Author: Geek Planet

If you spend most of your working day at a mouse, the Logitech MX Vertical is one of the more practical desk upgrades you can make, and at $74.99 it’s down $45 off its $119.99 list price in a limited-time deal. The vertical design isn’t a gimmick: Logitech’s own testing shows a 10% reduction in muscular activity compared to a standard mouse, and the 57° wrist angle addresses the pressure points that build up over a long day in a way that a standard horizontal mouse simply doesn’t. What you’re getting The MX Vertical’s 57° angle puts your hand in…

If you’ve ever landed at an airport, frantically looking for your boarding pass, hotel confirmation, and car rental details in three different apps, Samsung has something for you.  The company has launched a new Samsung Wallet feature called Trips, which is designed to pull every piece of a travel itinerary into an organized timeline, right inside the familiar app interface Galaxy owners use every day.  What does the Trips feature actually do? The Trips feature works by grouping together eligible travel details and items saved in Samsung Wallet, including flights, accommodations, car rentals, bus/train tickets, theme park passes, or even…

Opera One just dropped an update that makes it a much better browser for video lovers and remote workers alike. The update brings YouTube and Twitch into the sidebar, a native volume booster that cranks audio up to 500%, and a fully revamped Picture-in-Picture mode. YouTube and Twitch are now in the sidebar If you like having a stream or tutorial running while you work, you know how annoying it is to keep jumping between tabs. Opera One solves that by giving you one-click access to YouTube and Twitch directly from the browser sidebar. You can pin the panel for…

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 10-year-old Ginny Weasley finds an enchanted diary that responds to her writing with caring affirmation, entertaining witticisms, and supportive counsel and advice. This diary presented itself as the popular, fawning older boy, Tom Riddle, and as Ginny struggled to find friends in her new school, she began spending more time pouring out her thoughts, desires, and secrets to her new friend, Tom. And as she did, the diary became stronger, both its ability to influence her and its ability to influence others. The diary eventually tricks Ginny into releasing the Basilisk from…

Spotify has spent nearly two decades letting you find the best, most suited track for your workout sessions. Starting today, it will also help you work out with guided video or audio sessions.  The music streaming giant has officially launched Spotify Fitness, a brand-new service that brings guided workout experiences directly into the Spotify app, without any additional subscriptions.  What exactly is Spotify Fitness? The Spotify app is getting a new Fitness hub, accessible by searching “fitness” or via the Browse All section. As part of the app’s expansion into the fitness category, both free and Premium users have access…

Florida’s attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT helped plan the mass shooting at Florida State University that killed two people last year. According to The Washington Post, Attorney General James Uthmeier made the announcement at a news conference on Tuesday, claiming the chatbot gave tactical advice to the suspected shooter. “The chatbot advised the shooter on what type of gun to use, on which ammo went with which gun, on whether or not a gun would be useful at short range,” Uthmeier said.  He didn’t hold back on the implications either: “If it was…

Your smartphone has a pile of apps. OpenAI wants to replace all of them with one AI agent that just gets things done. That’s the vision behind the company’s plans to build its own smartphone, complete with a custom processor co-developed with MediaTek and Qualcomm, as first reported by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on X. And Sam Altman seems to agree. In a post on X, the OpenAI CEO wrote, “feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed.” That is not a subtle hint. Why would OpenAI want to make a phone? We…

Elon Musk has been talking up SpaceX’s space-based AI ambitions like they are a done deal. At the World Economic Forum in January, he called building AI data centers in space “a no-brainer,” and in February, after announcing a merger between SpaceX and his AI firm xAI, he declared that the only way to scale is to build AI infrastructure in space. He even launched a new TeraFab chip factory to build the chipsets that can handle high-ion energy and radiation, allowing the machinery to work in space. But here is the thing. SpaceX’s own IPO filing tells a very different…

Samsung is developing a wider Galaxy Fold, and if you’ve been keeping up with recent tech news, this won’t come as a surprise. While its arrival was already expected, newly leaked dummy units have now given us our first confirmed look at the design, and there’s plenty to be excited about. The design looks like nothing else in your pocket While the original Pixel Fold was released as a book-style foldable, it switched to the more popular taller-folding form factor in its next iteration. Since then, most foldables have featured the same design. Samsung is planning to change that with…

Google is expanding the role of its Gemini AI assistant by integrating it directly into Google Chat, allowing users to create documents, slides, and manage tasks without leaving conversations. The update introduces a new feature called “Ask Gemini in Chat,” positioning Chat as a central hub not just for communication, but for getting work done. With this integration, users can type a request in natural language, and Gemini will handle the task in the background. This includes generating Google Docs, building presentations, scheduling meetings, and retrieving files based on simple descriptions. The goal is to reduce the need to switch…