Author: Geek Planet

In addition to introducing a new conversational, AI-powered design workflow, Canva today announced that it is expanding beyond design with integrations that aim to help users access information from commonly used productivity tools without leaving the platform. The Canva AI 2.0 update is centered around reducing the need to switch between apps while creating and managing projects. Pull data from connected apps With new connectors, users can link Canva to services like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Zoom, and Notion. This allows its AI to pull in context from conversations, files, and schedules to generate relevant content. For example,…

The team behind GrapheneOS, a security-focused Android alternative, is calling out Google and Apple for what they describe as anti-competitive behavior dressed up as a security feature. With the latest Google reCAPTCHA upgrade, if you’re on a Windows PC, Linux machine, or pretty much anything that isn’t a smartphone, you may soon be asked to scan a QR code with your phone to prove you’re human.  Not just any phone, though. It has to be an Apple device or a Google-certified Android device. Why should you care about this? Most coverage of this feature treats it as a minor CAPTCHA…

Samsung Galaxy S25 users in the United States are finally getting the One UI 8.5 update. After rolling out to newer devices, the update is now making its way to last year’s Galaxy S25 series, bringing a solid list of improvements worth knowing about. Users on X have reported receiving this update on their Samsung Galaxy S25 devices, so if you own one, now might be the time to go into the software update settings and get the latest update.  The lock screen also got some love. There are new clock fonts with animations, and a thickness slider lets you…

Canva‘s AI 2.0 update goes beyond its new conversational design workflow and app integrations. It also introduces automation and improved coding tools aimed at simplifying repetitive tasks and making it easier to create more advanced experiences without technical expertise. Automate recurring work in the background Canva’s new scheduling system allows users to set up tasks that run automatically, even when they’re offline. This includes generating batches of social media posts tailored for different platforms, preparing daily meeting briefings based on emails and calendar events, or translating content into multiple languages. Users can also schedule more complex workflows, such as generating…

I have never been particularly good at managing my phone’s battery health. I know all the advice by now — avoid charging past 80 percent, do not let the battery drain completely, try not to leave the phone plugged in overnight. I know these habits the same way I know I should probably drink more water or sleep earlier. In theory, they make perfect sense. In practice, I rarely stick to them consistently. So when I started using the Galaxy S26 and realized that Device Care’s optimization features were quietly handling a lot of this for me, my first reaction…

If you’ve ever played video games on a laptop that sounded like a small aircraft trying to take off, Intel has heard you (and your laptop). The company’s Chinese division has launched “AI Quiet Plus,” a new certification and optimization program for gaming laptops (via VideoCardz).  As the name suggests, the feature uses artificial intelligence to dramatically reduce fan noise and surface heat while maintaining performance.  How does AI Quiet Plus actually work? It might be a bit confusing at first, since AI Quiet Plus isn’t a chip or a software update that you can download on the go. As…

Safari might finally be getting a feature that every tab hoarder secretly needs. And yes, Apple is apparently using AI to clean up the mess. Could Safari in iOS 27 finally organize your chaotic tabs automatically? According to Mark Gurman’s latest newsletter, Apple is testing a new Safari feature in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 that can automatically organize browser tabs into groups. The feature builds on Safari’s existing Tab Groups system, which already lets users separate tabs for work, travel planning, recipes, or personal browsing. However, instead of manually sorting everything, Safari may soon do the grouping…

The kind of work I do involves constant file sharing, and with iPhones, Android phones, and a MacBook all part of my daily rotation, moving files between them used to be far more exhausting than it should have been. Something as simple as getting a photo or video from an Android phone onto my MacBook often turned into a mini process of its own. Most of the time, I had to upload files to Google Drive, wait for them to sync properly, and then download them again on the other device. It sounds manageable when you describe it once, but…

The tech giant just bought a viral social media site, but there’s a catch. The site, which went viral, is for bots. The site is called Moltbook, and consists entirely of AI bots talking to each other, seemingly on their own. You can imagine why it went viral. Osmond Chia reports for BBC: The deal will move Moltbook’s team into Meta’s Superintelligence Labs and bring “new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses”, Meta said. The Reddit-like site started as an experiment in January for AI-powered programs to have their own conversations – and even gossip about…

For a while, I had convinced myself that my next iPhone had to be a Pro. Not because I had genuinely thought about what I needed from a phone, but because the marketing slowly wore me down. The triple cameras, the titanium build, the ProMotion display, the idea that it could handle absolutely anything — it all created this lingering feeling that choosing the regular iPhone would somehow mean compromising. Like I would be missing out on the “real” experience. Then I stopped looking at spec sheets and started looking at my actual usage. And honestly, the entire argument for…