Author: Geek Planet

Despite the hype around Android 17 Beta 1’s arrival, Google has backtracked on the beta release, citing some last-minute changes. However, that doesn’t mean that the Android 17 update isn’t coming after all. In fact, Google has clarified that the new beta version is “coming soon.” With the beta right around the corner, platform stability expected in March, and the stable version coming out in or around June 2026, you might want to know whether your Pixel phone supports Android 17. Full list of supported Pixel devices Below is the list of all Pixel phones that support the Android 17…

Anthropic is testing a new Tasks feature inside Claude’s iOS app, and it looks like a move toward agentic work runs on iPhone, as spotted by TestingCatalog News. A newer build shows a Tasks entry in the app navigation plus a Tasks hub where you can create and manage repeatable jobs. If it ships as shown, this would push Claude closer to Cowork-style automation on mobile. You set something up once, then rerun it when you need the same outcome again. What’s still missing is the timeline. The surfaced UI does not include a public rollout date, and it doesn’t…

Netflix’s advertising business definitively took flight in the first half of 2025. But despite client demand, buyers say a lack of measurement options and shallow links with key industry partners stand in the way of further investment.The streamer’s second-quarter results, released July 17, showed a 16 percent increase in revenue. Including both subscriber and advertising income, its quarterly revenue was $11.1 billion. The company’s ad tech stack is operational in the 12 countries it offers advertising, and it’s doubled ad revenue since the second quarter of last year, according to chief financial officer Spencer Neumann. He didn’t offer a more…

DeepSeek looks like it’s preparing to move beyond chat and into search, right as AI starts to reshape how people look up information. Multiple job postings this month suggest the Chinese startup is building DeepSeek AI search, a product aimed at multilingual queries and newer kinds of inputs, Bloomberg reports. The work described in the ads points to a multimodal engine, one that can take text, images, and audio. That’s a direct fit for phone-first searching, where a screenshot, photo, or voice clip is often the real query. The job posts spell out the build The roles call for specialists…

American Eagle has joined the increasingly long list of brands that somehow didn’t see it coming. Like Bud Light, Target and Jaguar Land Rover before it, the retailer stepped into the culture wars with the kind of casual confidence that suggests senior marketers are still underestimating how combustible “just another campaign” can be. In this case, it was an ad featuring a white, blue-eyed blond film star Sydney Sweeney praising the culture of “good jeans” — a line that might’ve passed without notice a decade ago, now reads more like a Rorscharch test for who brands think they’re speaking to.  It…

If you use Copilot on web or in its apps, these Copilot new features focus on cutting friction, better memory, easier chat organization, and stronger support on Apple devices. Windows Latest reports that the updates cover memory, pinned chats, longer inputs, plus a refreshed Copilot experience on macOS and a new iPhone widget. Microsoft says some of it is rolling out gradually, and it only calls out the US as the first stop for advanced memory. Copilot’s memory and chat tools level up Copilot is testing an advanced memory mode that can retain preferences and recurring details instead of treating…

As usual, the money is following the attention. In the second quarter, Shorts averaged over 200 billion daily views.  Mark Ballard, research director at Tinuiti confirmed that the typical Tinuiti client buying YouTube Shorts inventory saw their spending increase a little over 11 percent from the first quarter to the second this year. The same goes for Markacy’s clients. The agency’s director of media, Grant Kalfus, said his team is currently pushing YouTube – especially Shorts – across almost every client, and are on pace to roughly double their Shorts investment by year end.  The math helps.  “A big driver…

This year, one of the most important annual shopping events hangs in the balance of how shoppers respond to the threat of tariffs with their wallets, with President Trump’s deadline for trade deals set for Aug. 1. Shoppers are spreading out their back-to-school shopping over the course of the summer and are more concerned about finding the best deal than they were a year ago, according to recent consumer surveys. Retailers have had to change how they market and plan back-to-school events — highlighting when they are keeping prices the same. They have also especially put emphasis on sales events in mid-July as…

Spotify might finally let you swap out that random string of letters and numbers it calls a username. An APK teardown of Spotify’s Android app surfaced new UI text for “Username” and “Edit username,” hinting that editable usernames could be on the way. Android Authority spotted the strings in Spotify version 9.1.20.1132 and noted language that treats the username as a social handle. That’s a notable shift for a service that has been acting more like a social app lately, with features like Jams, Blends, collaborative playlists, and now direct messages and group messaging. Strings point to an in-app editor…

Just yesterday, we were talking about how Google is going straight to Android 17 Beta 1 without going down the Developer Preview route like it usually does, and how the first beta could have dropped yesterday. However, the Alphabet-owned giant seems to have cancelled those plans. Although the Android 17 Beta 1 was scheduled to arrive at 10 AM PT, the company decided to pull the plug on the beta release. In a statement sent to Android Police, Google says that “last-minute changes” have led to the delay. Android 17 Beta 1 is now “coming soon” “Android Beta 1 will…