Author: Geek Planet

Yes, advancements in AI help people from different walks of life, but they have some cons. One of the most exploited con has been AI voice cloning. Over the years, it has reached the point where most people can no longer tell a deepfake voice from a real one.  Scammers already know this, and they’ve been spoofing users’ contacts, cloning their voice, and committing financial frauds for quite some time. Android’s new fake call detection is designed to stop that exact scenario before it costs you. How does fake call detection actually work? Fake call detection is an industry-first feature.…

I have been using Raycast for years, and it is easily one of my favorite Mac apps. It does so much without ever getting in the way, which is exactly what you want from a productivity tool. So naturally, when Raycast 2.0 landed, I updated within minutes.  For the most part, I love all the new features and interface changes that came with the new update. But there is one change that has been quietly annoying me every single day since I updated, and I need to talk about it. The clipboard change that broke my workflow The culprit is…

If you already spend a good chunk of your day listening to audiobooks, Audible wants to start rewarding you for it. The company has launched Audible Rewards, a new program that turns your everyday listening habits into perks, discounts, and exclusive goodies. It is free to join through the Audible app, website, or Amazon.com, and it is available to both Standard and Premium plan members in the US starting today across iOS, Android, and web. How Audible Rewards actually pays off for you The program works through several earning mechanisms that stack up over time. Listening Day Rewards lets you…

The republished article first appeared in the National Review. Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided free anytime a woman wants to terminate a pregnancy. For example, a current editorial in The Lancet celebrates the editors’ view that more than 800 million women recently gaining better access to abortion, while decrying “barriers” such as waiting periods (and unstated, ultrasound imaging) that data shows, save the lives of unborn babies: Gains in legal access to abortion are worth celebrating. An analysis between 1994 and 2023 by Katy Mayall and colleagues showed an…

If you use Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you have probably noticed a floating Copilot button hovering over your documents. It has been there since December 2025, sitting at the bottom-right corner of your screen, and Microsoft is finally letting you move it. Starting the last week of May 2026, an update will give users the option to send it back to the ribbon where it belongs. Why did Microsoft add the floating Copilot button in the first place? The short answer is numbers. Only around 3.3% of Microsoft 365 users actually pay for Copilot, and adoption has stayed well below…

Google’s latest Android feature drop isn’t just about AI tricks and visual upgrades. One of the most meaningful additions arriving soon is aimed squarely at family safety, bringing several Personal Safety app features to younger Android users for the first time. As part of the June Android Drop, Google says children under 13 will gain access to key emergency features that were previously geared toward older users. The update is designed to help parents feel more comfortable as kids become increasingly independent, whether they’re heading to school, visiting friends, or commuting with family. Turning Android phones into better emergency companions…

I’ve been thinking about buying a new device, which is usually where reasonable plans go to die. I don’t want to spend big laptop money, partly because I know most of that laptop would sit on a desk pretending to be portable. I also don’t want to build my own desktop, because that becomes a hobby the moment you blink. Suddenly, I’m comparing cases, power supplies, cooling, GPUs, and other things I only wanted to think about for five minutes. That’s how I ended up looking at mini PCs, possibly the least dramatic lane in personal computing. They’re small boxes…

Amazon has a new trick up its sleeve, and it is a weird one. When you type a visual description into the Amazon app, like “flannel shirt” or “blue and white gingham dress,” the search bar now generates AI images of products in real time as you type. These images are not real products you can actually buy. They are entirely made up, existing purely as visual suggestions to help you find products that look similar. Whether that sounds useful or baffling to you probably depends on how much patience you have for AI features that solve problems you did…

The remote work era made employee monitoring software easier to justify. What began as a way to watch people working from home is now being normalized on office floors, too. Right on cue, a new Northeastern University study suggests the data collected through these tools is also being shared with major third parties, including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. David Choffnes, a professor at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and one of the study’s co-authors, said the research shows how little privacy protection workers have in the workplace. He also noted that the issue is not just data collection by…

Opening the Amazon app, tapping the search bar, and finding a product by text or image search: this is how most of us have been using it. However, Amazon thinks that’s too many steps.  The company has rolled out six new visual search features, one of them being the Amazon Lens widget for iPhone. It puts a camera shortcut directly on your iPhone’s lock screen, so you can point it at anything around you and the app finds it before you’ve unlocked the phone.  How to add the Amazon Lens widget? Adding the widget is quite straightforward. When unlocked, press…