Author: Geek Planet

Samsung’s next Galaxy Z models are expected to put mobile AI to work in a more practical way. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8, according to Seoul Economic Daily, will reportedly ship with One UI 9 and Google’s new Gemini Intelligence, giving the devices a deeper assistant layer than current Galaxy AI features. Gemini Intelligence is being positioned as software that can move through related apps and complete linked tasks. In practice, that means a phone assistant that can follow a chain of actions across apps, rather than stopping after a single reply. How much can…

Google has planted its flag on Windows territory. The Google app for desktop is now globally available in English for Windows users, graduating from its experimental phase on Search Labs.  The browser tab we reflexively open to use Google every five minutes now has a faster, more efficient replacement sitting on the desktop.  What Does The App Actually Do? The centerpiece, mind you, is a keyboard shortcut: Alt + Space. It summons a floating search bar over whatever is on the screen, similar to how Cmd + Space summons the Spotlight search on Macs. Once you summon the search bar,…

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg changed his company’s name from Facebook to Meta. He also announced his ambitious plans to throw billions into formulating a coherent “metaverse,” a virtual reality accessed through futuristic-looking headsets. This year, the tech giant is backtracking from their lofty vision of transferring all of life online. What began as a utopian promise of escape to a digital Eden is now what many predicted it would be all along: A failed experiment. While initially it was reported that Meta was entirely cancelling the metaverse, the company clarified that it will still exist but will be limited in…

David the Droid After Steven Spielberg has thoroughly directed the audience’s attention where he thinks it should go, it’s time to pick the “lucky” parents. It doesn’t take the head scientist very long to find his candidates. A couple has a son in a coma, and it seems unlikely that the child will wake up. So, the father is persuaded to take the experimental robo-child. First of all, I just want to say that I found the idea of picking a robot child to replace a real son to be very disturbing, but disturbing or not, the parents aren’t allowed to have…

Amazon’s Fire Phone was a spectacular failure that marred the e-commerce giant’s phone attempt. More than a decade later, Amazon appears to be eyeing the mobile segment again with an AI twist. But it may not be preparing a straightforward smartphone sequel. In a Financial Times interview, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay says that the company has no plans to simply try to build another phone. Panay said Amazon is “not necessarily going after phone,” while acknowledging that mobile technology is changing and that new AI-powered form factors could blur the usual lines around what counts as a phone. How…

Samsung is preparing to shake up the foldable market this July with the rumored Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, a new extra-wide variant of its flagship foldable expected to launch alongside the standard Galaxy Z Fold 8. But if you were hoping for top-tier camera specs on the wide foldable, you may want to temper your expectations. No Ultra-tier main camera According to a fresh leak from GalaxyClub and SamMobile, the Fold 8 Wide will feature a 50MP main camera with an f/1.8 aperture and a 50MP f/1.9 ultrawide camera. While those numbers sound respectable, they’re not quite up there…

If you have been waiting for Gemini to actually feel like it knows you, your wait is almost over. Google’s Personal Intelligence, which launched earlier this year for paid US subscribers, is now rolling out globally. What is Gemini Personal Intelligence and what can it do? Personal Intelligence connects Gemini to your Google apps. Think Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, Search, Maps, Calendar, Drive, and more. It uses your existing data to give smarter, more tailored responses without requiring you to explain everything each time. The use cases are genuinely impressive. Ask Gemini for shopping recommendations, and it will factor in…

Farmers across the West are socioeconomically not in a good place right now. Many are leaving the profession, which used to be a vocation, due to big payoffs by the EU and other such wealthy bloated Net-Zero globalists encouraging them to sell the land. There is also the allure of AI and Hi-Tech machinery, which I’ll come to later. I used to work as an agricultural correspondent and editor of a farming magazine some 20 years ago and things were financially bad back then for farmers throughout the West but things are now a lot worse. The war on farming…

X is finally giving users a dedicated place to store and revisit saved content. The platform is rolling out a new History tab on iOS, which consolidates Bookmarks, long videos, Articles, and Likes into a single location. One place for everything you’ve saved Until now, these content types were scattered across different parts of the app, making it easy to lose track of things you meant to come back to. Bookmarks lived under a separate tab, Likes were buried in your profile, and there was no single place to find long videos or articles you’ve started but not finished. The…

Microsoft has shipped one of the most practically useful security updates in recent memory, and if you work in an environment where Remote Desktop files get passed around regularly, this one is worth paying attention to. The April 2026 cumulative updates for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 bring a set of new protections designed to stop attackers from using RDP files as a backdoor into your system. The problem with RDP files Remote Desktop Protocol files are a staple in enterprise environments. They let admins preconfigure connections to remote systems, which sounds harmless enough until you realize that the…