Author: Geek Planet

Samsung Display has unveiled its latest smartphone display innovations at Display Week 2026, with a clear focus on improving brightness, color accuracy, and overall efficiency. The new developments are aimed at solving real-world issues – especially visibility in bright outdoor conditions and more accurate color reproduction for modern content. Brighter Screens and Better Colors The highlight of the announcement is Samsung’s new “Flex Chroma Pixel” OLED panel, built specifically for smartphones. This panel can reach up to 3,000 nits of brightness in High Brightness Mode (HBM), which is a significant jump compared to most current smartphone displays. This matters more…

WhatsApp (from Meta) may still be best known as a phone-first messaging app, but its browser version has become a lot more useful than it used to be. If you spend most of your day at a desk, typing out replies on a full keyboard is simply easier than pecking away on your phone screen. This is where WhatsApp Web comes in. The service lets you access your chats from a laptop or desktop browser, giving you a larger view of your conversations and a much more comfortable place to type, send files, and keep up with group chats. It…

Samsung may be preparing a major camera upgrade for the Galaxy S27 Ultra, with a new leak claiming its 200MP main camera could get variable aperture support. The claim comes from Weibo leaker Smart Pikachu (智慧皮卡丘), suggesting that Samsung may be looking at a hardware response to Apple’s own rumored iPhone 18 Pro camera plans. Why does variable aperture matter? A variable aperture camera can physically adjust the lens opening to control how much light reaches the sensor. A wider aperture helps with low-light shots and stronger background blur. A narrower aperture can help in bright outdoor scenes and keep…

Intel’s Wildcat Lake is the company’s attempt to go toe-to-toe with the Apple MacBook Neo. The chips are tiny, featuring two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a mini integrated GPU, and they’re efficient enough to run completely without a fan.  That’s a genuinely exciting proposition for a Widows user who wants a slim, quiet laptop, but doesn’t want to switch to a new operating system. But it’s not all moonlight and roses, as the new chipsets come with a big catch.  How fast are these chips? Let’s talk about performance first. According to Notebookcheck, benchmarks for the Core 5…

This abridged republished version of the article below first appeared in New English Review. We often hear people say that a troubled person is struggling with his/her demons, meaning a person is having mental problems. But do demons exist, and, if so, is the possession of a person mistakenly diagnosed as psychological mental illness in a predominantly secular world? According to Henry A. Nasrallah, MD: “I shudder when I read a newspaper or magazine article that describes a person with a psychiatric disorder—often, a celebrity who has fallen from grace—as ‘struggling with his inner demons.’ That expression is a residue of…

Google’s long-running face unlock comeback story may have hit another wall. A recent Pixel 11 series leak claims that Project Toscana, Google’s rumored infrared face unlock system, likely will not debut on the Pixel 11 lineup because it is still not ready for release. The feature was expected to give future Pixel phones a stronger rival to Apple’s Face ID. Earlier reports said Project Toscana was tested on both Pixel phones and Chromebooks, with Face ID-like speed and better low-light performance. The latest leak suggests Pixel users may have to wait beyond the 2026 lineup for that upgrade. Is Google…

OpenAI could be preparing to enter the hardware space with its first AI-focused smartphone, according to TF Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo. The device is said to be in active development, with mass production potentially targeted for the first half of 2027. While OpenAI has not officially confirmed these plans, supply chain insights by Kuo suggest the company is accelerating efforts to compete in the emerging category of AI agent-driven devices. A New Push Into AI Hardware The reported smartphone is expected to focus heavily on on-device AI capabilities rather than traditional smartphone features. This aligns with a broader industry…

If you’ve ever stared at a paper loyalty card and wished your iPhone could just store it digitally, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has dropped a key update for you. Apple is developing a “Create a Pass” feature for the Wallet app as part of the iOS 27 update.  The feature will let users build and digitize their own passes directly on their iPhones without waiting for businesses to add official Wallet support.  What can you actually do with the new Wallet feature? Per the report, the feature covers the passes that matter the most in daily life. These include digital tickets,…

Below is a brief synopsis of six different models of consciousness. The first four are totally based on naturalism and basically assume we are computers made of meat interacting with the world.   Panpsychism is the view that some form of consciousness exists everywhere in nature. It says that even the smallest parts of the universe, like particles, have very simple mental properties, not just human beings or animals. Just like mass, shape, magnetism, and electrical conductivity, all objects are blessed with a little bit of consciousness. In this theory, even though I have had no conversation with them, my…

Google just made one of Gemini’s most useful features available to everyone. The Notebooks feature, initially rolled out to paid AI subscribers earlier this month, is now available to all free users on the web. If you use Gemini regularly, this is a pretty big deal. What is Gemini’s Notebooks feature and what can you do with it? Think of Notebooks as a dedicated project workspace inside Gemini. Instead of starting fresh every time you open the app, you can store your conversations, files, and sources all in one place under a single topic. Gemini then uses everything in that…