Author: Geek Planet

A hot minute after the first-ever MacBook Neo just hit the store shelves, Apple is already plotting its successor. According to Tim Culpan, a Taiwan-based tech columnist and former Bloomberg reporter, writing in his Culpium newsletter, a next-generation MacBook Neo is on track for a 2027 arrival, with two substantial upgrades.  What’s actually changing, and what isn’t? The current-generation MacBook Neo runs on the A18 Pro chip, the same chip that powers the iPhone 16 Pro, and it is roughly as powerful as the M1 chip on the 2020 MacBook Air. Its successor, however, could be equipped with a binned…

Motorola appears to be getting ready to bring a more capable version of its Edge 70 series to India. A new phone, called the Edge 70 Pro+, is now listed as “coming soon” on Flipkart, and the teaser already points to a major camera upgrade over the Edge 70 Pro model recently launched in the country. What camera features has Motorola confirmed? According to the promotional page, the phone will feature a 50MP primary camera and a 50MP telephoto lens. The main camera uses a Sony Lytia 710 sensor with optical image stabilization. The more interesting addition is the 50MP…

If you are an Audible member who also lives inside Apple Podcasts, this one is for you. Audible has officially launched a connected subscription that lets you stream nearly 700 premium titles directly in Apple Podcasts, across 135 countries, with more on the way. What you get with Audible on Apple Podcasts? The catalog is genuinely stacked. You get ad-free access to Audible Originals spanning true crime, investigative journalism, celebrity-led audio dramas, and personal growth series. That includes award-winning shows like Dr. Death and Hysterical, as well as star-powered productions like Kerry Washington’s The Prophecy and The Big Lie, starring…

Google Health 5.0 is rolling out now as a mandatory update for the Fitbit app users, and the timing is deliberate.  The new Fitbit Air, Google’s most direct competitor to the Whoop fitness tracking band, launches next week, and, if you haven’t already guessed it, Health 5.0 is required to set it up.  What is the new Google Health widget? Until now, the Fitbit home screen widget was a single, circular steps counter. The new Quick Access widget replaces it with something that could prove more useful. At its largest, the widget expands to a 5×3 grid, letting you check…

Scrolling through a streaming library looking for something to watch is its own kind of exhausting. But Tubi just fixed it. The free streaming service has been integrated into ChatGPT, making it the first video streaming platform to do so. Starting today, you can ask ChatGPT directly for movie and TV recommendations from Tubi’s library and start watching within seconds, all without leaving the chat interface. How to use Tubi inside ChatGPT? Getting started is straightforward on both desktop and mobile. On your desktop, click “Apps” in the ChatGPT sidebar, search for Tubi, and connect it. On mobile, tap the…

Stockholm-based Truecaller started in 2009 as an app for caller ID and spam blocking. Now, it is moving into travel data. The company has launched Travel eSIM across 29 markets, giving users a way to buy mobile data for international trips through Truecaller. The product may be useful for travellers, but for a company with Truecaller’s privacy history, moving into mobile data is bound to raise questions. What do you get with Truecaller’s Travel eSIM? Travel eSIM is a fully digital mobile data service. Users can buy and activate it through the Truecaller iPhone app or the web channel. The…

Google is giving Chrome users two pretty meaningful desktop upgrades, and one of them feels long overdue. Chrome is now rolling out support for vertical tabs alongside a new fullscreen mode on desktop. These changes were announced by Google as features built to make tab-heavy browsing more convenient to manage, while also offering a cleaner way to read cluttered webpages. Why ‘vertical tabs’ is a game changer for Google Chrome Just as the name would suggest, vertical tabs work by vertically stacking your open Chrome tabs. So rather than keeping all your tabs crammed into the usual strip across the…

If you have ever stayed up late scrolling and woken up feeling worse for it, you are not imagining things. A new study from the University of Copenhagen has mapped out exactly why so many young people seem stuck in a cycle of poor sleep and deteriorating mental health. Researchers identified 29 interconnected factors and 175 causal connections across biological, psychological, and social dimensions that can trap young adults between the ages of 18 and 40 in what they describe as self-reinforcing vicious cycles of mental distress (via EurakAlert). How do screen habits make things worse? The research shows that…

I had mostly made peace with the idea that phone styluses were for a very specific kind of user. There are a few who prefer taking notes the old-fashioned way (sort of), artists that can get some value out of this, or Galaxy Ultra loyalists who’d stand by this. But for the vast majority, a stylus doesn’t necessarily enhance the experience. So when I first started using the Motorola Razr Fold with the Moto Pen Ultra, I did not expect it to change my mind. A stylus on a foldable makes sense on paper because you get a larger canvas.…

Getting concert tickets has always felt like a losing battle. You show up at the right time, refresh the page endlessly, and still walk away empty-handed. Scalpers and bots snap up the best seats before real fans even get a look in. This is why Spotify has announced Reserved, a new feature that holds two concert tickets for an artist’s most dedicated fans before tickets go on sale to the general public. How does Spotify decide who qualifies for Reserved? Spotify will identify superfans based on real engagement signals like streams, shares, and other activity on the platform. The system…