Author: Geek Planet

Android phones now let you personalize how you appear on a call with the Calling Card feature in the Google Phone app. Instead of a basic contact photo, you can create a full screen visual card that appears during calls. You can add a photo, adjust how it looks on the screen, and customize the name style that appears when you call someone or when they call you. The feature is part of a recent update to the Phone app and works on devices running version 182 and above. Once a calling card is created, the image and text style…

There’s a quiet vibe shift rippling through marketing circles as the industry comes to terms with the epistemic hangover of its long entanglement with Google. None of this is new, of course — marketers have spent years toggling between frustration and resignation over how tightly Google grips their ad dollars. But now, with the company freshly found guilty of illegally monopolizing not just how people find information online but how that information gets monetized, those long-simmering feelings are boiling over. Throw in Google’s ongoing third-party tap dance in the world’s most popular browser, and the unease is becoming harder to ignore. …

Microsoft is testing Windows 11 26H1 with the Insider Preview Build 28000, which brings many of the useful features we’ve seen in the Dev, Beta, and stable versions of previous builds. Even though the version contains some additions, it’s not one of the usual Windows feature updates (via PCWorld). For instance, there’s a more consistent dark mode for the File Explorer. All the dialogues in the interface, including those for copy, move, replace, errors, and progress bar, now completely match the theme. Minor feature tweaks, major groundwork for Windows on Arm The Explorer start area gets new hover options, including…

Google‘s March Pixel Drop is rolling out now, and it’s giving one of the Pixel‘s best quiet features its own home. The Now Playing tool, which automatically figures out songs playing around you, is now a standalone app. That means your history of discovered tracks finally has a place to live. You can actually revisit that song you heard at the coffee shop last week. The update turns a background trick into something useful. Now Playing has long been a Pixel thing, silently catching music without needing to Shazam it. The new app adds a history tab that logs everything…

AI agents are no longer just experimental tools — they’re rapidly becoming indispensable intermediaries in how people search, shop, and interact online. As platforms like Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity race to roll out agentic AI, the advertising industry is bracing for a shift that could redefine consumer journeys and reshape digital marketing strategies.Despite all the hype, many marketer’s generative AI investments are still modest or even nonexistent. One Gartner survey of more than 400 marketing leaders found that 27% of CMOs reported their teams had little or no adoption of generative AI. However, it’s still early — both in terms…

Samsung Health‘s Medications tracker just got a serious upgrade. It now hunts for prescription discounts across more than 70,000 pharmacies. Find a better price and you can save the coupon to Samsung Wallet with one tap. At the counter, just open Wallet and you’re done. No more printing paper coupons or juggling separate apps. The whole thing lives inside two apps you probably already have on your Galaxy phone. Samsung says the goal is simple, make filling prescriptions less of a headache by combining medication tracking with instant savings. How the prescription discount tool works Open the Medications tracker inside…

ChatGPT Translate is now a standalone translation page, and it’s aimed straight at the habit most of us already have, paste text, get a fast result, move on. OpenAI hasn’t made a big public launch moment around it, but the tool is live and it supports translations to and from more than 50 languages with automatic language detection. But it’s what comes next that sets it apart. After your translation appears, ChatGPT Translate offers one-tap prompt options that push the result into ChatGPT for a rewrite, like making it more fluent, switching to business formal, simplifying it for a child,…

With an ongoing global trade war and stricter border enforcement, the travel and tourism industry in the U.S. is starting to see a dip in visitors. During the month of March, international visits to the U.S. declined 14% year over year, according to the U.S. Travel Association, which also found, if the decline is maintained throughout the year, the U.S. will see a $21 billion loss in “travel-related exports.”For marketers in the travel and tourism space, the effects of that drop will depend on how reliant they are on international travel. Agency executives say that the marketers who are more…

Media agency network GroupM was once the market’s apex predator — and the engine room of industry giant WPP.The London-headquartered holding company still looks to its media business to power a long-term return to commercial growth following years of drift. But in the words of WPP boss Mark Read, the media network is going through “a tough time” and sits “at the mercy of the markets”. Turning that around will become an even more critical task in a year when new business opportunities might be harder to find, and when the holding company world is consolidating. “The big six are…

Google recently refreshed Gemini‘s web interface, introducing a new “My Stuff” hub to make it easier for users to find their images, videos, and other creations. Now, the company is rolling out an update for this hub that reorganizes items into two separate sections based on content type, resulting in a more structured layout. When the My Stuff hub first rolled out last month, it displayed all user creations in a grid of rounded squares, regardless of file type. With the new update, it now features distinct sections for “Documents” and “Media.” According to 9to5Google, the Documents section includes Gemini…