto firm talks through the frustrating issues they’ve had with X over the past eight months, which has ultimately meant the lion’s share of…

If you’ve ever tried to train seriously on a gaming laptop while traveling, you know the screen is often the compromise. Windows Latest reports Lenovo plans to show the Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable at CES 2026 in Las Vegas as a concept that tries to erase that tradeoff with a rollable OLED display. The outlet says the laptop starts as a normal-looking 16-inch machine, then expands horizontally to 21.5 inches or 24 inches at the press of a button. It’s described as being based on Lenovo’s Legion Pro 7i platform, with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and a “maxed-out”…

Google appears to be working on making Magic Cue more useful on the Pixel 10 series. For the uninitiated, Magic Cue works like a background assistant, and it is easily one of the best AI features in Pixel 10. It can pull relevant information from apps you already use and surfaces it at just the right moment. For example, if you are chatting about a trip, Magic Cue might show your flight details without you having to search for them. Until now, it has relied on apps like Gmail, Messages, Calendar, Contacts, Keep, and Pixel Screenshots to do this. Magic…

When Caroline Giegerich talks to marketers about AI-generated video, the discussion always seems to orbit the same point: risk. Not the dystopian kind — the reputational kind.Giegerich, IAB’s vp of AI, recalled a moment that emphasized it. A friend at The Weather Company recently showed her an image of an RV created by an AI tool and asked what she thought. It looked fine. Then they pointed out the glitch: the RV had two HVAC units on the top of it — something that would not be possible for an RV of that size. “It was AI-generated,” she said. “I would’ve…

Windows Latest reports Lenovo is lining up a Legion Go 2 SteamOS variant for a CES 2026 reveal, aimed at players who want the hardware horsepower without the Windows 11 handheld hassle. The idea is simple: keep the same core specs, swap the operating system, and make the whole device feel more like a console when you pick it up. Lenovo has not officially confirmed this model in the source material provided, and key details like pricing, regions, and an on-sale date are not listed. Same hardware, different OS The spec list cited in the report does not read like…

Samsung is preparing a major display upgrade for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, one that could make the fold line far less visible than what we have seen so far. The buzz started after Samsung Display showcased a nearly wrinkle-free foldable OLED panel at CES 2026. According to industry watchers, this new panel is likely headed for Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8, which is expected to arrive in the second half of the year. Compared to the current Galaxy Z Fold 7, the new display reportedly improves crease depth by 20%, which could translate into a noticeably smoother screen when…

Takeup of AI search tools is on the rise, disrupting user behaviors and the performance of brands’ organic search efforts. The implications for paid search, as well as for search’s impact on brand awareness and conversion metrics, are less clear. What is certain is that increasing a brand’s presence in AI search summaries will become a crucial goal for many marketers. It’s also one they can get started on right now. The data below illustrates the state of AI search for marketers, and how brands are and aren’t responding. AI search has become many consumers’ preferred source of information online…