Author: Geek Planet

Nvidia rumors are once again pointing to a strange new memory strategy for a refreshed GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, and this one sounds equal parts clever and awkward. According to Wccftech, citing a post from the Chinese Board Channels forums, Nvidia is reportedly preparing a new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti variant with 9GB of GDDR7 memory instead of the current 8GB baseline. The same report says the standard RTX 5060 could get a similar 9GB version as well. How Nvidia is doing something weird with the RTX 5060 Ti The heart of the rumor is Nvidia’s supposed shift to 3GB…

Google has announced a broad set of security upgrades for Android at the Android Show I/O Edition today, and the most impactful ones target the scams that cost users real money. From automatically hanging up on fake bank calls to hiding your one-time passwords (OTPs) from malicious apps, the updates add up to Google’s most significant push yet to protect Android users from fraudsters and rogue software. Your bank will verify its own calls The headliner of today’s announcement is verified financial calls, a new feature that automatically ends phone calls from numbers spoofing your bank or financial institution. Phone…

Google is adding a new tool called Pause Point to Android‘s Digital Wellbeing suite that interrupts mindless scrolling with a 10-second check-in before opening a distracting app. A middle ground between timers and lockouts Pause Point works differently from Android’s existing app timers. Instead of blocking access to an app after a set amount of time, it intercepts you at the moment you open a designated app and briefly offers a way out. During the pause, you can do a breathing exercise, set an in-the-moment timer, browse a photo slideshow pulled from your memories, or switch to a suggested alternative…

Intel‘s upcoming Nova Lake chips have just surfaced in the rumor mill, and the latest leak drops a few juicy details about how the Core Ultra Series 4 desktop family could take shape. The company’s Nova Lake desktop lineup may be built around three different die variants. These are reportedly labeled Nova Lake-S 8P+16E, 8P+12E, and 6P+8E, giving us an early idea of how Intel could segment its next mainstream desktop CPUs across high-end, midrange, and entry tiers. Why is this leak getting attention? Intel is not just refreshing its desktop lineup, but potentially reorganizing how it scales core counts…

Google has announced a set of creator-focused updates coming to Android 17 at the Android Show I/O Edition today, with new tools for capturing, editing, and sharing content aimed at social media creators and professional filmmakers. Instagram gets a big upgrade Google has partnered with Meta to bring several camera improvements to Instagram on flagship Android devices. Android 17 will add Ultra HDR capture, playback, built-in video stabilization, and Night Sight support to Instagram, pulling from the same processing pipeline used by the phone’s stock camera app. The move builds on Android 17’s broader camera changes for third-party apps, which…

Alongside new scam protection updates, Google announced a separate set of privacy and theft protection upgrades for Android at the Android Show I/O Edition today. From finer control over which apps can see your location and contacts, to new tools that make stolen phones harder to access and easier to recover, the updates give Android users more say over their own data. Your location and contacts stay yours Android 17 will introduce a new location button that lets you grant an app precise location access only while it’s open. Once you close the app, access will be revoked automatically, with…

Adobe has quietly been building something big inside Firefly, its all-in-one creative AI studio. And today, the company is ready to show it off. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational tool that lets you describe what you want to create and then handles the execution across Adobe’s entire app ecosystem, including Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, and Illustrator.  You no longer need to bounce between the apps and can handle all the edits with simple text prompts. The idea is simple. You bring your vision and creative judgment, give Firefly a prompt, and the assistant will figure out the rest. So…

While Apple and Samsung have mostly stuck with conventional lithium-ion batteries, Chinese smartphone brands have moved faster on silicon-carbon cells. That shift has helped them fit larger batteries into phones without making devices noticeably thicker. As a result, models with unusually large batteries, including 8,500mAh and even 10,000mAh units, are already on the market. Now, Huawei is reportedly working on a smartphone with an even larger battery. Could Huawei push phone batteries beyond 10,000mAh? According to tipster Digital Chat Station, Huawei is testing “a new battery material” and “a new battery system” that may allow smartphone batteries to cross the…

I completely understand the frustration of trying to share files or photos between an Android and an iPhone or a MacBook. I’ve been there too, and honestly, it’s one of those experiences that can make you question your life choices mid-transfer. At some point, I just started avoiding it altogether because the process felt more annoying than the actual task itself. That’s exactly the problem Android has been trying to fix, and to its credit, it is finally making some real progress. One of the biggest upgrades here is that Quick Share is now compatible with Apple’s AirDrop. What used…

Google made an unexpected cameo on Macs with the launch of a native Gemini app. What’s even more interesting (and a bit funny) is that the app arrived at Apple’s long-promised Siri upgrade (and a rumored standalone app for the voice assistant).  The free app is available on macOS 15 and above. Though the app isn’t available on the App Store (yet), you can download it from Google’s official landing page. What can the Gemini Mac app actually do? Quite a bit, actually. Once you install the app, you can summon Gemini by pressing Option + Space keys. Doesn’t matter…