Author: Geek Planet

A new report from VideoCardz, citing Board Channels sources, says Intel is preparing a Core Ultra 200K Plus refresh for its Arrow Lake desktop lineup. The hook? Better specs without a higher price tag. None of this is official yet, so treat it as a snapshot of what Intel could be planning. Still, if you’re timing a build, the rumored mix of added Efficiency cores, faster rated memory support, and platform continuity is exactly the kind of update that can change when you buy. The spec bump is aimed at midrange According to the leak, the biggest changes land in…

Spigen debuted its retro-inspired case lineup following the launch of the iPhone X back in 2018. The case maker initially released two models that took design cues from the iPhone 2G and the iMac G3, but only the colorful Classic C1 case has stood the test of time. Over the years, the company has expanded the Classic C1 lineup to cover newer iPhone models, the Mac Mini, and even added an Apple Watch stand. Now, it has unveiled a new Mac-inspired case that takes cues from the Macintosh 128K. The new Spigen Classic LS case cranks up the nostalgia with…

Carter’s new CMO, Sarah Crockett, has led marketing efforts at a number of consumer brands including DSW, Dickie’s, Backcountry and Burton Snowboards. But when she joined the 160-year-old children’s apparel brand this summer, she was attracted to the opportunity to get real about parenting and childhood. Some of that shows up in the current Carter’s holiday campaign, “Unwrap the Chaos,” which shows off kids playing with cookie dough or unraveling gift wrap. “The world that is portrayed as motherhood, in a lot of cases, are tropes, and we’ve played into them,” she said. “That’s not to say they’re not factual…

DMND (“Demand Pool”), the world’s first Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining pool, has officially opened applications for miners to join as launch partners, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Successful applicants will receive 0% fees for the first two months and a special two-year founding miner agreement. In addition to the launch announcement, DMND also confirmed the successful closing of its venture capital financing in Q4 2024, led by Trammell Venture Partners (TVP). “The Bitcoin mining industry has a key problem which I’ve pinpointed over my 10-year career: mining pool centralization,” said Alejandro de la Torre, DMND co-founder…

OnePlus turned quite a few heads when it launched the OnePlus 13s, a rebadged version of the OnePlus 13T, outside of its home market. The handset practically reignited excitement in the compact flagship space, offering better value than popular models like the Samsung Galaxy S25, but it remained exclusive to the Indian market. Now, the Indian tipster Yogesh Brar claims that the handset’s successor — the OnePlus 15s — might not make it out of the Chinese market at all. In response to an X user asking whether the OnePlus 15s is canceled, the tipster said there’s a 90% chance…

Humanoid robot startups are raising massive funding rounds, and the sales pitch is familiar. Human-shaped machines will soon step into warehouses and factories, and then eventually our homes. But the Wall Street Journal reports a more restrained view inside the industry, even the companies building these bots think expectations have gotten ahead of what works. Executives and engineers say today’s humanoids are still too unreliable for the messy, multi-step work people imagine at home, even if they can handle simpler jobs in controlled settings. The goal is not just a humanoid, but a humanoid that does useful work. Humanoid robot…

Payment frictions continue to undercut the creator economy’s growth.Creators continue to wait too long to get paid, according to several ad execs interviewed for this story. What should be routine disbursements can slip from days into weeks and whatever finally shows up has already been thinned out by an expanding chain of middlemen — agencies, platforms and financial processors — each taking a slice on the way through. The payment terms only make it worse. Some payouts now stretch to 90 days, and in certain cases even 120, according to Revving, an ad tech finance startup.  What’s emerged is a…

If you’ve been patiently waiting for the successor to the OnePlus Open, there’s some bad news for you. According to a Smartprix report citing the Indian tipster Yogesh Brar, OnePlus has reportedly canceled plans to launch the purported OnePlus Open 2. Previously, the foldable was supposed to debut globally in the third quarter of 2026, i.e., between July and September. It would have been the company’s big launch, carrying forward the “Open” brand, before it launches the successor to the popular OnePlus 15 later this year. OnePlus Open 2 could have been an excellent foldable The Open 2 was reportedly…

Omnicom began absorbing its former rival Interpublic Group (IPG) this week with a swath of redundancies up and down the org chart.Among the 4,000 people cut loose across the globe were Susan Credle, global chief creative officer of FCB until last year and most recently global creative advisor for IPG, and Eileen Kiernan, previously the global CEO of IPG Mediabrands (Kiernan didn’t respond to a request for comment). Just two of IPG’s former leadership group have been lifted into the new C-suite roster leading Omnicom: Philippe Krakowsky, who moves from leading IPG to a co-president and co-COO role at Omnicom…

Recently, Brooklyn-based freelance journalist Vince Bielke wrote a three-part series at Real Clear Investigations about the damage that fraudulent papers are doing to science. It seems increasingly clear that the current gatekeepers of science are either helpless to do anything about it or appear to be indifferent or, in a few cases, actively co-operating. Image Credit: iQoncept – Adobe Stock Massive increase in retractions In the first part, he starts on a positive note, profiling bogus science hunters: Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role…