Author: Geek Planet

Asus has built a reputation for making creator-focused hardware, from displays and laptops to graphics cards and motherboards. Now, the company is focusing on creating network devices for professionals and creators, providing them with the high-speed network speeds they need.  The company has announced the ProArt Router PRT-BE5000 and ProArt Switch PQG-U1080, two new networking devices built specifically for creator studios. The first thing that stands out when you look at the devices is a complete lack of ugly protruding antennas. They won’t look out of place no matter where you put them in your home.  What do you get…

While the Galaxy S26 series skipped a fourth model, the Galaxy S27 lineup might be getting one of the biggest shake-ups in years. A new report from South Korea’s ETNews, the company is planning on releasing a new model that sits right below the standard and Ultra variants. This new addition will reportedly be called the Galaxy S27 Pro. Where does the Galaxy S27 Pro sit in Samsung’s flagship line? Samsung is preparing the Galaxy S27 series as a four-model lineup, moving away from the familiar standard, Plus, and Ultra structure it has used since the Galaxy S20 era. The…

RPCS3 now has official system specs, and the headline is simple. Most PCs from the past several years can already handle PlayStation 3 emulation without much trouble. The team broke things into four hardware tiers, from minimum up to max performance, giving a clearer picture of what’s actually needed. After years of steady optimization, the barrier to entry looks much lower than many expected. Even handheld PCs can reach recommended results in many titles, which says a lot about current efficiency. Most modern desktops should run a large portion of the PS3 library without major issues. Even entry-level hardware makes…

Android users are familiar with the usual game. A cool app launches on the iPhone first, and the Android version either takes months to hit the Play Store or never arrives at all. But Google may have a new way to make that wait shorter. At Google I/O 2026, the company previewed a new Migration Assistant inside Android Studio, designed to help developers port existing apps from platforms like iOS, React Native, and web frameworks into native Android apps. How this could speed up Android ports The Migration Assistant works by letting developers select an existing project and hand it…

Discord just completed something it started back in 2023, and while the result is genuinely impressive, there’s a big asterisk in place.  As of early March 2026, every standard voice and video call on Discord is end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), and you don’t have to toggle any switches, as the feature is enabled by default. The encryption is based on DAVE, which, for the uninitiated, is Discord’s own open-source protocol.  Which platforms support E2EE Discord calls?  The protocol covers every platform Discord runs on: Windows, Mac, Linux, smartphones, gaming consoles, and web browsers. In fact, Discord had to go inside Firefox’s own…

Netflix is detailing an AI video tool that goes beyond simple cleanup. Its system, called VOID, cuts elements from footage while keeping everything else behaving in a way that still feels grounded. That marks a shift for AI video editing. Existing tools can erase unwanted elements, but they often leave behind movement that feels off, like objects floating or actions stopping without cause. VOID focuses on what happens after an edit, rebuilding the sequence so the outcome still follows believable cause and effect. The research shows the model can adjust interactions in response to changes, so if a supporting object…

At their most primitive level, computer programs can be reduced to a sequence of binary numbers.  Keep this in mind to solve this week’s Micro Softy.  Sally owes rent on her apartment but doesn’t get her paycheck for a month. But Sally owns a necklace with 31 gold beads. She tells her landlord she will give him one gold bead every day during the 30-day month. At the end of the month, she can pay the landlord her rent in cash and get her necklace back.  But there is a problem. Every time she cuts her necklace, she needs to pay a jeweler a dollar for the jeweler to reconnect the break in the necklace. So, Sally must figure out a way to minimize her payment to the jeweler by minimizing…

Electronic accessory brand Ugreen has unveiled a new Air series of charging solutions aimed at Apple users. The new launches include the Nexode Air 65W and Nexode Air 45W wall chargers, and the MagFlow Air magnetic power bank. As you can likely guess from the name, these are portable alternatives to the usual bulky charging solutions that take up space in your office or travel bag. How portable is Ugreen’s new 65W charger? The Nexode Air 65W GaN charger is built for portability, with a folding plug, a bundled 100W USB-C cable, and a compact body that weighs around 2.5…

Samsung’s next foldable may be chasing refinement again, which means the real upgrades are still a while away. A new leak from a known tipster, Ice Universe, claims that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 series will miss three key upgrades that would have made Samsung’s next flagship foldable a lot more exciting. This could make the Galaxy Z Fold 8 fall behind the rumored iPhone Fold. The S Pen omission hurts the most The lack of S Pen support will probably sting the most to many power users. Samsung’s notebook-style folding phones have always made sense as note-taking and productivity…

If your Windows 11 Start Menu search was acting weird for the past couple of days, Microsoft has finally acknowledged and fixed it via a server-side fix on April 8, 2026 (via Bleeping Computer). Apparently, a faulty Bing update quietly broke the Start Menu search function for a significant portion of Windows 11 23H2 users. What broke the Start Menu search in the first place? The culprit, quite ironically, was an update that was meant to make things better. It was a server-side Bing update designed to improve search performance that ended up doing the opposite. This caused the Start…