Author: Geek Planet

A lot of tech companies talk about impact in terms of scale or profit. Ride-hailing platform inDrive is talking about justice. The world’s second most downloaded mobility app recently launched “Positions of Purpose,” a global hiring campaign to recruit senior leaders in the areas of child protection, education and good governance. It’s an unconventional move that brings the company’s founding mission — challenging injustice — into the executive ranks. The company made its name by disrupting ride-hailing with a fairness-first model that lets drivers and riders negotiate fares directly with consumers. Now it’s extending that same principle of transparency to how it…

While there hasn’t been a significant breakthrough in computer input devices like keyboards, Lenovo could change that at CES 2026. According to a report by Windows Latest, the company is working on a self-charging keyboard and mouse combo, another translucent combo, and an adaptive smart keyboard. The most unique product in the leaks is something called the “Lenovo Self-Charging Kit Concept.” It reportedly harvests energy from low indoor lighting (as low as 50 lux) and charges itself as you use it indoors. Although this technology is similar to Logitech’s solar-powered keyboards, it also works without direct sunlight. To give you…

Next year’s FIFA World Cup stands to be the largest spectator event in history. And Unilever, one of the planet’s largest advertisers with a total marketing budget of $10.1 billion in 2024, is determined to capitalize on the billions watching.“Next year is the biggest sporting event that’s ever going to happen. It’s taking place in our biggest market. We will be making absolutely every effort to make it the biggest thing we’ve done,” said Chris Barron, Unilever’s general manager for personal care in the U.K. and Ireland, and vp of deodorants in Europe. The company’s execs are currently planning how…

A security warning is a nasty surprise, especially when the add-on in question claims it exists to protect your privacy. Researchers at Koi Security say Urban VPN Proxy, a VPN extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, began logging users’ AI assistant conversations and sending them to a data broker. Urban VPN Proxy looked reputable, with a 4.7-star rating, Google’s featured badge, and more than six million installs on Chrome. Another 1.3 million people installed it on Edge. But Koi says the extension’s behavior changed after a quiet update on July 9, 2025, when the publisher shipped version 5.5.0. From…

In the age of synthetic social, it’s getting harder to tell the difference between AI and human-generated content. Despite the AI hype, the influx of synthetic social (and mounting backlash to so-called AI slop) isn’t resulting in more, lucrative brand deals for creators according to the five influencer agency execs Digiday spoke with for this piece. Over the past year, AI-powered video apps like OpenAI’s Sora or Meta’s Vibes have developed further into the uncanny valley with machine-made, personalized social media content. Marketers are interested but largely hesitant to make synthetic social part of their marketing toolkit mainstays. “It’s (synthetic…

AppLovin and The Trade Desk emerged as the clear attention-grabbers in this ad tech earnings window — but for very different reasons, and with very different signals about how investors are reading the sector’s future. AppLovin’s third-quarter numbers were the kind that usually end an argument. Revenue jumped 68% year over year to $1.4 billion, with net income and adjusted EBITDA growing even faster as the company leans into its AXON-driven advertising platform and shrinks its legacy gaming footprint. The market’s reaction was briskly positive, as the company’s stock popped (see table below). However, what makes that reaction stand out…

OpenAI has shipped a security update to ChatGPT Atlas aimed at prompt injection in AI browsers, attacks that hide malicious instructions inside everyday content an agent might read while it works. Atlas’s agent mode is built to act in your browser the way you would: it can view pages, click, and type to complete tasks in the same space and context you use. That also makes it a higher-value target, because the agent can encounter untrusted text across email, shared documents, forums, social posts, and any webpage it opens. The company’s core warning is simple. Hackers can trick the agent’s…

What began as sponsored product placements tied closely to its retail marketplace has grown into a full-scale media network spanning streaming TV, audio, display and third-party publisher inventory. Now, the company is reorganizing how advertisers access and operate across that ecosystem.  At this year’s unBoxed conference, Amazon introduced a unified Campaign Manager that collapses the Amazon DSP and the Ads Console into a single buying tool. It also rolled out agentic AI tools that can generate creative, build campaigns, recommend targeting and write complex Amazon Marketing Cloud queries using natural language.  Together, the changes are meant to make full-funnel advertising…

Amazon is following the same playbook Google and Meta have refined for years: automate more of the planning and buying that agencies once handled. But this isn’t an overt bid to push them aside. It’s to capture the long tail — the thousands of advertisers who were never going to hire a shop in the first place.That’s the way Amazon ad execs are pitching a major overhaul to the way its ads business works this week: the DSP and Sponsored Ads console are being unified into a single Campaign Manager. Agentic tools — Ads Agent for planning, targeting and data analysis…

The team behind the close-friends photo-sharing app Retro, has built a side project called Splat that turns your photos into AI coloring pages for kids. Start with a new shot or something from your Camera Roll, pick a visual style, then generate a clean line-art page your child can color on-screen or print. Parents can already find endless printable pages online, but the hunt is often the annoying part. Many sites are ad-heavy, cluttered, or push small fees when you just want a quick sheet for a bored kid. Splat’s workflow is built around quick choices. Pick a photo, choose…